Frankfurt-on-the-Main place

“RANKFORT-ON-THE-MAITN... acquired a dominating position amongst the great cities of Germany during the second half of the eighteenth century.…”

“By virtue of its natural position, lying so close to the great waterway of the Rhine and to the frontiers of France and Holland, it had become the gateway for the trade of Germany with the western states.…”

“By virtue of its natural position, lying so close to the great waterway of the Rhine and to the frontiers of France and Holland, it had become the gateway for the trade of Germany with the western states.…”

“The progenitors of the Housé of Rothschild lived under conditions such as those in the ghetto of Frankfort.…”

“About a century later Naftali Hirz at the Red Shield left the ruinous old building from which the family had derived its name, and occupied the so-called Haus zur Hinterpfann, in which the Rothschilds were now domiciled as protected Jews.…”

“...whose seat was to be Frankfort-on-the-Main.…”

“I was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and I am the son of honorable parents, my mother’s name having been Rothschild.…”