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City of Offenbach

Whether indoors or outdoors: the tour flyer is here

04.02.2025 – Offenbach is a city with many facets: Here, cool rappers meet hip bankers, creative students meet talented people, it's just a stone's throw from Little Italy to the Bosphorus and historic buildings and award-winning architecture lie side by side. If you would like to go on a guided tour, you are well advised to take a look at the current guided tour flyer: It lists tours, walks and museum tours, as well as excursions into the surrounding area.

Experience the city's history at first hand, House of City History director Jürgen Eichenauer with visitors.

It all starts in February, when the Klingspor Museum and the Haus der Stadtgeschichte invite visitors to explore their museums. The Klingspor Museum is hosting the International Children's Book Exhibition until April, the 69th time that current picture book creation in Germany and many other countries has been shown there. The selection includes many children's books that reflect social issues and discourses. There are guided tours for families and curators, and the museum also offers four book walks through the city center with former museum director Stefan Soltek.
In the current exhibition of the same name, the Haus der Stadtgeschichte is dedicated to companies and ideas that started their triumphal march around the world "Made in Hessen" and offers guided tours and a family workshop. Workshops for school classes and daycare centers can also be booked there and at the Klingspor Museum.

The fact that leather has shaped Offenbach's history can be seen all year round at the German Leather Museum (DLM). Until August 10, the special focus is on "Always with you: the bag". The museum also offers a Saturday workshop where children and adults can get creative and be inspired by the exhibition.
In the heart of Offenbach's city center, SCAPE° invites visitors to discover weather, climate and climate change. Every Wednesday, the "Wetter.Mi", an after-work Wednesday bar, opens its doors and offers new perspectives with lectures and workshops. From May 6, an interactive permanent exhibition full of exciting insights and surprising findings will also open there.

During the guided bike tours through the city, there is also time to capture beautiful memories, such as here at the Blue Crane in Offenbach harbor

From March onwards, the weather lures you outside and the adult education center invites you to explore the surrounding area. For example, a guided hike is on the program on 8 March and a forest tour in Bad Vilbel on 3 May. Hidden treasures are also revealed on the tours through Offenbach, with a guided tour of wild herbs in Rumpenheimer Schlosspark on April 26 and an educational pedal tour through the city center with author Ida Todisco and city councillor Paul Gerhard Weiß the day before.

As spring approaches, the weather park on the Buchhügel also starts its season and invites visitors to its opening festival on March 23. Until the winter solstice on December 21, there will be a variety of events and research tours for young and old with the knowledgeable weather park guides. You should already make a note of the shooting star night on August 15 at 9 pm, the Halloween scary tour for children on October 25 or the exciting St. Nicholas tour on December 5.

City guide Monika Krämer tells us that Goethe once lost his heart in Offenbach and that Kaiserstraße used to be called Kanalstraße. From April 25, she invites you on city walks in the new harbor area, in Offenbach's villa district or slips into the role of the market woman, who has a lot to tell.
The dialect city tours with Theaterclub Elmar e.V. between March and October also offer insights into everyday life in Offenbach in the 1950s with poems and anecdotes by local poet Karl Eichhorn. The tour combines past and future, with a special highlight being the digital audio guide.
Tour guide Stephanie Heeg-El-Sayed knows all about architecture and industrialization and is happy to share her passion with interested listeners. So if you've always wanted to find out more about brutalism in Offenbach, Dreieichpark or the Old Cemetery, her knowledgeable tours from March to October are just the thing for you.

Mayor Dr. Felix Schwenke will guide you through the city accompanied by tour guide Monika Krämer.

Who would know more about local conditions or current urban development than Lord Mayor Dr. Felix Schwenke? Once a year, he invites new residents to join him on a tour, to which long-time residents are also cordially invited. On September 20, the bus will take you on a three-hour tour through the city, past sights, parks, monuments and, of course, new residential areas.

The print edition is available in the town hall, in the museums or at the participating institutions such as the vhs, SCAPE°, the weather park, the city library or the OF Infocenter.

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