Buildings in Bockenheim
Buildings in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt .
Religious buildings
St. Elisabeth Church
Roman Catholic church in neo-Gothic style, built in 1868 in brickwork with a monumental front tower, crowned by a pointed helmet as a peripheral building on Kurfürstenplatz. The church building was destroyed in 1944. On April 30, 1950, its reconstruction was completed.
Frauenfriedenskirche
Zeppelinallee 99-103, built between 1927 and 1929 by Hans Herkommer. It was created on the initiative of Hedwig Dransfeld , the chairman of the Catholic German Women's Association . The monumental, architecturally significant and artistically richly decorated church is a place of remembrance of the victims of wars and of prayer for peace.
St. Jacob's Church
The Jakobskirche (Am Kirchplatz 9) is the oldest church in Bockenheim. The hall church dates from the late 18th century, was destroyed in 1944 and restored from 1954 to 1957. The most important decorations in the church are the glass windows by Charles Crodel . Since the merger of the St. Jakob parish with the Markus parish in 1997, the Jakobskirche has been the parish church of the Evangelical parish of Bockenheim . From 2003 to 2005 the church and the grounds were extensively renovated.
Former St. Mark's Church
The Markuskirche in Markgrafenstrasse was built between 1909 and 1912, partly in Art Nouveau style. Destroyed in 1944, it was rebuilt in 1953. After the two Protestant parishes in Bockenheim were merged, they were converted into the Annunciation Center of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in 2005 .
Evangelical Trinity Church
The Evangelical Dreifaltigkeitskirche belongs to the Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde in the western part of Bockenheim. It was planned by the Frankfurt architect Werner W. Neumann and inaugurated in 1965. The church interior is made of natural stone.
St. Pius parish church
The St. Pius parish church is the Roman Catholic church of the Kuhwaldsiedlung . It was consecrated in 1957. The Slovak Roman Catholic parish of St. Gorasz has also been based here since 1997 and the Ethiopian Orthodox exile parish since 2011.
Churches of other denominations
- Church of the Greek Orthodox community at Solmsstrasse 1, Archimandrite Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos and priest Martin Petzolt. The community is subordinate to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis in Bonn of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople and is consecrated to the Holy Prophet Elias.
- St. Markus Coptic Orthodox Church Frankfurt , established in 1998 in the former Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus community center in the Industriehof residential area , Lötzener Straße 33. The parish of St. Markus is the largest Coptic congregation in Germany.
- Imposing church building of the New Apostolic congregation at Sophienstrasse 50
- Church of the Hungarian Catholic Christian Community at Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse 365
- Modern Sophia Church of the Christian Community in Frauenlobstraße 2
- The church of the Old Catholic Parish at Basaltstrasse 32. This is where the parish and pastoral office and the educational center are located. A chapel was set up in the former café.
- Community Meeting Point Life in Kurfürstenstraße 14. Meeting Point Life for Frankfurt is a member of the Free Church Evangelical Community Works. V.
- Free Religious Evangelical Brethren (Moravian Church of the Moravians) in the Rhine-Main area, also called Moravian Church, with the sermons of Jan Hus took their beginning, Mulanskystraße 21 are represented in Frankfurt.
- Bockenheimer-Weinstock-Gemeinde, Kurfürstenplatz 34, with its Korean background, was closed again in 2017. The rental property returned.
Grempstraße 23, former Protestant Reformed community building
The former reformed church and school (from 1732 to 1789) is located in today's Grempstraße 23. For a long time, Frankfurt was an almost exclusively Lutheran city. But there were also Reformed residents due to immigration, but after a short period of tolerance, they were forbidden to celebrate their services within Frankfurt. The near northern parts of the present day Frankfurt, among them the village of Bockenheim, belonged to the reformed county of Hanau-Münzenberg. The Reformed Frankfurters therefore celebrated their services in Bockenheim for over 200 years. The building that still exists today has a massive basement where there is space for the school and the teacher's apartment. The prayer room with organ was located on the upper floor, built in half-timbering. A remnant of the former bell tower can still be traced in the historic roof beams. After the renovation it is now a family house. The former cooperage in the backyard now houses a café for parents and children, the Zebuloncafé.
Islamic belief centers
Shiite Belief
In June 2009 planning began to build a mosque on the edge of the industrial courtyard. It is said to be called Fatima Zahra Mosque and is run by Turkish-Pakistani Shiite Muslims. The architecture is kept modern and has only a few subtly orientalizing elements . The parish hall has a dome structure and two minarets , which are 16 meters high and slightly tower over the four to five-story building complex. In addition to prayer rooms, the building will have several shops, a bistro and multi-purpose rooms for community and youth work. The project is to be financed through the construction of an adjacent house. The apartment building was completed in 2013 and the floor slab of the future mosque was laid in 2013.
Sunni Belief
A Sunni faith center can be found in neighboring Frankfurt-Hausen .
Former "new" synagogue
Commemorative plaque by Willi Schmidt (* 1924)
In 1874, shortly after the so-called Reich was founded in 1871, a “new” synagogue and a small parish hall were built by the Jewish community of Bockenheim on the property at Schloßstraße 3–5 before Bockenheim was incorporated in 1895. In the pogrom night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, this building was also deliberately set on fire. Just like over 1,400 synagogues, prayer rooms and other meeting rooms as well as thousands of shops and apartments in the German Reich, not only this synagogue, but also the shops and apartments of Bockenheim citizens were damaged or destroyed in Bockenheim that night. At the same time, numerous Jewish citizens were arrested and mistreated. So died z. B. the 60-year-old doctor Dr. Otto Loewe on November 12, 1938 as a result of his abuse in the festival hall. The synagogue was later demolished. Six years later, large areas of the buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed by bombing. Today a floor slab by the artist Willi Schmidt (* 1924) wants to commemorate the pillage of this synagogue and its immediate consequences.
Buddhist belief center
Since 2005 the Tibet House Germany Chödzong e. V. at Kaufunger Straße 4, the house of the Buddhist community. It was under the auspices of the 14th Dalai Lama. Here, beyond Tibetan Buddhism, the entire Tibetan culture and medicine was conveyed in the form of lectures, seminars and joint festivals. This Tibet House was affiliated to the Buddhist umbrella organization in Germany, the German Buddhist Union (DBU) in Frankfurt, which was founded in 1955. At the end of 2017, the Tibet House moved into a former professor's villa at Georg-Voigt-Straße 4. There is more space available here. The old property was sold, originally a former bread factory and an old farmhouse, and is to give way to a new building with several condominiums.
Hindu faith center
Sri Nagapooshani Amman Thevasthaanam Hindu Cultural Association Inthumantram Frankfurt am Main ev, Adalbertstr. 61, 60487 Frankfurt am Main (www.ammankovil.de)
Profane structures
| Tallest building in Bockenheim | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Europaturm (Ginnheimer asparagus) | 331 meters |
| 2. |
Fair gatehouse
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1 |
117 meters |
| 3. |
IBC
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 70 |
112 meters |
| 4th |
Radisson SAS Hotel
Franklinstrasse 81–83 |
87 meters |
| 5. |
American Express high-rise
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 112, |
75 meters |
| 5. | Theodor-Heuss-Allee 80
Goldenes Haus office center at the trade fair |
75 meters |
| 6th | Scala - Solmsstraße 91, built in 2001 / Architect Christoph Mäckler & Assoziierte |
73 meters |
| 7th | Theodor-Heuss-Allee 110 built in 1982 / architect Richard Heil user formerly Wayss & Freitag construction company |
72 meters |
| 8th. | Cielo - Theodor-Heuss-Allee 100 built in 2003 / architect Gewers, Kühn & Kühn formerly user a. a. Dresdner Bank, e.g. Currently still DiBa |
70 meters |
| 8th. |
Finanz Informatik / Hub Frankfurt-
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 90–98 |
70 meters |
| 8th. |
St Martin Tower / at the former Opel roundabout
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 116 |
70 meters |
| 9. |
Headquarters of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße 14, |
54 meters |
Bockenheimer Warte
This Bockenheim landmark is not in the Bockenheim area, but still belongs to the Westend. It was built between 1434 and 1435 as part of the construction of the Frankfurter Landwehr , so it is the outer western outpost of the defense system in front of the city of Frankfurt, not the easternmost Bockenheim.
Bockenheimer depot
The Bockenheimer Depot is a former depot and the former main workshop of the tram in Frankfurt am Main . The building on Bockenheimer Warte from 1900 is used today as a venue for the municipal theaters and is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Bockenheim campus
The Bockenheim campus is the traditional location of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . For the most part, however, it does not belong to Bockenheim, but is mainly located in the Westend district. Significant buildings are the Jügelhaus and the post-war buildings, which were mainly influenced by Ferdinand Kramer . The campus is to be closed by 2020 and most of its buildings will be demolished.
The historic buildings of the Senckenberg Museum and the Physikalischer Verein are also located in the area of the Bockenheim campus, but not in Bockenheim.
Sports campus Ginnheim (Ginnheimer Landstrasse 39)
The Ginnheim sports campus is the second campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Bockenheim . In contrast to the Bockenheim campus, it belongs entirely to Bockenheim.
Europaturm
The 337 meter high telecommunications tower is popularly known as Ginnheimer asparagus , although it is not in the Ginnheim district , but in Bockenheim. It is the tallest building in the city with a former revolving restaurant at a height of 222 meters, and the highest in Germany and the EU. Inaugurated in 1979, it was closed to the public twenty years later from 1999 due to the lack of fire escape routes.
Ginnheimer Landstrasse 40/42, student dormitories
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Franz Rücker (1843–1908)
The student residence, Ginnheimer Landstrasse 40, built in 1972 (renovated in 1998) with 286 residential building spaces and the neighboring student residence, Ginnheimer Landstraße 42, built in 1974 with 445 residential building spaces, form the largest student residence of the Frankfurt am Main student union. The buildings were erected on a property called the Pearl Factory . In 1846 the later Degussa ran a chemical company (production of artificial fertilizers), where gold and steel pearls had been manufactured since 1857. One of the last directors was Franz Rücker (1843–1908), namesake of the nearby Franz-Rücker-Allee. He left a will for a poor charity. In 1903 the company ended in bankruptcy. The property was taken over by the city of Frankfurt, which first used it as a poor house, then as a home for young people under the name "Westendheim". In 1933, under the rule of the SA, the Nazi regime set up one of the first camps here to transport opponents of the regime to Osthofen, Dachau and Buchenwald. A bronze plaque by Wolf Spemann on the student residence, Ginnheimer Landstrasse 42, was intended as a reminder of these events. Removed since renewed renovation in 2012 and replaced in 2015 by two signs in German and English.
Delkeskamp's house
The house at Leipziger Straße 9, a late classical building with a distinctive pentagonal floor plan, was built in 1826 by the architect and later mayor Johann Philipp Brandt. The conductor, musician and theater entrepreneur Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Guhr, who worked at the Frankfurt theater , lived here from 1832 until his death in 1848. The house owes its name to Clemens Delkeskamp and his descendants. Clemens was the son of the well-known Frankfurt painter and copper engraver Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp , who spent the last years of his life in Bockenheim and was buried in the Bockenheim cemetery in what would later be Solmsstrasse in 1872. In 1899, Clemens Delkeskamp moved the Delkeskamp & Schöneberg wood cutting, timber, firewood and coal business from Oberen Königstraße 14 (today: Graefstraße) to what was then Frankfurter Straße 11, the “Delkeskamp House”. After his death in 1910, his wife and then his son Wilhelm ("Willy") continued the coal trade until 1957. In 1980/1981 the building was refurbished by the city of Frankfurt and the Bockenheim renovation office moved in. In 1995 the office moved out and a doctor ran her practice here. The building listed in the Hessian Monument List is currently empty. The only large deciduous tree on Leipziger Strasse is in the immediate vicinity.
Passive house complex SophienHof
In the Ginnheimer Landstrasse, Sophienstrasse, Konrad-Broßwitz-Strasse (then Werder-Strasse) area, a military hospital for 109 patients was built between 1877 and 1879; later it was used by the police and riot police. On the side of Konrad-Broßwitz-Straße, an air raid shelter was built during the Second World War, which was partly used as a dormitory after the war. From 2005 to 2006, the currently largest passive house complex in Europe, the so-called SophienHof, was built here.
“Living near St. Jakob” residential complex in passive house standard, Grempstraße 45
The first passive apartment building for nineteen parties was built in Frankfurt as a multi-storey apartment building under the name “Wohnen bei St. Jakob” or “Energieprojekt: Grempstr PH”. This residential complex was proposed for nomination in 2009 by a jury of experts from the Environment and Health Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main as part of the new “Green Building Frankfurt” architecture award for pioneers in sustainable building.
Schönhof
The Schönhof is a former moated castle and later the largest farm estate in the west of Bockenheim. His more recent buildings from the years 1810 to 1820 were designed by the architects Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort and Friedrich Rumpf . Almost completely destroyed in the war in 1944, only the mansion was rebuilt afterwards. The mansion was last renovated by the city in 1981. Today the Schönhof is used as a residential building and restaurant with a large beer garden, the new western building as a music practice center.
Property at Adalbertstrasse 44–48
Adalbertstraße 44–48 after the renovation: Alvarium student residence , formerly headquarters
The property was used commercially during the industrialization of Bockenheim before and after the First World War until 1939. It was conveniently located near the Westbahnhof, to which at that time a branch line still led from the Bockenheimer Warte. Formerly it was the headquarters of the Frankfurter Strohhutfabrik AG, Adalbertstrasse 44, whose managing director and shareholder Paul Gross (1883 Beindersheim - 1942 deported and murdered in Lodz ) was. He, his wife Elsa Gross, b. Mayer (1895–1942) and their parents and sister were also deported and murdered in Lodz. After 1939, the precision workshops Seeger & Co. (Kolben-Seeger) produced on the site of Adalbertstrasse 44-48, which moved their headquarters to Eschborn in 1970-1972 and in 2003 to Steinbach am Taunus.
Probably completely destroyed in the Second World War, an administration building was built on the property after 1949. a. the Frankfurt Administrative Court and offices for various companies. After the administrative court moved to Adalbertstrasse and the building was vacant, the complex, also known as the “blue building”, was sold to a private investor. By 2012, he converted it into a private student residence of a high standard and operated it under the name Headquarter . After another sale to the investor Uninest Student Residences Germany in 2017, the building was renamed Alvarium .
Property Adalbertstrasse 10
Adalbertstrasse 2-12 (2013)
View around 1906 of the buildings on Adalbertstrasse 10-16, north side. On the left you can see part of the hotel and restaurant "Zum Rheingauer Hof", then the restaurant "Zur Schöne Aussicht" and on the right a bicycle shop. The building complex, including the rear courtyard development, was badly damaged by aerial bombs in 1944. The so-called factory was located in the back yard of this property, roughly level with the gravel road opposite. This multi-story building was only poorly repaired after bomb damage. The well-known American civil rights activist and writer Angela Davis (* 1944) described freedom in her book My Heart Wanted. An autobiography , Hanser Verlag 1975, later her pathetic accommodation. From 1965 to 1967 she studied sociology and philosophy on the recommendation of Professor Herbert Marcuse at the reopened Institute for Social Research at the nearby Goethe University. The German sculptor Eberhard Fiebig (* 1930) also had a studio here at the time, as did the author and filmmaker David Wittenberg (* 1940), who now lives in Cologne. Wittenberg and Edith Schmidt made the film Pierburg in 1974/75 : Your fight is our fight over the strike against wage discrimination in the West German automotive supplier Solex-Alfred Pierburg, Neuss, now Rheinmetall Automotive. The property was completely closed in 1983 with neighboring properties and in 1984 a large residential and business center with the Bockenheimer Warte shop gallery and underground car park was built on approx. 17,000 m² , which is managed by Bilfinger Real Estate Frankfurt . The once high expectations of the shop gallery have not been fulfilled here either, largely because of the high shop rents.
Real estate Adalbertstraße 9
Adalbertstrasse 9 (2013)
In the former industrial area around Bockenheimer Warte, Adalbertstrasse, built with multi-storey residential and commercial buildings, developed from the Schöne Aussicht street as early as the founding period and strengthened after the incorporation of the independent town of Bockenheim in 1895 . The namesake of this street was Adalbert Hengsberger (1853-1923), last Bockenheimer mayor until the incorporation in 1895, then first city councilor of Frankfurt am Main. The simple, single-storey, three-axis residential and commercial building Adalbertstrasse 9, built in 1846/47, was designed by Dr. med Ms. Leßdorf and sold to veterinarian Dr. F. Jelkmann sold. From 1904 A. Gerlich ran a coal merchant in the back yard, which was replaced by the coal merchant Noll & Co. from 1927. The bombing raid on Bockenheim in 1944 also destroyed this property, while the substance of the multi-storey neighboring houses on the right and left survived. Only the lower left window of this house at Adalbertstrasse 9 has retained its historical architectural reference with the rounded skylight. The previous access to the backyard was completely built over and the number of floors doubled. Today the property is used exclusively as a residential building. In contrast to the neighboring houses, a shop was not installed.
Ökohaus Arche, Kasseler Straße 1a
North of the Western Railway Station and close to the Bernusparks is in the Salvador Allende Street (formerly Street Kassel) in 1992 completed Ökohaus Ark . The architectural office Joachim Eble, who was commissioned with the planning, wanted to realize ecology and building biology as well as economy and suitability for everyday use in the building . The property was financed by various banks, in particular Commerzbank AG, and through an exchange of land between the KBW ( Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland ) and Mainzer Landstrasse 147 in the Gallus district . The house, which is also known outside of Frankfurt, is greened and watered inside and out. Trees are now growing on the roofs. Tenants are around 30 different businesses, self-managed businesses , including publishers and editorial offices, doctors, an adult education facility, a restaurant and an event center with seminar rooms. After 25 years, the house is now being renovated, but various offices of the listed building must first agree.
Pigeon house at the Westbahnhof
In cooperation with Deutsche Bahn AG, the first pigeon house was built at the Westbahnhof in 2007 for 200 pigeons. The railway provides the space free of charge, the employees of the city pigeon project work on a voluntary basis. After a successful debut, three more Frankfurt pigeon houses have already been opened at the Hauptwache, the Messe and in the Gallusviertel. According to the so-called “Augsburg model”, the animals are settled in these supervised pigeon houses, fed there in a species-appropriate manner and their eggs are replaced by plastic dummies. Feeding in the field ensures that the animals are no longer forced to look for food in pedestrian zones or in open-air restaurants. Not only did the pigeons in the area drop noticeably, but the exchange of eggs also reduced the population. The city pigeon project Frankfurt e. V. was awarded the Hessian Animal Welfare Prize in 2007.
Rohmerstraße 8, apartment building
Greifstrasse / corner of Rohmerstrasse 8
Rohmerstrasse 8
In the 1920s, an apartment building reminiscent of Florentine palazzi was built on Rohmerstrasse, which was laid out around 1912. The ground floor of this 100-year-old corner building at Rohmerstrasse 8 / corner of Greifstrasse was provided with the then fashionable, in antiquity common, bossing , which the Renaissance had revived. Roughly hewn stone blocks were provided with imitation plaster. In historicism, masonry produced in this way was called rustica. It should optically testify to an apparent defensibility.
Kurfürstenstrasse 4, residential building
Kurfürstenstrasse 4 + 6 (2013)
The multi-storey residential building at Kurfürstenstrasse 4, with distinctive façade elements such as loggias, window gables and window garments, was built before 1900 in the course of the development on the right side of the street, which leads to Große Seestrasse on Kurfürstenplatz. Next to this property stood a five-axis Kurhessisches Amtshaus, destroyed in 1944, with a central risalit , frontispiece , corner bosses , door portal with coat of arms, which then became the seat of the Prussian judicial treasury in 1866 after the annexation of Kurhesse by Prussia, and later the seat of the Bockenheim police station No. X. Destroyed in the Second World War, a multi-storey residential building was also built here. The park of the Rohmers property was located on the left side of the Kurfürstenstraße until 1925. After that, residential buildings of the civil servants' housing association and Greifstrasse were built here, named after the Bockenheim city councilor Philipp Greif, who died in 1884.
Residential complex on Kurfürstenplatz
Housing complex on Kurfürstenplatz (1930)
100-year-old residential complex in Rohmerstrasse (2013)
One of the oldest cooperatives in Frankfurt am Main was founded on March 18, 1899 as a self-help institution of the Frankfurt civil service and still has 1,368 apartments in its portfolio. In 1912, after the Rohmer family had sold their property, including a large park, to the city of Frankfurt, this cooperative was established in 1913 a. a. On the property area Kurfürstenstrasse 13–25, Große Seestrasse 33–39 and Rohmerstrasse 22–30 a multi-storey residential complex as perimeter block development, which is still in her portfolio after 100 years and is maintained by her. Up until around 1910, there was a consensus on urban expansion in Europe: Block edges were built - four to six-story houses arranged around a semi-private inner courtyard, which directly border the street on the outside and thus create clear spaces.
Hausgasse 10
Hausgasse No. 10 (2013)
The houses lane takes its name from the path or alley after the neighboring village of Hausen. It is located near the church square, the historic center of the former village of Bockenheim. The alley formed the extension of Schloßstraße and was historically bounded in its left area by the outer wall of the park area of Gutshof Schönhof. The houses lane led over the meadows of houses and the Ochsengraben to the neighboring village of Hausen. Today, however, the Ochsenabend is mostly underground, the Ochsengraben is only accessible as an open ditch between Häusergasse and St. Elisabethen Hospital. In the past, laundry was dried on the meadow. After the straightening of the Nidda and the structural change in agriculture, the landscape changed, but so did the meadow meadows. The meadows were converted into fields, later into allotments. Today's Wooggraben and also the Ochsengraben are mainly fed by the discharge of rainwater from the districts of Ginnheim, Eschersheim and Bockenheim. Today the waters have a total length of 3.4 km and then flow into the Nidda in Bockenheim. The construction of the Main-Weser-Bahn , and in 1914 the construction of the Breitenbach bridge spanning the track body, was decisive for the Hausgasse . The land on the left side of the Hausgasse fell victim to their land needs. This was repeated again in 1966 with the new construction of the Breitenbach Bridge and the closure or removal of the house-alley level crossing. Since then, the houses lane has been bounded on the left by the concrete walls of the driveway of the new Breitenbach bridge, including the section of Friedrich-Wilhelm-von-Steuben-Strasse and tram tracks. The houses lane itself ends today at the fenced track of the railway line and continues to the left of the street "An den Bangerten" and to the right of the "Knöterichweg", or then the Bockenheimer Wiesenweg to the sports fields. The houses lane is tunnelled underground from the underground line from the church square. The three-storey house at Hausgasse 10 with its distinctive roof, see photo from 1914, is over 100 years old and, although damaged, survived the Bockenheim bombing of 1944. House No. 10 on the corner of houses lane and Fritzlarer Strasse has received its two bay windows on the facade as well as its decorative anchors. The newly built windows and the colored facade of the house rejuvenate the look of the building, which is now rented as an apartment building. On the right, Fritzlarer Strasse leads to the church square.
Housing complex from 1906 on Kirchplatz
Old Town Hall on Kirchplatz (1754–1871)
Residential complex on Kirchplatz (2017)
Around 1906, in the Rödelheimer Landstraße-Kirchplatz-Fritzlarer Straße area, a large residential complex for the tram construction and savings association was built, which has dominated the square ever since. For this purpose, a semi-detached house from 1754 was laid down, the left half of which was used as the town hall of Bockenheim and the right half as a school. In 1869/71 the town hall moved to the new building on Kurfürstenplatz, which had been destroyed in World War II, and the pastor moved into the right-hand classrooms until the old semi-detached house was torn down, after the new one on the neighboring Passavant family estate in Ginnheimer Straße 3–5 in 1888 Francke School had been built. The building has belonged to the Catholic St. Elisabethen Hospital since 1945.
Leipziger Strasse 71, Bock pharmacy
On November 26, 1819, the pharmacist Friedrich Georg Wörner applied to set up a pharmacy in Bockenheim. After three years, on November 13, 1822, he received the license from Elector Wilhelm II and opened the first pharmacy in Bockenheim on Frankfurter Strasse (today: Leipziger Strasse 71) under the name "Löwen Apotheke". Ownership changed five times before Bruno Bock took over the pharmacy in 1907 and immediately renamed it "Bock Apotheke". He caused a sensation with his marketing gag medicine with a small cart, pulled by a goat, to drive out and sometimes to drive out children. Nevertheless, the "Bock Apotheke" was sold on after just six years. In 1938 the first air raid shelter was built in the so-called “Apothekergarten” attached to the property. In 1944 it was hit by an air mine. 180 people died in the bunker, the pharmacist was unharmed in the bunker, the pharmacy was only slightly damaged. In 1988 the house was extensively renovated, the half-timbered house gutted and the old pagoda roof reconstructed.
Air pump station for bicycles at the intersection of Leipzigerstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse
Air pumping station
As a result of the "City Cycle Frankfurt am Main from September 6th - 26th 2014" organized by the traffic department of the City of Frankfurt, an air pumping station for bicycles was set up at the intersection of Leipziger and Markgrafenstraße as recognition for the victorious participation. For three weeks, the citizens of Bockenheim had cycled as many CO 2 -free kilometers as possible compared to other parts of the city and were therefore awarded by the Climate Alliance. The city's award went to the most cycling district and the team with the most kilometers per participant.
Open bookcase, Leipziger Strasse 54/56
Leipziger Street
The idea of these free libraries developed back in the 1990s. The first bookcases were in Darmstadt and Hanover at the end of the 1990s. Today they can be found in numerous cities in Germany such as Bonn, Saarbrücken, Erfurt and Karlsruhe. In Frankfurt, too, there are bookcases, for example, in Oeder Weg, Berger Strasse, Brentanobad and, as here, Leipziger Strasse 54/56. The municipal office for road construction and development, in particular its local mobility project group, is responsible for this. Unfortunately, they are also often the target of vandalism and destruction.
Open bookcase, Kirchplatz, Rödelheimer Straße 2
church Square
On March 23, 2017, a second open bookcase was inaugurated in the Bockenheim district at Kirchplatz, Rödelheimer Straße 2.
Leipziger Strasse 12
Leipziger Str. 12 (1905)
Leipziger Str. 12 (2013)
Polytechnic Society letterhead
In the Wilhelminian era, many older houses and businesses were demolished and replaced by new buildings. After the incorporation of Bockenheim in 1895, Frankfurter Strasse became Leipziger Strasse, which then developed into Bockenheim's main shopping street. Grocery stores in particular settled in order to ensure the supply of the rapidly growing Bockenheim district. In this house of Leipziger 12, a Ludwig Brenner temporarily ran a branch of his fish store as a tenant, along with z. B. Offers for butter, eggs and cheese. The main business is still operated today in the north end of Frankfurt on Spohrstrasse. The only two-axle house is characterized by its striking facade decoration. The two mid-buildings , one with shell- shaped volute ornaments , an elaborate cornice as a console frieze is a decorative element of the facade design, as well as striking window lintels and the two coats of arms of the town of Bockenheim, which was independent until 1895, as facade decoration. These double stone city coats of arms of the city of Bockenheim make it unique in this district. The coats of arms show a beehive with flying bees as a symbol of the industry that was awarded to Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel in 1819 on the occasion of the city's elevation. This city coat of arms was also adapted as the logo of the Polytechnic Society from 1822, a still non-profit institute created for the benefit of fellow citizens. The left and right neighboring houses fell victim to the bombs of 1944 and were rebuilt in the post-war period in a contemporary style. The house at Leipziger Strasse 12 remained almost undamaged, was renovated and is now one of the district's eye-catching architectural pearls.
