Goethestrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
| Goethestrasse | |
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| Goethestrasse and Horst-Lippmann-Platz | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Downtown |
| Created | 1892 |
| Connecting roads | Steinweg (East) |
| Cross streets | Neue Mainzer Strasse , Luginsland, Horst-Lippmann-Platz, Alte Rothofstrasse, Rathenauplatz , |
| Places | Opernplatz (west), Goetheplatz (east) |
| Buildings | - |
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| Street length | 290 m |
The Goethe Street is a street in Frankfurt . It runs from Goetheplatz in the east to Opernplatz in the west, parallel to the south of Große Bockenheimer Straße (better known as Freßgass ). It is considered a shopping street for textiles and consumer goods of the upscale sector. In addition to chain stores, there are long-established family businesses. Between Goethestrasse and Grosse Bockenheimer Strasse is Kleine Bockenheimer Strasse with the Frankfurt Jazzkeller , Jazzhaus and other bars. With an average of 2,040 pedestrians per hour (2011), it is the third most frequented luxury shopping street in Germany.
history
The road was laid out from 1892 to 1894 as a road breakthrough south of the Große Bockenheimer Gasse in order to improve the flow of traffic between Opernplatz and Roßmarkt . For this purpose the magistrate bought 37 buildings to have them demolished and to make way for the new street.
Until 1933 there were some galleries in the street that exhibited avant-garde art, the art dealers Ackermann und Sauerwein , which u. a. Käthe Kollwitz led and Heinrich Trittler (owner Paul Schütz, later Karl Vonderbank), who u. a. Emil Nolde, Erich Grube and Fifi Kreutzer ran and the art salon Oskar Hermes.
The original development was largely destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II. Today's street scene is characterized by sober functional buildings from the reconstruction period and the 1970s.
traffic
Goethestrasse has been designated as a bicycle route since 1992 , but is also released for local traffic with motor vehicles. For motor traffic, Goethestrasse is set up as a one-way street from the direction of Hochstrasse and from the direction of Börsenstrasse to the intersection of Alte Rothofstrasse, where individual motorized traffic is diverted south to Junghofstrasse.
Due to its character as a shopping street, the volume of traffic on Goethestrasse is very high. Due to the very high volume of motor traffic for a bicycle street and the scarce parking space at the same time, conflicts between bicycle and motor traffic regularly arise in Goethestrasse.
Goethestrasse is well connected to the Frankfurt local transport network. The Hauptwache high-speed train junction is to the east and the Alte Oper underground station to the west . From 1894 to 1986 the Goethestrasse was used by several lines of the city tram between the stations Opernplatz and Goetheplatz.
shops
Today, apart from owner-managed stores, there are many branches of large luxury brands on Goethestrasse, including: Armani , Bulgari , Chanel , Gucci , Hermès , Jimmy Choo , Louis Vuitton , Moncler , Prada , Tiffany , Versace , Vertu and Wempe .
Web links
- Goethestrasse at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ Jones Lang LaSalle: Cologne's Schildergasse is the most visited shopping street in Germany ... ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ADFC Frankfurt, frankfurt up-to-date, issue 5/2001 ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2007 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.
- ↑ ADFC Frankfurt, frankfurt aktuell, issue 2/2001 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 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.
- ↑ Historical Frankfurt network plans
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 51 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 25 ″ E