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Frankfurt East station takes care of railway services in the suburb of Ostend in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its container terminal is recognized as on the left out freight yards in the city when the much larger Frankfurt central freight yard in Hauptgüterbahnhof was closed down. Till the opening of the East station, the trains coming from Hanau used to stand at a terminal as between the streets of Röderbergweg, Zobelstraße and Hanauer Landstraße, south of the zoo. It became operational from September 1848 by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway as Hanau Station. The line and station were possessed over by the Hessian Ludwig Railway in 1872, which further was possessed by the Prussian state railways in 1897.

The present time East station as came into the operation since the opening of the Prussian state railways on 10th March 1913. Freight operations yet started on 1st April and passenger services from May 1913 from the East Station. The original station building of 1914 having a huge hall was burnt down in around World War II and 60 % destroyed. A temporary station there was opened there to handle the traffic of about 10,000 daily commuters and freight trains. In 1961, a sober purpose-built station as in the style of the 1960s was constructed at the corridors and basements of the old buildings. Its design as by the Karl Radlbeck avoided there the grand design of the previous station and replaced there along with a retangular building, having a large boxy roof as praised about with an   illuminated DB sign and a clock.

On 29 May 1999, the station on U-Bahn line U6 was inaugurated as an expansion spree and program. The use of the station for passengers there has been reduced to a vast extent as most of the trains to the east there started using the route over the south Main route via Offenbach. Till the period of the early 1990s it was an important station for the United States armed forces as the military trains to Berlin operated from here. The US rolling stock was parked in the station sidings when not in traffic.

For the Freight traffic after the closure of the central Frankfurt freight yard, the Frankfurt East station became a center of Freight handling in Frankfurt. The freight yard was expanded from about 2003 to be capacity of a container terminal. A large exponential area to the East station was further redeveloped into a storage space for containers and transport vehicles as along with arrival and departure routes to the road network. In coming years the North Main S-Bahn is on the cards to be constructed from Frankfurt East station to Hanau next to the present Frankfurt–Hanau line.

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and is owned and operated by Deutsche Borse that has also ownership of the European futures exchange Eurex and the clearing company Clearstream. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is known for about into the about 90 percent of the turnover in the German market as well as having one of its large share in the European market as well. In 2010, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange displayed its willingness prohibit floor trading till 2012, however, does agreed for a faster transition in the case of if any fierce competition arises in the European markets. It is on the cards that from on May 2011, there trading will occur exclusively by the means of the Xetra system, having with redundant floor brokers taking at the role of market-makers on the new platform.

Under new developments about more than 14 international exchanges have agreed to the Xetra. About 47% of the 300 market participants in Frankfurt are from outside. According to the latest data on November 2010 about more than 80 countries has listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with 49% from North and South America. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange has about more than 250 international trading institutions and more than 4,500 traders. Investors related to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange shows about the 35% of the world’s investment capital. The trading indices in Frankfurt are DAX, DAXplus, CDAX, DivDAX, LDAX, MDAX, SDAX, TecDAX, VDAX and EuroStoxx 50.

The birth of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is credited to the 9th century and by a free letter by Emperor Louis the German to keep the free trade fairs. By the 16th century Frankfurt emerged as the busy city with about an economy base on trade and financial services. In 1874 Frankfurt Stock Exchange started operating from its new building at    Börsenplatz. The reputation of the Frankfurt stock exchange can only established as a leading one only after in 1949 after the World War II. From the early 1960s and then after Frankfurt Stock Exchange took advantage of the being close by Bundesbank that had the much role in the  financial policies in Europe and was in front role till the introduction of euro in 2002. Presently, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is the world’s 12th largest stock exchange by market capitalization and restoration.

The Alois Kottmann Award is an international prize that is given to a person for making the best performances in playing the classical cantando violin. In the award ceremony, the noted and well known international violinists are being rewarded. The competition every year is organized in either month of May or June during the International Days of Music Hesses. After the competition, the award is given on a different date by the Mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main in the Limpurg Hall of the historic city hall Romer.

The main objective for starting this award is to help and promote the Frankfurt-based tradition of Carl Flesch. The pioneer’s exponents of this style of music were Alma Moodie and Max Rostal. The jury while selecting artists plays a special focus upon the classical discipline, on an artistic and stilistic understanding and learning of the performed work as well as singing (cantando) style that even shows up the personality of the artists.

The award ceremony for this program gets organized at The Romer (city hall) in Frankfurt am Main, where the award ceremony occurs and took place. The Alois Kottmann Award began in year 2001. The award was named after its founder and benefactor, the German violinist and university professor Alois Kottmann. Initially, when the prize started there only a participant use to get award and there special awards were given to special talent and performances. However, the situation improved soon in year 2005, when the two participants received the award. In the year 2006 and 2007, the special appreciation award was given with side to the main award and prizes. Moreover, the prestigious “Bach Award of the city of Hofheim am Taunus was provided in the year 2007 to Sabrina-Vivian Hopcker of Germany. In year 2010, the first and second places of the Alois Kottmann Award were created along with other awards as well.

The prize is consisted of the prize money of about 3,000 euro, a silver medal and a certificate. Moreover, the special prizes are given if there any special need arises there.   It is an open competition for violinist around the Globe. There is no such age bar. In competition, there musical pieces are needed to be performed that are needed to be published well in advance and keeps on changing, annually. Recipient of the awards for year 2010 are Jayoung Jeon, South Korea, Oleksii Semenenko, Ukraine, Liv Migdal, Germany/Sweden, Katja Schott, Ukraine and Christopher, Taiwan.

The Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung which is known as the Frankfurt Motor Show or Frankfurt Auto Show is the world’s largest motor show. It is organized for every two years in Frankfurt, Germany. It is organized by the Association of the German Automotive Industry (VDA). From the year 1991, the show has been split into two sections. At even numbered years show exhibits the commercial vehicles in Hanover and in the odd-numbered year’s passenger vehicles are put for the show at the Frankfurt exhibition ground. The dates for the show are scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles and they are meant as a major show.

The show for the first time was organized as mini show at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin. From 1911, it started being organized as annually twice a year, generally in Berlin. In the year 1921 about 67 exhibitors participated in the first IAA in Berlin. After World War I, between 1921 and 1926 no exhibitor was allowed to participate. In the year 1971 that was the 45th IAA was cancelled on a very short notice for political reasons to discourage passenger car purchases.  At the time the concept of “Automechanika ’71, International Exhibition for Automobile, Workshop, Filling Station and Garage Equipment” generated. Thus Messe Frankfurt gave the automobile, equipment, accessories and other companies normally represented at the IAA to showcase their automobile items.

The September eleven terror attacks cast out a shadow over the IAA that somehow occurred with delay of two days. To show solidarity with the victims, the show elements, loud music as well as official opening with the Federal Chancellor was cancelled. VDA President Gottschalk praised this decision as stating, “Because we could not permit terrorist forces to take away our freedom of action. And because, as a key international sector, we have a responsibility not to allow things to grind to a halt.”

The year of 2007, brought the trend of the hybrid cars and electric vehicles in the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.  As Mercedes-Benz there come at the show with about seven hybrids, involving the luxury sedan concept vehicle, named the F 700, a 17-foot (5.2 m)-long car can gain the fuel economy of about 44.4 miles per gallon. There research vehicle with homogenous charge compression ignition engine, a technology that produces the high fuel economy of a diesel engine from a clean-burning gasoline engine, was exhibited. Mercedes has showed its car with the technology of mated its clean-diesel engine to an electric motor, creating the Bluetec hybrid. More the Mercedes Car Group showed its smart car in three new different avatars as well.