Industrial yard archway
Archway as an entrance to the former industrial yard (2007)
Former archway to the entrance to what was once the largest anti-aircraft barracks in the German Reich (now the Industriehof entrance ). At the end of 1938, the 30,000 square meter site, completely surrounded by a stone wall that is partly still visible today, was put into operation by Flak Regiment 29. In 1944 and 1945 the area was often bombed by the Allied air forces. After the war it was partly used by newly established industrial companies. The West truck stop opened in 1956, later a new location for service providers, but also the US Army Equipment Maintenance Center of the American armed forces, which secretly assembled Pershing II missiles there in the early 1980s and was exposed to public protests and demonstrations after it became known . In 2000, the new headquarters of the Neue Börse was completed on the former site of the US Army and moved to Eschborn in 2010.
Other historical buildings
Former Bockenheimer Schlösschen, Schloßstraße
Bockenheimer Schlösschen
Layout
Garden view
Garden side
Garden side
Street view
Former imperial post office at lower Kurfürstenstrasse 49, formerly Bahnhofstrasse
former Imperial Post Office Bockenheim
Rebuilt former imperial post office in Bockenheim
The former building of the Imperial Post Office in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, formerly on Bahnhofstrasse, now lower Kurfürstenstrasse 49, was built in 1887 as the Imperial Post Office for the independent city of Bockenheim in the Electorate of Hesse, occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866, and moved into in 1888. When it opened, the main post office on the Zeil exchanged letter bags with this post office several times a day using the Frankfurt am Main post tram . It was used through the end of World War I until 1920. The rapid development of the postal system then made it necessary to move to a new building on Rohmerplatz. From then on, the old building was used as a land registry office. It was partially destroyed in the bombing raid in 1944. After the end of the war, it was rebuilt with a simplified facade in keeping with the times, whereby the old entrance door facade was reconstructed. Later it was increased with a modified roof extension. Today the property is used as an office building for a publishing house.
Former Bockenheim post office, former German Reichspost
Post Office Frankfurt 13 Deutsche Reichspost
The so-called new post office 13 on Rohmerstrasse was built by the Deutsche Reichspost after the First World War and opened in 1920. Here, at the Deutsche Reichspost in Bockenheim, Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) worked in the main cash desk as senior postal inspector from 1912 to 1932 - only interrupted by the First World War . The post office building was bombed in the central building in 1943, but was rebuilt after the war. In 2000 the property was sold by the Post to a real estate fund, which completely renovated the building. Deutsche Post AG and Postbank AG are tenants today.
Former military buildings
Three years after the annexation of Kurhessen by Prussia, barracks including their own siding were built in 1869–1873 in what was then Rödelheimer Chaussee, now Rödelheimer Landstrasse, which was destroyed in World War II (1943) and then only partially rebuilt. In addition to the actual barracks building, the provision buildings were built between 1876 and 1879. On October 13, 1873, three squadrons of the Rhenish Dragoon Regiment No. 5 moved into the barracks. In the autumn three squadrons of the Hussar Regiment (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 followed. This regiment was later given the name “ King Humbert of Italy ”. The last regimental commander was Georg von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (May 11, 1869 to March 23, 1923), the grandfather of Claus von Amsberg , late Prince of the Netherlands. The installation site or garrison for this regiment at the beginning of World War I was Diedenhofen (today: Thionville ) in what was then the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . Also served in this regiment included Adolph von Holzhausen with the rank of Rittmeister, who, as the last offspring of an old Frankfurt family, bequeathed his entire fortune to the city of Frankfurt. Except for the little wooden house, the extensive assets have perished. The remainder of the barracks belongs to the HC Fermont haulage company, which has sublet parts of the property. The surrounding area is part of the real estate owned by Siemens, which built buildings for a branch here. At times, she also considered an additional extensive development of the existing wasteland called SIEMENSSTADT, but these plans became obsolete. Today the sale of this local Siemens site is about to be completed. A new residential quarter for 2,000 residents in line with urban densification is desired and planned. The new development plan 834 has been drawn up and should be approved as soon as possible. Today only the Kasernenstrasse bus stop there reminds of the former military use of this area .
Twenty years later, two more military buildings were built in Bockenheim during the imperial era. In 1891, one of eight imperial military training forges in the empire, similar to those in Berlin, Breslau, Königsberg, Gottesaue, Hanover, Dresden and Munich, was opened in the Kiesstrasse / Graefstrasse area in Bockenheim. After the end of the Second World War, the only evidence of the extensive development, including three large, distinctive chimneys, is a solitary, classicistic, multi-storey clinker building with a cornice in an ornamental compound, without any recognizable functional information at the time, which is now used as a residential building. The development of the former military hospital along Sophienstrasse / Ginnheimer Strasse has also disappeared without a trace. The Sophienhof Passive House complex, a modern residential complex, is located here today.
Former Frankfurter precision tool factory Günther & Kleinmond GmbH, Adalbertstr. 11
The Frankfurt precision tool factory "Günther & Kleinmond GmbH" was founded in Adalbertstraße 11 in 1895, the year Bockenheim was incorporated.
The Institute for City History in Frankfurt keeps business documents for this company from 1917, which was then based at Mainzer Strasse 193.
After numerous takeovers by various investors, including several relocations of the production location, the company ILIX Präzisionswerkzeuge-GmbH currently still exists in Kriftel (Taunus), which still produces drilling tools in patented Ilix quality and also holds naming rights.
Former commercial building, Adalbertstraße 23
Adalbertstrasse 23 (around 1930)
Adalbertstrasse 23 (2013)
The multi-storey pre-war building was destroyed in the Second World War and then initially only temporarily rebuilt in one storey. The legendary Zum Trompeter Karl restaurant was run here. In the 1980s, the Greek community of Frankfurt am Main - Hessen e. V. took over the corner property at Adalbertstraße 23, Homburger Straße and built a new, multi-storey commercial building here, in which she maintains a Greek cultural center, a kindergarten and rooms for her folk dance group. The adjoining neo-baroque tenement house with a symmetrical plaster and sandstone facade and rich architectural sculpture from 1904 at Homburger Strasse 36 survived the Second World War almost undamaged and is now under monument protection.
Former steam emery factory J. Schönberg & Co., Adalbertstrasse 61
Frankfurt-Bockenheim Adalbertstrasse 61
Fifteen years after the founding of the German Empire , the steam emery factory was founded in 1886 as a refinery, smelter and metal dealer J. Schönberg & Co. at Adalbertstrasse 61. Schönberg already operated the Delkeskamp & Schönberg steam sawmill nearby. Soon the infrastructure improved significantly for this company too. In 1888, Frankfurt Central Station was opened as the largest train station in Europe at the time and the nearby Bockenheim train station was connected. In 1891 J. Schönberg from Bockenheim near Frankfurt applied for an imperial patent for his sharpening machine. In 1892, six years after it was founded, the company had sixty workers and ten employees, including four technical managers, after switching to emery products. This made it one of Bockenheim's largest employers at the time.
In 1944, the property, like many neighboring properties, was largely destroyed in a bomb attack. It was rebuilt to meet the new needs as an apartment building with an unadorned facade. The Tamil cultural association Sri Nagapoosani Ambal, one of currently four Hindu communities in Frankfurt, is currently operating its meeting point or temple in a simple part of the extensive rear courtyard development from the post-war period of this property . The name comes from Sanskrit and can be divided into two German terms: Nagam means snake and Pooshan means jewel .
On the ground floor of the front building, a Germany-wide provider of games of chance under the name Big Cash Casino GmbH operates one of its numerous Frankfurt branches.
There are no traces of the historical development of the former steam emery works J. Schönberg & Co.
Former Frankfurt fish canning factory Willi Klös KG, Nauheimer Straße 10
Nauheimer Strasse 10, backyard
Nauheimer Strasse, basalt underground
One of the last basalt foothills of the volcanic Vogelsberg lies under Nauheimer Strasse in Frankfurt-Bockenheim. The gradient of the short Nauheimer Strasse from the intersection of Adalbertstrasse / Schloßstrasse to Hamburger Allee / Voltastrasse is clearly visible. Before the First World War, Leopold Eisemann ran his Frankfurt fish canning factory at Nauheimer Strasse 10. The historic production building has been preserved to this day as part of the extensive backyard development. Today's house entrance Nauheimer Straße 10 with its stone-slab-like ground floor cladding of the commercial area used today as a restaurant no longer reveals the historical events. One of the rare cases of so-called friendly business takeover took place here on the occasion of the mostly brutal acts of violence during the Aryanization of Jewish companies, which Benno Nietzel described in his dissertation Acting and Surviving: Jewish Entrepreneurs from Frankfurt am Main 1924–1964 (= Critical Studies on History . Volume 204 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-37024-7 ) researched and published. He researched the takeover of the Frankfurt fish canning factory in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Nauheimer Strasse 10. The Jewish owner Leopold Eisemann sells his business in May 1938 to his long-time non-Jewish authorized signatory Willi Klös, who started as an apprentice in his company. Forthan the company was continued as Frankfurter Fischkonservenfabrik-Willi Klös KG. Eisemann transferred the company's real estate to a real estate management company that belonged to his wife, who had since been divorced from him. This division of operations, which was later practiced several times, survived the Nazi era. Leopold Eisemann fled via Switzerland to Morocco, where he joined the French Foreign Legion. After the war, Leopold Eisemann returned to Germany and rejoined the company. The production site for canned fish was soon no longer successful here. Operations have ceased and the property has been rented out.
Former shoe machine manufacturer Merko Karl Merkelbach, Robert-Mayer-Straße 52
Robert-Mayer Strasse 52
In this property, Karl Merkelbach operated his shoe machine manufacturer Merko Karl Merkelbach from before the First to after the Second World War. The mechanical engineering company, which had existed since 1843, had specialized in cobbler nailing machines, which were also secured with patents. Antique shoemaker nailing machines are still available, which put nails into the shoe by mechanical pressure. Karl Merkelbach came from a Westerwald stoneware ceramic manufacture dynasty that dates back to 1661 in Merkelbach in the Westerwald district.
Karl Merkelbach was married to the German-Lorraine regional writer and folklorist Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck (1885–1972). As a patron, he financed a. Relatives and acquaintances of his wife, such as the illustrations by her brother of the pastor Louis Pinck (1873-1940) in his song collections Verklingende Weisen with drawings by the Lorraine artist Henri Bacher (1890-1934). The couple had two children, Norbert and Lothar, and Norbert died as a soldier in World War II. Son Lothar was named Dr. phil. For 27 years until 1988 head of the Tübingen office of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office .
The house at Robert-Mayer-Straße 52, built in 1903, was badly damaged by bombs and rebuilt with a simplified facade after the end of the war. In 2012, an extensive renovation with energy-friendly insulation took place. The windows became smaller due to the increase in storeys that took place after the end of the war. This is one of the reasons why stucco bars were installed above the windows to make them look bigger. In order to preserve the sandstone on the mezzanine floor, interior insulation was carried out there.
Former Frankfurt dressing material factory C. Degen & Cie., Rödelheimer Landstrasse 21
According to information from the Apotheker-Zeitung 1901, No. 70, p. 616, the pharmacist C. Degen and the chemist Dr. Arthur Adler in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Rödelheimer Landstrasse 21, the Frankfurt bandage fabric factory C. Degen & Cie. Established as a pharmaceutical preparation factory and laboratory, Rödelheimer Landstrasse 21. The company headquarters was in what was then Rödelheimer Chaussee (today Rödelheimer Landstrasse 21) in the immediate vicinity of the Bockenheimer artillery barracks of regiment No. 63 with a magazine depot and its own siding.
The business idea came from the family member and pharmacist Dr. Franz-Josef Hubert Degen, who bought the Löwen pharmacy in Düren on October 1, 1887 and, as early as 1890, the factory of medical bandages and pharmaceutical preparations from Dr. Degen and Piro, later a cotton and bandage factory Dr. Josef Degen & Peter Kuth founded. The company Dr. Degen & Kuth then called itself DUKA and was active at three different locations in Düren. In 1973 the company merged with the Heidenheim dressing material manufacturer Paul Hartmann AG. Source district information Birkesdorf of the city of Düren. See also "The dressing material in the history of medicine: A cultural-historical overview". Anniversary font for the 75th year. Existence of the company Dr. Sword and kuth; Author Prof. Dr. med. et phil. J Steudel.
The Frankfurt company C. Degen & Cie. was already sold after 10 years of operation. An advertisement from 1911 names a Philipp Müller as the owner. During the Second World War, the company was completely destroyed by aerial bombs in 1943 and was not rebuilt afterwards. SIEMENS AG bought the entire area, built on part of it and planned extensive development of the remaining area called SIEMENSSTADT. The corporate strategy of SIEMENS AG changed. She got out of investment planning completely. In the meantime, the city of Frankfurt has drawn up a new development plan No. 834, which provides for a new residential area for 2,000 future residents and also the former company premises of the Frankfurter Verbandstoff-Fabrik C. Degen & Cie. included. The Frankfurt dressing material factory C. Degen & Cie. disappeared completely. A striking memento of the company activities of the Frankfurt bandage fabric factory C. Degen & Cie. remains an outstanding art poster from 1902 by the French painter and graphic artist Ferdinand Schultz-Wettel (1872 Mulhouse-1957 Obernai), today in the William H. Helfand Collection (The Picture of Health: Images of Medicine and Pharmacy) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia , PA, USA. The artist composed this poster in the style of a religious painting, which meant that the products of C. Degen & Cie. served more than just commercial purposes.
Former Bauersche foundry, Hamburger Allee 45
In today's Hamburger Allee 45, the former Moltke-Allee, Georg Hartmann built a new factory building in 1904 . It is considered exemplary of the industrial architecture in Bockenheim by the architects Josef Rindsfüßer & Martin Kühn in forms of industrial youth style. The most modern machines at the time were installed here. Together with the artistic efforts, an internationally known company was created here. In 1914 there were 400 workers and 100 machines. The Bauersche foundry also grew through numerous takeovers, for example in 1916 that of the Frankfurt type foundry Flinsch, which was itself a global company. In 1927 an office was opened in New York. The property was badly damaged by bombing, but was soon rebuilt after the end of the war. In 1972, activities at the Frankfurt headquarters at Hamburger Allee 45 were discontinued and transferred to the former subsidiary Fundición Tipográfica Neufville in Barcelona. From then on, the premises were rented out. Today it is considered a media center of Frankfurt. Advertising and other media companies, such as the private Galli-Theater, the cinema-restaurant Orfeo's Erben and the institute for social-ecological research as well as the european school of design , are among the numerous tenants.
Former Pokorny & Wittekind AG, later FMA Frankfurter Maschinenbau-AG, later DEMAG
The machine factory between Westbahnhof and Gaswerk West was founded in 1872 as a general partnership (OHG) under the company Gendebien & Naumann . After being taken over by Ludwig Pokorny and Carl Wittekind, the company was renamed Pokorny & Wittekind AG on January 1, 1900 ; it made steam engines and steam turbines. In 1913 the company changed to Frankfurter Maschinenbau AG (FMA), formerly Pokorny & Wittekind, and in 1918 began production of its first trucks, which were initially offered by the FMA as the Frankfurter model . From 1919 to 1927, the identical model was offered as the Donar with a payload of 4.5 tons, as a tipper, tank truck, long timber and rail truck, and as a 28-seater bus. The Donar was followed in 1929 by a 2.1-ton model of the Express type , which was also available as a 20-seater bus. After 1929, the FMA stopped manufacturing vehicles and turned to compressed air technology. The focus was on the manufacture of compressors and compressed air tools . The company rose to become the world market leader. In 1955, Demag , which was already involved, acquired the majority of the shares. In 1973 the Mannesmann Group took over Demag. In 1982 he relocated production with 630 jobs from Frankfurt-Bockenheim to Simmern / Hunsrück .
The former company premises, which in Bockenheim are still known as Pokorny & Wittekind or Demag premises , has been revitalized and is now owned by a real estate company that rents out commercial space to various service providers.
Former G. Schiele & Co. GmbH Bockenheim, Solmsstrasse 26, later Eschborn
Solmsstrasse, fan factory G.Schiele & Co., 1875–1908 (1905)
In 1875, in the rapidly growing industrial area at Solmsstrasse 26 in the then still independent town of Bockenheim, just outside Frankfurt, the G. Schiele & Co. production facility moved into. The company was the first fan factory in Germany to produce fans, exhaustors and centrifugal pumps for air supply. It was founded around twenty years earlier in 1851 by the engineer Christin Schiele, son of the entrepreneur Johann Georg Schiele, who briefly built the first Frankfurt gas station without success. After 15 years, the founder Christian handed over the business to his cousin Remigius Schiele, who in turn retired from active business after 9 years and handed the company over to his former employees Michel and Emmerich. The Michel family and their son-in-law Alfred Luce led the company to new growth. The production of blower machines remained the basis of production; however, the production program was expanded through technical improvements to existing equipment and new designs such as B. fans for gas delivery and cleaning, high pressure centrifugal pumps and transport, ventilation and smoke evacuation systems, z. B. for use in mines, significantly expanded.
Narrowed between the Bockenheim gasworks and the Pokorny & Wittekind company, even the extensive factory premises in Solmsstrasse in Bockenheim were no longer sufficient for the growing production. Since there was no expansion space in Bockenheim, the company acquired a 50,000 m² plot of land in neighboring Eschborn, directly on the Frankfurt – Kronberg railway line, in order to build a new foundry there. In 1910 G. Schiele GmbH employed 25 employees, 6 foremen and an average of 250 workers at both locations. From this point on, more and more production parts were relocated to Eschborn, until the Frankfurt-Bockenheim location was given up after 50 years in 1925 and the factory buildings there were leased.
In 1935 G. Schiele GmbH was converted into a general partnership under the name G. Schiele & Co. After the Second World War, the son Dr.-Ing. Alfred Luce the sole management. After his unexpected death in 1954, a stranger from the family, the previous commercial director and confidante of Luce, Walter Geisel, joined the company as a personally liable partner and was appointed managing director.
After 17 years, Schiele & Co. was acquired in 1981 by Ernst Hürner GmbH & Co, a plastics processing company based in Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which in turn belonged to the Cremer Group. After a further 17 years, Schiele GmbH merged with the Pumpen- und Gebläsewerk Leipzig GmbH in Leipzig in 1998. With the simultaneous move to Frankfurt-Rödelheim into the building of the current parent company, Deutsche Steinzeug Cremer & Breuer AG, Schiele changed into a pure sales company. On April 22, 2002, the newly founded Schiele PGW Turbomaschinen GmbH, based in Leipzig, took over the factory as an independent branch.
At the beginning of 2003, the German locations of Turbo-Lufttechnik GmbH were transferred from Deutsche Steinzeug Cremer & Breuer AG, Frechen, including its stake in Schiele PGW Turbomaschinen GmbH, Leipzig, to the Frankenthal-based mechanical engineering group Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch , a subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG , sold. They then operate as an independent company under the name TLT-Turbo GmbH.
In addition to TLT-Turbo, Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch also included Schiele, HV-Turbo (Denmark) and PGW-Turbo (Leipzig), which had been relocated to Frankenthal. TLT-Turbo employed a total of around 400 people at the sites in Zweibrücken, Bad Hersfeld, Oberhausen and Frankenthal. Three years later, in November 2006, the subsidiary of Daimler-Benz, Kühnle, Kopp and Kausch AG (KK&K) itself with TLT-Turbo GmbH was taken over by Siemens AG and transferred to the Siemens Power Generation Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications ( PG I) incorporated. TLT-Turbo now employs a total of around 488 people at its sites in Zweibrücken, Frankenthal, Bad Hersfeld and Oberhausen.
In October 2012, the building fans division based in Bad Hersfeld was taken over by Trox GmbH in Neunkirchen-Vluyn. In future, this area will operate as a 100% subsidiary of Trox GmbH under the name Trox-TLT GmbH. TLT-Turbo GmbH, now based in Zweibrücken, is still integrated in Siemens AG in the energy sector, now Siemens Turbomachinery Equipment GmbH (STE), based in the Oil & Gas Division and employs around 345 people.
Former branch of Mannesmann-Mulag AG
A remarkable building on a parabolically elevated and non-semicircular floor plan from 1922 to 1924 in Hersfelder Strasse 21–23 in Frankfurt-Bockenheim. Also because of the rare floor plan with its garage layout, the complex is now a listed building. The garages and the administration building were designed by the Frankfurt architects Ernst Balser (1893–1964) and Franz Heberer (1883–1955) with a brick masonry facade for the Frankfurt branch of Mannesmann-MULAG AG, which only existed from 1913 to 1928 , Aachen built. Detailed representations can be found at Wikimedia Commons . The Mannesmann family sold it to Büssing as early as 1928 , which was taken over by the MAN group in 1971 . The property is z. Currently rented.
Former Elektrizitäts-AG vorm. Lahmeyer & Co.
Reconstruction of the electrical works in 2018
e-construction of the E-Werk 2018
Wilhelm Lahmeyer (1859–1907) founded Wilhelm Lahmeyer & Co. KG in Frankfurt in 1890 , which later built large electrical machines and power plants. In 1891, at the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt, he presented a direct current system with a transmission of electricity over ten kilometers from Offenbach to the exhibition hall. More than 100 years ago, the Lahmeyer company was already doing what is now being sold as very modern: In 1893, the then Elektrizitäts-Aktien-Gesellschaft Lahmeyer built the Bockenheimer Elektrizitätswerk in order to meet the rapidly growing energy requirements of the rapidly growing industry with its generators von Bockenheim, especially on Solmsstrasse, and she also ran it. The local industry dismantled its own energy-generating block plants and became a customer of Lahmeyer. The city of Frankfurt only bought the system seven years later and from then on was responsible for ensuring that it produced enough electricity for the population.
The electric power plant with its yellow brick building with red pilaster strips and offset blind arches is located behind a symmetrical gable facade on Kuhwaldstraße, while the former administration building and the condensation plant with its tower-like design is located on Ohmstraße. The chimney was built on an artistically bricked base. The building complex itself is now a listed building.
Older Bockenheimer citizens still know the property as the “Bosch factory”, since it was a branch of the Bosch dealer “Bosch-Dipl.-Ing. Schmitt ”, who had focused on automotive electronics and which today belongs to the Würth Group. Then the property stood empty for a longer time. The owner has been the culturally affine Frankfurt real estate entrepreneur Bernd F. Lunkewitz since 1989 ; he had his architects submit several renovation drafts, but none of them met with approval. At times the building was offered for events. At the same time, there was a tendency to establish a film company here to compete with Munich and Hamburg. However, the mandate of the approving head of the cultural department, Hilmar Hoffmann, ended before the city had made an official decision; In 1990, the newly appointed head of the cultural affairs department, Linda Reich, set other priorities and no longer pursued the issue of the film house so vigorously, and Frankfurt had to save now. The owner waited until the land prices rose again and there was strong demand for new living space. He divided the property and sold the part not encumbered by monument protection to the real estate fund of a bank. Since 2014, a subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has had a residential complex with 54 condominiums built on the corner of Ohm-, Pfingsbrunnen- and Voltastraße under the project name “Das Edison”, with the planned completion date being 2017. The former construction obstacle, a former rectifier plant of Mainova, was professionally dismantled in advance.
The property owner still had his own interest in building the rest of the listed former Bockenheimer power station. So far the building has remained empty. In 2017, the building permit was granted for 34 rental apartments in two new towers and a 1,350 square meter supermarket on the ground floor of the former machine hall, as well as a new 800 square meter public Voltapark . The demolition contractors have dominated the property in advance since 2018.
Former JD Philipps & Söhne AG Frankfurter Musikwerke-Fabrik, Ohmstrasse 48
Former GESWA Versandhaus GmbH, Ohmstrasse 48
GESWA Versandhaus GmbH was a company that already existed before the Second World War for the distribution of household goods, haberdashery and haberdashery goods in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, formerly Frankfurt am Main West 13, Ohmstrasse 48. The business headquarters was a corner building at Ohmstrasse 46-48, Philipp-Reis-Straße, today Galvanistraße. The architect Stoessel, GA originally built the imposing company building for Frankfurter Musikwerke Philipps & Söhne AG .
The tenant of the property at Galvanistraße 23 (formerly Philipp-Reis-Straße), here side entrance at Ohmstraße 48, is u. a. the environmental office of the city of Frankfurt am Main in the renovated old building, in today's so-called Solmshaus after its current owner, the GS Real Estate of the Grafenhaus zu Solms-Laubach. Burned out by bombs at the end of the war, then repaired, the property was also the headquarters and production site of the Angulus-Patos Otto Müller KG shoe factory , Ohmstrasse 48, from 1947 to 1957 , until it was located in nearby Bad Soden in the Taunus as the Diamant Schuhfabrik Otto Müller KG, which still exists today moved.
There are few traces of the lost economic existence of GESWA that still exist today. A catalog offered on the Swiss Internet on September 16, 2016 with price list No. 108, valid from September 1938, has been preserved, on the cover of which the mail-order company recommends itself as a purely Aryan company. The 16-page catalog shown here with the price list no. 116, valid from April 1940, dates from April 1940. The journalist Jörg Bohn, 47495 Rheinberg, has published an article on the Internet at www.wirtschaftswundermuseum.de u. a. the "Christmas price list No. 222" from 1955 by Geswa - "The special mail order company for household supplies Frankfurt a / M" published. There is also an antiquarian Geswa company postcard dated March 20, 1957.
GESWA catalog 1940, page 1
GESWA catalog 1940, page 2
GESWA catalog 1940, page 3
GESWA catalog 1940, page 4
Former Optische Fabrik Böhler & Co. GmbH, later Arthur-von-Weinberg-Haus
The Arthur von Weinberg House, Kuhwaldstr. 55, on the corner of Voltastraße, belonged to the former Böhler glasses factory. The Böhler family was a long-established dyer dynasty in Frankfurt am Main, u. a. with a distinctive shop in Palais Böhler on the historic Zeil of the pre-Napoleonic era. Four Böhler brothers from a family branch from Frankfurt founded the worldwide industrial empire Böhlerstahl in Austria. The famous Methodist Peter Böhler (1712–1786) also comes from this Frankfurt family. In 1982 this former optical factory in Frankfurt-Bockenheim was prepared by the Senckenberg Research Institute for their geological, paleontological and botanical collection. The move took place in 1984. A large facade artwork of a dinosaur (design: Wilhelm Schäfer ) made of metal attached to a building wall is intended to indicate the purpose of the building. The move to the Jügel-Haus on the Bockenheim campus near the Senckenberg Museum , which the University of Frankfurt had given up, took place in 2018. The building and surrounding structures in Kuhwaldstr. 55 / corner of Voltastr. were demolished in 2019. The “Kuhlio” residential building project has been under construction at Voltastraße 3-5 and Kuhwaldstraße 55 since 2020.
