Frankfurt hotels and vacation
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As the legend has it, when the Saxons defeated Charlemagne,
King of the Franks, in the 8th century, he fled westward
with his troops, only to have his path blocked by the
River Main. Suddenly, a deer sprang out of the forest
and crossed the river by a ford (Furt). The Franks (Franken)
followed the deer across the river and thus escaped
slaughter by the Saxons. Overjoyed at their salvation,
Charlemagne built a town to protect the ford. This town
was named Frankenfurt.
Each and every resident of Frankfurt knows the story
of the king and the deer. But the origins of the town
go back much further, and archaeologists have discovered
the foundations of buildings which date back over 7,000
years. Frankfurt was occupied by the Romans in the first
few centuries AD, then by the Alemanians and later by
Charlemagne's Franks. In around 700 AD, a stone church
and a palace were built on the site of today's cathedral,
the Dom.
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