page_title: Offenbach am Main
section_title: Attractions
hierarchical_section_title: Offenbach am Main / Arts and culture / Attractions
caption_attribution_description: Büsing-Park in Offenbach
context_page_description: Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It has a population of 138,335.
  In the 20th century, the city's economy was built on machine-building, leather-making, typography and design, and the automobile and pharmaceutical industries.
context_section_description: In Offenbach there is no specific Old Town, but there are several buildings which survived bombing during the war and have been restored. One of them is the Neo-baroque palace Büsingpalais with the Büsingpark, reconstructed in the 1980s. Today it is used as a congress center close to the Sheraton hotel. Between the shopping area and the Main, is the Lilipark and the Lilitemple, named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's fiancée Lili Schönemann. The most important building is the Isenburger Schloss (Isenburg Palace), a renaissance palace from 1576. It is today used by the Offenbach Design University which is next to it. There is also a neoclassic palace in the borough Rumpenheim, the Rumpenheimer Schloss it now serves exclusively as domestic dwellings but the park is public.
  Isenburger Schloss, a Renaissance building, now used by the Offenbach Design University
  Büsingpalais with Büsingpark
  Wilhelmsplatz a square with coffee houses and three times a week a market.
  Buildings of the French Protestant Church and the French Protestant Community.
  Rumpenheim Palace.
  Former Synagogue "Capitol" (now a concert hall next to the new Synagogue).
  The Westend Quarter (19th century).
  Several art deco apartment houses.
  Buildings by early 20th century architect Hugo Eberhardt: "Heyne" Factory, main building of the Design University, AOK Insurance building.
  Prefabricated houses by Egon Eiermann in Lauterborn
caption: The Büsing-Park in winter
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