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Celebrating New Year's Eve in Frankfurt

Tips for going out at the turn of the year

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Und schon wieder geht ein Jahr zu Ende. Und was für ein Jahr! 

Ausgehen an Silvester? Da bietet die Metropolregion FrankfurtRheinMain jede Menge. Und weil einen diese überreiche Auswahl leicht überfordern kann, haben wir hier die besten Tipps von Clubs bis Konzerten für Silvester 2024/2025 hier für Euch zusammengetragen. 

In den kommenden Wochen werden wir diese Liste mit Silvester-Partys und ähnlichen Veranstaltungen in Frankfurt nach und nach erweitern und ergänzen.

SILVESTER TOP SPOTS 2024/2025

If you are looking for art and antiques, jewelry or porcelain, you should definitely visit the auctions of Auktionshaus Arnold. In addition to the actual auction dates, there are also special preview dates where you can take a closer look at the items being auctioned and plan a budget for them if you like them.

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Not everything that is brought to the pawn shop is picked up again. Auctioneer Andreas Rückert, who regularly offers auctions of pawned items, takes care of such things. These auctions often take place in the Bürgerhaus Bornheim. Everything that can be turned into money in pawnshops is on offer here, from jewelry and musical instruments to electrical items, works of art and jackets.

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WINTERHIGHLIGHTS 2024

If you are looking for art and antiques, jewelry or porcelain, you should definitely visit the auctions at Auktionshaus Arnold. In addition to the actual auction dates, there are also special preview dates where you can take a closer look at the items being auctioned and plan a budget for them if you like them.

More info

Not everything that is brought to the pawn shop is picked up again. Auctioneer Andreas Rückert, who regularly offers auctions of pawned items, takes care of such things. These auctions often take place in the Bürgerhaus Bornheim. Everything that can be turned into money in pawnshops is on offer here, from jewelry and musical instruments to electrical items, works of art and jackets.

More info

SILVESTER TOP SPOTS 2024/2025

If you are looking for art and antiques, jewelry or porcelain, you should definitely visit the auctions at Auktionshaus Arnold. In addition to the actual auction dates, there are also special preview dates where you can take a closer look at the items being auctioned and plan a budget for them if you like them.

More info

Not everything that is brought to the pawn shop is picked up again. Auctioneer Andreas Rückert, who regularly offers auctions of pawned items, takes care of such things. These auctions often take place in the Bürgerhaus Bornheim. Everything that can be turned into money in pawnshops is on offer here, from jewelry and musical instruments to electrical items, works of art and jackets.

More info

New Year in Frankfurt & Rhine-Main

If you are looking for art and antiques, jewelry or porcelain, you should definitely visit the auctions of Auktionshaus Arnold. In addition to the actual auction dates, there are also special preview dates where you can take a closer look at the items being auctioned and plan a budget for them if you like them.

More info

Not everything that is brought to the pawn shop is picked up again. Auctioneer Andreas Rückert, who regularly offers auctions of pawned items, takes care of such things. These auctions often take place in the Bürgerhaus Bornheim. Everything that can be turned into money in pawnshops is on offer here, from jewelry and musical instruments to electrical items, works of art and jackets.

More info

More SILVESTER EVENTS in Frankfurt & Rhine-Main



30 PLUS New Year's Eve Party

In the Zoo Society House, Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 1

New Years Eve Dinner & Party

in the Copper Room, Reuterweg 16, at the Alte Oper

The Batschkapp New Year's Eve Party

InterContinental Hotel Frankfurt, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße 43, 60329 Frankfurt am Main

Gala menu from 7 pm, party from 9 pm

Experience a culinary evening with a 5-course gala menu with exquisite wines, beer and soft drinks.

At 7 pm there is an exclusive gala menu in the Signatures Veranda (219 &euros; p.p., 29 &euros; p.p. additionally for accompanying wines). Afterwards, head to the Skyline Party on the 21st floor, where you will have a fantastic view of the city and the grand fireworks display.

The kitchen team will present you with modern culinary highlights from around the world. Pop-up bars will provide you with cocktails, long drinks and digestifs. Drummer Martin Standke and his band SMART or our club floor with two dance floors will provide the perfect atmosphere.

Party:

Welcome from 20:30 Top Floor, 21. Floor

219,- Euro per person

only 29,- Euro per person additionally for wine <x>ampersand</x> beer

Find more information HERE

Ring, Ring 2024 is calling

At Blaues Wasser (Franziusstraße 35, 60314 Frankfurt am Main)

from 19:30

Your BEST OF GADDEWIRTSCHAFT 2018 winner location will also be the place to celebrate the New Year. You can immerse yourself in an atmospheric winter wonderland on the banks of the Main - either just for the party (from 11 pm) with fireworks or for a delicious New Year's Eve dinner (from 7:30 pm).

Reservations and information can be found HERE

Velvet New Year's Eve

Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof, Am Kaiserplatz, 60311 Frankfurt

22:00 - 04:00 h

&euro; 69,- per person including 3-course menu

No plans for New Year's Eve yet? In the rustic Erdinger Urweisse Hütt'n, the team from the Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof will get the party started on New Year's Eve from 22:00. In addition to a 3-course menu, a DJ and the hotel's own fireworks display will ensure an unforgettable night. Be there now and secure your place by calling 069 215 118!

More information about the great location can be found HERE

NYE - VENETIAN DREAMS

at the Gibson Club, Zeil 85-93

 

Silvester Babylon

At Tanzhaus West & Dora Brilliant, Gutleutstr. 294, 60327 Frankfurt - Gutleutviertel
from 10.00 pm

New Year's Eve? No problem for the Tanzhaus West team! Here you will be treated to an excellent party firework display that will send all techno and house fans into raptures.

Together with Wareika, Bo Irion, Christian Bott, DJ melina or Mike Gervais, an endless chain reaction of excellent beats and grooves will be ignited at Tanzhaus West and the Dora Brilliant. Advance ticket sales have begun.

Here's New Year's Eve at its silvest! Be there!

Find out more HERE

New Year's Eve Party

In the Batschkapp, Gwinnerstr. 5

on 31.12.2018 from 10 pm

Party into the new year with the motto: all90s & other catchy tunes
In addition to a number of catchy tunes for the dancing legs, there will also be delicious food for the stomach (in front of the hall, not included in the price), plus 100 liters of mulled wine for free, fireworks and much more

You can find all further information HERE

TANZHAUS SilWESTer

In the nightlife (Kurt-Schumacher Str. 45, 60313 Frankfurt)
on 31.12.2018 from 10 pm

The DJ teams from Batschkapp XL, Disco Frankfurt and We Love 90s will be spinning the best of the 90s, 00s and current charts at Nachtleben an der Konstablerwache. There will also be free welcome champagne for the first 500 guests, chocolate buffet, LED sticks, confetti cannon and more!

EARLY BIRD TICKETS: 7&euros; (VVK)

(only until 31.10.2018)

All further information can be found HERE

New Year's Eve rodeo at the Ponyhof

In der Fabrik (Mittlerer Hasenpfad 5, 60598 Frankfurt am Main

on 31.12.2018 from 9 pm

The team at FABRIK in Sachsenhausen will be saying goodbye to the old year with the popular "Disco for people over 40". For 36 <x>amperesand</x>euros; you can celebrate here, including courtyard fireworks and a glass of sparkling wine at midnight.

Tickets can be ordered at: silvester@danceffm.de

You can find all further information HERE

Pure Silvester

at the Karlson Club, Karlstr. 17

Main Tower Restaurant, Neue Mainzer Str. 52-58, 60311 Frankfurt

Enjoy a direct view of the city high above the rooftops of Frankfurt, on the 53rd floor, at a height of 187 meters and let yourself be pampered with an excellent 7-course gala menu in the elegant and stylish restaurant of the Main Tower from 7 pm.

Look forward to a 7-course gala dinner

including champagne reception (from 18:30 pm), wine accompaniment, water, soft drinks, coffee,

champagne at midnight on the viewing platform

EUR 279.00 per person

Reservations and information by telephone on 069 3650 4777 or by email at maintower.restaurant@compass-group.de

Find out more HERE


New Year's Eve - origins and customs

Where did the name come from?

December 31 has been the last day of the year since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. This day is dedicated to St. Silvester. Silvester was pope from 314-335 under whose pontificate the introduction of Christianity as a state religion under Emperor Constantine took place.

Pope Silvester I died in Rome on December 31, 335.

Customs and superstitions

As with all holidays, various customs and superstitions are associated with the turn of the year. Dinner on New Year's Eve should be with family or friends, because eating "in the circle"of one's nearest and dearest symbolizes protection from demons who cannot destroy that circle.

The night of the New Year has been about warding off evil spirits since time immemorial. Crackling, noisy parades with hooded figures with drums, bells and whip cracks for the necessary noise provided, should these keep away.

Nowadays this custom is replaced worldwide by gigantic fireworks. However, this is no longer about driving away demons. Rather, New Year's Eve fireworks are an expression of joy for the upcoming new year. Young and old alike enjoy the colourful spectacle in the sky. In Germany alone, bangers, firecrackers, gushers and especially rockets are blown up year after year at a cost of more than 60 million euros.

Bangers, fireworks, church bells, waltz music and champagne corks - noise and music are as indispensable to most cultures as congratulations.

"A happy and blessed new year!" - so or so similar are the typical greetings or wishes for the New Year.

In the private environment, however, one usually wishes "a happy new year". Whereby the "gute Rutsch" has nothing to do with a "Hüberrutschen" into the new year. The expression goes back to the Hebrew word "rosch" which means "beginning", that is, the beginning of the new year.

Once the first seconds of the new year have dawned, people at New Year's Eve parties toast with a glass of Champus and say "Prosit Neujahr" or "Prost Neujahr".

The word "Prosit" is Latin and means "es may succeed".

All these New Year's wishes express the hope that the new year will bring good luck.

A fledgling custom is to bid a running farewell to the old year. Thousands of people take part in the increasingly popular New Year's Eve runs. The world's oldest and most important New Year's Eve run takes place annually in S&atilde;o Paulo in Brazil. Of course, the Main metropolis also has "ihren" Silvesterlauf. The Spiridon New Year's Eve Run has been held for over 30 years.

Interpretations and Lucky Charms

A whole host of interpretations and good luck charms continue to influence New Year's celebrations to this day. These customs have been part of the magical thinking and actions of traditional societies since time immemorial. They revolve around saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new.

The background to the boisterous, sometimes debauched celebrations is the hope for fertility and prosperity in the new year.

Widespread is the "lead pouring" shortly after midnight. In a specially designed spoon, a piece of lead is heated over a candle flame, melted, and then quickly dropped into a vessel of cold water. From the shadow of the resulting figures one believes to be able to interpret the future.

At the turn of the year lucky charms are booming

Popular are the "Glückspfennige", which according to. The old folk wisdom "who does not honor the penny, is not worth the thaler", could maintain their lucky meaning until today.

The lucky penny, in times of the euro actually lucky cents, but hardly anyone says that, is a symbol of wealth. By giving it as a symbolic gift, one wishes the recipient never to run out of money.

The horseshoe, on the other hand, is a talisman to protect house and yard and to keep strangers from entering.

In earlier times, it was also nailed to ship masts - even Admiral Nelson made sure that the "Victory" did not set sail without this lucky charm.

Chimney sweeps or chimney sweeps are considered lucky charms because they were always the first to walk through the streets on New Year's morning congratulating the New Year.

Luck also comes from the flower pot. The speech is of course from the four-leaf clover, the "Glücksklee", which is supposed to bring luck according to popular belief. he mysterious shamrock actually comes from Mexico and inspires secret wishes and hopes at the turn of the year.

Widespread are also lucky pigs, mostly made of marzipan. Even for the ancient Germanic tribes, the boar was sacred. The pig is considered a symbol of fertility and thus a sign of prosperity and wealth. "To have had a pig" means with us that one has had a lot of luck. Among the Greeks and Romans, anyone who had a lot of "pig" was considered privileged and well off.

The ladybug is considered the messenger of heaven to the Mother of God, hence the name. Protects children and heals the sick when he flies to them. Never shake it off or even kill it - that brings bad luck.

You can play it quite safe by adding up the lucky charms.

The trade has long specialised in marketing, the superstition that is still widespread in modern times. Even in the supermarket you can buy lucky pigs made of marzipan, ladybugs made of chocolate, small pots of lucky clover decorated with a chimney sweep or a lucky penny.

Egal, if it helps, think certainly many, and ultimately, as is well known, faith also moves mountains. ;-)

New Year's Eve party - the hangover afterwards

Some tips on how to avoid the infamous hangover ;-)

Fatty foods slow down the absorption of alcohol in the blood. Have a high-fat meal for a change before the drinking binge.

Stay to one type of alcohol, as the mess of drinks guarantees a buzz.

Shun the dark drinks, such as red wine, brandy, cognac and whisky. Because they cause the worst headaches. Rather reach for white wine or vodka.

Nibble on crisps, nuts and pretzel sticks to compensate for the loss of minerals caused by alcohol.

Alcohol dehydrates! Compensate for fluid loss. Drink plenty of water after the New Year's Eve party.

You didn't follow the aforementioned tips?

You wake up the next morning or even at noon, your skull is buzzing, and the headache is nearly killing you?

Then the only thing that will help is a hangover breakfast.

Ingest plenty of fresh fruit, whole grains, scrambled eggs, pickled herring and lots and lots of water. But if possible, avoid taking painkillers!

Take a long walk instead. Plenty of fresh air is guaranteed to get you in shape.

Happy New Year to you

The team of

Frankfurt-Tipp.de