Gateway Gardens

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Entrance gate - the former entrance to the airport can be seen in the background

Gateway Gardens is a district within the airport district of Frankfurt am Main . The district is located on the site of a former US military settlement. Gateway Gardens has hardly any residents as no apartments were built there due to the high level of aircraft noise.

location

The area is located immediately northwest of the Frankfurter Kreuz and has an area of ​​around 35 hectares. It is bordered by the A 3 and A 5 federal motorways and the B 43 .

history

Gateway Gardens served as a US military settlement until the end of 2005. Around 2,500 people lived in the isolated housing area : soldiers and their relatives. The area had its own infrastructure with a church, cinema, hairdresser, library, as well as kindergartens and schools. There was a direct road connection to the then Rhein-Main Air Base in the southern part of the airport with other facilities. In 1999 the decision was made to finally close the site. The site was handed over in 2005. After the withdrawal of the American armed forces, buildings were first demolished, then in 2006/2007 the entire area was redeveloped and cut with a new street grid. In the first part of the development, the western areas closer to the airport will be marketed, the eastern areas will follow later.

The official inauguration of Gateway Gardens as the new Frankfurt city district took place on June 6, 2008 in the presence of the then mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth and the then Fraport chairman Wilhelm Bender .

Since January 1, 2019, Gateway Gardens has formed the new city district 32 7 within the Frankfurt Airport district . It was created through a spin-off from the city district 32 9 Airport.

Development

In February 2008, the city council approved the development plan for the new district. Gateway Gardens is being developed by a project development company in which the City of Frankfurt hold 50 percent and three partners hold a further 50 percent. The investment volume is 1.7 billion euros. It is planned to build a new urban center with numerous office and conference buildings, hotels, restaurants and a small park (2.4 hectares), local amenities, a daycare center and shopping and fitness facilities. A total of 20 building units with a total floor area of ​​700,000 square meters are to be built. The retail space is to be limited to 11,000 square meters in order not to compete with the city center. Completion is planned for 2021. Up to 18,000 jobs are to be created in Gateway Gardens by then, and by the beginning of 2016 there will be almost 5,000 people on site.

The first users of the site moved in in June 2006. The fire department Frankfurt am Main moved into two old apartments and set up the area guard 30 there (now BW 20). Six officers are on duty there around the clock. A new building is to replace the interim guard. The new location was set up in order to be able to meet the ten-minute relief deadline in the area of ​​the airport and the focus of the accident at Frankfurter Kreuz.

The first new building went into operation in May 2008. The catering company LSG Sky Chefs handles everything to do with aircraft catering on 55,000 square meters. Over 80,000 meals are prepared every day. A separate connection to the apron ensures that the aircraft can be loaded quickly. In May 2012, Condor moved its headquarters from neighboring Kelsterbach here. The German headquarters of Sunexpress and the headquarters of the logistics group DB Schenker will also be relocated here.

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The streets were named after international aviation figures:

  • Jean-Gardner-Batten-Strasse after Jean Batten (1909–1982), New Zealand pilot
  • Bessie-Coleman-Strasse : Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), American pilot
  • Thea-Rasche-Strasse : Thea Rasche (1899–1971), German pilot and journalist
  • Amelia-Mary-Earhart-Straße : Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), American aviation pioneer and suffragette
  • De-Saint-Exupéry Street : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), French pilot and writer
  • Rita-Maiburg-Straße : Rita Maiburg (1952–1977) German pilot and the world's first female scheduled flight captain

Gateway Gardens should have a special quality of stay for young, mobile office workers and business people. It is to be reached through its central location and the traffic connections by road, rail and in the air. It is only a few minutes' walk to Gateway Gardens from the airport, the airport long-distance train station and the A3 and A5 motorways.

Train

Gateway Gardens S-Bahn station on the first day of operation

Gateway Gardens has its own stop at the airport loop of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn . On October 4, 2007, the city council approved the funds for the construction of the Gateway Gardens station, and in mid-October 2013 it approved the construction project. For this, the airport had loop between the stations Airport regional railway station and the stadium at 4 km in length will be realigned. The existing tunnel was broken open and a new 2 km was built. The new train station is underground. Construction work began on November 10, 2016.

The total costs for the new connection are expected to be around 223 million euros. The federal government is to take on 112 million, the state 22 million and the city 84.5 million.

For the connection to the airport loop , a piece of tunnel had to be broken off and inserted. Therefore, from October 26 to December 14, 2019, the airport regional train station and Kelsterbach were not used. The trains then stopped at the airport long-distance station. The Gateway Gardens stop was opened on December 9, 2019, trains have stopped since December 15, 2019. The stop was not yet fully completed when it went into operation, the middle and north-eastern access and all elevators and escalators were still closed or not yet in Business. The wall cladding was also not attached and the roofs over the entrances were missing.

bus

Since the 2011/2012 timetable change on December 11, 2011, the OF-67 bus has been running through Gateway Gardens every half hour from Monday to Friday from around 5:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and connects the settlement with Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport, Neu-Isenburg and Dreieich-Sprendlingen . In Gateway Gardens, the stops Thea-Rasche-Straße , Gateway Gardens Mitte and Gateway Gardens Nord (until December 10, 2011 Roebuck Lane ) are served. Since the 2012/2013 timetable change on December 9, 2012, the new bus route 77 has also been running from Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport to Gateway Gardens, depending on the shift times. This also gives hotel guests of the Park-Inn Hotel an alternative to the chargeable hotel shuttle. Since the 2017/2018 timetable change on December 10, 2017, the OF-67 bus line has been running for a shorter period and no longer serves the stops in Gateway Gardens. Alternatively, the new express bus route X17 connects the Gateway Gardens with Neu-Isenburg and Hofheim am Taunus .

Web links

Commons : Gateway Gardens  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lea Beiermann: Here the world is shown what order is , FAZ , August 30, 2014, p. 11
  2. ^ Jürgen Schultheis: Gateway Gardens district. For creative people with a laptop. Frankfurter Rundschau from June 7, 2008.
  3. ↑ Magistrate's draft M 11 , passed by the city council on March 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Yes to Gateway Gardens. Frankfurter Rundschau from February 1, 2008
  5. ↑ Condor moves headquarters to Gateway Gardens. on: FAZ.net May 7, 2010
  6. ↑ airliners.de - SunExpress is moving to Frankfurt on April 12, 2012
  7. ↑ DB Schenker “Headquarters of DB Schenker from 2013 in Frankfurt am Main”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release dated February 25, 2011, accessed September 4, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dbschenker.com  
  8. ↑ a b Press release from Gateway Gardens ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gateway-gardens.de
  9. ↑ Next stop: Gateway Gardens . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . October 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ Gateway Gardens S-Bahn connection (DB website, accessed on July 16, 2017)
  11. ↑ sabu: S-Bahn station is coming. Financing secured for Gateway Gardens . In: Frankfurter Rundschau v. September 12, 2014.
  12. ↑ Preparations for the S-Bahn completed (FAZ, accessed on December 29, 2015)
  13. ↑ Take the S-Bahn to Gateway Gardens (FR, accessed December 29, 2015)
  14. ↑ Poster for the planned construction work from bauarbeiten.bahn.de (pdf) accessed on September 11, 2019
  15. ↑ Frankfurt: New Gateway Gardens S-Bahn station opened. Hessischer Rundfunk, December 9, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 8 ° 36'  E