The virtual office to start and grow your business in Frankfurt

Frankfurt is a compact, vertical city, and its business life is concentrated in and around the Bankenviertel (banking district) – the cluster of towers between the Hauptbahnhof, the Alte Oper and the Main. All three of our Frankfurt addresses sit here, in the city’s traditional centre of gravity for finance, law and professional services. Here’s where you can get an Olea address today:

• Frankfurt-Altstadt – the historic core beside the Main, rebuilt around the Römer and folded into the southern edge of the banking district. Our Neue Mainzer Straße location occupies the WINX Tower in the riverside MainTor quarter, a few minutes from Kaiserplatz, the Alte Oper and the Zeil. It’s a premium, instantly recognisable address – ideal for finance, legal, asset management and startups that want to sit among the banks.
• Innenstadt – Frankfurt’s central business district and the core of the “Mainhattan” skyline around the Alte Oper and the Taunusanlage park. Our Taunustor location takes high floors of the TaunusTurm at the Taunustor gateway, a short walk from Willy-Brandt-Platz and the European Central Bank. It suits finance, consultancies, professional services and any business that wants a blue-chip tower address.
• Bahnhofsviertel – the rapidly transformed quarter between Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and the financial district. Our Taunusanlage location sits in the Marienturm on the Marieninsel, right at the edge of the Bankenviertel and a few minutes from Taunusanlage S-Bahn. It appeals to law firms, consultancies and finance businesses that value proximity to both the banks and the main station.

Weighing up the rest of the city? The Westend is Frankfurt’s prestigious quarter of asset managers, law firms and the original ECB tower; Ostend is home to the European Central Bank’s new headquarters and a growing creative-and-tech scene; and Sachsenhausen, across the Main, mixes residential charm with agencies and SMEs. These are areas we’re expanding into as we add locations. Wherever you choose, every Olea location includes the same complete virtual office – only the address and the price change.

Frankfurt am Main is Germany’s financial capital, with around 775,000 residents in the city and roughly 5.8 million across the surrounding Rhein-Main region. It is the seat of the European Central Bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse), and headquarters to Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank and KfW, alongside the European bases of many international banks. It is Germany’s most vertical city – the only one with a true high-rise skyline, nicknamed “Mainhattan” – and its economy reaches well beyond banking into professional services (the Big Four, major law firms, consultancies and asset managers), insurance, trade fairs and logistics.

It’s also one of Germany’s most international and best-connected business cities. Frankfurt Airport (FRA) is the country’s largest and one of Europe’s busiest, Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof is a central long-distance and high-speed rail hub, and Messe Frankfurt runs one of the world’s largest exhibition grounds. The city is also a digital crossroads: DE-CIX, the world’s largest internet exchange, is based here, making Frankfurt one of Europe’s biggest data-centre clusters. English is widely spoken across its finance and professional community, making it a natural landing point for international companies – a base that works for everyone from a solo founder to a global bank.

Whatever you’re setting up, an Olea Frankfurt address is a serviceable address (ladungsfähige Anschrift) accepted by all the relevant authorities:

• GmbH or UG (company formation) – your company is entered in the Handelsregister (commercial register) kept by the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, the registry court responsible for the city. You’ll need a notary, and we provide the consent-to-use documentation they require.
• Gewerbe (trade registration) – sole traders and trading companies file a Gewerbeanmeldung with Frankfurt’s Gewerbeamt, part of the city’s Ordnungsamt. As an independent city (kreisfreie Stadt), Frankfurt runs a single citywide trade office, and registration can be started online through the city’s business portal.
• Tax registration – your Finanzamt issues your tax number (Steuernummer); Frankfurt has several tax offices (Finanzamt Frankfurt am Main I–V and others), and which one handles you depends on your business. Registration is completed online via ELSTER (the Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung).
• Freelancers (Freiberufler) – genuinely freelance professions skip the Gewerbeanmeldung and register directly with the Finanzamt.

In every case you can use your Olea Frankfurt address, keep your home address private, and rely on us to receive and digitise the official post these authorities send.