Adickesallee
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| Police headquarters and the corner of Bertramstrasse | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Northrend |
| Created | around 1900 |
| Connecting roads | Miquelallee (west) and Nibelungenallee (east) |
| Cross streets | Eschersheimer Landstrasse , Eysseneckstrasse , Bertramstrasse , Eckenheimer Landstrasse |
| Buildings | Police headquarters Frankfurt am Main , Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt am Main , German library |
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| Street length | 850 meters |
The Adickesallee is a main road in Frankfurt . It is located in the Nordend district and is part of the Alleenring . It runs in a west-east direction. Its western continuation at the intersection of Eschersheimer Landstrasse is Miquelallee , to the east, at the intersection of Eckenheimer Landstrasse , it is Nibelungenallee .
Surname
The street is named after Franz Adickes , who was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt for 22 years (1890–1912) and is one of the most important incumbents in the city's history. In the Wilhelminian era that was extremely important for almost all major European cities around 1900, Adickes' active urban planning had a considerable influence on the development of Frankfurt, under him structures arose that are still of great importance for the city today - including the Alleenring and thus also the Ring section named after Adickes.
South side of the street
The southern side of the approximately 850-meter-long street forms the northern border to the Wilhelminian-style Holzhausenviertel , an upper-class residential area. Eysseneckstraße , designed as a wide avenue, connects Adickesallee with the eponymous Holzhausenpark , in which the baroque moated castle of the old patrician family Holzhausen is located. The second center of the quarter is Frauensteinplatz , which is just one block south of Adickesallee. The development on Adickesallee itself is denser and more closed than in the directly adjacent Holzhausenviertel; it is also interrupted by new buildings from the post-war period, including an office high-rise on the corner of Eschersheimer Landstrasse.
Cross streets are Eschersheimer Landstrasse, Eysseneckstrasse, Falkensteiner Strasse, Stettenstrasse, Frauensteinstrasse, Loenstrasse, Schlosserstrasse and Eckenheimer Landstrasse. The new building (1997) of the German National Library is on the corner of Eckenheimer Landstrasse . In the 1950s , the Städel professor Albert Windisch had his studio at number 11 .
North side of the street
The northern side of the street is characterized by large-scale solitary buildings for public use. Here from west to east are the administration building of the Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarters (on the property of the former American PX shopping center ), the Hessian State Examination Office for Health Professions, the former Social Court Frankfurt am Main next to the former buildings of the Labor Court and the Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt am Main .
Above all, the buildings of the police headquarters (Kalmbacher & Ludwig, KSP , 1998–2002) and the former regional finance office ( Köhler , Himmelreich and Schirrmacher , 1954–55) were milestones in Frankfurt's architectural history. Just north of the said buildings is another major public use, namely the broadcasting center at the burning bush of the Hessian Radio . On the north side of the street there is only one cross street between the two bounding arterial roads, the Bertramstraße , which is also the address of the Hessischer Rundfunk. Until 2004, the European headquarters of the American Forces Network was located here on the corner of the Alleenring. The American Topper Club , which non-American civilians could also visit, was located here.
traffic
The Adickesallee is an important axis of road traffic and part of the federal highway 8 . The intersecting arterial roads are designated as Kreisstrasse 810 (Eschersheimer Landstrasse) and Landesstrasse 3003 (Eckenheimer Landstrasse). Motor vehicle traffic on Adickesallee is four-lane.
Access to public transport is via the Miquel- / Adickesallee subway station on the A route (lines U1-U3 and U8) of the Frankfurt subway at the western end of the street and via the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek stop of the U5 subway tram line. Bus route 32 follows the entire course of Adickesallee, it stops at both of the above-mentioned train stations and also halfway at Bertramstrasse.
Since the 1950s there have been plans for a motorway tunnel to connect the two sections of the A 66 in the west and east of Frankfurt. The four-lane so-called avenue tunnel would also run under Adickesallee. A short section built in 1963 together with the Miquel- / Adickesallee underground station has been used as a pedestrian underpass ever since. Although the planning approval procedure was completed in 1980, the avenue tunnel was never realized for financial reasons. In a few years, when the Riederwald tunnel is completed, there will be a new connection via Friedberger Landstrasse and the A 661 to the eastern part of the A 66 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 56 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 40 ″ E