Frankfurt-Riedberg
Riedberg is an emerging urban district in Frankfurt am Main , which should be completed by 2020. Its development began in 2001 with the first construction work, the plans go back to the early 1990s.
Riedberg is located in the north-west of the urban area around eight kilometers as the crow flies from the city center on slopes and plateaus previously used for agriculture that the City of Frankfurt am Main acquired for this urban development measure. In 2020, Riedberg is expected to have around 6,000 residential units with around 16,000 inhabitants. In addition, around 3000 and 8000 working places in Riedberg are provided, especially on the Riedberg campus of Goethe University in Frankfurt with its affiliated institutes, research-related centers and life science -companies.
Geographical location
The allocated area rises at the highest point (148 m above sea level ) around 30 meters above the flat zone to the south and comprises 266 hectares . 92 ha of this are parks, connecting green spaces and integrated open landscape areas, 56 ha on the university campus and associated research-related buildings, 43 ha on roads and public spaces, 6 ha on building land for social infrastructure, and 78 ha on net building land, of which only about 60 hectares are purely residential. Riedberg is bordered to the south by the Mertonviertel .
Despite being marketed as a “new district”, Riedberg is not a district in the statistical sense . The main part including all residential areas is a city district and together with the city district Kalbach forms the district 12 and the statistical district Kalbach-Riedberg . The area of the university campus, which makes up around one sixth of the Riedberg, and the other scientific institutions in the south form a further urban district that belongs to the statistical district of Niederursel and district 8 .
Quarters
The Riedberg was also planned as a spatially strongly structured settlement due to the geographical conditions. It is made up of seven quarters , some of which have already been completed, each with a different start to construction. The districts differ considerably in terms of their functions and structural features:
The Riedberg west wing (until May 2013 still Niederurseler Hang , in the west, construction started in the north in 2012) consists of detached single-family houses on three ring roads, condominiums, rental apartments, semi-detached houses and terraced houses and the four-class Marie Curie school (elementary school II) with daycare and gym and indoor swimming pool. From around 2016, non-polluting businesses, settlement-related crafts, other commercial service providers and some allotment gardens will be built on the soundproof A5. With a total area of 47.8 hectares, this area, the largest and last to be built, was re-planned after experience with the older areas. The architecture of the multi-storey buildings should correspond more to rounded organic forms. The maximum height of the houses was limited to seven storeys after objections by residents. Likewise, the two outer streets for the total of 1400 residential units for around 3500 residents were laid out gently curved. In the quarter with five recognizable neighborhoods and 26 hectares of public green space, a wide range of publicly funded rental housing and privately financed units should ensure a social mix. The connection is via the Carl-Hermann-Rudloff-Allee, which connects to the Riedbergallee, as well as the Graf-von-Stauffenberg-Allee, which opens into the Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße. The development and road construction work for the west wing ran from May 2013 to April 2015. The last building construction section will begin around 2017, so the completion of the last houses is not expected before 2020. As a special feature, a lookout and toboggan hill to be formed from excavated material is planned as part of the western green area.
The Altkönigblick quarter (in the north-west) consists of semi-detached houses, terraced houses, condominiums, private homes in independent client groups, city villas, a cooperative housing complex, a house for inclusive living and 30 connected plots for the Bauhaus-inspired housing estate White City ; the northern end is made up of 4.14 hectares of sports grounds with accommodation, a parking lot and a green high path.
In the Mitte district there is a shopping center (opening December 2008) with various retail outlets, a grocery store, discounter, gastronomy, travel agency, driving school, Riedberg information center and public plaza, medical center for specialist and general practitioner care, subway station, offices and Condominiums, rental apartments, hotels, combined senior citizens' homes with retirement homes, health services and bank branches, apartment houses for people with intellectual disabilities and multiple severe disabilities, and a second private student apartment house. In the vicinity of Riedbergplatz there have been other retail and service locations (including an organic food chain), the grammar school (new building completed in spring 2013), with a house for open youth work (13 to 20 years old), as well as family-oriented offers and optional club use .
The University Quarter (on the south-western slope; nucleus of the Riedberg) houses the Riedberg campus with university facilities for all natural sciences at Goethe University ( departments of biochemistry , chemistry , pharmacy , physics , earth sciences / geography and, since 2011, life sciences , from around 2019 mathematics and computer science ), Central library and canteen, non-university independent research institutes, innovation center and campus of elements (applied research and development), student dormitories, first private student apartment house and the terraced botanical science garden on the southern slope; to the east of Altenhöferallee office buildings, semi-detached houses, villas, terraced houses, condominiums, assisted living and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea currently under construction. The scientifically used areas belong to district 8 (north-west), but form a settlement-geographical unit with the interlocking residential areas of the Riedberg.
In the Schöne Aussicht- Quartier (hillside location in the east), detached single-family houses, semi-detached houses, terraced houses, condominiums and town villas, elementary school I with day care center and sports hall, new upper secondary school (NGO, from 2013 to around 2019 in a temporary container) are planned to be built as a new integrated comprehensive school instead of the provisional NGO. To the northeast of this is a riding stables with paddock areas and homes
The Ginsterhöhe (east-central high location) consists of free-standing single-family houses, semi-detached houses, terraced houses, atrium houses, villas on the park, multi-storey condominiums and apartment buildings, a town square, two church centers, a mother-child house and an underground station.
The first completed quarter, Bonifatiusbrunnen , (construction completed in mid-2014; low-lying southeast, lower residential development in a southern European architectural style) houses semi-detached houses, terraced houses, condominiums and town villas and a local supply within walking distance.
Infrastructure
The Riedberg is gradually receiving a complete development with single and multi-family houses, owner-occupied and rented apartments, shops, parks and green spaces, restaurants, offices, children's facilities, schools, medical centers and other medical practices, hotels and service providers, etc. At the end of 2015, lived here after According to the statistical office of the city of Frankfurt, 11,021 people are already there, about three quarters of the total expected population by the end of construction. The striking shopping center at the intersection of Riedbergallee / Altenhöferallee was opened in December 2008. In addition to a grocery store and a discounter, it offers several specialty shops, several restaurants, a café and service providers for daily needs, a driving school, a general practitioner practice and, since January 2011, a private medical center with specialists, physiotherapy and home care, a savings bank branch and that Riedberg information center. By 2020, the large estate should have around 6,000 residential units with an expected population of around 16,000. Already in the spring of 2015, the too small-sized sales area of the Riedberg center was criticized. Another local supply point in the emerging west wing would be desirable. The citizen's request for an open event and assembly facility ("community center"), introduced via the local advisory board, was rejected by HASEG.
A total of around 3,000 work and 8,000 study places are planned on the Riedberg, especially on the university campus with its affiliated institutes, research-related centers and life science companies. The service companies close to the house planned in the last phase on the western edge will also create jobs or relocate them here.
In June 2016 there were ten day-care centers and two elementary schools in the new city district, of which the older is the first passive house school in Hesse. There is also a provisional day care center at the university. Three more daycare centers were under construction. A total of 12 day-care centers are planned and thus a high targeted supply density, but still only 45 percent (as of February 2014) of the particularly high 80 percent demand for childcare places can be met. Two primary schools and two secondary schools as all-day schools complete the offer. The Riedberg high school was founded in 2008, it has a natural science and a bilingual branch; his first classes had been housed in their own temporary container since autumn 2009. The new high school building for the projected 1350 pupils at the western Kätcheslachpark was occupied by 640 pupils of the lower and middle grades at the end of April 2013; the official opening followed on August 30th. The Riedberg high school is the first new building of this type of school in Frankfurt since 1913. A youth center with 740 square meters of functional rooms and a sports and leisure area that also accommodates family-oriented offers was built next door.
The new green areas north of the high school, d. H. the western part of the Kätcheslachpark were laid out in such a way that they form an extended break room and a play park also planned by children from schools and childcare facilities. The facility was opened on June 25, 2016 with a summer party. For children in the new district, in addition to two large playgrounds in the eastern Kätcheslachpark, several partly provisional playgrounds, a ball game field and a football field have been set up. A total of 13 public playgrounds are planned for the large estate, mostly near the apartments. A special feature due to acute lack of space at the Frankfurt grammar schools has been the temporary accommodation of the new upper secondary school level of the Max Beckmann grammar school in Bockenheim in a pavilion directly at the Riedberg subway station since mid-2013. The temporary solution moved to Voltastraße in Bockenheim at the end of February 2018, and the new IGS Riedberg building is expected to be built on the vacated property by 2021.
The entire area north of the Riedberg campus is supplied with district heating from the Nordweststadt waste- to- energy plant .
