The Grossmarkthalle is a 250-metre-long parabolic concrete-shell hall on the eastern edge of central Frankfurt, completed in 1928 to Martin Elsaesser's design as the city's wholesale fruit and vegetable market. For 75 years it was the working centre of the city's fresh produce trade, and during the Nazi years more than 10,000 of Frankfurt's Jews were assembled here for deportation to the death camps. The market closed in 2004 and the building was incorporated into the European Central Bank headquarters in 2014.
The hall itself is now partially open to the public — the visitor centre at the south end has rotating exhibitions on Frankfurt's modernist architecture and on the deportations. The cantilevered glass-and-concrete ECB tower next door rises 185 metres directly above the old market, and the contrast between the two structures is one of the most striking architectural juxtapositions in the city.