Stock exchange (Frankfurt am Main)
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 53.6 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 41.6" E
The Börsenplatz is a place in the city center of Frankfurt am Main .
Space design
The dominant building on Börsenplatz is the eponymous Neue Börse from 1879. The monumental building in neo- Renaissance style is the seat of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry . The monumental dome was built according to designs by Heinrich Burnitz and Oskar Sommer as a representative architecture with a generous structure. The façade made of yellow sandstone with corner risers and vestibule in a canonical column sequence as well as with cyclical sculptures with allegorical content by leading sculptors determine the view from the square.
In 1985, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange commissioned two bronze sculptures from Reinhard Dachlauer to celebrate its 400th anniversary . The sculptures Bulle & Bär have been on the eastern side of the Börsenplatz since 1988 and are a much-photographed motif that has been shown in the media. They stand as a symbol for the rising and falling share prices, i.e. the bull and bear market .
The stock exchange is bordered to the east by Schillerstrasse. The corner building at Schillerstraße 9 / Börsenplatz 1 from 1881 is a listed building . It is an opulent Neo-Renaissance residential and commercial building based on a design by Eduard Johann Georg Anthes . Towards the Börsenplatz, it shows symmetrical facades made of two-tone sandstone with a gabled axial projection. The building at Börsenplatz 5, which is also a listed building, is attached to it. It is a noble Neo-Renaissance rental and commercial building, which was built for Franz von Brünning based on a design by Christian Ludwig Schmidt . The facade is made of red sandstone, centered in a balcony with colossal columns that protrudes broadly on atlases.
Börsenstrasse forms the western boundary of the square. The front to the stock exchange is formed here by the modern building of the headquarters of the Frankfurter Volksbank .
The square and the adjacent Schillerstrasse are pedestrian zones .
In 1875, the Elisabeth School was built on Börsenplatz . The designs for the monumental building in the neo-renaissance style came from city building officer Gustav Albert Behnke . It was designed for 22 classes with 1,032 girls and cost 470,000 gold marks . The building no longer stands today.
Bull and bear
Stock exchange 1
Stock exchange 5
Frankfurter Volksbank
Road sign
See also
literature
- Herbert Alsheimer : The stock exchange in Frankfurt am Main. A place of German post-war history. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-7973-0998-3 .
- Heinz Schomann : The Frankfurt Holzhausenviertel. From the pond house to the residential area. 2nd, supplemented and updated edition. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86568-581-0 , pp. 109–110.
- Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main . Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulle & Bär on the website Art in Public Space Frankfurt