Former Whitsun pasture and cow forest of Bockenheim
In accordance with farming experience and tradition, at Whitsun the farmers drove their cattle out of the narrow stables and into the open air on a jointly managed pasture, the soil of which at that time allowed little agricultural cultivation. Such Pentecostal willows can still be proven today by the often common not only Hessian field names. The farmers of the village of Bockenheim also drove their cattle to the Pentecostal pasture to the west. The Pentecostal fountain was the necessary source of water on this pasture. The cattle liked to use the nearby trees of the so-called cow forest as shade. The cattle drive soon became a folk festival with the Christian background of Pentecost . Soon the first folk festivals took place there, later there were shooting ranges and a Schindanger . Since the village cemetery around the church building became too small, the decision was made in 1825, after having been granted town charter by the Elector of Kassel six years earlier in 1819, to build a new cemetery outside the village boundary of Bockenheim near the Pfingstweide. This Bockenheim cemetery was usually surrounded by a wall. The same procedure was followed in 1828 for the construction of the Frankfurt main cemetery , one of the largest cemeteries in Germany.
The steel engraving from 1860 shows the brickwork of the Bockenheim cemetery on the left. In the middle on the right, the Bockenheim train station in Hesse, built in 1848, is drawn.
An impetuous wave of industrialization followed, which also greatly changed the Pfingstweide and Kuhwaldstrasse and ended with their extensive destruction by bombing in 1944. The Kuhwaldsiedlung was also created as a residential area in Bockenheim, which was named after the forest that was once there. At the end of the century, the site was next skinned with its almost completed development with multi-storey residential and office buildings under the planning name City West (Frankfurt am Main)
Entrance to Pfingstbrunnenstrasse
Exit Pfingstbrunnenstrasse
Site plan 1905
Kuhwaldsiedlung (2015)
Former machine works Fontaine & Co., Kuhwaldstrasse 49–51
New residential complex "Patio"
At the end of 2014, the structural remains of the Bockenheimer Naxos-Schmirgel-Schleifräder- und Maschinenfabrik Fontaine & Co. GmbH in the former industrial area in Bockenheim, Kuhwaldstrasse 49–51 / Lise-Meitner-Strasse were removed. The Dutch investor Bouwfonds is building a residential complex called PATIO with 287 condominiums and green courtyards. Bouwfonds is one of several subsidiaries of the globally active Dutch Rabobank group. and has developed into one of the largest property developers with a focus on activities in Europe. The German headquarters of this Rabobank is a stone's throw away from Kuhwaldstrasse in Solmsstrasse at the Westbahnhof in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.
In 1879, the Belgian Firmin Fontaine , who came from Spa , registered his Fontaine & Co. GmbH - Bockenheimer Naxos emery, grinding wheels, etc. Machine factory in the commercial register. Fontaine emulated the great economic success of Julius Pfungst (1834–1899). The Mainz-born Pfungst, originally an archaeologist, was able to secure the right to worldwide sales of Naxos emery through good contacts to the Greek government ( George I (Greece) ) and to local authorities and companies, and around 1870 the Naxos in the east of Frankfurt -Union abrasives and grinding machines factory for the production of abrasives, grinding machines and machine parts such as crankshafts for the emerging machine industry. In 1880 Julius Pfungst's Frankfurt plant processed around eight tons of raw emery a week. Firmin Fontaine also wanted to use this business idea in the Wilhelminian era boom of the new imperial era. So Fontaine founded his Fontaine & Co. GmbH - Bockenheimer Naxos-Schmirgel-, Schleifräder, etc. outside the city of Frankfurt in the then independent Bockenheim in Frankfurter Straße (today Leipziger Straße) . Machine factory . 14 years after founding the company, after economic crises caused by the so-called founders' crash , he sold his factory to his authorized signatory H. Endres in 1893, moved to Aachen, where he focused on the further development of the Aachen screen plate factory Fontaine & Co.
In 1895, Bockenheim was incorporated into Frankfurt and the Fontaine & Co. company moved to the inexpensive, present-day Kuhwalstrasse location on the green meadow, initially without neighbors or infrastructure. Only later did the Optische Fabrik Böhler & Co. GmbH become the immediate neighbor. Before and after the First World War, Maschinenfabrik Fontaine & Co. was located in the middle of the newly created Bockenheim industrial area. During the Second World War, the machine works Fontaine & Co. was severely destroyed, but then rebuilt and production resumed, as a commemorative publication published in 1954 on the occasion of the company's 75th anniversary shows. The building remnants mentioned at the beginning, now cleared, came from this time. Traces of this machine factory Fontaine & Co. can only be found in the Frankfurt Institute for Urban History.
Former Frankfurt mica and insulation materials factory Landsberg & Ollendorff AG, Kuhwaldstrasse
Company advertisement 1926
Company business mail from 1893
In the formerly newly developed industrial area of the then still independent town of Bockenheim, Kuhwaldstrasse, was the now long-disbanded Frankfurt mica and insulation materials factory Landsberg & Ollendorff AG. In a historical letterhead of the company from 1904, kept by the Frankfurt Institute for City History, the company refers to its branches in Paris and London. After the end of the First World War, a major fire on May 14, 1919 caused considerable damage on the premises of Landsberg & Ollendorff AG.
On mica - and mica were u. a. Mica, Marienglas, Tale, raw cut slices for ovens, cover glasses, lanterns for electrotechnical purposes, Megotalc insulation, mica cable articles, cylinders, lilakers, umbrellas etc. are produced.
During the German war economy of World War II, the procurement of raw materials for mica from India and Siberia was interrupted. The substitute Landol was developed and manufactured by the company as a substitute for mica. Megotali and for Micanit the Peralite. So were z. B. the chemicals previously used for the preparation of telegraph poles: copper vitriol, zinc chloride, mercury sublimate and creosol-containing tar oil, so that in the end only a preparation with dinitrophenol or formaldehyde or creosol-containing salt mixtures was possible. The premises of this company were also badly damaged by bombing raids by the Allied Air Force. In the post-war period, Landsberg & Ollendorff Frankfurter Glimmer- und Isolationsstoffenfabrik AG completely disappeared from the market. There are no longer any traces. Only an old, written company letterhead and a seal stamp are offered antiquarian today.
Former machine factory and mill construction company Bückling & Baum, Solmsstraße 17
Grave stele married couple H. + E. Bückling, New Cemetery Bockheim
This company was founded in the then rapidly developing industrial quarter in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Solmsstrasse 17, in the immediate vicinity of the newly built Bockenheim train station, after the Franco-German War of 1870/71. 50 years later the company had to be closed because of the outbreak of the First World War and its immediate economic consequences. The sole owner of the machine factory and mill construction company Bückling & Baum was last Hermann Bückling (1853–1938). According to the commercial register news of March 4, 1885, published in the Chemiker-Zeitung - Central-Organ, Cöthen March 4, 1885, Volume IX, Number 19, Page 345, he initially became a partner in the company S.Hansen & Baum, Milling Machines in Frankfurt am Main, taken up by the sole owner at the time, Jacob Baum. The two initially continued the business under the Bückling & Baum company in the buildings of the Gustav Colshorn sewing machine and screw factory. Later Hermann Bückling became the sole owner.
The former company building of the Bückling & Baum company at Solmsstrasse 17 was then forcibly occupied as a civil labor camp for foreign forced laborers during the Second World War. In 1944, this property was completely destroyed by aerial bombs. Structural traces are no longer present. Today there are service companies on the newly built property, such as B. a company in the field of media monitoring and media analysis in Central Europe. The grave of the last owner, Hermann Bückling, has been preserved in the New Bockheim Cemetery despite two world wars .
Former FTF Frankfurter Transformatorenfabrik M. Topp & Co., Solmsstraße 19
The company operated successfully as an industrial company in Bockenheim between the two world wars. In 2014 one of their products, a used external transformer DO, No. 5018615, 160kVa, primary voltage 15600V, secondary voltage 400-213V, GG 1020 kg, oil weight 250 kg, was offered for sale by an industrial user (page 18 of 41). Another sign u. a. an advertisement in the renowned ETZ Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift Verlag Julius Springer, Berlin, 48th year, 1927 issue 13 of March 31, 1927 advertisement page 77 of 84 received. The company was located in the immediate vicinity of the former machine factory and mill construction company Bückling & Baum, Solmsstrasse 17, Frankfurt-Bockenheim owned by Hermann Bückling . The war economy and the destructive bombing of the Allies during the Second World War meant the end of production and the destruction of the company buildings. The post-war development will give way to a new large residential complex in 2016/2017.
Former machine factory Moenus AG, Voltastraße 74-80
Mechanical engineering Moenus AG, Voltastraße 74-80
Partial view of the current development at Athlon Place
Friedrich Miller, founded the later machine factory Moenus AG, which developed into one of the dominant employers in Bockenheim. After two world wars and many upheavals, the company was dissolved in the 1970s. The City of Frankfurt planned the City West (Frankfurt am Main) with a new development plan and has now specified residential development for this site and its neighborhood. Analogous to the brand name Athlon, registered since 1999, of the successful microprocessor manufacturer AMD , which sold a processor family very successfully under the name of Athlon , the investor, then Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (HVB), named its multi-part residential and commercial park Athlon Place. After the bank takeover, the then investor now belongs to Unicredit .
Former music hall, Voltastraße 74-80
Voltastrasse 74-80
At the beginning of 1980, the project was set up to transform an empty factory hall of the lost machine factory Moenus AG into a music hall, initially as a pure concert and live club. At that time it became Europe's largest discotheque. Still legendary today and known as absolute "highlights" were the basses built in under the stage and the laser system. The opening lasted only 9 years from 1985 to 1994. The tenant, the city of Frankfurt, had changed the development plan for City West in the meantime. The lease had to be returned, was abandoned and was part of a large residential development called Athlon Place
Former precision tool factory Günther & Co., Voltastraße 42
Voltastraße 42 (around 1952)
Voltastraße 42 (2017)
The Günther & Co. precision tool factory, founded in 1890, had its headquarters at Voltastrasse 41 for a long time, as well as production facilities in the nearby Pfingsbrunnenstrasse and Ohmstrasse.
Today the company continues to exist as Günther & Co., a branch of Sandvik Tooling Deutschland GmbH in Rödelheim and belongs to the Swedish Sandvik Group. The building of their former head office in Voltastraße is now owned by a German real estate fund owned by the savings banks and is rented out by them.
Former workers' settlement from 1910 of the ABG Frankfurt Holding, Volta-, Galvani- and Ohmstraße
New residential complex, replacement of the former workers' settlement of "ABG Frankfurt Holding"
With the resistance of numerous tenants at the time in the so-called workers' housing estate built by the municipal housing company "ABG Frankfurt Holding" in the Volta-, Galvani- and Ohmstraße in 1910, a house-to-house fight in Bockenheim-Süd, also documented on film by the filmmaker Martin Keßler , broke out . In April 2002 the first block of houses was laid down, and soon afterwards the entire workers' settlement was demolished. Under the direction of the architect Stefan Forster (* 1958) , a low-rise residential complex was built on Voltastraße, which, according to the architectural office, wanted to remind of the tradition of the great Viennese courtyards. In terms of area, the development roughly followed the floor plan of the old workers' estate, but with the access to the inner courtyard between the residential buildings closed and the greened area reduced.
Former Nixdorf training center, Voltastraße 1a
The Paderborn EDP company Nixdorf Computer , which was still independent at the time of the conception, planned the operation of a bank-oriented training center in the banking city of Frankfurt am Main, Voltastraße 1a. The rapid development of data processing from mainframe computers to micronization led to the establishment of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI) via the takeover of Nixdorf by Siemens in 1990 . The business idea of the training center in Voltastrasse 1a was later abandoned. The SRH Holding was in Frankfurt for tenant for their SRH schools GmbH Mundanis city school. Their business idea was also not important, and so the SRH Holding sold the Mundanis school administration to the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund . The ASB renamed the Mundanis School to the Erasmus Frankfurt City School . He also changed the school location and moved to the Sonnemannstrasse campus of the private Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, which he himself had moved into a new building . The free space in Voltastrasse 1a was rented by the City of Frankfurt am Main in 2018. He decided to move the “Neue Gymnasiale Oberstufe” (NGO), which is currently still housed in a container facility on the Riedberg, to Bockenheim at Voltastraße 1a.
Former CompuNet branch, Kreuznacher Straße 30, Voltastraße 1
The CompuNet Computer Vertriebs-GmbH was founded in 1984 by Jost Stollmann , founded in 1998, was temporarily economy ministers of the SPD under Gerhard Schröder. Still under Stollmann the company was planning CompuNet Computer AG & Co. OHG , Kerpen, for its Frankfurt office in Bockenheim in Carré Volta, Kreuznacher- and Lise-Meitner-Strasse, near the so-called railway viaduct a seven-story office building with curtain wall, the CompuNet- House . In 1997 the construction was completed. In 1996 the largest American electrical company General Electric bought the company; henceforth it was called GE CompuNet . At the end of 2002 the company was sold to the British company Computacenter. After a short transition phase under the name CC CompuNet , the name Computacenter was also introduced in Germany. The Computacenter company has long since moved out of here and to Mainzer Landstrasse 209-211. The office property has been used by different tenants since then; At times, individual empty floors are offered as rental objects on the property market.
Former machine factory Fellner & Ziegler, Kreuznacher Str. 29
The founder of the machine factory (heat technology) Fellner & Ziegler was the engineer and inventor Johann Christian Fellner (1851–1902), a grandson of the legendary last mayor of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main Karl Konstanz Viktor Fellner (1807–1866). In the first decades after the founding of the machine factory Fellner & Ziegler, Bockenheim near Frankfurt am Main, Kreuznacher Straße 29 (today Frankfurt-Bockenheim City-West) in 1882, the focus of production was on the field of heating construction, especially the installation of central air - and steam heating for public residential and factory buildings. This resulted in a specialization in drying facilities for drying wood, cardboard, fur, felt and bricks. At the turn of the century, America came up with the idea of the rotary kiln for the manufacture of cement . From 1893 the cooperation of the mill construction company, machine factory, iron foundry Amme, Giesecke & Konegen Aktiengesellschaft Braunschweig , later MIAG Mühlenbau und Industrie Aktiengesellschaft, as well as Polysius AG Dessau and the machine factory Fellner & Ziegler, Bockenheim near Frankfurt am Main, with the establishment of the kiln factory in Hamburg, whose leading partner was Fellner & Ziegler. Eleven years later, Polysius AG Dessau took over the kiln plant in Hamburg under Otto Polysius . Fellner & Ziegler developed the rotary kiln further and soon produced rotary kilns with a diameter of 3 meters and a length of 50–100 meters. As a result, their daily output could be increased from 40 tons to 300 tons of cement. Fellner & Ziegler increasingly built complete cement factories. In addition, she produced machine parts for the ceramic, chemical and iron and steel industries in her own plant in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, and later in the nearby Weilbach ironworks in Lower Franconia . In 1960 it sold the Weilbach ironworks initially to the Linde subsidiary Matra-Werke Frankfurt, which then became part of Linde Material Handling in 1974 and later became part of the Linde subsidiary Kion Group and today belongs to the Chinese company Weichai Power .
1954 Fellner & Ziegler, Frankfurt, specialized a. a. on cement works construction, sold to Kölsch-Fölzer-Werke AG, Siegen, which they sold again ten years later in 1964. Business documents from 1949 to 1961 can be found in: Deutsche Wirtschafts-Archiv , Vol. 1.-3; Franz Steiner Publishing House; 1994; ISBN 3-515-06211-4 . The antiquarian book Fellner & Ziegler Frankfurt / Main 1882–1957 has also been preserved on the occasion of the 75th anniversary . Even today there are still offers for sale of used machines from Fellner & Ziegler. Fellner & Ziegler lost its independence when it was bought up by Buderus Wetzlar, which was then taken over by Robert Bosch GmbH in 2003 . This in turn then sold parts of the former Buderus as Buderus Edelstahl GmbH to the Austrian Böhler-Uddeholm AG, whose founders were citizens of Frankfurt. Böhler-Uddeholm AG was later incorporated into the Austrian Voestalpine AG. On the former premises of Fellner & Ziegler AG in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Kreuznacher Straße 29, a seven-story office building was built in 1997 by CompuNet Computer AG & Co. OHG, Kerpen, for their branch, the CompuNet House . Used, ready-to-use crushing mills from Fellner & Ziegler are still on offer. Traces of the former Fellner & Ziegler AG are no longer on site, but only in the Institute for City History Frankfurt.
Former iron foundry, stove and stove factory Julius Wurmbach, Solmsstrasse 83
Solmsstrasse 83, SCALA
Julius Wurmbach founded his own iron foundry, stove and stove factory Julius Wurmbach in Bockenheim in 1872. In the address book of the city of Frankfurt from 1877 it is documented with its seat in Rödelheimer Sandweg, the predecessor of today's Solmsstraße. Julius came from a family characterized by agriculture and metallurgy. His grandfather Johann Georg (1739-1811) was a farmer and mountain alderman, his father Johann Wurmbach (born April 1, 1796 in Müsen; † December 21, 1875 in Siegen; full name: Johann Heinrich Wurmbach) was a German mining engineer and worked as a mine manager in Ramsbeck. Wurmbach was married to Charlotte Meinhard (born January 3, 1839 in Siegen † May 1, 1878 in Bockenheim). Her son and later company heir was Julius Heinrich Friedrich Wurmbach jr. He was also a German manufacturer and a local politician in Frankfurt am Main. From the age of 30, Julius Wurmbach was already involved in the Nieverner Hütte , a former ironworks near Fachbach an der Lahn , near Bad Ems , which is now under monument protection, for ten years from 1861 to 1871 and also worked there in management. In 1871 he sold his stake in the Nieverner Hütte. After the Wilhelminian Empire was proclaimed in the early days of the founding , he created his own iron foundry, stove and stove factory Julius Wurmbach in Bockenheim in 1872, incorporated from 1895 and thus part of Frankfurt am Main . Before that, the guild order had been abolished in Frankfurt in 1864 and the first industrial development began. In 1866 the Kingdom of Prussia occupied the Electorate of Hesse with the whole of Electorate Hesse. At the beginning, Julius Wurmbach focused on the increasing demand of the chemical industry for large castings and clay cast kettles, whose pore-free quality was particularly in demand. In addition, he also produced machine and structural cast parts, as well as specially decorated columns and candelabra. He also took up the production of cast iron stoves and stoves.
The stove and stove factory Julius Wurmbach was producing at the end of the 19th century with around 35 competitors in the German Empire a. a. successfully various models of cast furnaces with rich decorations, enamelling and painting in significant numbers. Contemporary, true cast-iron monsters with sophisticated air flow and regulation were produced. The collector and restorer Ronald Koch from Günserode in Thuringia judged: “If someone was rich, a 'Wurmbach' came into the house; if he was even richer, it had to be a colorful 'Wurmbach'. And if someone wanted something very special, they would even buy a white copy. ”It was not only in his opinion that the Wurmbach ovens were recognized artificially used art. The stoves he produced at the time are now traded as antiquarian. The machining workshop connected with the foundry developed into a machine factory, which u. a. Cleaning and filtering systems produced. Heavy pans and kettles for chemical factories were also made. At the turn of the century the company had 140 employees and u. a. with a 25 hp steam engine one of the largest employers in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.
Technical progress, especially the displacement of cast iron by acid-resistant steel and aluminum products , the effects of the First World War and German inflation from 1914 to 1923 impaired sales, turnover and employment.
After the unexpected cardiac death of the company founder in 1901 and even before the suicide of the son and company heir Julius Heinrich Friedrich Wurmbach jr. (1860–1926) in Berlin, the company came into the possession of the Frankfurt banker Clemens Harlacher, Frankfurt, Hohenzollernplatz 14, who was later robbed of his assets in the course of the Aryanization . The company was now called Bockenheimer Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik GmbH , Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Solmsstrasse 83, staggered through economic crises, the Second World War and the destruction of the war as a result of bomb hits. After the war ended, it was bought by the entrepreneur Fritz Voltz in 1947 from the neighboring company Fritz Voltz Sohn, Frankfurt, Solmsstrasse 62-68, and later merged.
On parts of the formerly large company premises, which stretched from Solmsstrasse to the roundabout, a. In 2001 the 73 m high, 17-storey SCALA high-rise was built. The main architect was Christoph Mäckler. Before it crashed, AIG Versicherung Deutschland was the anchor tenant here. In 2008 the owner, the real estate company DEKA der Sparkasse, announced that the financial services company and custodian State Street from Boston had signed as the new anchor tenant . There are no more traces of the former manufacturing industry here.
Former company FVS Fritz Voltz Sohn Apparatebau, Solmsstrasse 58–68
As early as the 16th century, French-speaking Reformed Christians began to flee, initially Walloons from the Netherlands, who had escaped pressure from Duke Alba and the Spanish occupiers, and especially along the Rhine in Wesel, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hanau, the Palatinate and Strasbourg found a new home. The Walloons, like the Huguenots later on, were not economic refugees looking for more favorable living conditions in other countries. As a rule, they left secure financial circumstances and did not know what to expect in the refuge. The only reason for them to leave the country was to be able to live as Reformed Christians without persecution or restrictions in their beliefs and convictions. They were religious refugees. So did August Voltz, who died as a blacksmith in Hanau on August 16, 1673. He was the father of Johann Georg Voltz, born on August 30, 1663, citizen and farrier in Hanauer Neustadt. Fritz Voltz (1833 – NN) was born on August 8, 1833. He still called himself Frédéric Charles Voltz, proud of his Walloon origins and his Reformed faith thanks to the Hanau landgraves. He was the son of a blacksmith, the founder of the company and had seven children. He received his company, a coppersmith's shop in Hanau, in 1858 as thanks for his professional commitment from his employer at the time, Master Jacob Theodor Petsch. After the wife's death, son Ludwig Voltz (1869–1945) took over the father's company in 1895. Long-term employees Otto Velte (NN – 1956) and Edmund Küchler became co-partners of the OHG. Dipl.-Ing. Fritz Voltz joined the company on January 1, 1940 and later became company director. He was also later chairman of the state representation of Hesse in the Federation of German Industry and deputy president of the “VHI Association of Hessian Industrialists e. V ". According to documents from the company archive received in the ISG Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main, Fritz Voltz and his wife Elisabeth Toska, born Breast, 1941 the vacant lot, Solmsstr. 58–68, in the Frankfurt-Bockenheim district, map sheet O, parcel 636/50 of Freiherr Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild. The son-in-law of the co-partner Otto Velte (NN-1956) Gerhard Türk became a co-partner and later became the sole managing director. The advent of acid-resistant stainless steels, such as those developed by Krupp in 1912, favored the company's economic upswing, especially since the previous copper and its alloys no longer met the demands of the manufacturing industry customers. Thus, the FVS production program was split into chemical apparatus construction, valve production and foundry products. Soon after the end of the war, the neighboring Bockenheimer Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik GmbH , Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Solmsstrasse 83, was integrated and merged. In 1966, the well-known apparatus construction company, FVS Fritz Voltz Sohn, gave a model of a sulfite pulp digester to the paper history research center in Mainz. In 1989, the Central Franconian Special Waste Disposal Association (ZVSMM) and Fritz Voltz Sohn, Frankfurt, developed a process concept for the evaporation of seepage water. An evaporation plant with an evaporation capacity of 3.6 t / h leachate was built. Since no experience was available with such large-scale plant designs, an accompanying research program should be carried out with the aim of developing evaporation into a state-of-the-art process that only has a low impact on the environment.
In the meantime, several multi-storey residential and commercial buildings have been erected on the premises of the company FVS Fritz Voltz Sohn Apparatebau, Solmsstrasse 58-68. Fritz Voltz Sohn GmbH, based in Bad Vilbel, still sells valves all over the world.
Former fittings factory Wilhelm Hage, Solmsstrasse 36
Former Wilhelm Hage fittings factory
For almost 60 years, from 1923 to 1980, the important Bockenheim fittings factory Wilhelm Hage had its business and production headquarters at the end of Solmsstrasse 70-74, which was founded in 1890 by the cart and farrier Wilhelm Hage in Schussenried and in 1923 during the Great Depression in Frankfurt-Bockenheim had misplaced. The bombing in World War II destroyed many parts of the company, but production was only temporarily interrupted. Soon the production u. a. of seamless steel pipe welding bends, copper soldering fittings as well as stainless steel welding bends and threaded fittings. Sales and turnover rose above the pre-war level. After around 60 years, the entire company had to be relocated from Frankfurt-Bockenheim to Rodgau -Dudenhofen, around 20 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main. Today the Hage family (in the 4th generation) continues to run the company. The former company buildings, rebuilt after the Second World War, are used by a service company.
Former Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, then Alliance Healthcare Germany, Solmsstrasse 39
Alliance Healthcare AG formerly ANZAG, demolished in 2016
Alliance Healthcare Germany (formerly Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, ANZAG), based in Frankfurt am Main, Solmsstrasse 25, is the third largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Germany and has a dense distribution network with numerous branches. In August 2014, Walgreens took over its British-Swiss competitor Alliance Boots completely and is now called Walgreens Boots Alliance . One saving result is the completed sale of the previous head office in Frankfurt am Main, Solmsstrasse 25. The still quite new office building will be demolished; Another investor is building a planned new residential building called SOPHIE at the same location in 2016–2017. New office space was rented elsewhere in Solmsstrasse for the head office. The new current investor is planning a property consisting of five residential buildings for 126 condominiums ready to move in in 2020 called W - Double U Frankfurt, whereby W or VEE has recently also been named as DOUBLE U as with EX-US President George Double-U, see also DOUBLE U for W or VEE as in the SUV vehicle.
Former Gebr. Schmidt GmbH, printing ink factories, Solmsstrasse 31, later Gaugrafenstrasse 4-8, Rödelheim
In November 1878 the brothers Ernst and Rudolph Schmidt founded a printing ink factory at Solmsstrasse 31 in Bockenheim, which was still independent at the time.
The “paint shop”, as the Bockenheimers called it somewhat disrespectfully at the beginning, developed within a few years into a respectable company in the printing ink industry, which was awarded a gold medal for its quality at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . The younger brother Rudolph had already moved to Berlin in 1889 in order to set up a small factory with the local publishing houses and printing companies, in which the Schmidt brothers began mass production of newspaper rotary inks after the necessary renovation and expansion measures. On the 50th anniversary of the company in 1928, there were branch plants in ten European countries and GS printing inks enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a quality brand in the industry. In 1943, Gebr Schmidt took over the printing ink factory A. Haller GmbH in Frankfurt-Rödelheim. Since this plant survived the catastrophe of World War II comparatively lightly, Gaugrafenstrasse 4-8 became the starting point for the reconstruction that began after the currency reform. New plants were built at home and abroad, and everything was expanded, enlarged and modernized.
In 1970 Gebr. Schmidt GmbH employed 1,137 people, making it one of the largest printing ink manufacturers in the world. In 2001, the “Gebr. Schmidt GmbH “has about 1000 employees and achieved a turnover of approx. 250 million euros per year with the production of color systems for offset printing (newspapers, packaging, banknotes).
