Deutschherrnviertel
The Deutschherrnviertel or Alter Schlachthof district is a new urban quarter that has been rebuilt in the 1990s in the east of Frankfurt 's Sachsenhausen -Nord district. It is located on the southern bank of the Main , the Deutschherrnufer , between the Deutschherrnbrücke and the Flößerbrücke . The mixed residential and commercial area is located on the site of the former Frankfurt slaughter and cattle yard .
Location and development
The approx. 700 × 200 m large area is bordered in the south by Gerbermühlstraße, a multi-lane arterial road ( B 43 ), in the west by the waterway leading to the Flößerbrücke and in the east by the railway line leading over the Deutschherrnbrücke . The bank of the Main on the northern edge has been developed into a green promenade . On the opposite side of the Main, on the site of the former wholesale market hall, is the new building of the European Central Bank (ECB).
At the western end of the Deutschherrnviertel, two conspicuous solitary buildings in a large square form the transition to the existing Sachsenhausen buildings: The 24-storey high-rise Main Plaza houses a combination of hotel and apartments . It was built from 1998 to 2002 according to plans by Hans Kollhoff and is 88 meters high. The seven-storey Colosseo office and residential building with an oval, ring-shaped floor plan, approx. 125 × 85 m, was the headquarters of the Frankfurter Rundschau from 2005 to 2009 . The surrounding Walther-von-Cronberg-Platz is named after Walther von Cronberg , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in the 16th century. At the northern edge of the square there is a flat pavilion connected underground with the high-rise building. To the east, along the Deutschherrnufers up to the Deutschherrnbrücke, there is a row of twelve individual, eight- story point houses . They are mainly used as residential buildings, the easternmost of these “solitary buildings” is a pure office building and is the seat of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation .
Between the street Zum Laurenburger Hof, which runs through the district in an east-west direction, and Gerbermühlstraße, four large block perimeter developments were built, as well as the Main Triangel office building , which was built on a triangular floor plan . With its tip, resembling a ship's bow and rising from 6 to 15 storeys, it forms the end of the district in the east. Its main tenant has been the regional finance office in Frankfurt am Main since 2009 .
Subsequent to the German Herr district in eastern strip of land along the river Main as part of the Frankfurt green belt , a conservation area .
Main embankment promenade and Deutschherrnviertel, view from the Flößerbrücke
Walther-von-Cronberg-Platz with Colosseo, Main Plaza and the pavilion (right)
Main triangle , from the south, with the construction site of the ECB in the background (October 2012)
Point houses and Main Triangle, view from the north bank of the Main
history
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The slaughterhouse and cattle yard replaced an old central slaughterhouse at the cathedral . It was built from 1882 to 1885 at the instigation of the Frankfurt butchers' guild in the western part of what is now the city center, and opened in 1884. The area, the Bleichwiesen , was previously at the level of today's deep quay and was raised by three to six meters for the construction of the slaughterhouse. Between 1896 and 1902 the slaughterhouse was expanded threefold and thus reached its final size. From the beginning there was a railway connection. The Deutschherrnbrücke was built by 1913 as part of the Osthafen building. The slaughter and cattle yard was as Regiebetrieb out of Frankfurt. It was one of the most modern and largest in Europe. Frankfurt became a main hub for the livestock trade in southern Germany.
After heavy destruction by aerial bombs in the air raids in World War II and the reconstruction up until the 1960s, the slaughterhouse initially flourished again. Changes and concentration processes in the meat and livestock market have led to closures since the 1970s. In 1984 planning began on a much smaller compact slaughterhouse , which was built on the eastern edge of the site by 1988. All functional areas of the slaughterhouse were located there in a closed building complex. Other buildings were demolished, converted or lay fallow. In the western part, the flea market took place on Saturdays between 1984 and 1989. In 1987 there was an architectural competition to set up an administrative center in the western part of the site.
There were many reasons for the end of the slaughterhouse: animal transports were restricted, a new sewage treatment plant would have been necessary, the majority situation in the city changed, the number of slaughter cattle in southern Hesse fell sharply. The city of Frankfurt decided to build a residential and commercial area in its place. A first urban and residential ideas competition for this took place in 1990. About 1200 apartments and 40,000 m² of gross floor area for non-disruptive business in a “city-typical mix” were to be built on approx. 12 hectares . The use of offices in the eastern part of the site should be disproportionately high in order to amortize the costs of the planned relocation of the compact slaughterhouse that was recently built there through higher returns. Jo Frowein and Markus Löffler from Stuttgart won the urban planning part of the competition. Your design was decisive for the development of the district. In 1993 the slaughterhouse ceased operations. A referendum against its closure failed in 1994 before the Hessian Administrative Court . On September 27, 1995, construction of the Deutschherrnviertel began with the groundbreaking ceremony for one of the point houses on the banks of the Main.
Web links
- From the slaughterhouse to living and working on the river - the history of the development of the Deutscherrnviertel
- Urban redevelopment east of Frankfurt (PDF, 2.6 MB) Module 03/07, City Planning Office Frankfurt am Main 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main, city survey office : Overview map of landscape protection areas Frankfurt am Main, October 2010 edition ( [1] , accessed on Feb. 27, 2020)
- ↑ a b City of Frankfurt: Chronicle of Sachsenhausen , accessed on Feb. 24, 2020
- ↑ Institute for Urban History Frankfurt am Main: Inventory overview of the department "Urban Archive from 1868" ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 11, 2012
- ↑ City of Frankfurt: Documents for the urban and residential ideas competition in the city quarter "Alter Schlachthof", 1990
- ↑ City and housing ideas competition for the “Alter Schlachthof” district in Frankfurt / Main. In: Competitions Current 8/1990, p. 495 ff.
- ↑ jof: First groundbreaking for the Deutschherrnviertel "Punkthaus" on the bank with 40 apartments / Wentz: half of the slaughterhouse site is marketed. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Zeitung, September 28, 1995, No. 226, p. 50 ( FAZ archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ' N , 8 ° 42' E