There is a Protestant and a Catholic parish on the Riedberg. The new Protestant church center with daycare center and a small bell tower in the Ginsterhöhe district was inaugurated in spring 2011. The Catholic St. Laurentius parish initially had to forego a new building due to the lack of grants from the Diocese of Limburg . In September 2011, plans for a community center were then presented under the name Edith Stein Center . The flat construction on Nelly-Sachs-Platz started in June 2014, on July 3, 2016 the Catholic Church of St. Edith Stein was consecrated by the Apostolic Administrator Manfred Grothe . The 460 square meter complex, estimated at 2.3 million euros, consists of a chapel with a belfry, a community hall as well as office and group rooms.
traffic
The Riedberg is connected to local public transport via a new line with two lines to the Frankfurt underground network and bus lines 29 and 251. The new line was officially opened on December 12, 2010 with the timetable change by Mayor Petra Roth . The stations Riedwiese / Mertonviertel on the U2 line and Niederursel on the U3 line are also within walking distance to the south .
The four kilometer long grass track runs at ground level in the middle of the newly created Riedbergallee with the two stations: Uni-Campus Riedberg and Riedberg . The U8 line runs from the Riedberg terminus every 15 minutes along Eschersheimer Landstrasse and via the Hauptwache underground station to the Südbahnhof . Another line, the 10.3 kilometer long U9, also serves the Riedberg every 15 minutes from Nieder-Eschbach and goes via the northwest center to Ginnheim . Here you can change trams via the trade fair to Ffm main station.
For car traffic, there has been the new motorway connection F-Heddernheim to the federal motorway 661 since 2005 and into the city to the business center within the Alleenring via Hügelstrasse and Eschersheimer Landstrasse. Another important link is the highway-like developed Rosa Luxembourg Street in the west, along with the four- Curie Street Marie as a feeder road for the Federal Highway 66 to the south and the National Highway 5 serves in the northwest and the Riedberg with Western Frankfurt's city center connects the station and exhibition area. The connection between Graf-von-Stauffenberg-Allee and Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse was opened in May 2015; this connection is especially important for the future residents of the west wing.
Street names
The streets and squares in the triangle between Marie-Curie-Strasse / Auffahrt Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse , Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse and A 5 are named after architects and designers from the time of the Neues Frankfurt urban development program . The remaining streets were named after personalities from science, business, art and the resistance against National Socialism , with a remarkable number of women being remembered.
Parks, green areas
The Riedberg receives a relatively large area allocation for public green spaces, both in parks and as car-free connecting axes in residential areas.
- Bonifatiuspark (7.5 ha): Consists of a western and an eastern part and is separated by the street Zur Kalbacher Höhe . The western part with the newly built Boniface fountain and football field was completed in 2005. The larger eastern part with a beautiful high promenade ( skyline view ) was completed at the end of 2006 and inaugurated in spring 2007 with a folk festival.
- The Kätcheslachpark (11.9 ha) sloping down to the east takes its name from a watercourse, the Kätcheslache, which at times forms from rainwater discharges , which flows into the Kalbach near Frankfurt-Kalbach . Construction began in autumn 2006, the open, two-part rainwater retention system with 0.9 hectares of permanent storage area with fish stocking and heron visits was completed in 2007. The middle part of the park was designed as a walkable rain retention ditch with a large playground and opened in September 2010. The smaller, 2 hectare part west of Altenhöferallee was expanded from August 2015 to June 2016. The Kätcheslachpark West received a large rainwater retention basin, theater-like terraces and an elaborate playground of around 1000 square meters, which children from the Riedberg could also make suggestions on how to design it.
- The Topographische Weg (2.2 ha) is a three-part green connection with play areas from the Kätcheslachpark to the western Bonifatiuspark, opened in July 2013. The contour lines are attached with their value as a visible marking in the area.
- The Römische Straße (3.1 ha) is planned as a 1000 meter long green strip to delimit the Mitte district from the Riedberg-Westflügel district from 2017. It should follow the course of the ancient Saalburgstraße between the Roman settlement Nida and the Roman fort Saalburg .
- The green corridor at the A5 soundproof dam (approx. 8 ha including the dam slopes) runs along the approx. 1.2 km long, eight-meter-high soundproof dam southeast of the A5. On the inside, public green spaces were modeled and laid out with paths and niches. Completion was in the summer of 2007. In the spring of 2016, a further 1.4 hectares of fallow land west of Graf-von-Stauffenberg-Allee were landscaped and connected to the old area in terms of planting technology.
