Darmstädter Landstrasse
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| Darmstädter Landstrasse at the Sachsenhäuser Warte, looking north. In the background the skyscraper of the Leonardo Royal Hotel | |
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Sachsenhausen |
| Connecting roads | Frankfurter Strasse (Neu-Isenburg) |
| Cross streets | Mörfelder Landstrasse, Offenbacher Landstrasse, Babenhäuser Landstrasse, Oberschweinstiegschneise, Isenburg aisle |
| Places | Affentorplatz, Wendelsplatz |
| Buildings | Binding Brewery , Leonardo Royal Hotel , Südfriedhof , Sachsenhäuser Warte , Boehlepark , Neu-Isenburg station, city limits , Frankfurter Haus |
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| Street length | 4700 m |
The Darmstädter Landstrasse is a southern one and arterial road in Frankfurt am Main with multiple lanes in both directions . It is named after the city of Darmstadt, almost 30 kilometers south of Frankfurt . The approximately 4.7 kilometers long, mostly dead straight road is a section of the federal highway 3 . In a north-south direction, it crosses part of the southern Main district of Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen as well as the Frankfurt city forest and merges into Frankfurter Straße at the city limits of Neu-Isenburg .
course
Alt-Sachsenhausen to Sachsenhausen mountain
In the north, the Darmstädter Landstrasse begins in Alt-Sachsenhausen at Affentorplatz . The Affentor was the southern gate of the Frankfurt city fortifications from the 14th to the 19th century . About 100 meters further south, the road crosses the route of the Südmainische S-Bahn and passes under the route of the Hanau – Frankfurt line . The station name " Lokalbahnhof" is reminiscent of the terminus of the former Frankfurt-Offenbacher local railway , which was built between 1843 and 1846 and demolished in 1955 .
A few meters after that, at Wendelsplatz, there is an intersection with Mörfelder Landstrasse and Kranichsteiner Strasse (both in the west) and Offenbacher Landstrasse in the east. There was once a small chapel dedicated to Saint Wendelin - patron saint of shepherds and country folk - surrounded by vineyards. According to the chronicle of Baldemar von Petterweil , the chapel was built in 1369. Until the introduction of the Reformation in Frankfurt, it was a much-visited place of pilgrimage . In his church history published in 1726, Johann Balthasar Ritter mentioned the annual petition processions as well as an eight-day passion play that was held there in 1498.
On the Sachsenhausen mountain
The Frankfurt city forest began south of Wendelsplatz until the 19th century. There, three paths branched off, leading south through the forest: the Wendelsweg in a south-east direction to the Seehof , the Hainer Weg in the south, which led through the Dreieich Wildbann to Hayn Castle , and the Breite Weg . The latter was part of the road from Frankfurt to Darmstadt , from which it took the name Darmstädter Landstrasse in the 19th century . From Wendelsplatz on, Darmstädter Landstrasse climbs steadily up the northern slope of the Sachsenhäuser Berg hill through residential areas. Some of the buildings date from the Wilhelminian era , for example the listed residential building in Darmstädter Landstrasse 33.
At the end of the 19th century, Frankfurt's large breweries settled on the Sachsenhausen mountain. The north slope of this hill, at that time the only one in the Frankfurt city area, was particularly suitable for the construction of ice cellars for the cool storage of beer. The Binding brewery , today the headquarters of the Radeberger Group, is located on Darmstädter Landstrasse . Immediately to the east of it, on Hainer Weg, was the Henninger brewery with the Henninger tower until 1999 . The former brewery site has been redesigned as a Henninger area into a residential area since 2017 . Between 2001 and 2008, Darmstädter Landstrasse was part of the finish laps of the cycle race around the Henninger Tower , which ran along Hainer Weg between 1962 and 2000.
The German headquarters of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather and the media agency Mindshare are opposite the Binding brewery .
Further south on the west side of the street is the 100 meter high Leonardo Royal Hotel . The high-rise, which was built from 1969 to 1972, is the second tallest building in Sachsenhausen with its 28 storeys. To the south of it is the up to 64 meter high terrace-like apartment complex Sonnenring . The eight arched blocks with a total of 300 luxury residential units built between 1974 and 1977 were controversial because of their concrete architecture, but are now among the most sought-after residential properties in the city.
The highest point of the Sachsenhausen mountain lies at the height of the Frankfurt southern cemetery and the Sachsenhausen observation tower on its southern edge . The guard tower of the medieval Frankfurter Landwehr is passed from Darmstädter Landstrasse to the west. The Boehlepark is diagonally opposite the control room on the western edge of the road . At this point the Babenhäuser Landstrasse branches off from the Darmstädter Landstrasse to the southeast in the direction of Offenbach-Lauterborn .
Through the city forest to Neu-Isenburg
In its further course, the Darmstädter Landstrasse leaves the built-up area of the Sachsenhausen district to the south and leads after about 500 meters to its southern end through the Frankfurter Stadtwald and the FFH area Frankfurter Oberwald . In the city forest, the road is accompanied on its eastern edge by the bicycle city route 6 . After around 900 meters, a wooden bridge for pedestrians and cyclists crosses the busy main road in the forest. The bridge leads the circular hiking trails of the Frankfurt green belt on the Oberschweinstiegschneise over the street, in its neighborhood there is a public parking lot for day trippers on both sides of the street. Another 900 m further south, the main road crosses the Königsbach , which, coming from the south, turns west to the Jacobi pond , 300 m away .
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About 400 meters before the Frankfurt city limits to Neu-Isenburg, the route of the federal highway 3 runs over the Darmstädter Landstrasse. Just south of the highway bridge the terrain includes the stop Neu-Isenburg city limits of the streetcar Frankfurt on, the last stop on line 17 of the Frankfurt Transport Company VGF . The historic station building and the carriage hall date from the time of the steam-powered Frankfurt Forest Railway, which opened in 1889 .
At the southern edge of the stop, the Isenburg aisle coming from the northwest joins the main road. The Frankfurter Haus, located on the eastern edge of the road , is a two-story half - timbered house from the early 18th century with a brick base and hipped roof , and is a former forester's house with an adjoining pub. Among other things, this presence was intended to warn Neu-Isenburg cattle herders not to drive their herds to fattening in the Frankfurt city forest and to deter wood thieves. In 1777 the forestry and bar operations were separated from each other; the catering business continues to the present day.
Darmstädter Landstrasse ends at number 741 at Frankfurter Haus and thus at the southern Frankfurt city limits. Bundesstrasse 3 continues as Frankfurter Strasse through Neu-Isenburg in the direction of Dreieich .
literature
- City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
Web links
- Darmstädter Landstrasse on the website of the Frankfurt Institute for Urban History (accessed April 24, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
- ↑ Falk map of Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach a. M., 64th edition, Falk-Verlag, Ostfildern 2011
- ^ Carl Wolff , Rudolf Jung : The architectural monuments in Frankfurt am Main. Bd. I. Church buildings. Frankfurt am Main 1896, p. 357 ( online , PDF 50273 kB)
- ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Schön: Buildings of the 70s in Frankfurt. In: FR online . October 4, 2018, accessed April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ FFH area Frankfurter Oberwald at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ Website of the Frankfurter Haus - menu item About Us: Details on the history of the house (accessed April 27, 2019)
- ↑ Regionalpark Rhein-Main Südwest GmbH (Ed.): Leisure map south of the Main, Part 3, edition July 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 57.6 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 29.3" E