Grüneburgweg

Grüneburgweg
Street in Frankfurt am Main
House number 113 was the focus of one of the first street battles in the Frankfurt urban warfare .
Basic data
place	Frankfurt am Main
District	West end
Hist. Names	Gailsweg
Connecting roads	Eschersheimer Landstraße (beginning), Siesmayerstraße (end)
Cross streets	In Sachsenlager, Körnerstrasse, Im Trutz Frankfurt , Leerbachstrasse, Reuterweg , Telemannstrasse, Parkstrasse, Oberlindau, Unterlindau, Feldbergstrasse, Wolfsgangstrasse , Liebigstrasse, August-Siebert-Strasse, Fürstenbergerstrasse, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse, Wiesenau, Myliusstrasse
Technical specifications
Street length	1,348 m

In 1943, the editor Benno Reifenberg lived in corner house number 153 .

The Grüneburgweg is a street in the Frankfurt district of Westend .

location

The street begins behind number 41 of the Eschersheimer Landstraße and runs in a westerly or northwestern direction to Siesmayerstraße , behind whose number 61 it ends. The Grüneburgweg is the geographical continuation of the Fichardstrasse in the east and ends in the west opposite the Palmengarten . The last section of the road marks the southern end of the Grüneburg Park .

history

The original Gailsweg was renamed in 1846 after a castle-like estate built in the 14th century . The property was acquired by Goethe's grandfather in 1714 and later became the property of the Bethmann - Metzler family . Since 1789, the property was called Zurgrün Burg and was a meeting place for large Frankfurt society. In 1837 the Rothschild family acquired the property (owned by the City of Frankfurt since 1940) and had the Grüneburg Castle built, which was destroyed in 1944.

Special buildings

The empty house with number 113 was the first house occupied only by students in the fall of 1970 during the Frankfurt house-to-house war . When the house was evacuated by the police in autumn 1971, the first of numerous street battles occurred in Frankfurt's Westend. It was designed in 1886 together with the neighboring house number 115 by the architects Ludwig Neher and Aage von Kauffmann . Both houses, which have separate entrances and are fully interconnected inside, are now also under monument protection, as are buildings number 119 and 141 to 153 on Grüneburgweg. They are all in the last section on the south side of the street south of Grüneburg Park. Benno Reifenberg (1892–1970), an editor at the time of the Frankfurter Zeitung and later one of the publishers of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , lived in house number 153 at the end of Grüneburgweg at the corner of Siesmayerstrasse .

Property number 128 is located on the north side of the street, directly on the edge of the park. The former “Stoltzehäuschen”, which the Frankfurt dialect poet Friedrich Stoltze (1816-1891) had moved into in 1873, was located on the north side of the street .

The German journalist and polar explorer Theodor Lerner (1866–1931) died in house number 95 on May 12, 1931 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Grüneburgweg in Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2016 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. at Strassenverzeichnis.Deutschlandblick.com  
2. ^ Kurt Wahlig: Das Frankfurter Straßeennamen-Büchlein (Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1963), p. 59f
3. ↑ Object description at STRABAG ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed on May 1, 2013)  
4. ↑ The Bockenheimer and their side streets (accessed on May 1, 2013; PDF; 79 kB)

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 4.5 ″  E