The intensification of competition as a result of globalization prompted the Schmidt family to merge the company on April 5, 2002 with the European branch of the "Flint Ink" company from Michigan, USA, founded in 1920, and now operate under the name Flint-Schmidt in Europe. The former owners, the Schmidt family, left the company and used the family assets to finance a hardship fund.
In July 2005, one of the world's ten largest private equity finance firms, financial investor CVC Capital Partners , acquired the joint venture. In this way, together with the recently acquired printing inks division of “BASF” and the paint manufacturer “ANI Printing”, CVC formed a group called FLINT-GROUP with annual sales of 2.1 billion euros. The bank loans taken out to finance the multiple merger were transferred to the merged companies. For debt servicing it became necessary to increase the company's return from the industry standard 1–2% to 10%. This was achieved through extensive restructuring measures, freeing up many jobs and closing large parts of the plant. In 2007, 280 employees were still working in Frankfurt, but remained the center for publication printing inks (illustration gravure inks, heatset and web offset inks).
In April 2014, CVC sold the printing inks manufacturer Flint Group to the US company Koch Industries and the investment division of Goldman Sachs. The conglomerate Koch Industries is one of the largest unlisted companies in the US with sales of 115 billion dollars. The owners Charles and David Koch are considered to be great supporters of the conservative "Tea Party" movement.
The historic company site at Solmsstrasse 31, which was heavily destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War, became the property of Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main , or Maingaswerke, from which Mainova AG emerged. Today you can find the entrance to the company premises at Solmsstraße 31.
Former club house of the “Turnverein Vorwärts Bockenheim”, founded in 1882, with a gym, Schloßstraße 125
Coat of arms of the gymnastics club Vorwärts Bockenheim (1905)
Schloßstraße 125, construction phase 1961
Schloßstraße 125, development (2017)
On December 27, 1903, the foundation stone for a club house and gym of the "Turnverein Vorwärts Bockenheim" founded in 1882 was laid in Schloßstraße 125. This property was destroyed by aerial bombs in World War II in 1944. In 1973 the previously independent clubs “Turngesellschaft Rödelheim”, founded in 1873, and “Turnverein Vorwärts” merged to form the “Turngesellschaft Vorwärts 1874 e. V. “Frankfurt am Main (TGS) together. Your new clubhouse was built in Rebstöcker Weg 17 in the Rödelheim district. The association uses the beehive as its logo based on the historical coat of arms of the formerly independent town of Bockenheim in Kurhessen.
In 1961 a seven-storey commercial building was built on the property, initially with a petrol station and a car workshop building in the backyard. 1969 was here u. a. the founding address of the publishers' publishing house , which has since moved to the Bahnhofsviertel. The tenants of this property are and were diverse, such as restaurants, medical practices, fitness clubs. The property was completely renovated again in 2017.
Former night club Ellis Elliot Parisian nightlife, Varrentrappstrasse corner Hamburger Allee
Varrentrappstrasse
According to a document from the ISG Frankfurt am Main, the international night bar "Elli's Elliot" was opened by Madame Ellis Elliot on December 5, 1949, at Varrentrappstrasse 55 on the corner of Hamburger Allee, near the Frankfurt exhibition center. On July 4, 1951, “ Der Spiegel ” reported on a civil suit brought by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) and the Bonn office of Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952) against the 32-year-old boss Waldtraud Schmidt-Elliot of the Frankfurt night cabaret “at Ellis Elliot ". The company Paris Nightlife at Ellis Elliot, owner Hans Czonstke, was once entered in the commercial register at the Frankfurt am Main local court under number HRA 15944. For a long time this nightclub, together with the BB-Club in Adalbertstrasse, was the dominant nightclub in the Frankfurt-Bockenheim district, until the wave of discos pushed this location more and more into the red-light district. Limited size, changed sexual morals and falling customer numbers led to a drop in sales and later to business closure and deletion from the commercial register. In 2017 the business premises were cleared and a new letting was prepared.
Former JUZ Bockenheim, Varrentrappstrasse 38
Varrentrappstrasse 38 (2013)
In 1975 the city of Frankfurt set up a youth center for Bockenheim in this section of the Gutenberg School, the former villa for the principal and school administration at Varrentrappstrasse 38. The self-governing JUZ Bockenheim soon developed from this. a. became a nationally known center of the then punk youth culture. Groups like Böhse Onkelz and Die Toten Hosen had some of their first amateur music performances here. The house was one of the first self-administered youth centers in Germany and at that time it was very important and well known. After the original users were no longer active at the JUZ Bockenheim due to aging and left the premises in 2001. The city of Frankfurt opened a new youth center in the nearby Schloßstraße. Without adequate building investments, the building fabric fell into disrepair over the years. The city invested large sums in the renovation of the vocational school complex at Hamburger Allee 23 and, in particular, built the Gutenberg School and the Frankfurt School for Clothing and Fashion, both at Hamburger Allee 23, at great expense. The Frankfurt School for Clothing and Fashion reported to the City of Frankfurt that additional space was required. a. for their school administration and received a positive decision. On August 2, 2008, the “Faites votre jeu!” Initiative occupied the former JUZ Bockenheim with an opening party. The house, which had been vacant for 7 years, was occupied with the aim of creating rooms for the initiative. The group refused to move out soon. After prolonged protests with police operations and the involvement of an intermediary, the then responsible department head of the city suggested other free rooms for this autonomous group in case they voluntarily gave up their occupation. After lengthy negotiations, the FAITES VOTRE JEU group finally agreed to move to the former detention center on Klapperfeldstrasse. The time of the JUZ Bockenheim in Varrentrappstraße 38 was over.
Former company of the Pintsch brothers, Bockenheim plant
Between 1895 and 1917, the Pintsch gas apparatus and machine factory, one of several branches of the Julius Pintsch company in Fürstenwalde / Spree near Berlin , stretched between what is now Jordan-, Gräf- and Emil-Sulzbach-Straße . This Pintsch company represented the ideal complementary products to the ICGA gasworks of the Imperial Continental Gas Association , which later became Gaswerk West, opened in 1869 on Solmsstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . In 1927, this Bockenheimer plant of Pintsch AG also worked for the first time with “Berlin-Anhaltischen Maschinenbau AG “(Bamag-Megius AG) in Berlin and Butzbach (Hesse), in which the Pintsch company temporarily held a 60% stake. The company, which was converted into a limited partnership in 1936, remained family-owned and built systems for wood saccharification, vacuum dryers, lighting systems for sea, air and road transport, waste incineration and oil heating systems for railways. As an antiquarian, an illustrated, annotated company catalog with a presentation of exemplary shop window frames for shoe, corsetry, optician, pipe, hat, jewelry, umbrella, grocery stores, etc. a. obtained from 1893. After the Second World War, the Pintsch Group withdrew from Frankfurt-Bockenheim. There are no structural traces of the formerly large industrial company, which before electrification brought light to the city and houses with its products powered by coal gas .
Former cinema CAMERA, Graefstrasse 79
Graefstrasse 79, former Cinema Camera
Graefstrasse 79, former Cinema Camera
In the Bockenheim district, Graefstrasse 79, after ten months of construction, the CAMERA cinema by the architect Heinz Junker with 564 seats was opened near the university on May 18, 1956. The game had to be stopped as early as 1960. For a long time, the building was used as an additional lecture hall and teaching room by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University as the new owner. From 1987 onwards, once a semester, the association “Pupille & Schöne Neue Welt” converted the former Cinema Camera, which was used by the university, with an immense amount of personnel, in order to organize one to two weeks of film weeks as a series of films and discussions on a fixed topic. For the programs, the organizers were awarded the Frankfurt Film Prize in 1992 for "outstanding performance in playing artistically valuable films". The plan to revive the CAMERA cinema hall for film screenings for the students of theater, film and media studies (TFM) together with the university and public funds failed when the Hessian Ministry of Science withdrew a funding commitment. Training was also carried out here. After the change of ownership, an architecture firm divided the former cinema hall with a false ceiling, added windows and raised the building by a penthouse floor. During the renovation, some of the old cinema was consciously preserved, such as the striking staircases and the neon letters CAMERA. From the outside, the building is therefore still recognizable as a former cinema. The new owner of this property at Gräfstrasse 79 was the Frankfurt office of the Federal Association of Color Design and Building Protection.
Former Optical Works Dr. R. Krügener, later Plaubel & Co., Königstrasse 66
In Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Königstrasse 66, which was later renamed Graefstrasse, before the First World War the Dr. Rudolf Krügener founded. According to an advertisement, in 1905 it was the largest special factory for photographic handheld cameras in the German Empire with 300 workers. The company's continued son-in-law Hugo Schrader of the company's founder Dr. R. Krügener then renamed the company Optische Werke Plaubel & Co. The grandson of the company's founder, Goetz Schrader, relocates the company to Rödelheim, Rödelheimer Landstrasse and the corner of Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse after being destroyed in the Second World War. With the development and production of the analog camera, especially with the MAKINA model, Optische Werke Plaubel & Co. became a global brand, especially in the professional segment. The advent of digital photo technology led to the end of the company. The location was given up in the 1980s after the company was sold. The company buildings were closed and the former company premises were rebuilt with a large residential complex. A newly founded Plaubel GmbH in Frankfurt offers its support in the procurement of spare parts and repairs of previously produced Plaubel products.
Former watchmaker's tool factory Lorch, Schmidt & Co. GmbH, Königstrasse 40
Former company premises, now math tower
Former company premises, now closed university heating plant
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The Frankfurt watchmaker's tool factory was founded around 1880 by Fritz Lorch, Frankfurt, Scheffeleck, and other partners and initially located at Hanauer Landstrasse 135-137. The company later moved to Bockenheim at Königstrasse 40, today's Gräfstrasse. The German National Library in Frankfurt keeps several printed works by and about the company, especially its history from 1885 to 1950. After it was destroyed in the Second World War, the multi-storey so-called math tower for the Institute for Mathematics (today Faculty 12) of the Goethe University, Robert-Mayer-Straße 5-10, corner Grafstraße 38, was built on the former company premises. After the Second World War, the traditional Lorch company resumed the production of lathes at Hanauer Landstrasse 135-137, with the company premises extending as far as Ferdinand-Happ-Strasse. At the end of the 1960s, she ceased operations there due to falling demand and looked for tenants for the company property. The property was vacant from 1984 to 1989. In 1989, as in the EMDA house, the neighboring dental technology company Emda, companies from the advertising industry and artists moved in.
The entrepreneur Georg Hartmann (1870–1954) from Bockenheim founded the EMDA “Elektro-Medico-Dental-Apparatur” as a further company as a special factory for electro-medical and dental apparatus, which was also active in the field of precision mechanics. After the EMDA production of dental chairs moved to Kaiserleistraße 19, the legendary Omen music club started in its vacated property . Parts of the EMDA and Lorch buildings are also now being offered for rent. There are also numerous suppliers of used lathes and workbenches from Lorch, Schmidt & Co. GmbH on the market.
Former pump factory J. Walter & Co.
Pump factory J.Walter & Co., founded in Bockenheim in 1873.
Former company Oel-Industrie Heinrich Rudolph , Falkstraße 82a
Heinrich Rudolph founded the company Oel-Industrie Heinrich Rudolph for lubricants of all kinds in 1894. View of the historical company premises on company letterhead dated November 2, 1909. This mineral wholesaler with a branch in Hamburg later cleared this company premises and moved to Frankfurt-Fechenheim, Sontraer Straße. This land was then mainly built on with residential buildings along Falk-, Markgrafen- and Sophienstrasse. The residential and commercial building sketched in the foreground with the distinctive part of the facade of a window bay as a decorative and dividing element in Falkstrasse survived the bombs of the Second World War, was renovated and is currently inhabited. According to the invoice dated June 20, 1949 held by the ISG Frankfurt, the Ruths brothers later ran a wholesale business for detergents and cleaning agents, toiletries and brush goods in this house.
In the background on the left of the drawing on the letterhead, the later abandoned Bockenheimer water tower on the Ginnheimer Höhe is shown. It was built as an overflow tank by the then still independent city of Bockenheim to ensure water pressure. The Falk School, later renamed Franckeschule, was built diagonally across the street on Falkstrasse 71 in 1876.
Falkstrasse 82a
Current view
Former restaurant Weinhaus Falkenberg, Falkstraße 72-74
Philipp Gaul opened the restaurant Weinhaus Falkenberg, Falkstraße 72-74. According to ISG Frankfurt, Philipp GAUL and Mina GAUL 1931–1933 also had an economic license or concession to retail in spirits for a wine cellar with sales room for Seilerstraße 25 / corner of Klapperfeldstraße and one for Stiftstraße 30. The restaurant Weinhaus Falkenberg stood on part of the former premises of the company Oel Heinrich Rudolph in the immediate vicinity of Rudolph's residential and commercial building that had survived the war. The local name Restaurant 'Weinhaus Falkenberg' chosen by the business owner Philipp Gaul Frankfurt was u. a. a homage to the wine department in the Ratskeller in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin-Mitte, owner Heinrich Falkenberg, which was famous throughout Germany at the time, especially during the imperial era. In 1929, 60 YEARS OF BERLIN RATSKELLER (1862–1929) was celebrated with an anniversary publication in which its origins and history were presented. In the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berliner Straße 150, an Eduard Falkenberg also ran his 'Restaurant Falkenberg' around 1905. In Frankfurt, across from Falkstraße 71, the Francke School building, which was built in 1876, is still located today. After the Second World War, the Falkenberg wine house, which had been damaged by bombs, was rebuilt as an office building.
Former Rheingauer Hof, Adalbertstrasse 16
Rheingauer Hof Hotel 1903
Rheingauer Hof garden restaurant 1903
Rheingauer Hof ballroom 1903
The former building of the inn "Zum Rheingauer Hof" in Adalbertstrasse 16 (north side) was built between 1823 and 1840 in the then still independent town of Bockenheim in Kurhessen. In keeping with the times at the time, the building was given a striking gable decoration. The highlight was the acroterion as an architectural element of the crowning of the gable ridge as well as numerous vases and, of course, striking volutes on the gable corners. The front of the property was previously on Schöne Aussicht. This was renamed in honor of the last mayor Adalbert Hengsberger (1853-1923) after the incorporation of 1895 in Adalbertstrasse. Behind the inn building there was also a garden area as well as additional buildings such as a bowling alley, apple wine press house and a club hall for events. According to historical documents from the ISG Frankfurt am Main, z. B. on February 11, 1893, the Bockenheimer gymnastics community held a masked ball. According to an excerpt from the Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung in 1896, the 28th annual meeting of Israelite teachers in Kurhessen took place in the Rheingauer Hof . According to the city chronicler Heinrich Ludwig , the inn was built in 1830, sold to Mr. Bücking in 1832, and to Jean Pierre Jansen in 1839. In 1857 the hall was built as a rear building. In 1882, the Rheingauer Hof was temporarily acquired by the Rheinische Actien-Verein für Weinbau und Weinhandel Dilthey, Sahl & Co. as Hotel Kräusel. One of the founders of this company, established in 1867, was Theodor Dilthey (1865–1867) from one of the largest Rheingau wine merchant families and first president of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In the 1880s, the company developed into the purveyor to the court of the Emperor of Austria and the Russian Tsar. Around 1900 the Rheingauer Hof was bought by the hotelier Jean Zobel, hence the name Hotel Zobel . In 1935 his daughter AM Zobel was still the company owner. During the Aryanization, she was forced to go out of business. Forced laborers for Hartmann & Braun AG were quartered here during the Second World War . Air bombs destroyed the building in 1944. A residential and commercial building complex with an underground car park has stood here since the end of the 20th century, the entrance of which marks the location of the lost property. Antiquarian postcards from the Rheingauer Hof are still available.
Former pharmacy AN DER BOCKENHEIMER WARTE, Adalbertstrasse 6 b
Pharmacy at the Bockenheimer Warte
Adalbertstrasse 2-12 (2013)
At that time, this pharmacy advertised using the terms allopathy and homeopathy. Not only was the business premises of this pharmacy largely destroyed by aerial bombs in 1944 and not rebuilt in the post-war period. It was not until 1984 that DG Immobilien built a large ensemble of buildings called the Bockenheimer Warte shop gallery, including shops and 152 apartments.
In 2018 this property was sold to a Frankfurt private investor. Traces of the pharmacy AN DER BOCKENHEIMER WARTE are no longer present.
Former Café Bellevue at Bockenheimer Warte, Frankfurter Straße 1 (later Leipziger Straße 1)
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Leipziger Strasse 1 (1913)
Leipziger Strasse 1 (2015)
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The name Café Bellevue at Bockenheimer Warte resulted from the incorporation of the independent city of Bockenheim into the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1895. The Frankfurter Straße was in Leipziger Strasse renamed as from the street to beautiful view of the Adalbertstraße was. The former Wein-Café Stadt Bockenheim was renamed Café Bellevue . Later the tenants changed; so operated here u. a. the Röver laundry opened a branch, later a branch of the "Deutsche Bank" followed as a tenant.
During the Second World War, the property became uninhabitable due to aerial bombs in 1944. A rather makeshift construction followed, with a nightclub called BB-Club established in the partial ruin , a competition to the Ellis Elliot nightclub on Varrentrappstrasse. At times, antiquarian programs from the BB night club are still offered. In the 1980s, an investment company acquired extensive properties here and built a large residential complex with a shopping mall, doctor's offices, underground car parks, etc. where the former striking corner tower was rebuilt in a stylized, simplified form quassi as a quote. Several restaurants are currently operating as tenants on the ground floor on the historic site.
On the historical photo you can see a horse-drawn tram car with a draft horse as part of the Frankfurt tram company. The first horse-drawn tram line was opened for passenger traffic on May 19, 1872 and led from Schönhof via Leipziger Strasse, Bockenheimer Landstrasse and Bockenheimer Thor (today's Opernplatz) to the Hauptwache.
Former Friedrich Deubel Eisenwaren company, Leipziger Strasse 4
Former company Deubel, Leipziger Straße 4, backyard (2013)
Grave site of the Deubel family in the new Bockenheim cemetery
Originally built by the founder of the Bockenheim company Friedrich Deubel, a specialty shop for building fittings, wholesale and retail hardware, machine stores, tools, ovens and stoves in Frankfurter Strasse 4, later Leipziger Strasse 4. The ISG Frankfurt stores business letters and invoices of the Deubel company with the city of Frankfurt from 1885. Until the beginning of the Second World War, it was not only a very successful company in the Bockenheim district. The lavish and large family burial site at the New Bockenheim Cemetery still testifies to the prosperity of the Deubel family .
After major war damage from aerial bombs in 1944, the Deubel property was rebuilt in a different way. A multi-storey front building as a business and residential building with a passage to the rear building, in whose shop tools and hardware were also sold in detail, unpacked and in small quantities. More and more hardware was then offered by competitors pre-portioned and packaged. The triumphant advance of DIY stores also began. In the 1980s, the company was faced with an acute question of succession, with the result that it had to give up business operations, also because of the lack of future prospects. The focus was on property management. A bicycle shop and workshop became a new tenant. Since they moved out, a restaurant has been operating in the rear building.
On Sunday, February 5, 2017, there was a mass brawl between violent people in and in front of the Lilium bar, formerly Deubel, in Bockenheim. The cause was a soccer game between Eintracht Frankfurt and SV Darmstadt. A massive police operation with provisional arrests ended the outbreak of violence.
Former inn Forell's Garden
On the former Frankfurter Straße, in 1895 after the incorporation, then Leipziger Straße 28-30, today Leipziger Straße - corner Wildunger Straße, in 1825 Peter Forell opened the inn "Zum Deutschen Hof". His son Christoph Forell married in 1851, took over the inn and added a festival and dance hall in 1856 as well as a wine press shed in 1857 for the production of their own apple wine. This is how a popular garden tavern called “Forell's Garten” was created. Before the annexation of Prussia in 1866, military concerts by the federal troops stationed in the nearby free imperial city of Frankfurt am Main took place here in the independent town of Bockenheim. At that time the Forell family had one of the most beautiful dance and social halls in the greater Frankfurt area. In the period around 1896, after the death of his father Christoph, his son Hans Forell took over the inn, dance hall and garden restaurant. Here in the 1920s u. a. Professor Gottfried Salomon (1892–1964) with his Frankfurt students, a. a. with Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin , lively public discussions in evening colloquia. During the economic crisis in 1929, the then-Bockenheim-based global company bought the property initially as a property reserve. The Second World War also destroyed this property. In the construction years after the war, Hartmann & Braun AG closed Wildunger Strasse and erected factory buildings. After the production site was abandoned and production was completely relocated, a new multi-storey building was also built on this property. It was built as a corner development after the revitalization and reopening of Wildunger Straße. The ground floor was rented out as a shop for a health food chain. The reference to the previously popular garden restaurant has completely disappeared. Only in the Bockenheim cemetery does an elaborate historical family grave of the Knodt and Forell families, which is under monument protection, still bear witness to the work of these families in Bockenheim. The owners of the former art foundry and metal works Knodt were neighbors of the Forell family. Both families were related.
Leipziger Strasse with the German House and Forell's Garden (1905)
Leipziger Strasse with the German House and Forell's Garden (1905)
Leipziger Strasse 30, today's view (2013)
Wildunger Strasse View of Leipziger Strasse (2013)
New cemetery, relief of the Knodt-Forell family grave (2009)
Former Knoth brothers sheet metal and metal goods factory, art foundry
The production facility of this lost company was located at Landgrafenstrasse 8. Before its incorporation in 1895, Bockenheim belonged to the Counts of Hanau, then later to the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel. Hence the attribution. Before 1895 it was called Hasengasse, before that Erdmannsgasse. It connects Leipziger Strasse with Grosse Seestrasse. In the past, numerous craft and commercial enterprises had settled here. Georg Knodt, Spengler from Bönstadt , has been the owner of the house at Landgrafenstrasse 8 here since 1847 . The brothers Christian and Georg Knodt jun. run the sheet metal and metal goods factory Gebrüder Knoth here. The company was particularly successful as a recognized art foundry during these years. In Frankfurt, the clock tower at the Zeil / Sandweg location has been preserved as one of the company's work. The elaborately designed family grave site at the Bockenheim cemetery was also included in the list of monuments. Some of the shares of Metallwerke Knodt Aktiengesellschaft Frankfurt issued two years after the end of the First World War are on the market as nonvaleur papers. This corporation was founded on April 19, 1920. Among the founders were Metallwerke G. Knodt GmbH, Tellus AG for mining and smelting operations and Metallwalzwerke AG. The factory and trading business of the GmbH was continued. Products: Railway lights, locomotive equipment, fittings for railway and wagon construction, bathing and heating equipment. The major shareholder was Tellus AG for the mining and steel industry. Tellus AG was founded in 1906 as a holding company with numerous holdings in: Metallwerke Unterweser AG, Friedrich-August-Hütte, Metallwerke Knodt AG, Emag Elektricitäts-AG, Norddeutsche Hütte AG in Bremen, Agricultural Machinery Factory Eisenach, Hüttenwerk Niederschöneweide u. a. At the end of the 1920s (economic crisis) almost all of the above went. in bankruptcy, including the Metallwerke Knodt AG. After 1945 Tellus AG was again active as a credit institute with non-banking business (work in the field of chemical technology). The last stock exchange listing was in 1979, followed by insolvency proceedings and in 1986 subsequent bankruptcy. In the immediate vicinity of Landgrafenstrasse 8, a metalworking family business founded in 1873 has survived to this day. One of the last remaining works of this Bockenheimer Metallwerke Knodt is the so-called clock tower on the Zeil, location Zeil / Sandweg. It is currently threatened with extinction. Since November 21, 2013, a national daily newspaper has been promoting donations for the preservation of this work.
Landgrafenstraße 8, former headquarters of the Knodt brothers, former production facility
Monument to Georg Schudt (1830–1890) in Bad Homburg, bronze cast by the Knodt company
Manufacturer: Former Bockenheimer Knodt, location Zeil / Sandweg, Frankfurt am Main
Lachhannes on the Winzerbrunnen, Frankfurt, Taunusanlage (1859), bronze cast by the Knodt company
Former production building of the Knoth brothers sheet metal and metal goods factory art foundry, Landgrafenstraße 8
The brothers Christian and Georg Knodt jun. ran the sheet metal and metal goods factory that had existed since 1840. Her art foundry was particularly successful. The First World War and its economic consequences led to the economic decline of the existing company. Metallwerke Knodt AG was founded in 1920. The major shareholder was Tellus AG for the mining and steel industry. The production focused on products such as railway lights, locomotive equipment, fittings for railway and wagon construction as well as bathing and heating devices, such as B. the KNODT-RAPID. See a historical advertisement, kept by the ISG Frankfurt am Main; Inventory code S7A1988 / 29.913. However, in 1930 bankruptcy had to be declared during the Great Depression. The former production buildings were used differently by changing tenants, mostly as a warehouse, even in the post-war period. Due to the strong increase in demand for buildable land around 2015, demolition and a new development with an elongated multi-storey residential complex for nine apartments as well as underground parking spaces with 840 m² became economically interesting and feasible. Access to the residential complex is still through the entrance of the front building, Landgrafenstraße 8.
Letterhead Metallwerke KNODT
View of the former production building of the Knoth brothers (2013)
Demolition work
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New building work
New building (2017)
Former RADA tool factory, Landgrafenstraße 33, formerly Hasengasse
Landgrafenstrasse 33 (2017)
Landgrafenstrasse 31 (2017)
The Hasengasse was originally called Erdmannsgasse in 1829, after the local entrepreneur Georg Erdmann, who erected a building here in 1825/27 and had gold processed and processed. It was not until 1838 that it became Hasengasse. The name Hasengasse suggested itself due to a rabbit hair tailoring shop domiciled here. At the beginning of the 19th century, the need for hare skins for the newfangled hats increased significantly. The hare skins were sheared and plucked, the hair obtained in this way was processed into felt for hat production, namely for the felt in the manufacture of cylinders. In this poorly paid and unhealthy work, young poor women treated the pelts with chemicals to make it easier to process, which could lead to respiratory diseases and mental disorders. The most famous example of this is a literary figure, namely the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice in Wonderland". A ruinous competition, fashion fluctuations and the strong environmental pollution from stench and soil pollution ultimately led to the relocation.
After Bockenheim was incorporated into the city of Frankfurt in 1895, Hasengasse was renamed again, as there was already a Hasengasse in Frankfurt. Since before the incorporation of Bockenheim the Counts of Hanau and later the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel belonged, from then on they were called Landgrafenstrasse. Georg Erdmann did not live to see this renaming. Already in 1882 the property was inherited by his daughter WL Mlisse Lopotsch, née Erdmann, and her husband, postal secretary Karl Matthäus Lopotsch. The large, beautiful garden of Erdmann, or later Lopotsch, was parceled out after 1900 and built with three houses. W. Weißenbach bought the building at Landgrafenstrasse 29 and resold it to R. Neumann in 1935. The property at Landgrafenstrasse 31 went to the master bricklayer A. Schober, later to the Frankfurter Beamten-Wohnungs-Verein eG, which built a five-family house here in 1904 and still owns this property today. The property at Landgrafenstrasse 33 went to the mechanic JA Rada. In 1935, the Hermann Rada tool factory was the owner. Family member Peter Rada set up the production facility in Frankfurt-Rödelheim before the world wars. On the 1.6 ha = 16,000 m² property he had various products manufactured, such as B. Metal toy kits. Later, RADA focused as a special factory for disk, film cassettes and photo accessories. The most sustainable were the development and production of roll film inserts for different camera manufacturers, some of which are still offered as an antiquarian today. The cooperation with the world-famous Rödelheim camera manufacturer Plaubel , who later bought the Rada metal goods factory, was particularly close . The former factory owner's villa of Peter Rada is now owned by the City of Frankfurt. In more than 40 years it has become the self-governing youth center of the punk scene, known throughout Germany, often besieged and contested. Today it is considered to be the oldest, continuously occupied project for an alternative lifestyle in Germany, known throughout Europe as DIE AU with a trailer park on the site. The dominant property at Landgrafenstrasse 33 was partially destroyed by aerial bombs during World War II. The neighboring houses 35 and 37 were rebuilt with a small residential complex after destructive bomb hits after the end of the war. From the only partially damaged property at Landgrafenstraße 33, the imposing multi-storey bay windows in the middle of the house have been preserved in the historicism style. The attic was rebuilt in a different way. The impressive street front of the house still remains today. Spolia from the former production facilities are no longer available here in Landgrafenstrasse 33 or in Rödelheim, In der Au 14-16.
Former clothing works CF Schwarz Söhne OHG, Große Seestraße 46, formerly Große Sandgasse (west side)
Grosse Seestrasse 46
According to the records of the local chronicle from Bockenheim, Heinrich Ludwig, the plot belonged to Anton Dieckmann in 1862. Around 1899, the building was erected by the printer Oskar Kümmell, the plans of which are in the Institute for City History (Frankfurt am Main) (map collection ISG S8-9, signature 296). His widow E. Kümmell sold the property to T. Schairer in 1927, who ran a clothes shop here. This used to be the seat of the CF Schwarz Söhne OHG clothing factory, which celebrated its 80th anniversary on January 25, 1953 (1873–1953). The company later relocated its headquarters to Frankfurt-Praunheim, An der Praunheimer Mühle 13. The FR also reported on April 13, 1978 that there was a large flat share in this property on May 1, 1976, the year the alternative city magazine Pflasterstrand was founded was founded as a so-called place of revolt. Today there is a self-service laundromat on the first floor of the house.
Former park area of the second Villa Rohmer, Bockenheim
The second villa of the Rohmer family, who became wealthy through textile imports from Manchester , was built in 1835 on a site that was later walled by them. The area stretched between Frankfurter, Mittel-, Große Sandstraße and Hasengasse. As a result of the incorporation in 1895, these street names had to be renamed Leipzigerstrasse, Kurfürstenstrasse, Große Seestrasse and Landgrafenstrasse. Numerous parts of the wall were initially successively replaced by corresponding peripheral development of multi-family houses and disappeared completely after parceling and complete development. Historically, some photos with partial views of the park boundary at that time have been preserved. The last property owner Wilhelm Rohmer (born February 13, 1859 in Frankfurt; † February 28, 1912 in Meran) married Ms. Helena (born December 5, 1877 in Mexico; † October 3, 1960), née de Chapeaurouge , on July 23, 1896 . She was born in Mexico, her family came from Switzerland, branches of the family later belonged to the wealthy bourgeoisie of Hamburg. (Source: Bockenheim between yesterday and tomorrow, VHS Ffm, 1979/80, and grave slabs on the Frankfurt main cemetery near crypt 46). Wilhelm Rohmer is the namesake of Rohmerstrasse and Rohmerplatz. His Frankfurt residence was a villa that still exists today at Zeppelinallee 69. Today the villa is the seat of an industrial association.
The villa served as a military hospital in the war of 1870/71. After the sudden death of Wilhelm Rohmer on February 28, 1912 at his holiday resort Meran , the city of Frankfurt inherited the entire property according to his will. The villa was demolished, the large property parceled out and built on. Streets such as Rohmerstraße and Greifstraße and Rohmerplatz were laid out. The grandfather of Wilhelm Rohmers found his resting place (no crypt) in the old Bockenheimer cemetery in the later Solmsstrasse. The progenitor of the Bockenheim donor family, Johann Conrad Rohmer (born March 19, 1769 in Eltersdorf near Nuremberg; † November 25, 1825 in Bockenheim), citizen, merchant and merchant of the free city of Frankfurt am Main, and his wife Johanna Dorothea born Sophia Barbara Peters (born June 1, 1787 in Wennebostel in Hanover; † November 13, 1858) are buried in the "old" cemetery in Solmsstrasse.
Kurfürstenstraße, wall of the park boundary (around 1912)
Große Seestrasse, wall of the park boundary (1905)
Kurfürstenstrasse, Villa Rohmer (around 1900)
Former metal cloth factory Ratazzi and May, Kurfürstenstrasse 12-14
Demolished former office building of the metal and cloth factory Ratazzi and May
Kurfürstenstraße 14A, rear building (2012)
In the historical Mittelgasse 14, which later became Kurfürstenstrasse 12-14, the wire weaving metal cloth factory of E Joh. Heinr started around 1844. Ratazzi and Heinrich May, successors of the wire weaving mill Alex Roswag. Subsidiary founded in 1778 by Alsatians from Schlettstadt, now Sélestat . In 1823 a Roswag from Schlettstadt was already running a metal cloth factory in Strasbourg, in which metal threads were processed into mats. There is still a rue Roßwag in Sélestat (Schlettstadt) today. After the annexation in 1871, Heinrich Ratazzi and Heinrich May took over the company. Under the name of Roswag's successor Ratazzi & May, they had up to 40 workers. They mainly produced wire mesh mats made of brass and iron wire, u. a. for the paper industry. During the Second World War, the production facility was relocated to Schlüchtern. It was there that the former apprentices Paul and Ruppel set up the still existing worldwide company PACO Paul GmbH & Co. KG metal mesh and filter factories, which still successfully produces metal mats and filters. The partially destroyed production in Bockenheim was no longer started after the Second World War. The street front area was built on with multi-family residential buildings. The administrative building fell into disrepair, but was then renovated again and briefly used by a congregation of the Free Church Evangelical Community . A specialist office shop with its warehouse later moved into the historic production rooms with their typical skylight glazing. The property owner had everything torn down in 2012 and an apartment building with underground parking was built as a rear building on the former production site.
In the mid-1970s, a politically left-wing cultural center, also known as "the little house", developed here in the backyard of Kurfürstenstrasse 14/16, which was in need of renovation. The now oldest organic shop in Frankfurt, Die DISTEL , was founded here . The zero number of the city newspaper Pflasterstrand was also created here in 1976 .
Former Fourage store Albert Straus, Kurfürstenstrasse 20
Kurfürstenstr. 20, Fourage plot Albert Straus (1906)
Kurfürstenstr. 20 (2013)
Local researchers note that the owner of the property at Kurfürstenstrasse 20 from 1904 was the wagon owner and photographer Albert Straus. The building was in the vicinity of the Ratazzi and May metal cloth factory. Straus himself advertised his trade, the Fouragehandel, on the wall of his house. Under fourage (verb form: fourägen), also furage or foraging (French fourrage), the outdated military term for horse fodder is used according to Wikipedia: oats, hay and straw; therefore furious, getting horse feed, understood. 40 years after its construction, the roof structure of this building was partially destroyed in the Second World War and later rebuilt in a simplified form. You cannot tell from the facade that it is 110 years old. A sandstone with the year still indicates the year of construction in 1904. The ISG Frankfurt keeps documents from 1938 to 1939, which relate the forced sale of the properties at Kurfürstenstrasse 20 and Ludendorffstrasse 104 (formerly Hausener Landstrasse) by the Jewish owners Albert Strauss and his wife Melina Strauss to Arno Funk and his wife Margarethe, née Heuser, respectively Wilhelm Hühn and his wife Katharina, née Heppding, as well as documenting the expatriation and revocation of German citizenship due to their Jewry by the city administration of Frankfurt (expatriation list 275-326).
Former Stern-Apotheke Kurfürstenstrasse 10, corner of Große Seestrasse 31
Great Seestrasse 31 (2013)
Even in the days of the independent city of Bockenheim, the Stern pharmacy was operated from 1876 to 2004 in the central location near the Bockenheim town hall, which was newly built in 1869, on the market square, later Kurfürstenplatz. About 70 years after it was built, the historic corner building was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1944. It was not a reconstruction that was rebuilt, but a larger residential complex, in whose corner area the Stern-Apotheke re-established itself. Due to the rapid increase in business activity on Leipziger Strasse, combined with numerous new pharmacies, the Stern-Apotheke's location steadily lost popularity and, with it, Stern-Apotheke's turnover. In 2004 the Stern pharmacy was closed. Since then, the private association AIDS-Aufklerung e. V. Advice and help.
King Umberto I of Italy in front of the Stern Pharmacy, Kurfürstenstrasse
The 48-year-old King Umberto I of Italy on June 25, 1892 in Bockenheim in front of the Stern pharmacy on Kurfürstenstrasse, which was destroyed in 1944 and which at that time was called Mittelstrasse before it was incorporated . Since the visit with his wife Margarethe, who gave the pizza Margarita its name, to the imperial court in Berlin for the christening of the youngest daughter Margaret of Prussia (1872-1954) and the German Crown Prince in June 1872, the Hohenzollern and Savoy dynasties had been on good terms developed. Five years after this visit, in 1897, King Umberto I of Italy was appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II as a public act of courtoisie as honorary colonel and regiment chief (honorary) of the 1st Hessian Hussar Regiment No. 13, which from then on Name of Hussar Regiment King Humbert of Italy (1st Hessian) No. 13 . The regimental barracks was in Bockenheim. On July 29, 1900, this king was murdered in Monza. In 1914 Germany and Italy were opponents of the war.
Former villa Heinrich Rohmer, corner building Kurfürstenstraße Große Seestraße
Current corner development from 1913
Villa Heinrich Rohmer, bottom left
In 1863 Heinrich Rohmer (born May 3, 1815 in Hamburg; † March 20, 1867 in Bockenheim), the eldest son of Johann Conrad Rohmers, left this two-story corner villa with a loft on the remaining large area of the Rohmer family on the west side of the Rohmers park area in the Mittelstraße and Große Sandstraße, which were renamed Kurfürstenstraße and Große Seestraße in 1895 after the incorporation of Bockenheim, respectively. Before the renovation by Heinrich Rohmer, an A. Alexander ran his straw hat factory here from 1844 to 1863. Directly across the street on Kurfürstenstrasse was a larger, also multi-storey residential and commercial building with the Stern pharmacy. After the death of the 52-year-old Heinrich Rohmer, the building was used as a corset factory until 1875. His tomb in the form of a stele, an obelisk on a cube base, has been preserved in the Bockenheimer Friedhof in Solmsstrasse. Unfortunately, this tomb is also constantly being degraded with graffiti. Heinrich Rohmer's widow, Frederike Karoline Rohmer nee d'Orville (* March 18, 1833 - July 22, 1909) was no longer next to her husband in the Solmsstrasse cemetery, but after the incorporation in the Frankfurt main cemetery, in the crypt hall there 46, buried. In 2012, the Frankfurt City Horticultural Office carried out extensive renovation work here. In the course of the parceling and partial redevelopment of the former park property of the Rohmer family, this corner property was demolished in 1905 and replaced by a large, still existing residential complex of the Official Housing Association eG (BMV).
Former apartment building at Große Seestraße 43 / corner of Rohmerstraße
Office building Große Seestrasse 43, current corner development (2013)
Große Seestrasse, former post office (2013)
The apartment building pictured above on the left with its converted attic and shop on the ground floor (center) was built in 1914 on a part of the park of the former villa of the Rohmer family. Simultaneously with the construction of Greifstrasse and Rohmerstrasse, as well as the construction of the now public, greened Rohmerplatz, the building of the Imperial Post Frankfurt-Bockenheim as well as numerous private apartment buildings and residential complexes were built. The notorious later Gauleiter in Gau-Hessen-Nassau Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945) also initially worked in this post office .
In the immediate vicinity, a cooperative built a multi-storey residential complex on the property area Kurfürstenstrasse 13–25, Große Seestrasse 33–39 and Rohmerstrasse 22–30 in 1913 as a perimeter block, which remained undamaged during the World War. The neighboring post office was partially destroyed by a central bomb hit in the roof stalls, and its distinctive roof turret was even completely destroyed. Approx. 70 years after it was built, this apartment building was laid down in 1971 and replaced by a modern multi-storey office building. The client and owner of this new building from 1971 was the Deutsche Bundespost at the time ; it needed more space for its Post, Postbank and Telecommunications business areas. In the new building, a new customer entrance, a new counter hall, a new post office box system as well as numerous new functional areas for the telecommunications division were created along the Rohmerstrasse. After privatization, dissolution and breaking up of the Deutsche Bundespost into three independent sub-areas, the entire property including the old post office building on Rohmerplatz was sold to a real estate fund of Commerzbank AG in 2000, which initially completely refurbished the building complex, including a complete roof extension and facade renovation. The property was previously sold. Postbank and Deutsche Post stayed as tenants on the ground floor of the “old building” on Rohmerplatz, with a new customer entrance including a customer counter hall with entrance at Rohmerplatz 33–37. The new anchor tenant of this property was, after the first tenant moved out, an advertising company, ProCredit Bank AG , to its parent company u. a. the Reconstruction Loan Corporation , IFC (a company of the World Bank Group), the Dutch FMO, the Belgian BIO and the French Proparco are involved. ProCreditBank AG also uses the former entrance on Rohmerstrasse. Another tenant of the so-called “new building” is the Frankfurter Verein für Sozial Heimstätten e. V. of the city of Frankfurt am Main with entrance at Große Seestrasse 43. The previous owner later sold this property to a new private capital investor.
Park and Villa Rohmer before parceling and road construction (1873)
Rohmerstrasse
Rohmerstrasse interior
Roof extension of the post office building (2002)
Former Frankfurter Waggonfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, formerly Reifertsche Chaisenfabrik
Johann Konrad Reifert (1781–1856), master wagoner from Niederseelbach , founded a “ chaise factory ” in Frankfurt am Main around 1800 . In 1820, after the fall of Napoleon, the company was relocated to the young city of Bockenheim at the gates of the free imperial city of Frankfurt am Main. Together with his business partner Johann Ernst Wagner from Suhl / Thuringia , it was their goal to run a factory for elegant chaises and stagecoaches there. Its founding represented an essential step in the expansion of the industrialization of Bockenheim. The elevation of Bockenheim to town in 1819 was the deliberate intention of Kurhessen to create a new community that was open to industry and out of the favorable Proximity to the hub of commerce and traffic could be of greatest benefit. When business partner Johann Ernst Wagner died after ten years in 1830, his son, Clemens Reifert (1807–1878), joined the company. The company had already developed into one of the first wagon construction companies in Germany. He had prepared for his work by visiting similar companies, including Paris and London.
Clemens Reifert researched, expanded the factory and introduced steam engines. The company was soon building railroad cars and had 300 employees in early 1870. This meant increased capital requirements. As a result, the company was reorganized and renamed. The "Frankfurter Waggonfabrik Aktiengesellschaft", formerly JC Reifert & Co, was created in Bockenheim. The Österreichisch-Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main issued shares for 650,000 thalers. The founding son Clemens Reifert became "General Director". Board members were JB Pfaff, J. Koch, Friedrich Mumm, Franz Brentano and Christian Grote from Frankfurt am Main. Notary was a Dr. Becker from Bockenheim. The first business year in 1872 ended with a net profit. For 1874 there was no longer any dividend and in 1875 liquidation was requested.
The so-called founder and founder crisis of 1873 was not limited to the Frankfurter Waggonfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, but a general trend in the 1870s. According to Schumpeter's law of creative destruction , the global company Hartmann & Braun AG came into being a little later on the former company premises, almost like textbooks . The Bockenheim tram depot and the extension of Königstrasse, today's Gräfstrasse, were built on another part of the former company premises.
The father and master wagoner Johann Konrad Reifert (1781–1856) was friends with Clemens Heerdt (1778–1828). Hence the choice of the first name for his son Clemens Reifert (1807–1878). Clemens married his wife Sybilla Susanne Reifert, b. Heerdt joined the Heerdt family, which also married Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (1794–1872), the German painter and engraver. Thus the Bockenheim family association Delkeskamp / Heerdt / Reifert was created. In honor of one of the first Bockenheim industrialists, Clemens Reifert, he became the namesake of Clemensstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, which leads from Leipziger Straße to the former company premises of the Reifertschen Chaisenfabrik. Structural traces are no longer present due to the world wars and the closure and relocation of the following company, Hartmann & Braun AG, or the rebuilding that followed. The branch line from the Westbahnhof to the former company premises also disappeared. Only in archives, such as the ISG Institute of the History of the City of Frankfurt am Main or museums such as the Museum axle, wheel and carriage in Wiehl there with a drawing of Clemens Reifert of 4 Calechen (even carriages ) yet historic demonstrable tracks. Only one model builder has had a train wagon of the Litera A124 series of the former Royal Württemberg State Railways rebuilt.
Former machine factory Gebrüder Weismüller, Königstrasse
formerly Gebr. Weismüller, today's development Jordanstraße (2013)
The former machine factory Gebrüder Weismüller existed in front of the gates of Frankfurt since 1866, after the Prussian annexation of Kurhessen, on the land in Jordanstraße 4 - 6 and in Kiesstraße in the then still independent city of Bockenheim as a metal processing industrial company. The company produced mechanical conveyor technology such as cranes and elevators for breweries, mills and grain companies and became an important employer in Bockenheim. The main focus of the use of their technology were the waterways and the transport of bulk goods. In 1930 the machine factory Gebr. Weismüller became insolvent and liquidated during the global economic crisis. After the war, the company premises were used by Hartmann & Braun AG, among others. In 1987, the municipal ABG Frankfurt Holding Aktienbaugesellschaft built 82 apartments for small apartments on the former company premises in Kiesstrasse / Jordanstrasse, including five apartments for wheelchair users. A green area was created inside the block. Emmerich Weismüller (* 1837 † September 8, 1909) was a Frankfurt industrialist and co-owner of the Weismüller machine factory in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, which was lost around 1930. In his honor, the city of Frankfurt named Weismüllerstrasse near the Osthafen in Frankfurt's Ostend district after him. Photos and documents from the company Gebr.Weismüller in the ISG Frankfurt.
Former "Hartmann & Braun" site
Administration building H&B (2015)
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Before and after the Second World War, this area belonged to Bockenheim's largest employer. It was enlarged several times and stretched from Falkstrasse via the then closed, today's Wildungerstrasse and Clemensstrasse to Leipzigerstrasse and Graefstrasse. The administrative building was rebuilt in 1954. Up until the early 1970s, underprivileged students selected by Hartmann & Braun were able to have lunch free of charge in the company canteen.
After Hartmann & Braun AG moved out in 1997, the former premises were revitalized by one of the largest building developers, DIBAG Industriebau AG Munich. Production facilities were gutted. Residential and especially business premises were created under the name "Alvearium" (lat. Beehive). The former administration building on Gräfstrasse was also renovated; it was initially used by Banco Santander , but most of it has already moved to Solmsstrasse.
Former VDO premises
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At the beginning of 1994 the Mainzer ABG-Gruppe (Allgemeine Beteiligungsgesellschaft für Gewerbeimmobilien) bought the former main premises of the VDO-Werke, which had previously relocated their main plant to Karben . In 1993, a total of 7,700 people were still employed by VDO. Before that, in 1991 the VDO was sold to the Mannesmann Group by its owner at the time, the well-known dressage rider Liselott Linsenhoff . When Mannesmann was converted into the Arcor / Vodafone Group, the VDO first ended up with Siemens-Bosch, then only with Siemens, which then sold VDO to the Continental Group in 2007. The ABG Group gutted the former production and administration buildings and expanded them with a modern look. The Frankfurt architects Nägele, Hofmann and Tiedemann supplied the designs. This resulted in around 29,000 square meters of office space, around 660 square meters of retail space and 44 rental apartments with high equipment standards, along with 347 parking spaces in an underground car park. The property between Gräfstrasse / Falkstrasse / Wildunger Strasse was completed in 1998. Since then, one of the main tenants has been the Deutsche WertpapierService Bank in Wildunger Strasse 14. Other tenants are Nomura and, since June 2011, KfW as the second largest tenant .
Former Voigt & Haeffner AG, or Prometheus GmbH, Falkstraße 2
Heinrich Voigt (1857–1937) founded a company in 1896 for all types of installation material, high and low voltage switchgear and complete control rooms. In 1889 the plant was relocated from downtown Frankfurt to Bockenheim. From 1900 the company Voigt & Haeffner emerged, which soon had many employees. Therefore, the plant will be relocated to the new Osthafen. Almost at the same time, Heinrich Voigt also founded a "chemical-electrical factory" which manufactured small appliances for end users in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Falkstraße 2. The company was quickly taken over by Voigt & Haeffner, transformed into a GmbH and then temporarily to Prometheus, Aktiengesellschaft für Elektr Heizeinrichtungen (formerly: Factory of electrical cooking and heating appliances). The “Prometheus” brand became the company name. Long before the bombs of the Second World War, part of the production was relocated to Bad Soden-Salmünster. In 1955, the Eschwege production site was built for the Prometheus company and was located in the northern Hessian zone border area. In 1964, the majority stake in Prometheus Elektro Geräte und Heizeinrichtungen GmbH (Eschwege), a manufacturer of electrical household appliances for heating devices, irons and express cookers, as well as hermetically sealed refrigeration machines, was sold to General Electric (GE). Around 600 people were employed in Eschwege at that time. The seller was Continental Elektroindustrie AG (Düsseldorf), a subsidiary of the Deutsche Continental-Gas-Gesellschaft (Düsseldorf). She also held the majority of Voigt & Haeffner. Just eight years later, General Electric withdrew again in 1972 and sold to Stiebel-Eltron. The “Prometheus” brand created in Bockenheim disappears from the market.
Former Falkenhof association and community center, Falkstrasse
Falkenhof, Falkstrasse
New building (2015)
Landhaus Schardau in Falkenstein (1900)
Listed gatehouse of the former Schardau country house in Falkenstein (2014)
Gravesite of the founder Emil Moritz von Bernus (1843–1913)
The first historical development was carried out with the club and parish house of the Evangelical Church Aid Association Frankfurt-Bockenheim, called Falkenhof, in Falkstraße with its contemporary roof turret by the founder Emil Moritz von Bernus (1843-1913) and his wife Helen Trench, from the Ashtown house (* 1853 in Carlow, Ireland; † 1934). Emil Moritz von Bernus was one of the sons of Jakob Emil von Bernus (1805–1851) and Susanne Berta Grunelius (1808–1877). Both parents came from wealthy Frankfurt merchant and banker families with a migration background.
Emil Moritz 'eleven years older brother, banker Andreas Ludwig (Louis) von Bernus (1832–1913), was married to Bettina von Guaita , who also belonged to the significant upper middle class in Frankfurt. On January 27, 1912, his brother Andreas Ludwig was raised to the nobility by the German Emperor Wilhelm II and thus the founder of the Prussian line of those von Bernus , who had already been ennobled in 1863 by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Andreas Ludwig (Louis) inherited the Bockenheimer Schloss, later called Bernus-Schlösschen, from his mother Susanne Berta, thereby consolidating the later local ties between Emil Moritz and Bockenheim. Brother Andreas Ludwig died on October 5, 1913 at the age of 81, five months after the death of his brother Emil Moritz. The Bockenheimer Schlösschen inherited his son Dr. jur. Alexander von Bernus, once the district administrator of the Ruppin district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg.
Emil Moritz, who later built the Falkenhof clubhouse, was very wealthy and theologically educated, as well as a supporter of the Swiss evangelist Elias Schrenk (1831–1913). He was significantly influenced by a long stay in the Kingdom of England for theological studies. He lived in a European era of anti-Catholicism . B. wanted to break existing Catholic ties in England and Ireland, or in secular France, which at that time called for the persecution and deportation of French Catholic priests and in the new German Emperor Bismarckian style with its Kulturkampf and Catholic laws. His contact with the Reverend Frederic FitzJohn Trench (1808-1859) and his family, members of the Protestant Brethren movement in predominantly Catholic Ireland , became intensive .
After his marriage in 1874 Emil Moritz and his wife returned to the German Empire, newly founded in 1871, with its predominantly Protestant Kingdom of Prussia in his native city, the Lutheran former Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main. Here he was so dismayed by the church conditions in Frankfurt in 1874 that he founded an association whose aim was to preach the gospel without denominational ties to Lutheran or Reformed beliefs. The wealthy Emil Moritz, along with other wealthy like-minded people, became the initiator and co-founder of the Evangelical Church Aid Association Frankfurt am Main as part of the private support associations of the Evangelical Church, which were founded in many places close to the emperor. These so-called aid associations did not want to subordinate themselves to the Protestant church organization. Due to the strong population growth of the partly Catholic workforce from the surrounding area to Bockenheim, the Evangelical Church Aid Association Frankfurt am Main was supposed to counteract "mental neglect" and probably also political radicalization due to the accompanying circumstances of industrialization. Here his view and experience from Catholic Ireland had an impact.
Emil Moritz Bernus had the Christ Church built in Frankfurt's Westend in 1883 at the gates of the still independent city of Bockenheim from his property. A little later, the Falkenhof club and community center was built on Bockenheimer Falkstrasse. He regarded it as a kind of church in its own right and reserved the sole right to be a preacher. As a free church, the Christ Church also had no church district, as it did not want to fit into the existing Protestant church organization.
His very successful work in the Westend and in Bockenheim prompted Emil Moritz Bernus to build a church in the Nordend in 1902, the Immanuelskirche (today's Epiphany Church) and an associated clubhouse, the Eschenhof in Nibelungenallee, analogous to the Falkenhof in Bockenheim.
In addition, Emil Moritz Bernus was also a co-founder and co-founder of the Frankfurter Buerger association 'Association for the establishment of German-Protestant church services in health resorts (in Italy)' in 1885, so that wealthy German Protestant winter tourists in Catholic Italy could receive spiritual care there by going to church, analogous to the wealthy English non-Catholic travelers. Bernus had the German Evangelical Church on Capri, which still exists today, inaugurated on December 24, 1899 . After all, her influence and wealth was divine Protestant will.
After the death of the founder Emil Moritz von Bernus, who had remained childless, in 1913 at the age of 70 and after the end of the First World War, the Falkenhof was sold, rebuilt and later used as the company building of the expanding Hartmann & Braun AG company. After a bomb hit in World War II, the ruin was rebuilt in a different way. After the Hartmann & Braun AG premises had been completely cleared, this development was also completely abandoned. At the end of the 20th century there was a block of flats, including a multi-family house development in the backyard there.
