System ring (Offenbach am Main)
The system ring is a traffic route around the inner city of Offenbach am Main , which was laid out in the 19th century on the southern development boundary of the city in sections from the 1870s to 1938. The ring road and park leads from the Kaiserlei district through the Westend to the clinic and from there towards the Offenbach Ost S-Bahn station . The individual street names are August-Bebel-Ring, Dreieichring, Isenburgring, Starkenburgring , Friedrichsring, Hessenring and Landgrafenring.
Essential parts of the ring were created from 1906 under the direction of Leonhard Eißnert . The system ring was the first street with a cycle path in Germany, which still exists today. The aim of the system ring was primarily to offer a residential park along the Wilhelminian style quarters, which had emerged on the southern outskirts of the city from the 19th century.
The system ring is in its entirety a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
history
When walking became fashionable at the beginning of the 19th century, the first initiative was founded in Offenbach in 1842 to create a tree-lined path around the city's borders. Initially, plans were made for a spacious ring of avenues far out around the city. Of these, only the August-Bebel-Ring was realized. Numerous portfolios that had become unemployed by the German War of 1866 found work during its expansion.
In 1879 the Hessian state trade exhibition took place in an open space on the western outskirts of the city. At the end of the event, the exhibition halls were removed again, the plantings, ponds and bridges remained, creating the Dreieich- Park, Offenbach's first public park . The development around the park along the Parkstrasse and the Dreieichring did not begin until the years after 1900. At the same time the project of the plant ring was continued and in 1902 the Isenburgring was designed.
The increasing traffic made it necessary to change the original plan to include an accompanying ring road. Since the project was dependent on private donations, it made very slow progress at first. Members of the Society for Building a Walk Around the City therefore donated money to enable the administration to purchase land for the project. From 1902 to 1914, the Starkenburg- and Friedrichsring with extensive horticultural facilities could be completed. Coveted residential areas with mostly three- to four-storey perimeter blocks with modern forms, often based on the late Art Nouveau , emerged along the grounds . The development with industrial companies was not allowed here. It was considered chic to live on the Starkenburgring. The opulent planting of the park-like central strip promoted its attractiveness. Contemporary reports rave about intoxicating flower beds . To this day, the large number of postcards with motifs from the avenue is striking, on some of which you can see small palm trees on pedestals. The construction of the street with large apartment buildings began as early as 1900.
From 1906, the expansion of the plant ring was in the hands of Leonhardt Eißner. The expansion proceeded slowly due to limited financial resources. From 1923 to 1924 the August-Bebel-Ring was expanded and then the Hessenring was built mainly as a job creation measure . The final expansion of the Landgrafenring could only be realized in the mid-1930s. The original plan was to run the facilities on both sides to the Main . This could no longer be achieved because of the industrial operations that had existed in the meantime. The section was also provided with a cycle path and surrounded by a sandstone wall and some stairs. The wall that no longer exists was rebuilt true to the original in 2010. There are only smaller settler houses along the avenue along this construction section, so it has less of the function of an urban avenue here.
The entire facility is a listed building .
Building (selection)
Some architecturally outstanding buildings have been erected along the avenue ring:
- The Leibniz School was built as a neo-baroque palace and was extremely complex even for the construction time
- The Villa Wecker was one of the first villas in Offenbach's Westend and is now used by the Erasmus Education Center
- The Federal Monopoly Administration for Spirits is a building from the economic boom by the architect Adolf Bayer that has been preserved in its original form, right down to the interior
- The church of St. Josef , which was an early work of the famous church builder Dominikus Böhm until it was rebuilt
- Hugo Eberhardt's AOK building and across from it the Albert Schweitzer School
- Buildings along the street from west to east
The concrete pavilions from 1879 in Dreieich-Park
Vine table center at the Sana Klinikum Offenbach
Sana Clinic Offenbach
String factory Pirastro
St. Josef ( Dominikus Böhm's emergency church , later a new building)
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Ernst: Offenbacher Fahrradgeschichte (s). From: adfc-offenbach.de , February 19, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2015.
- ^ Sigrid Aldehoff: Relaxation in front of the door. In: fr-online.de. July 27, 2010, accessed January 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Anlagenring In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ↑ Lothar R. Braun: 1900: The dream of a beach promenade (sic!). From: Offenbach-Post . In: offenbach.de. May 9, 2008, accessed April 29, 2016 (original title: The dream of a city promenade ).
- ↑ Lothar Braun: Offenbach in old postcards . Flechsig, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-88189-009-2 , p. 70 .
- ↑ Sigrid Aldehoff: Anlagenring: Relaxation in front of the door. In: fr-online.de. July 27, 2010, accessed February 6, 2015 .