The Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest roads of Berlin, the capital city of Germany.

Line U5 of the city's U-Bahn runs beneath the length of Frankfurter Allee.

[4] Following the establishment of the German Democratic Republic the Frankfurter Allee was officially renamed Stalinallee on 22 December 1949 to honour Stalin's 70th birthday.

The street was to become the most well known in East Berlin, with the poet Kurt Barthel penning a poem to commemorate the occasion of its renaming: Wie soll man Stalin danken?

Led by the architect Hermann Henselmann the project was designed in the Stalinist style, but reputedly suffered from poor construction work and ran over budget.