Freigerichtstrasse (Hanau)

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Freigerichtstraße 2011, view to the east: on the left the newer development from 1928, on the right the buildings in the Heimat style 1921–1923.

The Freigerichtstraße in Hanau is one of the two main connecting roads from the city center of Hanau to the Dunlop tire plant in the east of the city.

Surname

The name of the street refers to the Alzenau Freigericht , which was a condominium between the Archbishops of Mainz and the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg in the old German Empire .

Geographical location

The street runs in a north-westerly or south-easterly direction parallel to Birkenhainer Straße , with which it is connected by a series of transverse streets. In addition - usually offset - a number of cross streets run north from Freigerichtstrasse. Together they form the quarter of the "Freigerichtviertel".

history

The road was created with the Dunlop tire works, which established their current location from 1893. Around 1920 the route of the Hanau industrial railway was also relocated to Freigerichtstraße.

The construction of Freigerichtstrasse and the streets branching off from it began around 1900. Apartment blocks for factory workers were built in two phases. In 1921–1923, apartment blocks were built south of Freigerichtstrasse , initially according to plans by city architect Wilhelm Kroegel . These buildings are still characterized by historicizing elements, partly neo-baroque , partly by Heimatstil and designed as a garden city . The associated gardens partly had stables for keeping small animals. In a second phase between 1928 and 1938, the apartment blocks north of Freigerichtstrasse were built. They are based on a design by the architects Emil Deines and Georg Clormann . The buildings were committed to the "New Building" in the sense of the Bauhaus , have expressionist design elements and have a decidedly cubic effect thanks to their flat roofs .

During the Second World War , the residential complexes were damaged in the bombing of the nearby Dunlop tire works and the Hanau main train station , but they were not completely destroyed and were immediately restored. The remaining vacant lots along the street were closed with further apartment blocks until the 1960s. At that time, the Anne Frank Primary School was also established here .

The historic settlement buildings are now cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act and part of the Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main . Today the buildings are mostly inhabited by migrants . In the years from 2011 to 2013, the housing company Deutsche Wohnen extensively renovated the Dunlop estate and adapted it to modern living requirements, while at the same time ensuring that it was built true to the original and in keeping with the monument.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Gerhard Bott : "Modern building" in the city of Hanau 1918–1933. "Demolition crime" and reconstruction after 1945 . In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Gerhard Bott 90 . Cocon, Hanau 2017. ISBN 978-3-86314-361-9 , pp. 85-113.
  • Martin Hoppe: Hanauer street names . Hanau 1991, p. 89. ISBN 3-87627-426-5
  • Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 101ff, 194f. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9
  • Magistrate of the City of Hanau: Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main. Hanau I . = Local route guide 10. Frankfurt 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bott, p. 88.
  2. ↑ Bott, p. 90.
  3. ↑ Workers' houses renovated. Investment of millions in Hanau's Dunlop estate . In: FAZ from January 14, p. 44.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 59.4 ″  E