Frankfurt's red light district

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The red light district of Frankfurt am Main at night (2005)

The Frankfurt red light district is a red light district in the Frankfurt train station district . Elbestrasse, Moselstrasse and Taunusstrasse form the core of the quarter . Kaiserstrasse , the Frankfurt trade fair , the banking district and the museum bank are nearby . Especially after 1945, the district was increasingly shaped by prostitution . The reason for this lay in the fact that the station district was only slightly damaged by bombs in World War II and many of the hotels located there were used by the US occupation forces to accommodate military personnel. The great poverty of the German population and, in comparison, the very wealthy US soldiers formed the socio-cultural background for the development of the red light district at this point.

There are a number of Laufhäuser in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel . In 1969, the Frankfurt building contractor Willi Schütz received approval to open the first large brothel in Elbestrasse 49-53. The project was supported by the then Frankfurt Police President Gerhard Littmann , who saw the creation of an Eros Center close to the city as the only way to cope with the numerous complaints about "industrial abuse" in residential areas. The establishment with 180 rooms is now called Crazy Sexy and is the largest Laufhaus in Germany; in 2013 five percent of prostitutes came from Germany; most came from Eastern Europe, Latin America or Asia. The Red House at Taunusstrasse 34 has six floors with a total of 67 rooms. There are a total of 14 brothels in the Bahnhofsviertel.

There are occasional large police raids in the neighborhood . One of the advice centers is the Tamara project run by the Diakonie ; Doña Carmen sees itself as a lobby group .

See also

Web links

Commons : Red-light district (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bahnhofsviertel - Frankfurt red light, Lifestyle & Orient. From: frankfurter-stadtevents.de , accessed on January 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Nicole Sagener: Red Light District: In the glow of lights. In: faz.net. April 7, 2012, accessed January 13, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Grenz, Martin Lücke: Negotiations in the Twilight: Moments of Prostitution in Past and Present , transcript Verlag, 2006, p. 184.
  4. ↑ Compulsory condoms: New rules for the Frankfurt red light district. In: fnp.de. July 14, 2017, archived from the original on March 3, 2018 ; accessed on September 23, 2017 .
  5. ^ Georg Leppert: Frankfurt: large raid in the red light district. In: fr-online.de. October 29, 2010, accessed January 13, 2014 .
  6. ^ Georg Leppert: Razzia: The red light district in sight. In: fr-online.de. March 6, 2009, accessed January 13, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Tamara - Advice & Help for Prostitutes. ( Memento of January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Official website, accessed on January 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 32.8 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 59.3"  E