- Altenhöferallee sports field (4.14 ha), construction start March 2011, completion at the end of 2011. In addition to the sports facility with natural grass pitch, training areas and multi-fields, a functional building, a parking lot for 80 cars, a circumferential high path and 1.41 ha of vegetation areas have been added to the facility integrated. The plan is to build a second sports field in an easterly direction instead of the provisional Königsblick day care center. However, it remains to be clarified where the native hamsters living there will be relocated.
Financing and construction progress
The original planning from the mid-1990s assumed that the Riedberg housing estate would be a financially self-sustaining process by converting cheap agricultural land into high-priced developed building plots. The time horizon for the development at that time was set quite tight at 8 years (until 2007). In mid-2012, only about half of the residential development was completed or under construction, so that the urban project company was able to offer a lot of remaining space. Due to the initially increased interest expense and the extended project support, major funding deficits occurred. According to initial estimates, by the newly planned end of the project after 2021, a deficit of at least 100 million euros should arise; As a result of the lower interest rates and increased property proceeds, more recent calculations assume 68.5 million euros, which will burden the general Frankfurt budget. However, this expenditure is offset by a considerable increase in social infrastructure worth around 240 million euros. The urban development company HASEG will cease its support activities on June 30, 2016 in accordance with the contract. [obsolete] The Riedberg project is mostly described as a success in the first political interim reports, on the other hand there is the accusation of a “ghetto for the wealthy”.
Riedberg as a residential location initially got off to a difficult start due to a lack of acceptance: potential property developers, private builders, buyers and tenants often shied away because the infrastructure in the remote area, especially the public transport connection to the city center, was inadequate for a long time. However, this improved suddenly at the end of 2010 with the double connection to the subway network. In order to increase future property revenues, the urban development company HASEG switched to having the previously encouraged, relaxed residential development in the core areas of the districts condensed. The property developers were asked to increase the construction quality offered in the medium price segment. A tendency towards predominantly higher-priced properties for high-income earners was observed from the start, while the rents for the apartments are often below the offers close to the city center. The still largely undeveloped district of Riedberg Westflügel is intended to meet these requirements: from autumn 2014 around 1500 residential units for 3500 residents will be built here on a newly designed street grid. In this last quarter, according to statements by HASEG, experiences, criticism and suggestions from previous construction activities are to be taken into account. B. stronger architectural and color individualization of the building and surrounds made of natural stone, avoidance of monotony in the streetscape through winding streets, roadside hilly green strips and separate bike paths, small parks, etc.
Others
The ZDF television film A Row House rarely stands alone , which tells the slightly twisted story about the stresses and strains of a middle-class family after moving from the city center to fictional grassland, was shot in the summer of 2013 in the row of houses on Annette-Kolb-Weg. In autumn 2015 the continuation of the entertaining story was produced under the title News from the terraced house . In addition, some scenes from the comedy Männerhort were shot on the Riedberg.
literature
- Christian Kaufmann, Michael Peterek: The Frankfurt Riedberg .: Urban development for the 21st century. Jovis, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86859-537-6 .
Web links
- City Planning Office Frankfurt am Main
- Riedberg, Mein Frankfurt - Websites of HA Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (HASEG)
- Interest group for the promotion of the Riedberg e. V.
- MainRiedberg - district magazine from Riedberger for Riedberger
- Local Advisory Board 12 Kalbach / Riedberg
- Science City Frankfurt Riedberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Journal No. 14/2014 page 22; Retrieved Feb 25, 2020.
- ↑ sankt-katharina-frankfurt.de: St. Edith Stein
- ↑ Hessenschau, December 12, 2010
- ↑ Official Journal Frankfurt 17/2013, page 506/507
- ↑ See information about the Bonifatiuspark . On: Homepage of (those involved in the landscape design) Bernard and Sattler landscape architects, Berlin; Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map. 7th edition. 2011.
- ↑ A new district against emigration on: faz.net.de
- ^ Riedberg on: stadtplanungsamt-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Urban planning city of Frankfurt am Main, Department of Planning, Building, Housing and Real Estate - Urban Planning Office - (Ed.): Development measure Riedberg, 2009 on: stadtplanungsamt-frankfurt.de (PDF file; 3.2 MB)
- ↑ New construction of a sports facility in Frankfurt-Riedberg at: stadionwelt-business.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ' N , 8 ° 38' E