Eckenheimer Landstrasse
| Eckenheimer Ldstr. | |
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| Beginning at the Eschenheim facility | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Nordend , Dornbusch , Eckenheim |
| Created | middle Ages |
| Connecting roads | - |
| Cross streets | Eschenheimer Anlage , Oeder Weg , Glauburgstrasse , Nordendstrasse / Holzhausenstrasse , Adickes- / Nibelungenallee , Marbachweg , Jean-Monnet-Strasse, Hügelstrasse |
| Buildings | Model School, Gethsemane Church , German Library , Main Cemetery , New Jewish Cemetery , Mormonism, Sacred Heart Church, Nazareth Church |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 3.6 km |
The Eckenheimer Landstrasse is one of the oldest and most important arterial roads to the north of Frankfurt am Main . Today it runs in a north-south orientation completely on the Frankfurt district and crosses the districts Nordend-West , Dornbusch and Eckenheim .
meaning
In addition to individual traffic , the Eckenheimer Landstrasse is used in its southern part between the Eschenheimer facility in the south and Marbachweg in the north by the city railway line ( U5 ). The U5, which runs above ground, serves a total of four stations along this section of the route.
history
The Eckenheimer Landstrasse is one of the historic country roads that ran through the Frankfurt district. It started from Friedberger Tor , divided the Friedberger Feld in the middle within the Frankfurter Landwehr and originally led the traffic to Friedberg . With the establishment of the Friedberger Warte , Friedberger Landstrasse took over its function.
After the Frankfurt city fortifications were razed, numerous spacious residential buildings were built along Eckenheimer Landstrasse in the 19th century. With the beginning of industrialization, the street also had some industrial and chemical companies in the middle of the century, which, however, had to move to the outer districts in favor of residential block perimeter development in the early days.
Tram operations began in 1882 , initially with horse-drawn trams from the Frankfurter Trambahn-Gesellschaft , and from 1902 with electric railcars from the Frankfurt am Main tram .
course
Northrend
The road begins at the ramparts on Scheffeleck . This small square at the intersection of Eschenheimer Anlage / Eckenheimer Landstrasse / Scheffelstrasse bears the name of a café that was built in 1889 in a representative six-story apartment building. Opposite the house, within the ramparts, is the tunnel ramp of the U5 subway line, which comes underground from Konstablerwache to street level in order to continue on its way in Eckenheimer Landstrasse.
The section in the Nordend-West district was almost completely built on in the 19th century. Most of the buildings can be assigned to the neo-renaissance . In the southern section there are also isolated late classicist houses, including the semi-detached villa No. 30/32 from 1872. The city's building preservation statute regulates the construction and use of the real estate.
Shortly after the Scheffeleck, the street Eiserne Hand branches off to the right, which used to be a main traffic connection between Frankfurt and the suburbs of Bornheim and Vilbel to the east and north .
In the Hebelstraße, also a branching off to the right side street, is since 1908, the philanthropist , the school was founded in 1804, the Jewish community of Frankfurt.
The first stop of the U5 in Eckenheimer Landstraße is at the Musterschule . It was founded in 1803 by Wilhelm Friedrich Hufnagel , is now a grammar school and has been in the current building since 1901. The part of the building on Eckenheimer Landstraße is an extension from 1984. The old main entrance is in the cross street Oberweg .
Between Oberweg and Adlerflychtstraße was until 1866 the Adlerflychthof, which the native of Sweden Family Adlerflycht 1763 as a summer residence had built. The banker Johann Friedrich Gontard rented it at the end of the 18th century . Between 1798 and 1802, Susette Gontard and her former tutor Friedrich Hölderlin , now a librarian at the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg , met here once a week to exchange letters.
The Foundation for the Blind, founded by the Polytechnische Gesellschaft in 1837, is located at the intersection with Adlerflychtstraße . A little further on at the intersection with Neuhofstrasse is the Protestant Gethsemane Church , the last Frankfurt church to be built in the 20th century by the architect Hans Georg Heimel from 1968 to 1970.
Immediately behind the Gethsemane Church, the pharmaceutical company Friedrich Merz GmbH & Co. KGaA has its headquarters, which is not only known for its beauty products, but also manufactures drugs for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's .
Since February 2013, the consulate of the Republic of Bulgaria in Frankfurt am Main has also had its seat at Eckenheimer Landstrasse 101.
After the two wide cross streets Glauburgstrasse and Nordendstrasse , the confluence of Oeder Weg follows , one of the most important shopping streets in the western Nordend. It leads towards the city center to the Eschenheimer Tor .
To the west of the Eckenheimer Landstraße is the Holzhausenviertel , a residential area built in 1910 with loose buildings. Today the view of the quarter is blocked by the monumental building of the German National Library . In the 1960s, a high-rise similar to the Shell high-rise on Friedberger Landstrasse was planned at this location, which prevented massive resistance from local residents.
Main cemetery
On the other side of the Frankfurter Alleenring the building density continues to decrease. On the east side of the street is the Frankfurt main cemetery , which was already in use from 1828 and at that time was still far outside the city. In 1892 the horse-drawn tram was extended over the Eckenheimer Landstrasse to the old portal created by Friedrich Rumpf in 1828 . Further north follows the New Portal , built in 1912, where the tram station is today. The next portal is that of the New Jewish Cemetery . It was completed in 1929 in the style of classical modernism and bears the inscription "I will walk before the face of the Eternal in the realms of life" ( Ps 116.9 LUT ) in Hebrew and German. The Jewish cemetery is already in the Eckenheim district. In contrast, to the north of the portal there is a postmodern blue office complex from the 1980s, the Postbank branch .
The west side of the street opposite the old part of the main cemetery is characterized by funeral directors and stone masons. Behind it, in a parallel street, rises the high-rise of the ARD star . There is also a large petrol station and a supermarket on the Alleenring. The section between Kühhornshofweg and Marbachweg belongs to the Dornbusch district.
The Frankfurter Landwehr , which fenced off the territory of the imperial city , ran on Kühhornshofweg until the beginning of the 19th century . Remnants of the Landwehr were still recognizable until after the First World War. The Kühhornshof , located a bit to the west, came from the Middle Ages and was reinforced with a moat and a tower to protect against attacks. In 1868 the courtyard was demolished, only the tower has been preserved to this day. It is on the premises of the Hessischer Rundfunk .
Eckenheim
At the intersection with Marbachweg , the main branch of the U5 turns east towards Preungesheim . On the Eckenheimer Landstrasse, now in the Eckenheim district, the tram route is only used today for service trips to the Eckenheim depot in the Schwabstrasse branching off to the west . Since 1984 the Jean-Monnet-Straße in the direction of the federal motorway 661 begins here . The double-track terminus at Gummersbergstraße , which was used by the tram line to Eckenheim, was located here until the motorway feeder was built. On the east side of the street is the temple of the Frankfurt Mormon Congregation .
At the Gummersbergstrasse , the Eckenheimer Landstrasse reaches its highest point. From here on, it has the character of a village main street. It crosses the old town center of Eckenheim, where two-story houses alternate with small shops and commercial buildings.
The two Eckenheim churches are located at a crossroads : the younger of the two is the Catholic Herz-Jesu Church, built by Max Meckel from 1896 to 1899 , of which only the 56 meter high tower still stands, the landmark of Eckenheim. In 1960, a larger new building was erected in place of the old nave.
A little further is the Evangelical Nazareth Church , a simple brick building from 1863. Before that, the village of Eckenheim was so small that it did not have its own church.
Eckenheimer Landstrasse ends at Niederbornstrasse (house number 505).
Web links
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- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011