Today only an antiquarian photo is reminiscent of the former Falkenhof in Bockenheim, as well as the Evangelical Church Aid Association Frankfurt am Main, which he founded, along with the foundation assets, the Christ-Immanuiel Church, which was bombed and rebuilt in World War II, along with a lively parish and others. a. Bibliography in books, such as
- On the margins: theological learning processes with Yorick Spiegel; Festschrift for the 70th birthday, Ilona Nord; LIT Verlag Münster, 2005, page 35 ff;
- Building the Kingdom of God in Germany by Jörg Ohlemacher, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.
His wife Helen (1853–1934), who was born in Ireland, called herself contemporary after his death like the imperial widow Friedrich Frau Moritz Bernus and was one of the founders of the predecessor association for international youth work. Together with other wealthy women in Frankfurt, she financed the first dormitory “Heimat für Mädchen” at Taunusstrasse 9 and is still honored today.
In addition to his prestigious city residence in the Taunusanlage 4, now home to the Bundesbank branch Hesse, in 1892 had founders Emil Moritz Bernus in Falkenstein in Koenigstein, Reichenbachweg 24a, the large country house Schardau in the then fashionable English country style by the renowned Danish son Aage of Kauffmann his Brother Andreas Ludwig (Louis) von Bernus (1832–1913), whose listed gatehouse has been preserved to this day.
Emil Moritz von Bernus and his wife Helen were buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt. It was declared the city's grave of honor. The club and parish houses he donated to the Evangelical Church Aid Association, the Falkenhof in Bockenheim and the Eschenhof in Nordend, have completely disappeared. Only the Christ Church, which was partially rebuilt after the Second World War, and its foundation still bear witness to the builder and donor of the lost club and community center "Falkenhof" in Falkstrasse.
Former Rademanns Nahrungsmittelfabrik GmbH, Falkstrasse 27
The Rademanns Nahrungsmittelfabrik GmbH specialized in the production of special diabetic food, such as nutritional biscuits, children's flour, etc. The ISG Frankfurt keeps the correspondence of the Rademann company from 1895 with the building police regarding the approval of building applications with letterhead from the Rademanns Nahrungsmittelfabrik mbH (Bl 142). The place of business was temporarily also in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kantstrasse 35, later they moved to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe / Taunus. The entrepreneur and pharmacist Otto Rademann was also the author of the book "How nourishes the worker?" At the instigation of the internist and diabetologist Carl von Noorden (1858–1944) , Otto Rademann's food factory in Bockenheim near Frankfurt am Main produced a coarse rye bread in which the lime was baked. The bread contains exactly 5 pCt. Calcaria carbonica and combines a very pleasant taste with a long shelf life. Basically, Professor Dr. Carl von Noorden u. a. in his book "Die Diabetic Disease and Its Treatment" published in Berlin in 1907, the products of the O. Rademanns nutrient factory for diabetics, which moved temporarily to Hanauer Landstrasse 175, Frankfurt, after the Second World War. His method of canning fruits without any sugar in such a way that they do not spoil was also successful. The company successfully launched such preserved fruits without any added sugar, so-called “fruits in their own juice”. In the private Diabetes Museum in 81241 Munich-Pasing, Veldenerstr. 136, a colored metal jewelry box with company printing for your diabetic rusks is kept. The company rights then passed to the Rademann diet products in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. For a long time, a health food chain still had the dietetic Rademann fruit sweets in its sales program.
Former car hobby rental workshop, Juliusstraße 17
Parking lot "Juliusstraße 17" (Frankfurt am Main)
Parking lot "Juliusstraße 17" (Frankfurt am Main)
Up until the bombing of Bockenheim in 1944, this plot was also built on with a front building facing the street. In the post-war period, an import and export dealer for used car parts ran his business in wooden barracks on this property at Juliusstrasse 17, which was bombed during the Second World War. After the end of the lease, after its evacuation, the first workshop in Germany for car hobbyists, known as the "car hobby rental workshop", was built here according to plans by two young merchants. The business idea endured and not only spread throughout Germany. The city's first environmental regulations forced the company to relocate to the Nied district of Frankfurt . The 50th anniversary of the business was celebrated here, now under the company name “Do it yourself”.
In 1968, Hertie GmbH built a branch for their full-range retailer in the low-price range under the name Bilka with a modern house facade on the upstream property at Leipziger Straße 88-90 and prepared the undeveloped area as a parking area. Hertie GmbH, taken over by Karstadt in 1994, sold its subsidiary Bilka, including the Bockenheim branch, to Woolworth after twenty years of business operations due to a drop in sales in 1989 . Just a few years later, Woolworth's German businesses were brought into the Frankfurt-based DWW Deutsche Woolworth GmbH + Co. OHG as part of a management buy-out in 1998 . The capital was provided by the English company Electra Private Equity . The original American Woolworth concern had meanwhile been liquidated.
The parking area with entrance Juliusstraße 17 with its 103 parking spaces was used separately. The “Juliusstraße Woolworth (Frankfurt)” car park is currently managed by the Contipark Group Berlin, one of the industry leaders in Germany with almost 500 parking facilities in more than 180 cities. The Contipark group of companies is part of the Interparking Group, headquartered in Brussels ( Belgium ), which in turn belongs to AG Real Estate , the largest real estate company in Belgium . It is a subsidiary of AG Insurance (headquarters in Brussels / Belgium), the leading insurance company in Belgium. 75 percent of this is currently owned by Ageas Holding (formerly Fortis Holding) and 25 percent by BNP Paribas Fortis (formerly Fortis Bank Belgium).
However, Contipark is not the largest provider of parking space in Germany. The market leader in this sector is APCOA , Europe's largest parking space manager , with around 200,000 parking spaces . APCOA is 100 percent owned by the private equity -Unternehmens Eurazeo ( Paris ).
The “Juliusstrasse 17” parking lot property is still part of globalized capital decisions. In 2007, the British investment and consulting company Argyll Partners took over . The real estate was sold on to the US financial investor Cerberus Capital Management . Argyll Partners took over the operational business and leased the Woolworth Germany building back from Cerberus. After drastic rent increases and economic downturns, the company had to file for bankruptcy at the district court in Frankfurt am Main for the successor to Woolworth Germany in April 2009. However, it managed to prevent a closure and find new buyers for the company. Together they developed a new concept for the department store company Woolworth GmbH. The real estate owner and also the land owner of the parking lot has remained the US financial investor Cerberus Capital Management since 2007 . In Germany, real estate is managed by Promontoria. The company Promontoria belongs to the financial investor Cerberus and has z. B. In 2011, 700 million euros were paid for a portfolio of more than 60 Metro and Real grocery stores. Promontoria is now commissioning the Berlin real estate company Acrest Property Group with the realignment of the property portfolio, including that of the “Warenhaus Woolworth” in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, including the parking area. According to information from local advisory council 2 from autumn 2013, a complete refurbishment of the property at Leipziger Strasse 88 including the parking area has been decided. Comparable Frankfurt branches in Bergerstrasse and Schweizer Strasse have already been closed, the announced closure of Woolworth Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Leipziger Strasse 88, at the beginning of 2015 has not yet been completed. A building permit was issued by the City of Frankfurt for the property at Berger Strasse 36. No further specific building applications have yet been submitted, especially since the existing parking space is not the only option according to the “housing densification” placarded by the planning of the city of Frankfurt.
According to information from the Frankfurt municipal authorities on November 10, 2017, a potential builder wants to invest in Juliusstrasse 17 and the so-called Woolworth building at Leipziger Strasse 88. An area for a full-range food retailer is to be created on the ground floor. The Woolworth company, on the other hand, was to reduce its retail space on the ground floor and keep its main area on the first floor. In the street-side wing of the building, apartments are to be built on the second and third floors. The delivery should take place via the existing parking lot entrance from Juliusstraße 17. The delivery ramp is to be moved inside the building to ensure low-noise delivery. However, no building application has yet been submitted. The Contipark company no longer lists the parking space at Juliusstraße 17 as an area it manages. The supply to Juliusstrasse 17 has already been blocked and the ticket booth and barrier removed.
Former F. & C. Achenbach, first Frankfurt dressing material factory, founded in 1882, Juliusstraße 12
The ancestors of the Achenbach family have been continuously owners of the Niederlaaspher Mühle since the Thirty Years War , today in the district of Bad Laasphe in the Westphalian district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. Heinrich Achenbach (1820–1888) and Auguste Sinner had a. a. five children. Their eldest son, August Christian Ludwig (August) Achenbach (* 1845 Niederlaasphe Mühle; † 1922 ibid), became the next owner of the Niederlaasphe mill in Niederlaasphe as heir . Her youngest son, Friedrich (Fritz) Achenbach (* 1849 Niederlaaspher Mühle; † 1911 Frankfurt-Bockenheim) became a pharmacist and manufacturer in Bockenheim. The brothers founded F. u. C. Achenbach First dressing material factory in Frankfurt . The sons of Dr. Fritz Heinrich August Achenbach (* 1882 Frankfurt / Main; † 1941 ibid), chemist and businessman, and especially Alfred Achenbach (* 1887 Frankfurt / Main; † 1964 ibid) continued the business of the family's dressing material factory. The company's location was cleverly chosen, as it was in the vicinity of the newly built imperial garrison hospital in Bockenheim. After the Second World War, the Association of the German Dressing Materials Industry of the Federal Republic of Germany was founded on February 24, 1950, with temporary headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. The board of directors was provided by the then relevant company representatives from the manufacturers of bandage cotton, selvedge and ideal bandages. Günther Klüsmann (1903–1992) from Paul Hartmann AG Heidenheim became a member of the board, as did Alfred Achenbach (1887–1964) from F. & C. Achenbach Frankfurt am Main and Kurt Lohmann from the company Verbandstoff- und Pflasterfabrik Lohmann KG Fahr am Rhein in today's Neuwied elected as its deputy (source: Pharmazeutische Zeitung, 86th year, no. 12, p. 166). A comparable economic success, like the Paul Hartmann AG Heidenheim and the Verbandstoff- und Pflasterfabrik Lohmann KG Fahr am Rhein in today's Neuwied , the F. u. C. Achenbach Failed to achieve the first dressing material factory in Frankfurt after the war. The historic company headquarters in Bockenheim, Juliusstraße 12, and production were given up. Nevertheless, the company name initially still existed at the changed headquarters in Voltastraße. The entrepreneurial genes continued with Rudolf Achenbach (1928–2015). In 1954 he and his wife Ingrid established the Achenbach delicatessen manufactory in Sulzbach in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach , whose business is now run by daughter Petra and son-in-law and trained chef Bernd Moos-Achenbach (born September 18, 1952). Bernd Moos-Achenbach is known to many as the main organizer of the well-known classic bike race around the financial center of Eschborn Frankfurt am Main (formerly around the Henniger Tower ).
There is a grave site of the Achenbach family at the Bockenheim cemetery .
Juliusstraße 12, former business location
left, building of the former Niederlaasphe mill
Achenbach family burial site, Frankfurt-Bockenheim cemetery
Former movie theater "Alhambra", Juliusstraße 5
On October 10, 1956, the “Alhambra” cinema was opened on this property at Juliusstrasse 5, owned by the Wink siblings, who already operated the “Astoria”, the “Arion” and the “Schwanen-Lichtspiele” in Frankfurt. The architect Ferdinand Wagner built this cinema with 651 seats and the largest screen in Frankfurt at the time for the operators. (Source: www.allekinos.com)
After the cinema was closed, the building was converted into a residential and commercial building and in 1972 the 500 m² ground floor was rented to a food discounter. The current use as a branch of a grocery discounter continues.
Entrance (2018)
Exterior view of the former cinema (2018)
Family burial site Wink, Bockenheim cemetery (2015)
Former occupied apartment building at Fritzlarer Straße 18
Die Fritze (building on the left) (2018)
In the course of the search for and the struggle for affordable housing, a group of adults discovered a four-storey apartment building in need of renovation, built around 1900, at Fritzlarer Straße 18, in which the elderly owner had not rented three apartments for a long time and left them to rot. In 1991, the group began a press-backed squatting, and the building became one of Frankfurt's first self-governing residential buildings. With the squatting, a variety of dynamic group processes began, of course, combined with an exchange or change of group members. Necessary work on the total of 630 m² of living space in the residential building on the 252 m² property made not only communicative and technical requirements, but also ongoing financial demands. The housing project received an influential political reputation in the Federal Republic of Germany as "Die Fritze" in Frankfurt, with corresponding suspicious features in the state regulatory and security apparatus. In 2002 the group was partially consolidated and founded the “Hausprojekt Fritze GmbH” as a legal framework for socially bound renting and administration in self-organization, which bought the house.
Former Gasthaus Zum Schwan , also called stork's nest , Kirchplatz 5
The property at Kirchplatz 5 is located at the historical center of Bockenheim and has undergone many changes. From the end of the 16th to the middle of the 19th century, the restaurant "Zum Schwan" was operated here. The name was no coincidence, as the swan was the heraldic animal of the Hanau counts since their marriage to the Munzenbergs. In the new building from 1740 with an attached garden restaurant, the Gasthaus Zum Schwan developed under changing owners into one of the best-known restaurants in Bockenheim, which guests from nearby Frankfurt, such as members of the Goethe family, also visited. Charlotta von Kahlden , widow of Major von Kahlden, who was in the Russian service, inherited the property. On November 26, 1822, she was godmother at the baptism of Charlotta Friederika, daughter of the neighbor Baron Karl Ludwig Gremp von Freudenstein from Bockenheim. On June 9, 1828, Charlotta von Kahlden sold the entire property to Senator Johann Christian Mühl , patrician and businessman in Frankfurt. He owned u. a. also the fair yard “ Goldenes Lämmchen ” in Frankfurt's old town. His father was the so-called junior mayor there in 1790 and 1792. Therefore the house was also called Mühl's house . Johann Christian Mühl died in 1838. After his death, his widow lived in Bockenheim for 24 years until 1862. Son Gustav Reiner Mühl sold the house to J. Adolf Karl Wilhelm Roth, Gerber von Hausen, on June 5, 1872. The economy Zum Schwan led to 1830 Daniel Ludwig, who then in the homes alley the economy Hanauer Hof built. The building was also known to the citizens of Bockenheim as the stork's nest house , since for a long time stork couples chose the building's chimney as a nesting place, probably because of the damp Nidda meadows nearby. According to the Institute for Urban History, it was the last stork's nest in Frankfurt am Main. The house was destroyed by bombs in 1944. The reconstruction changed the development of the church square again. The formerly historic row of houses in the church square with odd house numbers were not rebuilt; the church square expanded to its present size. The tram tracks still shown in the photos were later removed as they were no longer needed due to the construction of the subway.
The inn name Zum Schwan then came to life again for an inn on Frankfurter Strasse. After the incorporation of Bockenheim, the inn and street names were changed, and Zum Schwan in Frankfurter Strasse became Frankfurter Hof in Leipziger Strasse, later the Schwanenkino , today's event hall of the independent youth center Excess .
The swan, the heraldic animal of the Counts of Hanau and namesake of the Gasthaus Zum Schwan
Around 1905: Gasthaus Zum Schwan , also called Storchennest or Mühl'sches Haus
Gremp's house
The Grempsche House dates from 1582 to 1593; it's on Kirchplatz - at the end of Ginnheimer Strasse. It is the most important secular building that has been preserved in Bockenheim from the early modern period. It belonged to the noble court of the Gremp von Freudenstein family. The stone building has two floors and an octagonal stair tower. The coat of arms of the Gremp von Freudenstein family can still be found above the entrance of this stair tower: a swan that rests on three small hills and holds a ring in its beak. The same coat of arms still adorns the Maison Gremp in Buchsweiler (Bouxwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace). A family member, Wilhelm Gremp von Freudenstein, acquired the house at Dorotheenstrasse 1 in nearby Bad Homburg around 1820 and was the first Homburg postmaster to run the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post post office .
Former country house Passavant
In the park behind the Grempschen house is the classicist Landhaus Passavant from 1829. The representative garden villa in the style of the Italian Renaissance was built in 1829 based on a design by Johann Friedrich Christian Hess (1785–1845) for Samuel Passavant (1787–1855). The client, himself an architect, soon bought the Michelbacher Hütte in Michelbach (Aarbergen) , which is why you can still see the name Passavant on many manhole covers today. The actual most important property, the so-called Villa Passavant Andreae , was demolished and the site was used to build a school. The building is referred to as the Diesterweg School on a map from around 1900. Today only this country house and the remains of the boundary walls on Ginnheimer Strasse are left of the large property. The country house is currently used by the kindergarten of the St. Elisabethen Hospital Die Arche . On the large site itself, which used to be an estate with farm buildings, then a school building, is now the Catholic St. Elisabeth Hospital, the central structure of which is still reminiscent of the former school. A newly built retirement home, the St. Josefhaus, was built on the site. A remaining park with a view of the Nidda and the Taunus remained from the large property.
Former French Reformed Church in Bockenheim
French Reformed Church in Bockenheim (1768 to 1806), painting by Peter Woltze 1860–1925
Former property of the French Reformed Church between Rödelheimer Strasse and Fritzlarer Strasse
Religious refugees from Flanders, the Spanish Netherlands , bought a barn belonging to the then ZUR KRONE economy in 1638 and held their French-Reformed church service here, as they were not allowed to hold church services according to their faith in the free Lutheran imperial city of Frankfurt am Main. The then sovereign von Bockenheim himself belonged to the Reformation faith. After 129 years this building was dilapidated and was demolished in 1767. Just one year later, a French Reformed church building in the typical simple, oval shape stood at the old location between Rödelheimer Strasse and Fritzlarer Strasse 1768. After another 20 years or so, the City of Frankfurt's magistrate reluctantly allowed religious services in the Protestant Reformation rite to be held within its walls again in 1787. From 1789 to 1792 it took until the inauguration of the French Reformed Church on Goetheplatz in Frankfurt, which was not rebuilt in 1944 after its destruction in World War II. Due to the influence of the French Revolution and Napoleon, the city of Frankfurt lost its status as a free imperial city in 1806. This also meant the end of the Lutheran state church in Frankfurt. The French Reformed Church in the then independent Bockenheim suffered a loss of importance. Numerous changes of ownership and function of the building followed. Among other things, the building was sold to the Lutheran congregation of Bockenheim, and the city of Frankfurt later acquired it. She converted it into the school building of the Bonifatius elementary school, later from 1906 into the people's house or the people's reading hall. The building was destroyed in the Second World War. Currently there is a ground floor barrack-like meeting house on a backyard area.
Former Baldur piano and grand piano manufacturer, Leipziger Strasse 59
Refurbished backyard building of the former Baldur piano and grand piano factory
Renovated building of the former Baldur piano and grand piano factory, street front
Renovated backyard development of the former Baldur piano and grand piano factory
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Frankfurt was an important location for the manufacture of keyboard instruments. Almost 30 previously little known or completely unknown companies were "keyboard instruments in Frankfurt am Main and its builders in the 18th and early 19th centuries strung" the publisher Edition Bolongaro, 2012, in the book ISBN 978-3-00-037327-5 detected and published.
Ferdinand Schaaf founded one of them in Wetzlar in 1866 as the Ferd company . Schaaf ; he built table pianos there. In 1872 Schaaf moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked there as a piano tuner. In 1875 he opened his piano factory in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Leipziger Strasse 59, called it Ferd from 1876 . Schaaf & Co and from 1897 shared the company property with Eduard Schaaf. In 1906 the brand name Baldur was introduced, the company was called Baldur Pianoforte-Fabrik by Ferdinand Schaaf & Co. , from 1921 Baldur Pianofortefabrik AG . The director was W. Scharing.
In the 1920s the address was Leipziger Strasse 59-61 + 65. In the post-war period of the First World War, the company went through a series of upheavals with the establishment and closure of branches and the temporary relocation of the headquarters to Deggendorf (Bavaria), where it was at that time owned a sawmill. On September 1, 1925, the company filed for business supervision to avoid bankruptcy, which was lifted on February 10, 1926. In January 1929 the company collapsed in the Great Depression and stopped making payments. In the following bankruptcy proceedings, the entire company assets were taken over to the rival company JD Philipps & Söhne, Frankfurt am Main, which continued to produce pianos and grand pianos under the Baldur brand name until its bankruptcy in 1950. Music devices were produced under other brand names such as Balfa, Balding, Balden, EM Berdux and Deggendorf.
In 1935, the Baldur Pianofortefabrik AG land was sent to the German-Swiss Verwaltungsbank AG, which was typically only founded in 1933, in order to prevent possible confiscation of assets by the German Reich because of their Jewish ancestors. This bank dealt in particular with asset management and investment advice, as well as with the maintenance and protection of Swiss interests in Germany and with the execution of transactions in foreign exchange, foreign notes and precious metals. In 1947 the bank moved to Frankfurt am Main.
The Frankfurt architect Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985) designed a Bauhaus-style grand piano for the Baldur piano manufacture for the Frankfurt International Exhibition MUSIC IN THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE. By chance, the Historical Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main recently bought such a rare grand piano.
In 1944, after considerable destruction by bombs during the Second World War, it was rebuilt as a residential and commercial complex in Frankfurt am Main after the end of the war. There are no visible references to the previous use as a production facility for previously known musical instruments. Swell:
- Atlas of piano numbers , Erwin Bochinsky Verlag, 9th edition (1999) ISBN 3-937841-15-6
- A grand piano for Baldur Pianofortefabrik AG by the Frankfurt architect Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985)
Former seat of the first Bockenheimer Lichtspieltheater, Leipziger Straße 62A
Leipziger Strasse 62A (2012)
In this tenement house from 1905 in the neo-renaissance style with balconies on profiled consoles, the first Bockenheim cinema was operated from 1909 on the ground floor by Eduard Reichel, Elbestraße 31. The cinema hall had 150 seats and was operated daily until 1920 (source: Kino Wiki).
In the 1970s it was the seat of the Borrmann wine house in the vicinity of the “Schwarzwald Stube” grocery store. The shops are still rented out today. Traces of the first Bockenheim cinema are no longer there.
Former Carl Nawratzki & Co. department store Leipziger Strasse 53 at the corner of Kurfürstenstrasse 2
Façade detail dormer window with ox-eye
Listed tenement house around 1895 with corner buildings. Plastered facade with new renaissance details and tower-like corner accentuation with a striking dormer window. Builder businessman Carl Nawratzki, tenant in a corner shop in 1902, department store Nawratzki & Co. Brush manufacture. The owner Dr. jur. Arthur Nawratzki lost his license with the 5th ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act of November 30, 1939, like all Jewish attorneys still active. In 1939 he sold this property to Emil Schwab. The documents are in the ISG Frankfurt am Main, which also keeps a photo of the house from October 11, 1910 on the occasion of the Marguerite Day (reproduction copy of a newspaper illustration ISG inventory code S7Z1910). Later, a branch of the Stadtsparkasse Frankfurt am Main was set up on the ground floor, whereby the ground floor including the entrance portal was modernized despite the monument protection. This branch was later closed with the merger of the Frankfurter Sparkassen. According to a note from the ISG, a 44-year-old geophysicist was found strangled in an apartment in this house on November 13, 1984. The murder was never solved. After another extensive renovation of the house, there is currently a branch of the Targobank on the ground floor . The building neighborhood has existed since 1902 with the Fischhaus Bader food retailer, which is still located there today.
Former department store Wronker, later department store West, corner of Leipziger Straße 47–51 / Kurfürstenstraße 1–3
This listed residential and commercial building was built in 1913 based on a design by Jean Eichberger (1883–1918) with neo-classical facade structuring and art nouveau ornamentation on the corner of Leipziger Strasse 47–51 / Kurfürstenstrasse 1–3 for the legendary Hermann Wronker (1867–1942, concentration camp Auschwitz ) as his second Frankfurt department store, Wronker . After the Second World War it was operated under the name Kaufhaus West . In the 1970s, the department store West had to close due to competition from the department stores Bilka (now Woolworth Germany ) and Kaufhof , which have since disappeared again . Then the former, later liquidated company Schade ran a branch of their grocery retailer on the ground floor, which was followed by the branch of a drugstore chain, which was also later liquidated. An investor renovated the building, restored the facade and converted the top floor. The business premises are currently leased to a private language and translation institute. There are no references to the work and life of the client on site.
Former villa of Johann Conrad Rohmer, Bockenheim
Graves of Johann Conrad, his wife Johanna and their son Heinrich Rohmer
The progenitor of the Bockenheimer donor family Johann Conrad Rohmer (born March 19, 1769 in Eltersdorf near Nuremberg; † November 25, 1825 in Bockenheim) was a citizen, merchant and trader of the city of Frankfurt am Main. He came from one of the most widespread families in Eltersdorf. He married his wife Johanna Dorothea Sophia Barbara née Peters (born June 1, 1787 in Wennebostel near Hanover ; † November 13, 1858 in Bockenheim) in Celle on August 10, 1814 , who was 71 years old and who was 33 years old survived. The couple had eight children, their eldest son Heinrich was born in Hamburg in 1815 and three children in 1816, 1817 and 1819 in Manchester. The next four children were then born in Bockenheim. The twins Juli and Anna were born in Bockenheim on July 5, 1825, about four months before the death of their father Johann Conrad Rohmer on November 25, 1825.
Johann Conrad Rohmer had several siblings, u. a. a 15-year younger brother Johann Heinrich Rohmer (born August 27, 1784 in Eltersdorf near Nuremberg; † October 24, 1854 in Bockenheim). He stayed longer in Liverpool and married the 19-year-old Franziska (Fanny) Diggles (born February 11, 1805 in Liverpool, † March 17, 1870 in Bockenheim). Johann Conrad Rohmer promoted the recognition for him along with the issuance of the Frankfurt Citizenship Oath on May 16, 1823, so that Johann Conrad could accept his brother Johann Heinrich in his newly founded company "Gebrüder Rohmer Englische Manufakturen". Johann Conrad Rohmer himself had already taken his Frankfurt citizen oath on November 27, 1820, which he kept even after moving to the independent town of Bockenheim.
Excursus: Two years after Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig on October 18, 1813, the city of Frankfurt am Main regained its sovereignty on July 9, 1815 and did not become part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Finally, extensive trade could be carried out again. Gone were the times of 1810, when a large warehouse with English goods was publicly burned because of the continental barrier on the Pfingstweide in front of the city gates at today's Frankfurt Zoo.
Hotel Englischer Hof (Hotel d'Angleterre) by Friedrich Lippert, seller of the Rohmer property (1878)
In 1814, at the Congress of Vienna, the Kingdom of Hanover was established as the successor state to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and was initially run in personal union between Great Britain and Hanover. The King of Hanover was also the ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Johnn Conrad Rohmer was able to move to Manchester in 1816 without major difficulties and start his business there. As early as 1824, just four years after returning from Manchester, he was able to acquire this property from the innkeeper and hotelier Friedrich Lippert through Ludwig Plaßmann. Lippert was an investor and hotel owner of the then very famous Hotel Englischer Hof (Hotel d'Angleterre) at Roßmarkt 13 and 15. This hotel was built in 1797 by the French architect Nicolas Salins de Montfort on behalf of Friedrich Lippert. His famous guests included u. a. Arthur Schopenhauer and Otto von Bismarck . From 1808 to 1829, this hotel was the venue for the concerts of the Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft , the most important Frankfurt cultural association after the Napoleonic Wars, for more than twenty years .
