Frankfurt-Sossenheim

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Sossenheim coat of arms
Coat of arms of Frankfurt am Main
Sossenheim
41st district of Frankfurt am Main
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Coordinates 50 ° 7 '8 "  N , 8 ° 33' 57"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '8 "  N , 8 ° 33' 57"  E
surface 5.919 km²
Residents 16,226 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2741 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 65936
prefix 069
Website www.frankfurt.de
structure
District 6 - West
Townships
  • 63 1 - Sossenheim-West
  • 63 2 - Sossenheim-Ost
Transport links
Highway A5 A66 A648
Regional train 11
bus 50 55 56 58 n1
Source: Statistics currently 03/2020. Residents with main residence in Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .

Sossenheim has been a district of Frankfurt am Main since April 1, 1928 .

location

The district is located in the northeast of the local district Frankfurt-West and forms part of the northwest boundary of the city of Frankfurt am Main . The neighboring districts and communities are Unterliederbach and Höchst in the west, Eschborn , Schwalbach am Taunus and Sulzbach (Taunus) in the north, Rödelheim in the east and Griesheim and Nied in the south . In addition, a large part of Sossenheim - the Sossenheimer Unterfeld is part of the Frankfurt green belt .

Frankfurt city center to the east ( Hauptwache ) is about 6.2 km away.

history

Sossenheim mentioned in documents only in 1218, having been believed that it is much older, because its potential founders, probably a Franke called ,, Suzo ", had already around 600 n. Chr. Settled here between Mainz and Frankfurt, because other Frankish villages within whose names also on -heim end, are already in the second half of the 8th century in the Lorsch codex called. So the home of “Suzo” first became Suzoheim and later Sossenheim.

North of Sossenheim the lead of Frankfurt-Praunheim coming military road over, so that even traces consist of Roman colonization, which already Roman brickworks from the area around the Sossenheim Vordertaunus and the Wetterau supplied with building material.

The medieval Sossenheim was characterized by rural life, with the lords of the Archbishops and Electors of Mainz ruling here, as evidenced by the Kurmainzer Straße leading to Höchst . Originally Sossenheim belonged to the landlords of the Knights of Kronberg , the Lords of Falkenstein , the Archbishopric of Trier and also the citizens of Frankfurt.

In times of war and emergency, the rural residents found protection in the nearby imperial city of Frankfurt . However, this "castle right" was not in vain for the Sossenheimers. The residents had to make an annual payment for this and help repair the city fortifications with a pick and shovel. In 1438 the contract with Frankfurt was terminated and they placed themselves under the protection of Höchst

During the Thirty Years' War , the Catholic Sossenheim was completely destroyed and devastated at the Battle of Höchst on June 19, 1622, which actually did not take place in the area of ​​Höchst, but in and around Sossenheim. Christian von Braunschweig and his troops had holed up west of Sossenheim, where the street name “Auf der Schanz” is still remembered today. Count Tilly , as Christian's opponent in the war, advanced with his troops from Frankfurt, had Sossenheim and the enemy troops bombarded with cannons and finally decided the battle for himself.

In 1609 Sossenheim had 64 families with 320 inhabitants, in 1623 there were still 41 families with around 190 inhabitants.

In 1771 there were 75 households with 358 inhabitants. 57 of them were farmers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 masons; 1 miller; 1 baker; 1 Wagner; 1 cutter; 1 weaver; 1 grocer; 7 day laborers; 25 horses, 246 oxen and cows and 222 pigs.

In the second half of the 19th century , a few brick factories were built. The original image of the street village was permanently changed as the chimneys of the ring kilns now shaped the cityscape. The workers and migrant workers were housed in barracks, where there was alcohol consumption, fights and knife fights. This meant that in the vernacular only as the inhabitants of the surrounding villages Sossenheim Mordheim designated. In the 1920s, the clay deposits dried up, which gradually closed the brickworks. In 1928 Sossenheim was incorporated into Frankfurt with around 4,800 inhabitants.

