Belvederchen

Belvedere of the Golden Scales, destroyed in 1944, reconstructed in 2014–2017

Belvederchen (in dialect Belvederche ) is a common term in Frankfurt am Main for a green roof garden . Many houses in Frankfurt's old town , which was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944 during the Second World War , had such roof gardens. In the densely populated, narrow and treeless streets of the city, the Belvederchen formed an important recreational opportunity for the citizens.

The most famous belvedere was that of the Haus zur Goldenen Waage , a half-timbered house built between 1618 and 1619 in the Renaissance style . Similar Dachausbauten example, there were still at the house for Schildknecht on Hühnermarkt 18 , the House for Holderbaum and Hirschberg in Saalgasse 30 and the as Gewürzhaus known house for white cock on Krautmarkt 5 to find. In the course of the reconstruction of the old town as part of the Dom-Römer project from 2014 to 2017, the belvedere of the Goldene Waage was rebuilt, and other new buildings such as Schildknecht (Markt 18) and Kleines Seligeneck (Markt 16) were given small roof gardens.

The name is a diminutive of Belvedere . The diminutive suffix -chen has no pejorative function in the Frankfurt dialect , but expresses closeness and familiarity.

literature

• Heinrich Bingemer: Guide through the Golden Wage (= series of Frankfurter attractions. H. 3, ZDB -ID 2460137-8 ). Press and advertising office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 1935.
• Belvederchen . In: Wolfgang Brückner (Hrsg.): Frankfurt dictionary . Based on the material collected by Joseph Oppel and Hans Ludwig Rauh , published on behalf of the Frankfurt Historical Commission in conjunction with the Institute for Folklore / Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Volume I: Introduction, A – Eva. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0360-9 , p. 300 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Maier : Open the door, the gate opens wide . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 296 , December 21, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. R1 ( faz.net ).
2. ↑ Matthias Alexander, Rainer Schulze, Helmut Fricke: The newest old town in the world. In: FAZ.net. May 9, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .