Goethehöfe
Goethehöfe refers to an ensemble of buildings under construction in the Großer Hirschgraben in the old town of Frankfurt am Main . The property is adjacent to the Goethe House , the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The German Romantic Museum is being built at the same time as the adjacent new building . A residential complex, the museum and a theater, the Cantate Hall , are to be combined around an urban courtyard with public, cultural and private uses. The opening of the museum is planned for 2020.
Historical environment
Neighboring buildings are the Free German Hochstift and Goethe's birthplace with the listed fountain courtyard and gardens in the courtyard. The monastery building was restored by the painter and architect Theo Kellner between 1947 and 1949 together with the Goethe House , which was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . After the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , which resided at Großer Hirschgraben 19-21 from 1957 to 2012, the previous site was vacated for the long-planned construction of a German Romantic Museum . The previous collection focuses on manuscripts, real objects and paintings from the Goethe era are to be taken over. The museum extension with the Goethe House is planned as part of a larger ensemble that will connect the modernized Cantate Hall as the new home of the Fliegende Volksbühne as well as apartments and a café around a common courtyard.
Urban planning concept
15 offices were invited to the architectural competition called Goethehöfe , which was announced by ABG Frankfurt Holding in October 2013 . The jury awarded three second prizes in June 2014 and asked the winners to improve their designs within two months of the final decision. On September 24th, a successor committee to the jury unanimously decided on a combination of two designs. One of them is the urban design of the ensemble Goethehöfe - German Romantic Museum of the Landes & Partner office, which will realize the Goethehöfe with offices and studios, a courtyard and around 3,000 square meters of living space and restore the Cantate Hall. The new museum building is being built by the Christoph Mäckler office , which is, however, bound to the urban planning concept by Michael A. Landes . The two offices form a planning community. The Goethehöfe are located in a densely built-up block that is bordered by Bethmann-Straße in the south, Kaiserstraße in the west, Am Salzhaus street in the north and Großer Hirschgraben in the east. Within this block, the property with its U-shaped existing development around a central courtyard and the border development to the neighboring properties forms a "micro-block", comprises around 2,475 m² and is cut almost square with an edge length of approx. 50 × 50 m.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Enrico Santifaller: Goethehöfe in Frankfurt - Frankfurt's cultural heart . Article in the Frankfurter Neue Presse from April 21, 2015 (accessed June 30, 2016)
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40.7 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 39.6" E