Fritz Kissel settlement

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′  N , 8 ° 40 ′  E The Fritz-Kissel-Siedlung is a post-war Frankfurt housing estate in the Sachsenhausen district. It lies in the southwest and is bounded by the Mörfelder Landstrasse in the north, the Main-Neckar Railway in the west and the Ziegelhüttenweg in the south and east. The home settlement borders to the north. The facility is a listed building .

Fritz Kissel settlement

Origin and development

The Fritz-Kissel-Siedlung was built between 1950 and 1955 with funds from social housing by the Nassauische Heimstätte, the non-profit housing and settlement company and the non-profit housing corporation Rhein-Main. 2330 apartments were built with around 3700 residents (as of 2008).

The urban development concept goes back to a plan by Ernst May and Herbert Boehm from the 1920s. The home settlement was built according to this plan. The planned rows of buildings, up to 600 meters long, were shortened in the post-war planning and adjusted to the urban development model of a relaxed city by staggering. The three to four storey rows are arranged slightly offset. Six-story residential buildings emphasize the central intersection. Along the railway line in the west, three higher eight-story buildings create an urban accent. Generous green areas structure the development and lead the landscape into the residential area.

Surname

The settlement was named after the then president of the state insurance company Fritz Kissel, who had campaigned for the construction as a member of the supervisory board of the Nassauische Heimstätte.

Development

The Fritz-Kissel-Siedlung is connected to the regional road network via Mörfelder Landstrasse and Stresemannallee . From here the access roads by Beuthener, Breslauer, Liegnitzer, Teplitz-Schönauer, Karlsbader and Aussiger Straße as well as the Bodenbacher Weg lead into the residential area. The street names are reminiscent of cities in the formerly predominantly German-speaking Sudetenland and Silesia. The settlement is bounded to the south by Gablonzer Strasse and to the southeast by Ziegelhüttenweg. Parking spaces are available on the streets and in garage yards. There is a connection to local public transport via tram line 18 in Mörfelder Landstraße with the stops at Beuthener and Breslauer Straße. The Stresemannallee / Mörfelder Landstraße and Louisa Bahnhof stops are served by tram lines 17 and 18. There are other public transport connections via the nearby S-Bahn station Frankfurt-Louisa with lines S3 and S4, bus lines 61 and 78 and the district bus line 35 from Lerchesberg to the final stop Stresemannallee / Mörfelder Landstraße.

Infrastructure

The settlement, designed primarily as a purely residential area, only has infrastructure at the edges. There are shops on the central square, at the intersection of Mörfelder Landstrasse and Stresemannallee. Social facilities such as the (now listed) Apostle Church are located at the end of the central green corridor.

literature

• Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main. Urban development and planning history since 1945. Campus-Verlag Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-593-35480-2
• Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000 ( materials for monument protection in Frankfurt am Main 1).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nassauische Heimstätte: A "pearl" of 1950s housing developments , press release from December 8, 2016, accessed on November 4, 2017
2. ↑ Cultural monuments in Hesse: St. Aposteln Church , accessed on November 4, 2017