Friedberger Landstrasse
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Nordend , Bornheim , Preungesheim , Seckbach |
| Created | Middle Ages, 1970s |
| Connecting roads | Konrad-Adenauer-Str. (South), Alte Frankfurter Strasse (north) |
| Cross streets | Friedberger Tor , Friedberger Platz , Glauburgstrasse , Nibelungenplatz, Rat-Beil-Strasse, Gießener Strasse, Friedberger Warte , Homburger Landstrasse , Berger Weg |
| Buildings | Hessendenkmal , City Gate , Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences , Friedberger Warte , Altes Zollhaus |
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| Street length | 5.8 km |
The Friedberger Landstrasse is one of the main entry and exit roads in Frankfurt .
history
The street bears the name of Friedberg , its destination. Before the introduction of motorized transport, this former free imperial city was about a day's journey away, making it the next stage destination for long-distance travelers. Friedberger Landstrasse was part of a historic trade route from Northern Germany over the old Frankfurt Main Bridge to Bergstrasse and the Neckar crossing in Heidelberg . Today it is part of their "successor", Bundesstraße 3 .
Another historical significance of Friedberger Landstrasse was that the first water pipes , which supplied the city of Frankfurt with fresh spring water, ran along the street from 1609.
course
The Friedberger Landstraße runs from Friedberger Tor at the ramparts in a north-easterly direction through the districts of Nordend , Bornheim , Preungesheim and Seckbach via Friedberger Warte to the city limits of Bad Vilbel .
Friedberger Tor
The Friedberger Tor, which once led through the ramparts and whose gate buildings no longer exist, is now a major traffic junction on the system ring .
The continuation of the street within the ramparts is the Konrad-Adenauer-Straße , which was laid out after the Second World War , the historical continuation in the Neustadt was the street Vilbeler Straße - Große Friedberger Straße , which merged into the tramline in the old town that led to the Main Bridge.
Northrend
A large part of Friedberger Landstrasse runs in a north-south direction through north-east and west and represents the border between the two districts.
The southernmost part of the street was not built until 1970, when a street breakthrough over a previously fallow rubble site from the Second World War shortened the course of the street. Previously, the Friedberger Landstrasse was in the section closest to town, similar to the Eschersheimer Landstrasse , quite winding. The old course of the street is now called Mercatorstraße . The Hessendenkmal , which commemorates the liberation of the city by Hessian troops in 1792, is located between the old and the new route .
Simultaneously with the relocation of the street, the route of the Frankfurt am Main tram , which had previously run through Alte Gasse, Friedberger Anlage and Scheffelstraße to Friedberger Platz, was shut down. Instead, a track connection between Friedberger Tor and Friedberger Platz was laid through the new street section.
Opposite the Hessendenkmal is the Bethmannpark with the Chinese Garden of Heavenly Peace . The park was acquired by Simon Moritz von Bethmann in 1806 and later became the property of the city.
The new route ends at the intersection with Scheffelstrasse and Merianstrasse . From the left, the Iron Hand meets the Friedberger Landstrasse, an ancient and previously very important connection to the Eckenheimer Landstrasse . Shortly thereafter, Friedberger Platz follows , one of the central Wilhelminian town squares in the north end. Several side streets branch off from it radially , Rotlintstraße , Günthersburgallee , Bornheimer Landstraße , Koselstraße and Bäckerweg . Due to the urban atmosphere, these streets are popular residential addresses. The following junction to the north of Friedberger Landstrasse with the connecting roads Glauburgstrasse and Rohrbachstrasse is another central point of this city district.
Shortly thereafter, Nibelungenplatz , the intersection with the Alleenring , follows . The Shell high-rise (office center Nibelungenplatz, today City Gate) and the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are located here .
The Rat-Beil-Straße , which soon follows and branches off to the west, marks the border between the inner city area and the more suburban development that now follows. The main cemetery is now on the western side of the road , with allotments on the eastern side, businesses, the water park and a new housing estate built on the site that was used by the American army before they left. The Günthersburgpark is also not far away from there.
Bornheim / Preungesheim
The most famous building on the street, the Friedberger Warte, marks the border to the neighboring districts of Bornheim and Preungesheim . As a watchtower on the medieval Frankfurter Landwehr , it monitored the traffic between the city and its northern surroundings.
The Homburger Landstrasse , the longest street in the city, which branches off here to the northwest , initially leads to the nearby district of Preungesheim . The first building on the street was the Friedberg barracks . On the eastern side of the Friedberger Warte was the Kurhessen barracks , where the 81st Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht had been based as a site regiment since 1936 . Since 1945 the barracks have been used by the American army as "housings" for their soldiers and their families. They were now called Betts-Kaserne and Atterberry-Kaserne . They have now been torn down and two settlements have been built on the site since 2003. The settlement on the Preungesheim side is called New Betts , that on the Bornheim side is called New Atterberry .
Just under a kilometer further out of town, the A 661 motorway is crossed by Friedberger Landstrasse. There is a junction here.
Seckbach
Across the autobahn, on the southeast side of the street at Festeburg, are the Accident Clinic (1962), the wholesale flower and ornamental plant market (1965) and the Huthpark (1910–1913). The Auerweg and Hofhausstraße lead from here to the center of Seckbach . To the west, Hofhausstrasse leads to the Frankfurter Bogen development area in Preungesheim . The following area is called Heiligenstock , named after the historic Heiligenstock next to the old customs house (today a restaurant). The construction of a large housing estate for up to 50,000 people was planned here in the 1960s and 1970s . Since the plans were not implemented, there is still undeveloped land here, which is held in autumn for the annual kite festival of the Umweltlernen association in Frankfurt e. V. is used, the impressive ruins of the major transmitter Heiligenstock (1926) which was blown up on March 25, 1945 by Radio Frankfurt and the Parkfriedhof Heiligenstock . Systems from the DENA transmitter (1947) were also located here until around the end of the 1990s . The Berger Weg branching off to the east leads to leisure gardens, orchards and fields as well as to Lohrpark on the Lohrberg with Frankfurt's Lohrberger Slope vineyard .
After the bend from the federal road 521 , the road reaches the city limits of Bad Vilbel . The last house on Friedberger Landstrasse with house number 649 is already part of the closed development in the Bad Vilbel district of Heilsberg. The street later changes its name to Alte Frankfurter Straße .
traffic
Private transport
The Friedberger Landstrasse is today one of the most important traffic connections, especially for commuters from the northern and eastern suburbs of Frankfurt, due to the direct connection to the city center , the Alleenring and the A 661 . For the most part, the road has two lanes for private motorized traffic, and three lanes in the northern part. As a consequence, Friedberger Landstrasse regularly achieves the highest levels of particulate matter in the city. The southern part is therefore closed to trucks .
tram
The tram has been running between Friedberger Platz and Rohrbachstrasse since 1904 . The section between Friedberger Platz and Friedberger Tor , which lies south of it, was not built until 1971 after the road breakthrough in 1970. The tram and private transport use one lane in each direction on this entire route. Here runs the tram Line 12 .
Starting in 2010, approx. 2 km of new tracks were laid north of Rohrbachstraße up to the A 661 on its own track structure, in order to connect the Frankfurter Bogen development area in Preungesheim with the new tram line 18 since December 2011 . Before that, only bus line 30 operated in the northern section of Friedberger Landstrasse, some of which goes to Bad Vilbel.
Web links
- landkartenarchiv.de Situation at Friedberger Tor before the road breakthrough was carried out (1947).
swell
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ Environmental learning in Frankfurt e. V. (Kite Festival see 'Nature & Landscape')