After the Second World War , the village changed with the construction of large settlements, such as the Carl Sonnenschein settlement and Henry Dunant settlement. In 1993 another large settlement was added on the site of a former large dairy (MoHa), the so-called Westpark, so that the number of inhabitants has increased to over 15,000 since then.

population

At the end of December 2010, Sossenheim had 000000000015767.000000000015,767 inhabitants. Sossenheim emerged from a so-called "street village" and therefore has no historical center. Today's Sossenheim is characterized by its housing developments from the 1960s to 1970s with a high proportion of migrants. The district currently has 000000000016226.000000000016,226 inhabitants.

At the end of 2017, Sossenheim was included in the federal-state program “Socially Integrative City”. Historically developed from a street village, Sossenheim lacks a classic town center with a corresponding supply infrastructure. On the outskirts of the original settlement area, a total of four large housing estates were built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the subsidized housing construction, which have significantly shaped the structural and social structure of the district to this day.

These monofunctional dormitories in particular have been characterized for decades by a social segregation, which has led to a concentration of low-income households. Unemployment, old-age poverty, a high proportion of single parents, as well as low female employment and educational participation of children are part of everyday life here. In addition, there is a high degree of internationality among the residents with special requirements for linguistic, economic and social integration.

In addition to the problems of the social structure, there is also a lack of sufficient supply and transport infrastructure in Sossenheim compared to a district with 16,000 inhabitants. The quality of stay in public space also falls short of potential, so that there are hardly any focal points for public life.

The "Socially Integrative City" program aims to promote the positive development of the district in order to improve the quality of life in the long term. [13]

The Faulbrunnen is a landmark of Sossenheim. The fountain, which was already known in the 19th century, was taken in 1926 as the "Sossenheimer Sprudel". The water smells of putrefaction due to hydrogen sulphides in the water and is therefore unsuitable as drinking water , but is occasionally drunk as medicinal water. In the neighboring Bad Soden am Taunus there is a multitude of other such healing springs.

Opposite the Faulbrunnen is the former town hall, a classical sandstone building, which is now used as a police station.

Two stumbling blocks remind of the life of the Jews and the persecuted in Praunheim during National Socialism .

The Niddaufer, right in front of the Im Mittleren Sand settlement .

Belonging to Sossenheim and idyllically situated between allotments and agricultural areas in Sossenheimer Unterfeld is the mid- 20th century settlement Im Mittleren Sand , which the Frankfurter Rundschau 2008 counted as one of Frankfurt's unusual places of residence in a series.

religion

Catholic Church

Ever since Sossenheim was first mentioned in documents in 1218, there was a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas . The new chapel, which was built in 1582, was consecrated to Archangel Michael in 1706 . Further new buildings were built in 1829 and most recently in 1967 as part of the population growth of the Catholic parish of St. Michael, Sossenheimer Kirchberg 2. The Kirchberg has always been the center of the village, on which the church tower built in 1582 still stands out today.

Protestant church

Protestant church

Since the end of the 19th century, evangelical residents increasingly moved to Sossenheim, mainly workers from the nearby Hoechst paintworks . In 1897 the foundation stone for the Evangelical Church was laid. The architect of the house, which is now a listed building, was Ludwig Hofmann . In 1904 the Protestant community in Sossenheim became independent. In 1998, today's rainbow community in Sossenheim was formed from the Tiberias and Dunant communities. So there were two meetinghouses up until 2012: the Tiberias house next to the church and the Dunant house, which was demolished in 2012, in the Dunant settlement. The latter area is meanwhile being built with a new children's house.

Chapel of the Holy Helpers

Emergency Chapel on Kapellenberg

The Chapel of the Holy Helper at the end of the village towards Höchst was first built in 1755 under Pastor Johann Peter Becker. In 1883, pastor Jakob Mitnacht, with the help of many citizens of the district, rebuilt it in a neo-Gothic style. It serves as a corridor chapel during processions and for calling on the 14 helpers in need .

graveyard

The painter Wilhelm Runze (1887–1972), known for numerous portraits and paintings of the Frankfurt Schirn, is buried in the Sossenheim cemetery .

traffic

Transportation

The district can be reached by public transport (bus) via Rödelheim (55), Höchst (50, 55, 58), the university location Bockenheim or the Frankfurt trade fair (50) and Eschborn (56, 58), at night by night bus line N1, by train from Höchst or Bad Soden / Sulzbach. It takes about 30 minutes to get to Frankfurt Central Station. There is also a direct bus connection to Frankfurt International Airport .

