Freßgass
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Downtown |
| Created | Middle Ages, since 1900 Freßgass |
| Connecting roads | Biebergasse (east), Bockenheimer Landstrasse (west) |
| Cross streets | Börsenstrasse, Opernplatz |
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| Street length | 280 m |
Freßgass is the name of the Frankfurt population and local media for the Kalbächer Gasse and Große Bockenheimer Straße between Opernplatz and Börsenstraße in Frankfurt am Main . It has been officially called that since 1977. Before it was a car street , it was then redesigned to become the third pedestrian zone in Frankfurt (after the Neue Kräme and the Zeil ).
A wide, paved promenade lined with plane trees in the middle is delimited on both sides by a white marble strip. Until then, the restaurants with their tables and the shops with their special offers are allowed to expand. A deep well was created in 1977 during the redesign. Until 1944 the Säuplätzi was located here , which got its name from the medieval "Sauborn", which was filled in in the 17th century and replaced by the Kaiserbrunnen. The Sauborn is a testimony to the fact that in the Middle Ages and even in the early modern period it was quite common to keep pigs in the middle of the city .
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The name originated around 1900 because there was a particularly high concentration of butchers , bakeries and delicatessen shops along with long -established eateries in the approximately 200 meter long street . The Freßgass was the “belly” of Frankfurt's West End in the pre-war period, when the noble middle class still lived there. The thrifty Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild had her mushrooms weighed here, as is traditionally said, without a “Dutt” (bag).
history
The Freßgass is located in the city center district , which was known as Neustadt until the Second World War . The new town emerged after the city expansion approved by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in 1333 , when the area previously outside the densely populated old town was enclosed with a city wall. Until the 19th century, the Neustadt remained a relatively sparsely populated area, predominantly inhabited by craftsmen and petty bourgeoisie , whose houses were much smaller and less splendid than the town houses in the old town.
The Kalbächer Gasse / Große Bockenheimer Gasse street was (next to the Große Gallusgasse ) one of the two arterial roads that connected the formerly most important square in Neustadt, the Roßmarkt (today Rathenauplatz ), with the two western city gates, the Galgentor and the Bockenheimer Tor . This is why inns, hostels and breweries began to settle along the alley early on. From the end of September to the middle of October 1790, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived in the Backhaus (Kalbächer Gasse 10). He came to Frankfurt for the coronation of Emperor Leopold II and conducted a large concert with his own works on October 15, 1790 in the nearby city theater . The brewery Zu den Drei Hasen on the corner of Kalbächer Gasse and Rathenauplatz was one of the most popular restaurants in old Frankfurt due to its convenient location vis-à-vis the city theater. In 1906 the old building was torn down and a representative building from the Wilhelminian era was erected. After it was destroyed in the war in 1944 by the air raids on Frankfurt am Main , it was initially rebuilt in a simplified manner and replaced at the beginning of the 21st century by a new building incorporating the preserved parts of the Wilhelminian style facade.
After the war damage caused by the air raids, plans were made to create a car-friendly city in Frankfurt . Therefore, from 1952 to 1956, all buildings on the north side of Freßgass were laid down and the street was widened by eight to 32 meters, and on Säuplätzi even to 40 meters. In this way, a generous road connection was to be created between the Westend and the city center.
However, the concept did not prove itself, as early as the early 1960s the city center was suffocated by car traffic . From 1969 to 1977 the Freßgass was completely impassable because of the construction pit for the S-Bahn tunnel between the main station and the Hauptwache . After the construction work was completed, the Freßgass was created in its current form as a promenade. It is connected to the Zeil shopping street via Biebergasse and is therefore part of a pedestrian zone that extends from the Alte Oper to Konstablerwache and Römerberg . A sculpture Große Liegende (1972) by Willi Schmidt (popularly known as Fett Gret ) and a fountain by Inge Hagner (installed in 1977) are artistic features of the alley.
Current situation
The shop rents in the Freßgass are among the highest in Frankfurt, the prices of the goods to be purchased are accordingly high. According to the Frankfurter Rundschau (from May 16, 2006) the rent for retailers is up to 185 euros per square meter. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Alte Oper are in the immediate vicinity of Freßgass .
Today the Freßgass is considered a culinary street mile . Delicatessen shops, cafés and restaurants are crowded here. The Freßgass Festival, the Wine Festival and the Opernplatz Festival also offer other events for the palate in this street at regular intervals. The wine festival (officially: Rheingau Wine Market), which has been held every year in late summer since 1977, has around 400,000 guests annually. Wineries from Rheingau and Rheinhessen present around 600 wines and sparkling wines there.
The rules for use, structural and other design options are laid down in a "Fressgassatzung" (this is the spelling in the city document from 1979) as a catalog of rules that is intended to support a uniform and harmonious appearance of the quarter.
The Freßgass borders on the streets Hochstraße , Kleine Hochstraße , Kaiserhofstraße , Meisengasse , Börsenstraße and Goethestraße .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer: Frankfurt - then, yesterday and today . JF Steinkopf Verlag , Stuttgart 1979. ISBN 3-7984-0398-8
- Wolfgang Klötzer: A guest in old Frankfurt . Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, 1990. ISBN 3-88034-493-0
Web links
- The Freßgass. altfrankfurt.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ Reinhard Frost: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon , also in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 68 f .
- ↑ Tourist information about the Freßgass
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 52 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ E