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Monument for Otto von Bismarck in Frankfurt Höchst. This is the only Bismarck monument I know of in Frankfurt, mostly because he was not verypopular in Frankfurt due to his role in the forcefull annexation of the Republic of Frankfurt by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866. This monument was probably build before Worldwar 1, when Höchst was still an independent city (it was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1928). There used to be a massive Bismarck monument in downtown Frankfurt, at the Taunusanlage in front of the theater, but it was a hideous monstrosity, and since Bismarck was as I mentioned not very popular with the Frankfurters, that monument was one of the first things to be melted down as a "donation of the german people for the war efford" in 1940.

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Monument for Otto von Bismarck in Frankfurt Höchst. This is the only Bismarck monument I know of in Frankfurt, mostly because he was not verypopular in Frankfurt due to his role in the forcefull annexation of the Republic of Frankfurt by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866. This monument was probably build before Worldwar 1, when Höchst was still an independent city (it was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1928). There used to be a massive Bismarck monument in downtown Frankfurt, at the Taunusanlage in front of the theater, but it was a hideous monstrosity, and since Bismarck was as I mentioned not very popular with the Frankfurters, that monument was one of the first things to be melted down as a "donation of the german people for the war efford" in 1940.