The historical city center with its beautiful timber-framed buildings was destroyed by RAF bombing during the Second World War.

After eight years of construction, DomRomer Quarter was officially opened to the public last week.

A number of decorative elements that survived the air raids of 1944 were also returned to their former locations.

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The rest twenty buildings were built as modernist impressions of the old designs.

Around 200 people are expected to make this their new home.

Old Frankfurt before its total destruction in World War II, Germany, dated 1937.

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Photo credit: National Library of Australia

The Huhnermarkt (Chicken Market) before the war.

The Chicken Market reconstructed.

Frankfurts old town after Allied bombing.

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Reconstructed historical city centre in Frankfurt.

Photo credit: Olga P Galkina / Shutterstock.com

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