Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung (Frankfurt am Main)

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The Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung (Frankfurt am Main) , which is also known as the Mainzer Landstrasse settlement and for some areas also as the Lindenwald settlement or Bizonal settlement , is a housing estate in the Frankfurt district of Griesheim .

Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung, Mainzer Landstrasse

Location and development

The Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung covers an area of ​​around 60 hectares and is located in northern Griesheim, north of Mainzer Landstrasse , west of Bundesautobahn 5 , south of Taunus Railway and east of Nied . The Mainzer Landstrasse connects the settlement to the regional road network. The Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung is connected to the local public transport via the tram lines 11 and 21 and the stops Waldschulstraße, Linnegraben and Jägerallee as well as the bus route 59 .

The inner development takes place via the streets Waldschulstraße, Zum Linnegraben and Jägerallee running in north-south direction. The residential streets Wildentenstrasse, Auerhahnstrasse, Elsterstrasse, Rebhuhnstrasse, Rehstrasse, An der Zingelswiese, Bingelsweg, Heinrich-Hardt-Strasse, Foockenstrasse and other residential streets run across it.

Lindenwald settlement

Emergence

The housing shortage at the end of the First World War prompted the then still independent community of Griesheim to create new living space. In the period between 1921 and 1924, the Lindenwald estate with a total of 100 social housing was built according to designs by the architect Heiner Hamburger. Starting from the historical center in the south, the development reached north for the first time via Mainzer Landstrasse. Earlier exceptions were the Eichendorffschule in Waldschulstraße, which was opened under the name Waldschule in 1917, and the Griesheim cemetery, which was laid out in 1897, in Waldschulstraße. In 1928 Griesheim was incorporated into the city of Frankfurt together with the western Frankfurt suburbs.

After the end of the Second World War, the American and British military governments in Frankfurt created the Economic Council of the United Economic Area of the so-called Bizone . Because this made Frankfurt a promising candidate for election to the federal capital, urban development was geared towards this and, from 1948, a settlement was planned in Griesheim, which was also called the Bizonal Settlement. It was intended for the federal officials who were called in. This section was built from 1948 west of the Linnegraben and comprised 580 apartments.

From the 1950s, the eastern area was also built on and the settlement was named after Federal Building Minister Eberhard Wildermuth . The building owner and still partly owner today are the Frankfurter Siedlungsgesellschaft, Rhein-Main Wohnen, Nassauische Heimstätte and the non-profit society for dormitories and workers' apartments. Between 1920 and 1970 they built a total of 794 residential buildings with 2,545 apartments with funds from social housing . 4,750 residents live there (as of 2008). Since there are also numerous unsupported private residential buildings in the area, the total number of inhabitants in Griesheim-Nord is almost 8,000 (as of 2005).

Lindenwald settlement, Rehstrasse

Lindenwald settlement

The Lindenwald settlement comprises the streets of Foockenstrasse, Am Lindenfeld, Rehstrasse, Kattowitzer Strasse and Tarnowitzer Strasse to the north. The one to two-storey buildings are arranged along the street and consist of semi-detached and terraced houses that were built using the open-plan method. The building complex Am Lindenfeld, which is enclosed on four sides, is an exception. The architecture in the style of historicism is characterized by design elements from Art Nouveau , Neo-Renaissance and Neoclassicism . The houses are mostly covered with steep pitched or hipped roofs, some of which have mid-sized houses . The facades are plastered and designed with cornices and window sills made of natural stone and folding shutters .

Site plan of the bizonal settlement
Bizonal settlement, Elsterstrasse from the east

Bizonal settlement

The bizonal settlement lies in the west and borders with the green areas between the daycare center and the churches on the other building areas in the east. The urban development concept comes from the architect Herbert Boehm and takes up Ernst May's ideas from the 1920s for the Römerstadt settlement . In a quarter circle, the fan-shaped row buildings on Rebhuhnstrasse follow the course of the Lachener Graben in the northwest and are oriented towards the landscape. All buildings are two-story and consist of terraced and multi-family houses. The narrow rows of buildings are covered with pitched roofs. The folding shutters of the windows are an architectural specialty, as the facade design of most post-war buildings was rather unadorned, as for example in the bizonal settlement Frankfurter Berg , which was built at the same time .

Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung, Bingelsweg - Waldschulstraße

Remaining settlement

The rest of the development in the east and south-east was built between 1950 and 1970, mainly in rows, and thus followed the urban development model of the time it was built. It aims at a rational urban layout, well-lit apartments and an economical construction. The four-storey rows of buildings, especially in Bingelsweg, are arranged in a north-south direction across the access roads and connected by footpaths. The apartments face east and west. The latest construction phase is on the eastern edge of the settlement in Emdener and Wilhelmshavener Strasse. The four-storey buildings were constructed from precast concrete parts. The exposed concrete of the outer walls defines the appearance of the buildings.

To the Linnegraben, shops

Infrastructure

There are two schools in the Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung. The Eichendorf School in Waldschulstraße is a primary school, and the Michael School in Eichhörnchenpfad is a special needs school. The four care facilities for children are: Kinderzentrum Eichhörnchenpfad (KT 120), Kinderzentrum Bingelsweg (KiZ 59), one kindergarten each for the Protestant and Catholic communities. The two Christian churches each have a place of worship in the settlement. The Pentecostal Church in Jägerallee belongs to the Protestant community and St. Hedwig's Church in Elsterstrasse belongs to the Catholic community . There are shops in Jägerallee and Linnegraben for local supplies. Public green spaces are located adjacent to the churches, south of KT 120, west of the primary school and with the Lachener Graben on the northern and western edge of the settlement.

District management

For the Eberhard-Wildermuth-Siedlung there is a district management as part of the Frankfurt Active Neighborhood program.

References

literature

  • Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main. Urban development and planning history since 1945 Campus-Verlag Frankfurt 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Statistical Yearbook 2008 City of Frankfurt, accessed on Feb. 26, 2020.
  2. Statistical Yearbook 2005 City of Frankfurt, accessed on Feb. 26, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 47.2 ″  E