Living in Frankfurt am Main: Districts Rents, Registration

Frankfurt has 43 districts in 16 local boroughs; the districts that were only incorporated in the 1970s form their own local boroughs. The largest district by area and population is Sachsenhausen south of the Main, with the Museumsufer and traditional apple wine taverns. By population, it is followed by the Nordend and Bockenheim, where the geographical centre of the city also lies near the Westbahnhof.

Gründerzeit neighbourhoods characterise the Nordend, Westend and Bornheim. The Europaviertel was built on the former goods station on the edge of Gallus. On the Riedberg in the north there is a Goethe University campus, and in 2009 the first newly founded grammar school since 1914 opened there. In the west, Höchst has its own old town.

Frankfurt is home to the European Central Bank, the Bundesbank and the stock exchange, banks such as Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank and KfW, the supervisory authorities BaFin and EIOPA, and the trade fair. The city has the highest density of jobs and the most commuters in Germany – in 2017 more than 360,000 people came in to work every day. Goethe University, founded in 1914, has sites in Bockenheim, the Westend, Riedberg and Niederrad; together with seven other universities, more than 60,000 people study in Frankfurt.

In your free time there is the Museumsufer, the Palmengarten, the zoo, the Alte Oper and the green belt with the city forest, which has belonged to the city since 1372. The Book Fair and Musikmesse attract visitors from all over the world every year. We do not give specific rents without a reliable source; compare offers early.

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Every move is different – the deciding factors are the volume of the household and the distance from €4.20/km. The floor, a missing lift and an arranged parking restriction zone are also reflected in the price. Extra services such as furniture assembly and a shared load round off the offer.

Here you find an overview of all the services we provide for you.

We plan moves from Stromstraße 21 in Berlin-Moabit, to Frankfurt am Main and back. How the roughly 545 km work is described on the page Moving Berlin – Frankfurt am Main.

Anyone moving into a flat in Frankfurt am Main must register with the registration authority within two weeks of moving in, under § 17(1) of the Federal Registration Act (Bundesmeldegesetz, BMG). The deadline applies to every person who moves into a flat. So count the two weeks from the day you actually move in, not from the date of the tenancy agreement. Please check current appointments and opening hours of the Frankfurt offices directly on the City of Frankfurt's pages.

Nothing works without the landlord confirmation. Under § 19 BMG, it may only be issued by the landlord or a person they have authorised, and within the registration deadline. It contains the landlord's name and address (and, if they are not the owner, the owner's as well), the moving-in date, the address of the flat and the names of the persons required to register. If the landlord refuses the confirmation or you do not receive it in time, you must inform the registration authority without delay. So ask for the document as early as the flat handover.

If you want to save yourself the trip to the office, you can register your residence online in many cases: according to its operator, the service wohnsitzanmeldung.gov.de is free of charge, requires no visit to an authority, provides a digital registration certificate and is available throughout Germany. The operator recommends using it with a smartphone. The service checks against its requirements whether your particular case can be handled online. For moving day itself you can plan a parking restriction zone if needed.

After a move there is usually bulky waste. In Frankfurt am Main, according to Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH (FES), bulky waste appointments are booked via the FrankfurtPlus portal at frankfurtplus.de. FES also lists the waste calendar, an A–Z of waste and the mobile hazardous waste collection there. Items can also be dropped off at the recycling centres, one of which is the Wertstoffhof Ost on Weidenbornstraße in Bornheim. Current drop-off points and any closures are listed on the FES website.

For garden waste, according to FES, a free green waste collection after prior booking applies city-wide from 15 October 2026. The rules: a maximum of 3 m³, bundled to a length of up to 1 m, with natural twine instead of wire or in compostable paper sacks. Grass cuttings are excluded, and branches may be no more than 10 cm thick. Put it out by 6 am on collection day, no earlier than 3:30 pm the day before, close to the property and without causing an obstruction.

For public transport, Frankfurt am Main is a partner city of the Rhine-Main transport association (RMV). The RMV offers the Deutschland-Ticket, which according to the RMV is valid nationwide on local transport and is only available as a subscription; it also mentions the Hessenpass mobil as a reduced-price option. VGF operates U-Bahn and tram lines in the city, for example the U4, U5 and U7. More about the city can be found on our page Moving in Frankfurt am Main and in the guide to moving to Frankfurt am Main.