After 107 years, this hotel was torn down by the new owner in 1904 in order to rebuild it under the same name, Englischer Hof , opposite the Frankfurt Central Station , which was newly built in 1888 . Due to its optimal location, combined with its latest building technology, he promised noticeable location advantages for his hotel business.
The property acquired by Johann Conrad Rohmer consisted of an extensive park area and a two-story villa built in 1811. There was also a large pond on the site, which was fed by an underground spring due to the relatively high groundwater level in Bockenheim. The parcel was located on the then building boundary of the still independent Bockenheim and bordered in the north-west on still undeveloped, agricultural land near the prosperous city of Frankfurt am Main, which had become free again, and promised high value growth even then. Frankfurter Strasse, later renamed Leipziger Strasse, led through the park area, which was bordered on the right by today's Juliusstrasse, today's Falkstrasse and today's street “Am Weingarten”. The location alone was bursting with development potential. Despite the early death of Johann Conrad Rohmer in 1825, the large country house remained in the family until 1905. Demolition and parceling did not take place until 1905. In memory of this park, Markgrafen-Straße has front gardens on both sides as a building specification. Traces of this property bought by Johann Conrad Rohmer in 1824 are no longer real today. All partial areas were completely built on.
The park area on the left of the former Frankfurter Strasse, almost twice as large, was acquired by son Heinrich Rohmer in 1825 after Johann Conrad Rohmer's death. In 1835 Heinrich Rohmer built another villa there, of which there are still photos. This was south of today's Leipziger Strasse and was bordered by Kurfürstenstrasse and "Großer Seestrasse". This property also had a nice pond due to the high groundwater.
The married couple Johann Conrad Rohmer and Johanna Dorothea Sophia Barbara née Peters were buried in the "old" cemetery in Frankfurt-Bockenheim in Solmsstrasse. Their tombs have been preserved, but are constantly desecrated with graffiti.
This family has nothing to do with the well-known French film and theater director Éric Rohmer (1920–2010). His name was originally Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer. He chooses the name Éric Rohmer as a pseudonym. Regarding the choice of his pseudonym , Rohmer said: "It was a name that I simply chose, for no particular reason, simply because I liked it".
Former branch of EWK Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern, rear building Leipzigerstrasse 35
Advertisement from 1911 for EWK Eisenwerk Kaiserslautern
Today's development, rear building at Leipzigerstrasse 35
A branch of Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern (EWK) AG with office and storage space was located in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, the rear building at Leipzigerstrasse 35 of the industrial company in Kaiserslautern that no longer exists in this form today. which was mainly active in iron and steel construction as well as in radiator construction.
Documents from 1929 on this Frankfurt – Bockenheim branch office, Leipzigerstrasse 35, can be found in the ISG Frankfurt. Today there is a gallery with a restaurant.
Former Photography Institute R. Schwab, Leipziger Str. 33, formerly Frankfurter Str. 33
Leipziger Str. 33 (2017)
Photographer R. Schwab, Frankfurter Str. 33 (around 1880)
Property at Leipziger Strasse 33 with historic facade anchors. An initial development was carried out by the Bockenheim building contractor and later mayor Peter Rein and his business partner David Bender, who also built the neighboring houses. In 1824 the master plumber Christian Schwenk became the owner. In 1882 Julius Müller, then in 1885 the national products dealer Jakob Berlyn, acquired the property. The photographer R. Schwab worked here from 1904 to 1935. In his Bockenheimer house chronicle, Heinrich Ludwig reported on the changing owners. After partial destruction in the Second World War, the apartment building was rebuilt with a simplified facade. After that, it was for a long time the legendary shop of the retailer Housewares Peikert with a toy department in deep business premises. Today's tenant is the Bin Cheng MIXX special item market in structurally altered business premises, especially the former external bypassable sales showcase in front of the actual shop entrance was dismantled beforehand. Space was also created for an additional shop.
Former Radio Diehl branch, Leipziger Strasse 29
Leipziger Strasse 29
According to the Bockenheimer house chronicler Heinrich Ludwig, under the rule of Prince Elector of Hesse-Kassel Wilhelm II., The Bockenheim building contractors Peter Rein and David Bender built the parcels at Leipziger Strasse 29, 31, 33 and 35 almost at the same time.From 1828 until his death on 24 September 1848, H. Leining ran his Zum Weinberg tavern here for almost twenty years , which his widow then ran. From 1864 Johann Ludwig became the owner, who also built a dance and drinking hall here in 1865. He was followed in the young German Empire in 1872 by Georg Prächter, and then by his widow Margarete Prächter, née Madern, from 1885. The Gießen merchant J. Pfeffer followed as the new owner. After severe war damage from aerial bombs, the building was rebuilt with a simplified facade and extended floors. Only a window with an only partially reconstructed triangular gable as a window canopy in the style of the late founding period (1890–1918) is reminiscent of the originally opulent facade design.
The tenant of the shop between 1960 and 1990 was a branch of the Radio-Diehl company. Founder Gottfried Diehl (1905–1981) handed over his radio retail business to his sons Alexander and Götz Diehl, who expanded the company into the leading entertainment retailer with 20 branches in the Rhine-Main area. A successful marketing measure was an annual international hi-fi stereo exhibition in the Volksbildungsheim am Eschenheimer Turm . With its branch at Leipziger Strasse 29, Radio-Diehl also achieved in 1988, in addition to its ProMarkt on the green field in Eschborn, a total turnover of around 200 million DM with a total of 500 employees. This naturally aroused desires. For example, REWE boss Hans Reischl in 1988 (according to Der Spiegel 32/1988) a. a. the purchase of Radio-Diehl for around 40 million, just as he incorporated the entire Leibbrand Group in 1989 with the help of Leibrand boss Klaus Wiegandt . Today the brothers Alexander and Götz work in the real estate sector as administrators and investors. Technical progress, aggressive competitors, a changed corporate strategy and changed consumer behavior initially led Radio-Diehl to vacate this branch at Leipziger 29 and ultimately ended with the complete disreputable sale of Radio-Diehl to Radio-Ostheimer in Schöllkrippen / Mainaschaff, including legal Splitting and labor law processes. These sold to the mail order domain electronica24, domiciled in the Ostheimer headquarters in Aschaffenburg-Nilkheim. Accompanied by multiple criminal charges, bankruptcy was then filed. After that, the ground floor area was vacant for a long time,
The Eifler bakery in Frankfurt has been a tenant here since 2008, and has been operating its first so-called Grande Café here, along with one of its numerous sales branches, on an in-depth area.
Former branch of Tengelmann's coffee shop or Montanus currently, Leipziger Strasse 25, corner of Landgrafenstrasse
Historical sticker from Montanus aktuell
Leipziger Strasse 25, corner of Landgrafenstrasse (2013)
A branch of Tengelmann's coffee shop was located in this corner building even before the First World War . After the bomb damage from the Second World War had been repaired, the property, especially the corner store, was rebuilt several times. From the beginning of the 1970s, the Frankfurt train station bookseller Hermann Montanus (1915–1990) ran a branch of his strongly expanding left-wing chain “ Montanus aktuell ” under his Frankfurt headquarters. In line with the successful concept of his station bookstores, he renounced the same regular range of books from his book offer, as well as traditional book advice in sales. He also offered an oversupply of newspapers and magazines that the publishers had to deliver directly to him. He skipped wholesaling and received bigger discounts. He used the same strategy for records in the music industry. The constant playing of the latest music in its branches also promoted sales. The Montanus aktuell branch, Leipziger Straße 25, quickly developed into a place of cult not only for students from Bockenheim. The explosive expansion to 45 branches, especially in the vicinity of universities, was not possible without additional capital. The publisher John Jahr (1900–1991) became an important co-partner with a large equity stake, as Montanus had developed into one of his major customers. But human capital also had to grow with it. So began u. a. the later music manager Thomas M. Stein (* 1949) started his professional career with Montanus. Hellmuth Karasek (1934-2015) rented a room on the upper floor of this Montanus-aktuell branch on Leipziger Strasse . The economic pressure on returns, rising costs and falling sales meant the end of the independent Montanus-aktuell group. Hermann Montanus had to leave the company in 1973 and in 1982 file for bankruptcy himself for his station bookstores. He lost all of his remaining wealth. Montanus aktuell went largely to the Hussel Group (now Douglas Holding AG ) and was merged with the Thalia books book trade group . This initially relocated the branch location to Leipziger Strasse 47 as Phoenix Montanus , and later withdrew completely from Bockenheim.
The Leipziger 25 shop then rented the coffee roaster Tchibo , who later moved into the premises of Leipziger Strasse 35 of his competitor Eduscho , which he had bought . The property owner had the post-war development abandoned and a five-story residential and commercial building built on the same site, including two shops. One of 1,082 branches of the Bijou Brigitte Group, Hamburg, moved into the new corner store, but it quickly withdrew from the lease. The next tenant was and is a Telekom shop .
Former Café Dülk, Leipziger Str. 26
Current house view Leipziger Str. 26
According to the Hessian Court and State Handbook for 1838, the population of the then still independent Hessian city of Bockenheim was 2,755 people, compared to 54,822 inhabitants of the nearby city of Frankfurt. According to the record, there was documented development on Frankfurter Straße 20 that year, which was renamed Leipziger Straße 26 after it was incorporated in 1895. In the period before and after the September Revolution of 1848 , JPL See had its publisher Bürgerblatt for Bockenheim here . Confectioners and bakers have been doing their business here since 1862 at the latest. So z. B. from 1882 the confectioner Karl Ludwig Paulizky, from 1904 Philipp Bender, for whom an A. Goldberg ran a coffee house from 1927, but already in 1935 because of the aryanization of the business, called Café des Westens, to the master baker C. Bender, son of Philipp Bender. From the time before the Bockenheim bombing in 1944, a photo postcard of Café Dülk with its own pastry shop in Leipziger Straße 26 has been preserved. In 1963, the Hotel and Restaurant Association Frankfurt am Main registered a Lucie Dülk as a member. There is also a contract in the ISG Frankfurt between the Stadtbahnbauamt and the property owner Rudolf Dülk for the construction of a tunnel system in the Bockenheim property, hall 11, no. 540/19 and 524/17 (= Leipziger Straße 26) in the course of the subway construction in Bockenheim on October 2, 1979. A Thai restaurant and a Chinese bistro have been doing business in this property since 1985.
Former Photographic Institute Carl Abel Leipziger Strasse 22, formerly Frankfurter Strasse 16
Frankfurt-Bockenheim Photographer C. Abel
Frankfurt-Bockenheim Leipziger Strasse 22
Leipziger Strasse 19
In his Bockenheimer house chronicle, Heinrich Ludwig reported on a development of the property of the former Frankfurt property owner with a migration background Philipp Jacob Passavant (1782-1856) in 1825/26 by the master watchmaker Bingenheimer and the surgeon Gottfried Bender, as well as by a house owner Eduard Engelhard in 1862 Before and after the occupation of Kurhessen and thus the city of Bockenheim, as well as the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main by the Kingdom of Prussia, this property belonged to master watchmaker and Bockenheim city councilor Christian Friedrich Heinrich Mäcker from 1862 to 1871. The ISG Frankfurt keeps the request of Carl Abel, photographer from Bockenheim, from 1865 for a business license as a photographer in Frankfurt to take over the photographic business of JW Eindigler. As early as 1875, Carl Abel had been running a photography institute in the still independent town of Bockenheim at what was then Frankfurter Strasse 16. In 1895, after it was incorporated into the city of Frankfurt, the property was given the address Leipziger Strasse 22 by changing the parcelling of the neighboring properties. Carl Abel still worked here as a photographer after 1904. His son also worked here later. The First World War and the subsequent economic decline led to the end of the Photographic Institute. Some of his photos are still offered as antiquarian books today.
In 1927 and 1935, master baker C. Bender ran his workshop here and in the neighboring house at Leipziger Strasse 24. He was replaced in 1940 by the master baker Joseph Geishecker, who after the Second World War developed a large, Bockenheim-dominated bakery branch from Leipziger Str. 19 opposite, with 24 branches in the entire city of Frankfurt. Many older Bockenheimers still remember his distinctive blue and white company colors and the goat as a company emblem. His strong expansion led to the abandonment of his production company domiciled here. He had a new central bakery built in the neighboring Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Eschborner Strasse 135. The death of Joseph Geishecker, the emerging economic crisis, the changed consumer behavior and the changed competitive situation by large discounters changed the market here too. Oliver Mayer, baker in the third generation of the then 76-year-old Frankfurter Bäckerei Mayer, which previously had more than 30 branches of its own, took over the 24 branches of the Joseph Geishecker bakery in 2014 after his own bankruptcy. The name Geishecker went under. The Geishecker nucleus at Leipziger Str. 19, including the empty production halls, was sold and the grocer Alnatura expanded or converted it into one of its shops. In the property at Leipziger Strasse 22, an electronics store is now offering its goods.
The striking roof ledge between the vertical masonry on the outside and the sloping roof of the building at Leipziger Straße 22, which has been redesigned several times, is particularly striking. This connection zone closes off the facade at the top. The historical iron tie rods on the facade with their optical tensioning effect ensure the horizontal stability of this building. But here they only have a decorative meaning. The former lattice windows were replaced with lattice-free designs, but the contour-giving wooden shutters have been preserved. The shop fitting on the ground floor was also modernized.
Former Menzer wine wholesaler, then Fritz Opel & Co. dealership, Leipziger Straße 32
In the still independent town of Bockenheim, Frankfurter Strasse 32, later Leipziger Strasse 32, in the vicinity of the Gasthaus Deutscher Hof and Forell's Garten, the Baden wine wholesaler and politician Julius Menzer (1845-1917) opened another here on May 1, 1877 Wine tavern analogous to a famous Greek wine tavern founded by the father in 1840, Zur Stadt Athen in Neckargemünd . He also commissioned the Frankfurt artist Karl Julius Grätz (1843–1912) to paint them here on site . Melzer later opened further branches in the German Empire, for example on May 1, 1883 in the capital of Berlin. His death and the effects of the First World War led to the abandonment of his wine trade here in Frankfurt-Bockenheim as well.
Before and after the Second World War, a branch of the Fritz Opel & Co. car dealership and workshop was operated at Leipziger Strasse 32, especially since this Frankfurt property survived the Second World War almost undamaged. In addition to the exhibition room in the front building, which was later tiled in white, a lane led through the driveway to the car workshop attached to the rear building, which could be driven up to the first floor using a ramp. In the 1970s, the group of companies, now renamed Autohaus Georg von Opel , closed all of its city branches, including this one in Bockenheim. On the house wall of the property at Leipziger Strasse 32, a faded advertising sign with the historic Opel colors was evidence of the past business activity. A well-known investor bought the property and intended u. a. to convert parts of the former Opel workshop into a district parking garage. However, he was ultimately unable to complete the project due to a lack of building permits. The multi-storey front building on the street front at Leipziger Strasse 32 in the style of Wilhelmine historicism has since had changing tenants, initially a textile retailer and a tax consultancy, now a snack bar and a pedicure practice.
JF Menzer Weingroßhandel, Leipziger Strasse 32
JF Menzer Weingroßhandel, Leipziger Strasse 32
Letterhead 1940, Fritz Opel & Co. dealership, Leipziger Strasse 32
Leipziger Strasse 32 (2013)
Former Veifa plants, Leipziger Strasse 36, Wildungerstrasse 11-15
In 1907 the VEIFA - United Electrotechnical Institute Frankfurt-Aschaffenburg, was founded in Frankfurt am Main. It was originally a branch of ELA - Elektrotechnische Werke Aschaffenburg, which was founded by the young Aschaffenburg Friedrich Dessauer. He was born the tenth child of an industrial family. His father Philipp Dessauer (1837–1900) was the founder of the white paper and cellulose factory in Aschaffenburg. His mother was Elisabeth Maria Karoline Vossen (1843–1920), the daughter of paint manufacturer Franz Daniel Vossen from Liège. Even in his youth he was fascinated by scientific and medical research, especially the X-rays discovered by Conrad Röntgen and their medical applications. From 1899 Dessauer studied electrical engineering and physics at the University of Munich and at the TH Darmstadt, but had to drop out after two years because his father suddenly died. Friedrich returned to Aschaffenburg at the age of 20 and founded here with the Aschaffenburg doctor Dr. Bernhard Wiesner, the family doctor of the Dessauer family, who soon also became his brother-in-law, took over the ELS Elektrotechnische Werke Aschaffenburg. Shortly after the turn of the century, Dessauer and Wiesner began in advance with the “Aschaffenburg X-ray Courses”, which they held regularly until the beginning of the First World War. Aschaffenburg thus became one of the first centers for radiation medicine worldwide.
With up to 500 employees, VEIFA in Frankfurt-Bockenheim then produced X-ray machines and electrical medical devices with great success, which were also sold internationally. In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, the two founders separated from their companies. With the company Reiniger, Gebbert & sound a competitor the Veifa takeover. A little later it became part of the sales company Siemens-Reiniger-Veifa Gesellschaft für medical Technik mbH in Berlin. In 1932, the merger of Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall AG in Erlangen with Phönix Röntgenröhren-Fabriken AG based in Rudolstadt (Thuringia) and the sales company Siemens-Reiniger-Veifa Gesellschaft für medical Technik mbH in Berlin created Siemens-Reiniger-Werke AG (SRW ) based in Berlin. In the course of this reorganization, almost the entire production of electromedical products of Siemens & Halske AG was relocated from Berlin and Veifa in Frankfurt-Bockenheim to Erlangen. In 1966 the three stock corporations Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckertwerke and Siemens-Reiniger-Werke were merged into Siemens AG. The medical technology area now traded under the name "Siemens AG, Wernerwerk for medical technology". In the course of a general restructuring, the Wernerwerk was renamed in 1969 to “Siemens Medical Technology” (UB Med), in 2001 to “Siemens Medical Solutions” and finally in 2008 to today's “Siemens Sector Healthcare”.
The Veifa property in Frankfurt-Bockenheim went entirely to the rapidly expanding Bockenheim-based industrial company Hartmann & Braun AG, which not only took over this building, but also a. also completely isolated Wildunger Straße from the Frankfurt-Bockenheim urban area by means of a wall. In 1997, after the Hartmann & Braun AG location in Frankfurt-Bockenheim was given up and relocation to Eschborn, GWH Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH Hessen took over part of the former Veifa property and built rental apartments there. Another part was taken over by a private investor who has since offered office space here, whose building, which has been renovated several times, today only reminds the knowledgeable Bockenheimer of VEIFA. Its founder Friedrich Dessauer chose the Bauverein Katholische Studentenheime e. V. named after their student residence Friedrich-Dessauer-Haus (FDH) at the gates of Bockenheim in the neighboring district of Frankfurt-Hausen.
Former Bockenheimer Volksbank eGmbH, now a branch of Frankfurter Volksbank
The then still independent town of Bockenheim in the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel founded an independent Volksbank three years before the occupation by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1863. 30 years later, in 1893, the company moved into its own bank building opposite St. Elisabeth's Church on Kurfürstenplatz. The so-called founder crisis had been successfully survived. Also thanks to the new Prussian cooperative law of 1868, after which all members of a Volksbank were now only liable with the so-called solidarity liability and no longer with their entire assets. The turmoil of the global economic crisis, inflation, war times and currency reform were also mastered. In 1955 it merged first with Volksbank Eschborn and Niederrad and in 1970 with Frankfurter Volksbank . Since the post-war period, banking has been carried out in the corner building on Leipziger Strasse and the corner of Weingarten, now as a branch of Frankfurter Volksbank. The St. Elisabeth parish built its parish and parish hall on the former site of the Bockenheimer Volksbank bank building, which was destroyed in the Second World War.
Bockenheimer Volksbank (around 1900)
Bockenheimer Volksbank (1926)
Parsonage St. Elisabeth on the former property of the Bockenheimer Volksbank (2013)
Former Gargantua restaurant, Friesengasse 3
From 1984 to 1993 Klaus Trebes (1947–2011), the 1968 Frankfurt philosophy and law student with the first state examination, cabaret artist, successful cookbook author and gifted cook, ran his restaurant on the small ground floor at Friesengasse 3, named after the giant Gargantua of the French Writer François Rabelais , to whom he attributed excessive hunger and tremendous thirst. The excellent reputation of his culinary art quickly spread beyond the Alt-68 circle of friends and beyond the district.
In 1993 he and his wife moved into the larger ground floor of an elegant tenement house built in 1902 at Liebigstrasse 47 / corner of Feldbergstrasse. One year before his sudden death, the Gargantua moved to the Frankfurter Welle property for the last time in 2010, not far from the Frankfurt Alte Oper. In 2013 the Gargantua was closed. At the original founding place at Friesengasse 3, a Spanish-Galician tapas restaurant called Galicia is successfully operated on the ground floor.
Former two-wheeler special money, Rödelheimer Straße 32
Former two-wheeler special money
Grave site Julius Sondergeld, Bockenheim cemetery
Julius Sondergeld was, like his father Theodor, the landlord of the Zum Tannenbaum restaurant in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Rödelheimer Strasse at the corner of Schloßstrasse. He sold lager and bottled beers from the Frankfurt JJ Jung brewery (Johann Jakob Jung), Darmstädter Landstrasse 132, which in 1921 was merged with the Binding brewery to form the "Schöfferhof-Binding-Bürgerbräu Aktiengesellschaft". Photos of this restaurant from 1905 and 1906 in the ISG Stadtarchiv Frankfurt. The two sons Willi and Alfons des Julius Sondergeld opened the Zweirad Sondergeld retail store at the same location in 1925 . This property, like the entire neighborhood, was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1944. The bicycle shop was then relocated to the property opposite, Rödelheimer Straße 32, the so-called Schönhofeck. In 1960 this had to give way to the construction of the Breitenbach Bridge. In 1989, in the immediate vicinity of Schönhof, the new construction of the Zweirad Sondergeld business took place, which was continued by Dieter Reiter, a former apprentice of Alfons Sondergeld, who died childless. In 2017 the company Zweirad Sondergeld was closed for lack of a successor. In 2018 the property was completely demolished and the property was rebuilt.
Former car dealership Am Kurfürstenplatz Herweg & Co., Schloßstraße 41-49
According to documents from ISG Frankfurt, the architect Müller planned the three-story development of the properties at Schloßstraße 45, 47 and 47a with a gas station, a car service and garages in 1952 for the client Hans Nolda. In 1955, the Dipl. Ing. Alexander Herweg founded a licensed VW sales office and authorized workshop in the neighboring Schwälmer Str. 14. He took over the Nolda property and later, at the insistence of the VW Group, had modern, glazed presentation rooms built along Schloßstraße 41-49. At the same time he was involved in the motor vehicle guild in Frankfurt and Main-Taunus-Kreis. Most recently he was elected deputy head master there. The emerging economic crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany and the consequent decline in VW sales figures led to a change in the VW-Audi sales concept and to the termination of the VW-Audi dealership agreement. Alexander Herweg tried in vain to save the company's existence as a now free car repair shop. However, he soon decided to liquidate and laboriously to completely clear the premises. How forward-looking this decision was can also be seen in the termination of the current 3,100 European VW dealer contracts planned for spring 2018, according to the Handelsblatt dated October 10, 2017, under the keyword "Necessary digitization". After the sale of the entire property at Schloßstraße, the food discounter Lidl opened a new branch with a large customer car parking space on the property at Schloßstraße 41-49 in October 2009.
Former Ferdinand Bendix Söhne Aktiengesellschaft für Holzverarbeitung, Frankfurt am Main-Bockenheim branch
Ferdinand Bendix Söhne Aktiengesellschaft für Holzverarbeitung was founded in 1892 by the brothers Georg and Carl Bendix in Landsberg an der Warthe, today the city of Gorzów Wielkopolski, western Poland, with branches in Berlin O-27 (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) and Frankfurt am Main-Bockenheim.
The Frankfurt branch was closed or dissolved during the First World War. An envelope from 1901 with Ferdinand Bendix Söhne Aktiengesellschaft für Holzverarbeitung, Frankfurt am Main-Bockenheim branch has been preserved, as has a non-valued stock corporation from the AG and a company brochure. One of the company's products, a school pavilion from 1912 in Berlin, Pankow-Weißensee, Parkstrasse 15E, has been preserved to this day and has been placed under monument protection by the State of Berlin. On July 18, 1932, the AG was dissolved.
Main plant in Landsberg an der Warthe
FBS letterhead
FBS company brochure
Former pre-war development at the intersection of Große Seestraße and Mühlgasse
The pre-war development shown at the intersection of Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Große Seestraße and Mühlgasse (formerly Sterngasse) with a view of Kleine Seestraße (formerly Kleine Sandstraße) was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1944. Right partial view of the Latscha food store . Frontal view of the house at Kleine Seestrasse 2 of Philipp Eberhardt, who had been running his specialty store here since 1904 and which his heirs continued from 1927 to 1935. Valentin Sperzel was the predecessor since 1882. Info according to the city chronicler Heinrich Ludwig, who grew up on Kleine Seestrasse himself. A special feature of the Kleine and Große Seestrasse is the ascending house numbering from the church square, the historical center of Bockenheim. In contrast to the numbering of the parallel Leipziger Strasse, the house numbers of which have been rising from Bockenheimer Warte to Basaltstrasse since the Bockenheimer incorporation in 1895.
Post-war development: Partial view on the right of the Bockenheim Friesengasse nursing home for the elderly of the Frankfurt Association for Aid for the Elderly and the Disabled, which was officially opened in 1991 after almost three years of construction, at the corner of Friesengasse and Kleine Seestrasse. The house has 120 beds, five elderly and four handicapped-accessible apartments and a therapy center.
Pre-war development at the intersection of Große Seestraße and Mühlgasse
Post-war development
Former branch of the Frankfurt grocer Latscha, Große Seestrasse 3
Grosse Seestrasse 3,
Restored apartment building at the beginning of the eastern Große Seestrasse. The street name before 1897 was Great Sand Road. Historically, the property has been rebuilt several times. This building was built around 1900. On the first floor there used to be a a. one of the many branches of the Frankfurt food chain Jakob Latscha . According to documents from the Institute for City History, the master upholsterer Heinrich Ackermann ran his independent business here around 1955. The striking part of the facade in this building is the bay window, which was used as a decorative and dividing element. It is based on an elaborate lintel or lintel made of natural stone and continues to the ledge of the house. This bay window does not start on the ground, but on the first floor and is supported by a console. The war damage led to a different reconstruction, including the facade. The bay window is still an aesthetic highlight of this row of buildings.
Former vegetable store, Weil family, Grosse Seestrasse 14
Great Seestrasse 14
According to the often quoted Bockenheim village chronicler Heinrich Ludwig, the predecessor building of the coachman Johann Gümpel was on this property around 1825. He was followed by u. a. 1882/85 the coachman Jakob Dopper. In 1904 Philipp Held ran a coal shop in a newly built apartment building. He was followed in 1927 by Friedrich Weil with a vegetable store. In 1935 his widow M. Weil continued to run this business.
After the end of the war, this house has been preserved as a solitaire in the western pre-war development at this point on Große Seestrasse. The destroyed attic was reconstructed or expanded. The striking gate entrance and the rear courtyard development were also retained. The shop on the ground floor no longer found a tenant in the retail area due to the lack of walking distance and the increased attraction of Leipziger Strasse.
