Frankfurter Hof (Mainz)

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The Frankfurter Hof on Augustinerstrasse in Mainz

The Frankfurter Hof is a historic hall in the old town of Mainz . It is located at Augustinerstraße 55.

history

After the end of the Electorate of Mainz and the Napoleonic and French rule in the city of Mainz , the need for a venue for cultural, sporting and political gatherings of citizens and the newly emerging carnival associations was seen in addition to the fruit hall . The Frankfurter Hof was supposed to close this gap in the city's hall offer. In 1834/1835 the landlord Konrad Falck acquired the inn "Zum Frankfurter Hof" between Augustinerstrasse and Schönbornstrasse. The building was named after its original owner, the Bartholomäusstift in Frankfurt am Main. To meet the expected high demand, Falck added a meeting room. It was designed in quarry stone and brickwork and opened in 1841. In 1895 the architect Franz Philipp Gill redesigned the building as a three-storey new baroque mansard roof.

During the German pre-March period , the typical Mainz style of political-literary carnival emerged. The promotion of the local Carnival by the Mainz Provincial Commissioner von Lichtenberg and the Mayor of Mainz Nikolaus Nack contributed to an upswing of the Mainz Saalfastnacht. The Frankfurter Hof played an essential role as the meeting place for the new Carnival associations of the Reformed Carnival.

For the emergence of liberalism , democratic socialism and the labor movement and political Catholicism as the forerunners of the center parties , the Frankfurter Hof offered a citizens' forum in which the beginnings of the revolution of 1848/1849 were prepared and supported, of course only behind closed doors. Ferdinand Lassalle held a keynote speech here on May 20, 1863 at a meeting with around 900 guests, three days before the General German Workers' Association was founded . Even Ludwig Bamberger formulated here his criticism of socialist utopias and for a social democracy.

Share certificate in the casino in the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz from April 1, 1889

Since it was acquired by the Catholic Casino Society in 1865, stricter standards of morality, ethos and custom have been applied. Because of this, the meetings of the Mainz Carneval Association then took place in the Fruchthalle, while the foolish general assembly temporarily moved back into the Frankfurter Hof, for example in the Weimar Republic.

As a major sporting event, the Mainz Athletics Club brought the Hessian championships in wrestling and weightlifting to the event halls in 1890.

The commitment of a “citizens' initiative Rettet den Frankfurter Hof” aroused interest in the historic site and made the city council, which was seriously concerned with demolishing the building, rethinking it. It was decided to use the rooms as a community center for the old town of Mainz. The renovation of the ensemble came to an end with the reopening on March 10, 1991.

The Frankfurter Hof's cultural program has since developed independently, but was merged with the Mainz Congress Center and others to form mainzplus Citymarketing GmbH as part of the reorganization of the participations of the City of Mainz . On the ground floor there is a gastronomic use as well as a vacant space (formerly REWE supermarket) (both with entrance from Augustinerstraße) and meeting rooms with side entrance to Badergasse.

Building description

It is an eight-axle building with three full floors and two mansard floors. The ground floor has a store arcade, the first floor is richly decorated. In the middle of the first floor there is a sculpture of Saint Joseph with his baby Jesus. The window reveals on this floor are decorated in a neoclassical style. On the second floor above the Josef there is a relief with the year 1895. The building is eaves.

literature

  • Concept for the Frankfurter Hof , publisher: Bürgererverein Frankfurter Hof, Mainz 1988
  • Der Frankfurter Hof 1841–1991, history of a hall in Mainz , publisher: Kulturdezernat der Stadt Mainz in cooperation with the citizens' association Frankfurter Hof, Mainz 1991
  • 3 years Frankfurter Hof - special issue for the 3 year anniversary in 1994 . Ed .: Frankfurter Hof, Mainz 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Mainz. Mainz 2020, p. 11 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
  2. ↑ Alexandra Eisen: 2016 over 40 percent. SPD celebrates 150 years of existence in the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, May 20, 2013, accessed on May 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ The Frankfurter Hof 1841–1997. Role of a Rheinhessen or Mainz "Paulskirche". mainzplus CITYMARKETING, accessed on May 26, 2013 .
  4. ^ Friedrich Schütz : The modern Mainzer Fastnacht in: Franz Dumont (Ed.), Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2000-0 , pp. 815 and 820.
  5. ^ Heinz-Egon Rösch: Sport in Mainz. In: Franz Dumont (ed.), Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2000-0 , p. 1001.
  6. ↑ Frankfurter Hof. City of Mainz, accessed on May 26, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 26.2 ″  E