The Sossenheim station is located on the southwestern edge of the district at the Soden Railway and is served by the regional rail line. 13 Until 1997 the S-Bahn line S3 operated there. The industrial area Wilhelm-Fay-Straße is connected to the rapid transit network in the north next to bus line 56 via the S-Bahn station Eschborn-Süd (S3, S4), or in the south via bus line 55.

Sossenheim is to be developed through several stops on the future regional tangent west rail link . In addition to the already existing Sossenheim train station, one station each is planned at the Dunantsiedlung and near the historic town center; the latter station is planned at the end of Michaelstrasse. A citizens' initiative from the district is fighting against the course of the route in the Sossenheim area.

Street

In terms of traffic, Sossenheim is conveniently bordered by federal highway 66 in the north and federal highway 5 in the east. The federal motorway 648 runs through the eastern Sossenheim, but mostly away from the inhabited area .

Sports

Sports club Sossenheim 1878

The sports community Sossenheim 1878 e. V. is a local sports club. He offers different sports, also in his own premises, with his own soccer field.

RV Sossenheim 1895

From the cycling club RV Sossenheim 1895 e. V. numerous professionals emerge, such as B. Christian Werner , Fabian Wegmann , Matthias Kessler or Kai Hundertmarck .

Regular events

Gebrüder Moos Memorial Race

The RV Sossenheim cycling club has been organizing an annual cycle race on Corpus Christi since 1962 with changing names, most recently the Gebrüder Moos memorial race .

Notch

The Kerb is traditionally celebrated every year with Kerbefrühschoppen and an amusement park on the Sossenheimer Kerbeplatz.

Michaelstrasse Festival (formerly Mühlgassenfest)

Regularly in summer there is a street festival for young and old in Sossenheim, most recently in Michaelstraße and on the Sossenheimer Kirchberg. Its direct predecessor is the Mühlgassenfest , which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2003.

Sossenheim Music Summer

The Sossenheim Music Summer has been held on the Kirchberg every year since 1999, and its 15th anniversary was celebrated in 2003.

Service tree festival

2014 was the first time Speierling Festival of Culture and Assistance Sossenheim place in the Sulzbach meadows.

Christmas Market

For many years a Christmas market has been held on the first Advent on the Sossenheimer Kirchberg.

Sons and daughters of Sossenheim

Trivia

The cartoonist Chlodwig Poth , who lived in Sossenheim since 1990, documented the wild architectural mix of the district in the series of pictures Last Exit Sossenheim until his death in 2004 . The series appeared monthly in the satirical magazine Titanic . Against the background of recognizable Sossenheim locations, he drew anonymous contemporaries and ascribed them thoughts and dialogues typical of the time. As he himself explained, the ideas often came to him from scraps of conversation that he caught in the neighborhood or overheard or had to overhear on bus rides. The Chlodwig-Poth facility in Sossenheimer Unterfeld, south of the outskirts, is dedicated to the memory of Poth . Two series of pictures by the draftsman are permanently exhibited on picture steles on site.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt-Sossenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Spranger School: Sossenheim earlier
  2. Adalbert Vollert, Sossenheim , Frankfurt 1980, p. 196.
  3. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Umweltamt (Ed.): Stadtgewässer - Discovering rivers, brooks, oxbow lakes, p. 83. Frankfurt 2004
  4. ANITA STRECKER: Frankfurt for beginners: the cultivated quarter. In: fr-online.de. November 11, 2008, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  5. www.st-michael-ffm.de <
  6. www.regenbogengemeinde.de
  7. moos-radsport.de ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / moos-radsport.de
  8. Michael Eder and Steffen Gerth: "Thirty years ago the drivers were tougher". In: FAZ.net . April 29, 2004, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  9. www.isg-sossenheim.de
  10. www.vereinsring-sossenheim.de
  11. www.vereinsring-sossenheim.de
  12. RV Sossenheim ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / moos-radsport.de