Tramline
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| Tramline to the north from the corner of Große Fischerstrasse, April 2010 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Old town |
| Created | 12th Century |
| Connecting roads | Great Friedberger Strasse (N), Old Bridge (S) |
| Cross streets | Weckmarkt, Kannengießergasse, Dominikanergasse, Braubachstrasse , Berliner Strasse / Battonnstrasse, Töngesgasse |
| Buildings | House Fürsteneck (†), Johanniterkirche (†), Württemberger Hof (†) |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 510 m |
The Fahrgasse is a street in the eastern old town of Frankfurt am Main . It begins at the Old Bridge and leads from south to north to Konstablerwache . From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, it was the most important of the three north-south axes in the old town and the scene of important events. It was one of the busiest streets in Frankfurt, on which all traffic to and from the Main Bridge ran. Destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944 and rebuilt in 1950s style from 1952, it is now a quiet side street.
history
The tramline was created around the year 1200, when the settlement area of the city expanded from the original nucleus on the cathedral hill to the north and was fortified with a city wall, the Staufen wall. The Frankfurt Main Bridge was first mentioned in a document in 1222. Since then, the Fahrgasse has been the main traffic axis between the bridge, which was secured by a massive bridge tower, and the Bornheimer Pforte , the northeastern city gate of the Staufer city wall.
A number of important public and private buildings were built along the Fahrgasse, including the Fürsteneck house (Fahrgasse 17) and the flour scales (Fahrgasse 19) at the Garkücheplatz , at the eastern end of which the Fahrgasse ran. The master watchmaker Wilhelm Alexander Christ opened his first shop in Fürsteneck in 1863. The company later grew into the largest German jewelry and watch retailer.
With the house Zum Goldenen Löwen , later Württemberger Hof (Fahrgasse 41, demolished in 1937), and the house Zum Englischen König (Fahrgasse 94, demolished in 1881 when Battonnstraße broke through and rebuilt using original parts), two of the most important inns in Frankfurt were located on the Tramline.
In the St. John's Church , demolished in 1874, on the corner of Schnurgasse , a commander of the Order of St. John , the anti-king Günther von Schwarzburg died in 1349 , probably of the plague . On the side streets branching off from Fahrgasse there were other important Frankfurt buildings, including the Arnsburger Hof on Predigergasse and the Dominican monastery .
The western part of the Fahrgasse, which extends north of the Schnurgasse, was destroyed in the Great Christian Fire in 1719 and then rebuilt. On the eastern side of this section was the picturesque unicorn spot with the house at Fahrgasse 120, where the important painter Adam Elsheimer was born in 1578 . The backs of the houses built here were built directly onto the old Staufer city wall , which is still preserved here after the war damage. Opposite the square, the Engelthaler Gässchen led from the Fahrgasse into the inner courtyard of the Engelthaler Hof , which had an important late Baroque façade on the nearby Töngesgasse .
On September 18, 1848 came during the September riots to street battles between revolutionary workers, peasants and craftsmen and the Prussian and Austrian military. On April 21, 1873, the increase in the price of beer from four to four and a half cruisers triggered the Frankfurt beer riot . 20 people died in the violent crackdown, including an old woman and a ten-year-old boy.
On March 18 and 22, 1944, the eastern old town was completely destroyed in two heavy bombing raids . During the reconstruction from 1952, an inconspicuous perimeter block development was created in the sober style of the 1950s. The Berliner Straße , a street breakthrough created in 1954, divides it today into a northern and southern branch. At the southern end, it is cut off from the flow of traffic that today leads from the Alte Brücke over the Kurt-Schumacher-Straße to the east . As a result, it has practically completely lost its character as formerly the most important Frankfurt shopping street next to the Zeil . In the north, the tramline ends at the Konstablerwache, which has been transformed into a pedestrian zone .
literature
- Ernst Nebhut : Frankfurt streets and squares . 2nd edition, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7973-0261-4 . (with drawings by Ferry Ahrlé )
- Walter Gerteis: The unknown Frankfurt . 8th edition, Verlag Frankfurter Bücher, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-920346-05-X .
- Georg Hartmann, Fried Lübbecke (Ed.): Alt-Frankfurt. A legacy . Sauer and Auvermann publishing house, Glashütten 1971
- Fried Lübbecke : The face of the city. According to Frankfurt's plans by Faber, Merian and Delkeskamp. 1552-1864 . Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1952,
Web links
- Tramline. altfrankfurt.com
- Reconstruction of the old town in 1952. In: Frankfurt is building. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012 ; Retrieved November 17, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40.2 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 12.1 ″ E