Former butchery Gebrüder Borzner, Kurfürstenplatz 26 / Große Seestrasse
The corner of Kurfürstenplatz 26 / Große Seestrasse was built on in 1840 with a two or three-story residential and commercial building. It had a cross roof for the purpose of a converted attic with a triangular gable and gable cornice; Each two windows on the first floor had so-called blind arches, which were filled with similar ornaments, for the purpose of optical stretching as facade decoration; next to it there was still a single ornament as a facade decoration. The Borzner family had owned it since 1904. This is also where the Borzner Brothers butcher's shop was based.
In the middle of the right edge of the photo you can see the 40 meter high observation tower on the Großer Feldberg im Taunus, which opened on October 12, 1902, in the line of sight of the Große Seestrasse. When Bockenheim was bombed in 1944, this approx. 100-year-old building including the butcher's shop was also badly damaged. After the war, this property was no longer built like this. For this purpose, two large apartment buildings were built on the right and left. The prominent corner square remained undeveloped. A grave of the Borzner family for Jean Borzner (1872–1954) and his wife Marie († 1957) have been preserved in the Frankfurt-Bockenheim cemetery to date.
Post-war development at Kurfürstenplatz 26 / Große Seestrasse
Borzner grave, Frankfurt-Bockenheim cemetery
Former branch of the German Securities and Exchange Bank in a commercial building, Kurfürstenplatz 30
After the destruction and the war, the plot of land at Kurfürstenstrasse 30 was rebuilt and a branch of the German securities and exchange bank was set up on it. On August 16, 1952, three armed young men from Bockenheim attacked this branch. They shot two bank employees but escaped without prey. A little later they were caught and sentenced after a trial. It was the first armed bank robbery in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The local editors of the Frankfurt newspapers remind of this fatal bank robbery at irregular intervals.
The branch, like the bank itself, has long been closed. The property is used differently.
Former property of the case and wallet factory of Georg Andreas Nispel, Kurfürstenplatz 32
According to Heinrich Ludwig, the chronicler of Bockenheim, the case and wallet manufacturer (portfolio maker) Georg Andreas Nispel (* 1811 Lich; † 1854 suicide in prison) ran his company on this plot of land with around 30 workers. In 1844 Nispel bought this parcel as a building site. During the so-called September 1848 riots in Frankfurt , he fled on September 19, 1848 via Biebrich , Cologne , Aachen , and Brussels to Paris , where he returned from his wanted letter search of General Hans von Auerswald and his alleged involvement in the murders of September 18, 1948 Felix Fürst found out about Lichnowsky . This was followed by a lengthy, ultimately successful extradition request, as well as a process that is still documented today, and in January 1853 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison with other defendants for participating in a plot to kill General von Auerwald and for inciting and leading the ring.
A new building took place here in 1882/85. An Abraham Löwental then traded in clothing here. From 1927 Peter Sesterhem ran a shoe shop here. After extensive destruction by aerial bombs in 1944, this property was rebuilt in a modified manner in the post-war period. Traces of Georg Andreas Nispel can only be found in literature today.
Former fire station 4, later area guard 20 of the Frankfurt fire brigade, Schwälmer Strasse 29, Kurfürstenplatz exit
Schwalm Street 29
Guard 4 of the Frankfurt fire brigade was located at Kurfürstenplatz or Schwälmer Strasse 20 . It was founded as a Bockenheimer compulsory fire brigade and then taken over after the incorporation by the Frankfurt fire brigade, which built a new guard building in 1914. Today's attached new building dates from the 1980s; the first guard had been destroyed in World War II. Five rooms on three floors were rented to the municipal hall building company , which then established the Bürgerhaus Bockenheim here. It offers space for small and medium-sized events with a total of approx. 300 people. Termination of this lease is a common political demand because of the cost. As a result of the restructuring, area guard 20 became the branch of area management guard 2 (BLW2), called "BW2a". In 2013, an ambulance around the clock, two multi-purpose vehicles in shift work and the blood and organ car from Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e. V. in action.
The area of operation of the Frankfurt am Main fire brigade for Bockenheim was assigned to the location of fire station 2 in the Gallusviertel, Heinrichstraße 2. Schwälmer Strasse 20 was cleared by the Frankfurt fire brigade. Some politicians are calling for this vacancy rate to be remedied by setting up a youth center.
Former Bockenheimer Bürgererschule Mühlgasse 31, corner of Schloßstraße
Mühlgasse 31, corner of Schloßstraße (1904)
Mühlgasse 31, corner of Schloßstraße (2013)
On the corner of Mühlgasse 31, at the corner of Schloßstraße, the city of Bockenheim built a high school for citizens in 1855, which was then continued as a high school for girls from 1877 to 1889 after moving to the new school building in Falkstraße. After the incorporation of Bockenheim in 1895, the school was relocated to the new building of the Viktoria School, which was destroyed in World War II, the municipal higher girls' school in Frankfurt am Main in today's Senckenberg complex. From 1904 a branch of the AOK Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse and an ambulance station of the Frankfurt Samaritan Association was located here. From 1927 still an AOK paying agent for the cash deposits and withdrawals customary at the time. Damaged in the Second World War, the renovated building is now used for residential purposes. Because of the high population growth, two neighboring schools were built opposite this property in 1906, the Kaufungerschule as a boys 'school and the Elector's School as a girls' school. The Siesmayer nursery was located on their property until 1890 . At the same time, Kaufunger Strasse was built parallel to Mühlgasse.
Former Bockenheimer water tower, Ginnheimer Höhe
The Bockenheim water tower was originally designed as an overflow tank for the Praunheim pumping station, from which a 3.8 km long tube led to ensure the water pressure for the city of Bockenheim. It was therefore not a drinking water reservoir. The water tower was constructed according to the then usual system of the Aachen professor Otto Intze , had an iron container with a diameter of 11.20 m by 8.40 m, had a capacity of 700 m³ and was 141.92 m above sea level on the Ginnheimer Höhe built. The substructure supporting the container was made of brick masonry. The water tower, which was built by the independent city of Bockenheim as part of Kurhessen on the Ginnheimer Höhe, came under the administration of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 through annexation. After the incorporation of Bockenheim on April 1, 1895, it became one of the numerous water towers in the city of Frankfurt am Main, such as B. also the still preserved water tower Rödelheims. Since the Hausen pumping station including the water supply of the city of Bockenheim was connected to the water network of the city of Frankfurt after incorporation, the Bockenheim water tower was then inoperative. The structure was later abandoned and completely disappeared along with its foundation. Historical images are kept by the ISG Frankfurt am Main, in particular a photo of the Bockenheim water tower from 1891 by the Frankfurt photographer Carl Friedrich Mylius (1827–1916).
Former Kurmilchanstalt Friedrich Gottschalk, Ginnheimer Landstrasse 74
Advertisement for the F. Gottschalk spa milk institute
Advertisement for Homogena Rahm, Kurmilchanstalt Friedrich Gottschalk
A hundred years ago there was little processing of milk, only cream and butter as products. With the exodus from the countryside and the densification in cities, the desire for the availability of milk arose. So-called milk cure institutions, also known as Swiss dairy companies to promote sales, were set up in numerous cities. In Frankfurt alone several private milk spa establishments were established. Here several cows were kept in stalls, milked by hand and filtered in milk cans. The cans were taken to the milk collection point by handcart or sold directly to milk spa establishments. This was later also monitored by the authorities. The product was expensive and still fraught with danger. In addition, the English economic blockade during the First World War curtailed domestic supplies. The hunger winters of 1917 and 1918, also in Frankfurt, endangered the existence of the dairy cure establishments, which then disappeared from the market in 1930.
Information about the advertising brand for Homogena cream. According to BGBL No. 90 of March 25, 1931, children's and spa cream is legally permitted. Children's milk, including preferred milk, baby milk, and health cure milk, etc., only come from companies whose staff, animals and facilities are under official medical and veterinary supervision. Particular attention should be paid to the type of milk, the nature of the dairy animals and the stables. One of the monitored Frankfurt delivery points for cow and goat milk was the Kurmilchanstalt Friedrich Gottschalk, Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Ginnheimer Landstrasse 74. Here, the unleavened raw milk was centrifuged off, resulting in cream with different fat levels.
According to the Bockenheimer chronicler Hermann Ludwig, the Kurmilchanstalt Friedrich Gottschalk was located in Ginnheimer Landstrasse 74 on the site of the former facing bricks of the steam and hand brickworks CG Hansel until around 1930. The brick factory with residential house was created in 1856 by Georg Schuld (1807-NN). But after six years he had to sell it to master bricklayer Georg Derlam (1819–1869), who came from the long-established Bockenheimer Derlam entrepreneurial family.
According to statements by the Bockenheim allotment garden association on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, whose uranium plant is located between the Markus Hospital and Ginnheimer asparagus, Friedrich Gottschalk leased part of his property as a poor garden as early as 1908. In the agreement signed on November 17, 1908, it says: “The tenant Mr. Ms. Gottschalk leased the Bockenheimer Kleingartenbau Verein e. V. an area of 14,875 square meters located on Ginnheimer Landstrasse next to the dairy cure facility at a price of 4.50 marks per are for agricultural purposes ”.
After several infrastructural measures and multiple clinic expansions, traces of the former Kurmilchanstalt Friedrich Gottschalk are only present in the ISG Frankfurt am Main.
Former Bruch & Co. metal capsule factory, Ginnheimer Landstrasse 1
Stannoil - tinsel
current development Ginnheimer Landstrasse 1
In 1886 the metal capsule factory Bruch & Co. in Ginnheimer Landstrasse 1 was owned by the entrepreneurs Wilhelm Bruch, Carl Bruch and Josef Braun, according to the book by the Architects and Engineers Association Frankfurt am Main and its buildings ISBN 978-3-95564-8190 , which began in 1892 developed into a tin foil factory with 30 workers at the time. According to Wikipedia, tin foil is a thinly rolled or hammered foil made of tin. originally a lead silver alloy, also called tinfoil. Today the term is also used colloquially for foils made of aluminum (aluminum foil), since products made from the much cheaper aluminum have replaced tinfoil from its areas of application. The material can also be found in metal foil capacitors and as decorations and Christmas tree decorations (tinsel).
Metal capsules are used today as coffee capsules. Traces of the metal capsule factory Bruch & Co., Ginnheimer Landstrasse 1 are no longer present on site. In 2007 the property was built over with a residential complex for 30 apartments.
Factory owner Wilhelm Bruch and his wife Auguste Mohr had a. a. a daughter Else Bruch (* 1881 Wiesbaden, † 1915 Frankfurt am Main), who was only 34 years old. At the age of 24, his daughter Else married the 36-year-old entrepreneur Alfred Teves (* 1869 † 1953) in Frankfurt am Main in 1905, who founded Alfred Teves Maschinen- und Armaturenfabrik KG, later ATE, in 1911. She was his first wife
Historic villas in Bockenheim
Villa Weil (former DFB headquarters)
This listed, upper-class, neoclassical villa with a symmetrical facade from 1912 based on a design by A. Engelhardt at Zeppelinallee 77 was built by the entrepreneur Hermann Weil and his wife Rosa. Weil and his son Felix were well-known patrons in Frankfurt am Main. The villa survived the Second World War undamaged. The German Football Association bought and used the villa as its headquarters until the new building in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen. After another renovation, the dissolved advertising companies Lintas / Unilever , then DSB + K, were the main tenants of this villa. Now the registered office of a legal association and an investment company.
Villa Wertheimer
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The Villa Wertheimer is located at Zeppelinallee 69 and was built for a banker Wertheimer. He came from the influential, widespread extended family of the Wertheimers, which included the E. & L. Wertheimer bank owned by the brothers Emanuel and Louis and whose ancestors included Samson Wertheimer .
Villa Herxheimer
The Villa Herxheimer is located at Zeppelinallee 47 and was built for Karl Herxheimer . He was a leading dermatologist of his time and one of the co-founders of the University of Frankfurt. In 1911 he commissioned the then star architect Bruno Paul (1874–1968) to build the villa. The co-founder of the Werkbund built a total work of art. The exterior style is based on classicism and German Biedermeier. The two-storey building is divided into three parts, with a wider, indented central building located between the two protruding narrow corner buildings. As a leading interior designer, Paul also planned the interior work. In 1942 the landlord, who was often Frankfurt's patron, was deported from Frankfurt to Theresienstadt at the age of 80 and murdered there. His wife was murdered in Auschwitz. After the war, the villa was the seat of the British consulate until 1968, then an advertising agency for 25 years. Today the villa is the place of business for lawyers and foundations.
Villa Rohmer
The villa at Zeppelinallee 69 was built by Wilhelm Wilhelm Rohmer (born February 13, 1859 in Frankfurt, † February 28, 1912 in Merano). He was married since July 23, 1896 to Mrs. Helena (born December 5, 1877 in Mexico, † October 3, 1960), nee de Chapeaurouge . Her family came from Switzerland, branches of the family later belonged to the wealthy bourgeoisie of Hamburg. Wilhelm Rohmer sold large property holdings to the city of Frankfurt. He is the namesake of Rohmerstrasse and Rohmerplatz. Today the villa is the seat of an industrial association.
Villa Sonneck
The Villa Sonneck is located at Zeppelinallee 38, in the so-called diplomatic quarter . It was built for Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke , a famous internist and surgeon at the time. He commissioned the well-known Hermann Muthesius as the architect , who built the two-story villa from 1907 to 1910 in the English country house style. It was privately owned until 1975, when the villa was acquired by the later infamous IKB Deutsche Industriebank , which renovated the house in eleven months and converted it to suit its interests, including the installation of a large underground car park. In 2004 the villa was sold to a private investor who had the property restored to its original purpose as a residential building from 2004 to 2007.
Villa Leonhardi
Johann Peter von Leonhardi (1747–1830), Frankfurt banker, businessman, politician and Freemason had a garden villa built in 1806 outside the former Frankfurter Landwehr on the site of the city of Bockenheim. The architect was Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort . From 1842 the property and villa belonged to the banker Raphael Freiherr von Erlanger (1806–1878), who made numerous structural changes, including a large orangery extension. In 1905 the building was demolished and the front of the central pavilion with the sandstone pillared hall was made available to the palm garden . Today this building is used as Villa Leonhardi for a café-restaurant and a lecture hall.
Villa Merton
Villa Merton is a neo-baroque villa from 1927 with a symmetrical façade and a central resalit with an elaborate entrance portal. A garden hall is attached to the building. The client was Richard Merton , who owned the metal company , among other things . The villa was built according to plans by the Holstein House in Basel, the architect was Anton Eyssen from Frankfurt . The construction volume is said to have been one million Reichsmarks at the time. Richard Merton was persecuted by the National Socialists and had to sell his villa in 1939 for 135,000 Reichsmarks. The purchase price was not paid. Merton fled to England, his villa was damaged in World War II. After the war, the house was initially confiscated by the US military authorities and then returned to Richard Merton, who had returned from exile. Merton sold the villa to the city of Frankfurt, which it long-term to the Union International Club e. V. leased. The Union Club holds lectures in the building and has set up a first-class restaurant called Villa Merton .
Schwarzschild villa
Representative neoclassical villa, Am Leonhardsbrunn 7, Ditmarstraße 9. Design by the architect L. Valentin with an embossed facade from 1913. The builder was the couple Eduard Heinrich David Schwarzschild (1875–1939) and Blanche Julie, nee. Pohl, (1885 Paris - NN), part of the Scharzschild-Ochs family, a long-established trading dynasty in the textile industry, branch of an old Jewish family from the Lower Rhine who immigrated to Frankfurt in 1499 with a silk trade in an excellent location at Rossmarkt 13 (formerly Rossmarkt 7) / Kleiner Hirschgraben 10 This commercial building was built by the architects Hermann Ritter (1851–1918) and Hellmuth Cuno (1867–1951). Another store was in Berlin, Leipziger Strasse 83.
The married couple Eduard Heinrich David Schwarzschild and Blanche Julie, who were born as Pohl in Paris in 1885, were forced to relocate to Frankfurt, Liebigstraße 53 (see Liebigstraße 51) after being expelled from their villa at Am Leonhardsbrunn 7. The doctor Alois Alzheimer previously lived in the house from 1894 to 1898. Eduard was co-owner of the long-established silk trading business Schwarzschild-Ochs on Rossmarkt, which was forced to Aryan and continued as the Aryan company SETAG AG Berlin. Eduard Schwarzschild took his own life here in 1939. His wife Blanche was able to escape to France first and in 1941 emigrated from southern France to the USA. After the end of the war, the semi-detached house at Am Leonhardsbrunn 7, Ditmarstrasse 9, like the buildings in the neighborhood, was confiscated by the US Army. After approval, this building rented the pension scheme of the State Medical Association of Hesse. Since 2016 vacancy with extensive renovation and renovation work.
Some family members of the Schwarzschilds managed to escape during the Nazi era, others were kidnapped and murdered, and some committed suicide. See Eva Stille, Expulsion of Frankfurt Jews from the Clothing Industry, 1999. Descendants live in the USA. There is still a Schwarzschild-Ochs textile company in Great Britain.
Villa Hauck
Villa of the Hauck family, owners of the traditional banking house Georg Hauck & Sohn . Senior boss Otto Hauck (1863-1934) was pushed out of office in 1933 as long-time president of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, including the entire presidium, and son Alexander Hauck (1893-1946) was subordinate to the National Socialists because of their liberal attitudes and anti-National Socialist attitudes suspicious observation. For example, both were in close contact with their villa neighbor Richard Merton . The representative Villa Hauck, which was expanded with additions, was built in 1923 based on a design by Hermann Muthesius . It is an example of a country house-like architecture with reminiscences of the end of historicism. This villa, too, was initially confiscated by the Americans after the war, returned to the State of Hesse, in need of major renovation, and then, after extensive renovation and partial reconstruction, leased to the university as a guest house on a long-term basis.
Individual evidence
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- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Volkshochschule Frankfurt am Main (ed.): A foray criss-cross through Bockenheim between yesterday and tomorrow. 1980, with photo p. 37.
- ↑ Cf. Petra Meyer: Das Westendheim (pearl factory), Ginnheimer Landstr. 40–42 (before and after the takeover by the National Socialists). Documentation i. A. of the City of Frankfurt am Main . Holdings abbreviation: S6a, signature 304.
- ↑ Memorial plaque for Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp on the Bockenheimer Friedhof Solmsstraße
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- ↑ On the SophienHof Passive House Complex (PDF; 118 kB) accessed on Feb. 25, 2020.
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- ^ Bockenheim: Passive apartment building near St. Jakob on: frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 27, 2020
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- ^ Chronicle of the Kolben-Seeger company , formerly Frankfurt, Adalbertstrasse 44–48
- ↑ Alvarium on unieststudents.de
- ^ Angela Davis studied in Frankfurt
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- ^ Helmut Nordmeyer: Tour through the old Frankfurt-Bockenheim. Wartberg, 2002, ISBN 3-8313-1279-6 , p. 53, Adalbertstrasse 9
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- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Volkshochschule Frankfurt am Main (ed.): A foray criss-cross through Bockenheim between yesterday and tomorrow. 1980, p. 44.
- ^ BWV Official Housing Association Frankfurt
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- ↑ Open bookcases for everyone in Frankfurt
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- ^ The Frankfurt Polytechnic Society of 1822 ( Memento from February 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ Development plan 834 for southern Rödelheimer Landstrasse is available for adoption. A new residential area is to be created.
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- ↑ In 1891 the eighth Imperial Military Training Forge of the Reich was opened in Bockenheim near Frankfurt.
- ↑ Company ILIX Präzisionswerkzeuge-GmbH - legal successor of the Frankfurt precision tool factory Günther & Kleinmond GmbH, founded in 1895
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- ↑ Tamil Cultural Association Sri Nagapoosani Ambal, Adalbertstrasse 61
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- ↑ Takeover of Leopold Eisemann and Willy Klös
- ↑ Forced laborers at the Frankfurt fish canning factory Willi Klös KG, Nauheimer Straße 10
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- ^ Nailing machine before 1940 from Merko Karl Merkelbach Frankfurt
- ^ Offer of a historical Merko Karl Merkelbach shoemaker's nailing machine from 1910
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- ^ Redevelopment of Robert-Mayer-Straße 52
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- ↑ Schiele, KK&K, TLT-Turbo, Siemens AG
- ^ Lahmeyer Generator Frankfurt-Bockenheim
- ↑ By Bosch-Dipl.-Ing. Schmitt to the Würth Group
- ↑ Former EWerk Bockenheim or so-called Bosch-Fabrik Bockenheim
- ^ The investor and publisher Bernd F. Lunkewitz
- ↑ baunetz.de of September 3, 2003: Move forward to the E-Werk. Area in Frankfurt / Main is newly built.
- ↑ Former EWERK Bockenheim or Bosch factory Bockenheim as a cultural project Filmhaus Frankfurt
- ^ The "Das Edison" residential complex of LBBW Pfingstbrunnenstrasse
- ↑ On the development of the former Bockenheim electricity works
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- ↑ Reconstruction in the former electric power plant on Voltastraße
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- ^ Albert Böhler - WHO'S WHO biography. In: whoswho.de. October 29, 1969. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
- ^ History of the Böhlerstahl company ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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- ↑ Site of the former Bockenheimer Maschinenfabrik Fontaine & Co. GmbH
- ↑ 1857 Foundation of the company (Siebblechwerk) in Spa (Belgium) by the Fontaine family
- ↑ planned residential complex of the bpd, formerly Bouwfonds Rhein-Main, called PATIO Grüner Wohnen in der Stadt, on the former company premises of Fontaine & Co., Frankfurt, Kuhwaldstrasse ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The client bpd, formerly Bouwfonds Rhein-Main, a subsidiary of the globally active Dutch Rabobank Group
- ↑ The Emery from Naxos by Winfried Scharlau (PDF)
- ^ About the Julius Pfungst family, founders of the Naxos Union, Frankfurt
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- ↑ ISG - FONTAINE & Co., Bockenheimer Naxos emery grinding wheel and machine factory
- ↑ Major fire in Landsberg & Ollendorff Frankfurter Glimmer- und Isolationsstoffenfabrik AG, Kuhwaldstrasse, Frankfurt-Bockenheim on May 14, 1919
- ^ Mica and mica goods from the Landsberg & Ollendorff Frankfurt company
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- ^ The company Landsberg & Ollendorff Frankfurt in the German war economy
- ^ Seal of the mica factory Landsberg & Ollendorff
- ^ Bückling & Baum, users of the industrial property Solmsstrasse 17, formerly the Gustav Colshorn sewing machine and screw factory
- ^ Gustav Colshorn AG sewing machine factory in the German Digital Library
- ↑ 1933–1945 civil labor camp in Frankfurt, Solmsstrasse 17
- ↑ A current user of the new office building at Solmsstrasse 17, Frankfurt ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- ↑ Listed used external transformer DO from FTF Frankfurter Transformatorenfabrik M. Topp & Co., Solmsstraße 19, Frankfurt-Bockenheim (PDF)
- ^ Advertisement from FTF Frankfurter Transformatorenfabrik M. Topp & Co., Solmsstraße 19, Frankfurt-Bockenheim, in the ETZ Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, Volume 48, 1927 Issue 13 of March 31, 1927 (PDF)
- ↑ planned residential complex SOPHIE "MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER" Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Solmstrasse 25 ( Memento from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Athlon Place residential and commercial park
- ^ The history of the Frankfurt Music Hall
- ↑ On the demolition of the 1910 workers' settlement of ABG Frankfurt Holding, Volta-, Galvani- and Ohmstraße
- ↑ Housing war on Voltastrasse
- ↑ To the Voltastraße residential complex by architect Stefan Forster
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- ↑ Kölsch-Fölzer-Werke AG, Siegen, from 1954–1964 owner of Fellner & Ziegler, Frankfurt
- ^ The Bockenheim company Fellner & Ziegler, 75 years from 1882–1957
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- ^ ISG Institute for Urban History, Bockenheimer Maschinenfabrik Fellner & Ziegler
- ^ Julius Wurmbach, Rödelheimer Sand without No., Bockenheim (1877)
- ^ Julius Wurmbach grandfather Johann Georg (1739-1811)
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- ^ Scala high-rise, Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Solmsstrasse 83
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- ^ Gift of a sulphite pulp cooker from Fritz Voltz Sohn, Apparatebau, Frankfurt am Main, 1966, for the Research Center for Paper History in Mainz
- ↑ 1989 Development of a process concept for hazardous waste disposal with the cooperation of Fritz Voltz Sohn, Frankfurt
- ^ Former Wilhelm Hage fittings factory at Solmsstrasse 70-74
- ↑ Anzag is now called Alliance Healthcare
- ^ Relocation of alliance-healthcare headquarters, Ffm., Solmsstr. 25
- ^ Road construction office Ffm Solmsstraße Double U
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- ^ Flint-Group Luxemburg, buyer of the Flint-Schmidt group
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- ^ International night bar Elli's Elliot, Varrentrappstrasse 55 at the corner of Hamburger Allee
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- ^ Homepage of the Gutenberg School Frankfurt am Main
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- ^ Photo of the still occupied JUZ Bockenheim, Varrentrappstrasse
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- ^ Photo of the Bockenheim branch of the Pintsch plant
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- ^ Share in Metallwerke Knodt Aktiengesellschaft Frankfurt
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- ^ Frankfurter Verein für Sozial Heimstätten e. V. in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Große Seestrasse
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- ^ Full-page advertisement from 1920 by Voigt & Haeffner AG Frankfurt
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- ^ Friends of the German Evangelical Church on Capri e. V.
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- ↑ AG Real Estate grandmother of the Contipark group of companies in Berlin
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- ^ The new German Woolworth GmbH, 59425 Unna
- ^ Manager-Maganzin 2009-Choas in the Woolworth department store
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- ↑ A chance for the people of Leipzig. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. September 25, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2015 (The Woolworth branch on Leipziger Strasse will be closed, the building will be renovated.).
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- ↑ Building permit for Woolworth property, Frankfurt, Bergerstrasse 36 ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bockenheim branch, Juliusstraße 5 reopened
- ↑ Reopening of the branch at Juliusstraße 5
- ↑ Historical photo of the apartment building Fritzlarer Straße 18 around 1905 in Fritzlarer Straße with a view of the Jakobuskirche
- ^ Housing project Die Fritze
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- ^ Napoleon elm and whitewillow at today's zoo
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- ↑ REWE boss Hans Reischl bought u. a. Radio Diehl
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- ↑ Exemplary shop of the Geishecker bakery
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- ^ End of the Mayer bakery after taking over the Geishecker bakery
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- ^ Documents from the ISG on Veifa Werke United Electrotechnical Institutes Frankfurt - Aschaffenburg, Leipziger Strasse 36, corner of Wildunger Strasse
- ↑ X-ray pioneer and founder of Viefa works Friedrich Dessauer
- ^ X-ray pioneer Friedrich Dessauer and founder of the Viefa works
- ↑ Company history in the Medmuseum of Siemens AG with references to VEIFA AG Frankfurt-Aschaffenburg
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- ↑ The restaurant giant has fallen
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