Frankfurter Strasse (Limburg an der Lahn)

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The Frankfurter Straße in Limburg an der Lahn is one of the main roads leading into the city.

history

An important trade route has been running between Frankfurt am Main and Limburg since ancient times . This former Reichsstraße 8 and today's Bundesstraße 8 crosses the Taunushauptkamm and leads through the Goldenen Grund to Limburg. In Limburg it bears the name Frankfurter Straße from the district Lindenholzhausen .

In 1753 the electorate government in Ehrenbreitstein issued the first comprehensive road and road building code. This included precise regulations on the width and type of future country roads. Today's Frankfurter Strasse was expanded in accordance with this decree. For this purpose, the neighboring villages had to provide building materials and do manual and camper services.

Hour stones were set up along the routes in 1789 . The approximate travel times to the end points of the routes were engraved on these. Two of these stones have been preserved in Lindenholzhausen and on the outskirts of Limburg and are under monument protection. These stones are designed in the shape of an obelisk , which stands on a two-tier square base. In the upper field there were originally bronze plaques with the road ordinance.

According to the inscription on the Lindenholzhausen stone, the distance to Frankfurt was 11 hours and to Koblenz 10 hours. On the Limburger Stein it is 12 hours to Frankfurt and 9 to Koblenz.

  • Limburg hour stone

  • Hour stone Lindenholzhausen

Course in Lindenholzhausen

Originally laid out outside the town, Frankfurter Strasse is now Lindenholzhausen's main thoroughfare. Coming from Niederbruch , the road initially leads past the sports facility of the TUS Lindenholzhausen. The center of the town through is the intersection with the state road L 3448. The Wendelinus chapel is located here (Frankfurter Straße 22). This chapel, consecrated to St. Wendelinus, the patron saint of plague and distress, dates from 1631. It originally stood in front of the entrance to the village. The small, roughly square, plastered quarry stone building with a bell-shaped hood is a testament to peasant piety of local historical and urban significance and is therefore a listed building.

Right next to the chapel, Paulinus Simonis (1794–1867), the guest of the neighboring "Arche" (Wendelinusstrasse 24), built today's inn "Goldene Krone" (Frankfurter Strasse 24) around 1846. The plastered building typical of the time with a massive ground floor and half-timbered upper storey, five to three window axes and a crooked hip roof on both sides, together with the chapel and the "ark", form a locally effective group and are also listed.

  • Wendelinus Chapel

  • Frankfurter Strasse 24

  • Wendelinusstrasse 24

Course in Limburg

Pallottine and parish church of St. Mary

Between Lindenholzhausen and Limburg, in the open field, the Limburg Süd ICE train station is located near Frankfurter Strasse on the edge of a little-developed industrial area. The road now runs under the federal motorway 3 . The road now follows the valley between the Greifenberg and the Hammerberg down into the Lahn valley past the Limburger Stundenstein. Shortly after entering the village, the massive brick building of the Pallottine and parish church of St. Mary dominates the view. The monastery church, built by Jan Hubert Pinand in 1926/27 , is a listed building, as is the surrounding complex on Frankfurter Strasse . This includes the houses Frankfurter Strasse 59-83 (odd page), Frankfurter Strasse 52-54 (even page) and Wiesbadener Strasse 2-4. In 1872 the Busch brewery settled here, using large open spaces for its extensive brewing, cooling and bottling facilities as well as for the stables for the brewery horses. The houses of the entire complex were planned and built over the course of several years by the Limburg architect Josef Fachinger . In the further course of the gently turning and ascending street, modest single and multi-family houses were built in mostly closed rows between 1890 and 1920. Brick and plastered buildings of different historical styles alternate, two stately twin houses (house numbers 69/71 and 77/79) were built between 1910 and 1912 in the simple forms of the Heimatschutz style. Wiesbadener Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 417 ) also joins Frankfurter Strasse here. Frankfurter Straße 47 was originally the ice cellar of the Busch brewery and was later expanded into a warehouse in the style of North German brick Gothic.

  • Frankfurter Strasse 61

  • Frankfurter Strasse 59

  • Frankfurter Strasse 47

  • Wayside shrine on Frankfurter Strasse

On the opposite side there has been a wayside shrine since the 1910s. Shortly afterwards the federal highways 8 and 417 (which is continued through the Schiedetunnel ) and the Frankfurter Straße separate. Frankfurter Straße itself is interrupted after a short time by the route of the Lahn Valley Railway . On the other side, the street continues through the Frankfurt suburb to Bischofsplatz . For the multitude of listed objects here see the articles Frankfurter Vorstadt and Entire Plant Old Town and Frankfurter Vorstadt .

Web links

Commons : Frankfurter Straße (Limburg an der Lahn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Stundenstein Lindenholzhausen In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Stundenstein Limburg In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Wendelinus Chapel In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  4. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Frankfurter Straße 24 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Pallottine and Parish Church of St. Mary In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Complete system Frankfurter Straße In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  7. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Frankfurter Straße 47 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  8. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Bildstock In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 15.5 ″  E