Bornheimer Hang (embankment)

Bornheimer slope in the winter fog (2009)

Bornheimer Hang, view to the north (2009)

Residential buildings of the Bornheimer Hang settlement as seen from Bornheimer Hang (2009)

Holy Cross Church ( "Hang Crown") from the entrance of the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium seen from

Northern end of the park on Bornheimer Hang (2009)

North-east corner tower of the Ratskeller (2009)

Scallop symbol on the Way of St. James below the Bornheimer slope (2011)

Ratskeller seen from below the Bornheimer slope (2011)

Training course for seniors (2011)

The Bornheimer Hang is a slope and a park on the border of the Frankfurt districts of Bornheim and Seckbach and in the Ostend . The embankment, which is between 20 and 30 meters above the lower ground level, was geologically created as an impact slope of a disused northern loop of the Main . The 1,500 meter long Bornheimer slope north of the Kohlbrandstrasse reaches its highest point shortly before the A 661 cuts in the transition to Seckbach. The slope continues to the south-west at the edge of the Ostpark and along the Röderbergweg , steadily flattening out to the normal level at Danziger Platz .

Park

The park, laid out in its present form at the end of the 1920s , has two playgrounds . In March 2011, a course with fitness equipment for senior citizens was opened above the fairground on Ratsweg . In the east-west axis of the park there is a staircase that bridges the height difference of the slope. From this central axis, in the middle of the height of the slope, two arched paths wind to the left and right, also to the west. There are numerous allotment gardens within the park and below the slope . The green spaces were designed by the Frankfurt horticultural director Max Bromme and his colleague Ulrich Wolf . Today the park is named after the resistance fighter Rose Schlösinger .

The park is a listed building .

Above the slope

Above the slope are the residential buildings of the Bornheimer Hang settlement in Bornheimer area , which was built between 1926 and 1930 by the architect , town planner and Frankfurt city councilor Ernst May . Construction was accelerated through the use of industrially prefabricated parts, so that 1234 apartments could be completed in four years. The settlement also includes the Holy Cross Church of the church builder Martin Weber , which was completed in 1929 at the eastern end of Wittelsbacher Allee as a steel frame construction . The architect called the church the crown of the slope, as it crowns the slope when viewed from below . Since July 2007 it has housed the meditation church Center for Christian Meditation and Spirituality of the Limburg diocese .

To the north of it is the Ratskeller directly on the slope , until mid-2012 a restaurant and garden bar in a castle- like complex, which originally served as a resting place for the carters and their horses . The ice cellar under today's restaurant served as a storage room for ice that was broken on the Main in winter . This ice was previously used for cooling in freezers before refrigerators became more widespread . The Ratskeller is owned by the City of Frankfurt am Main and was closed on June 15, 2012. After a long break in renovation, the Ratskeller was reopened in September 2018.

Further north, which are located above the slope the Panoramabad whose name refers to the view from above of the slope and the Sports Center Bornheim the Turngemeinde Bornheim .

Below the slope

In the Bornheim area, below the slope, there is the fairground on Ratsweg, on which, among other things, the Dippemess takes place. To the north of it are the Frankfurt ice rink , the PSD Bank Arena of FSV Frankfurt - which was called the Bornheimer Hang stadium until 2006 - and the Charles Hallgarten School . The Charles Hallgarten School was planned by Ernst May and was originally intended to be the center of the new settlement . The part planned below the slope with the name Rotenbuschsiedlung was not built.

The old stadium at the Riederwald of Eintracht Frankfurt, used from 1920 to 1943, was on Ratsweg . From November 16, 1943, this was used as a dumping area for rubble from the buildings destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in World War II . The Frankfurters called this mountain of rubble as Monte Scherbelino . From 1946 to 1964 , the rubble recycling company worked on the site, which is bordered by the streets Ratsweg , Am Riederbruch and Riederspießstraße , in the treatment and recycling plant for rubble .

In the Ostend area, below the slope called Röderberg there is the Frankfurt Ostpark .

Way of St. James

A branch of the German Way of St. James runs below the Bornheimer slope in the east . This is based on the course of the historic long-distance trade route from Leipzig to Frankfurt am Main ( Des Reiches Strasse ). It begins in the episcopal city of Fulda , leads via Schlüchtern , Steinau an der Straße , Bad Soden-Salmünster , Gelnhausen , Langenselbold , Erlensee and Bruchköbel and belongs to the network of the main routes of the Jacob pilgrims in Europe , which lead to Santiago de Compostela . It leads over a total of 116 km past the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche via the Ostpark to the bank of the Main in downtown Frankfurt , along the Main to the Eiserner Steg , on the left bank of the Main in the direction of Mainz and then on to Trier .

Transport links

The C-route of the Frankfurt underground crosses under the slope in Bornheim area. The Eissporthalle / Festplatz underground station is located under the slope . The tunnel of the C-line ends between the Frankfurt ice rink and the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium and the tracks lead out of the slope through a portal . The U7 tram runs along the route , and it is also used for access to and exit from the VGF depot east . The tram - line 12 of the Frankfurter tram traverses the Bornheimer slope in an area between the incision and the Bornheim Röderberg in Ostend. The terminus Ernst-May-Platz of line 14 is in Wittelsbacherallee just before a bend in the last section of this street before the Bornheimer slope. These lines are operated by VGF . The A 661 runs parallel to the slope in the east . Below the slope, the Frankfurt-Erlenbruch motorway triangle is being created as a connection to the planned Riederwald tunnel of the A 66 .