Höhenstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
| Höhenstrasse | |
|---|---|
 |
|
 |
|
| View from the east into the Höhenstraße | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Northrend-East |
| Created | Mid 19th century |
| Connecting roads | Rothschildallee (northwest) and Habsburgerallee (southeast) |
| Cross streets | Burgstrasse , Heidestrasse , Berger Strasse |
| Buildings | Höhenstraße underground station |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 275 m |
The Höhenstraße , until 1877 Taunusstraße , is a city street in the northeastern inner city area of Frankfurt am Main , on the border between the districts of Nordend and Bornheim . The Höhenstraße is by far the oldest and therefore the narrowest section of the Frankfurter Alleenring , the second Frankfurter Ringstraße running through the inner city districts of the Wilhelminian era.
Surname
The name "Höhe" was the name of the Taunus low mountain range on the western edge of Frankfurt, which was common until the 18th century . When the name was changed from Taunusstrasse to Höhenstrasse at the end of the 1870s, the patron saint was retained because both names have the same meaning.
course
According to the current street name, the street is only two blocks, about 270 meters long, and runs from the transition from Rothschildallee in a south-easterly direction until it merges into Habsburgerallee . The three cross streets are Burgstrasse , Heidestrasse and Berger Strasse . The section up to the Sandweg is now part of the Habsburgerallee.
Due to its urban history, the Höhenstraße, with a street width of around 21 meters, is considerably narrower than its continuation, which was laid out around 40 years later as a representative Wilhelminian-era ring road. Habsburgerallee is almost 50 meters wide on Sandweg, and Rothschildallee north of Burgstraße is even 60 meters wide.
history
Today's Höhenstraße was built in the middle of the 19th century as a crossroad to the Landstraße, the Sandweg, which connects Bornheim with Frankfurt. The area was in the Bornheimer Heide and, unlike today, belonged entirely to the Bornheim district.
Around 1860, the then still suburban development of Bornheim expanded into the northeastern part of the Bornheimer Heide. The development took place along what was then Gelnhäuser (today: Berger) Straße. In 1862, the Höhenstraße, under its then name Taunusstraße, formed the south-western boundary of the Bornheim development, while the neighboring streets to the west were still being planned, including the “Frankfurter” half of Berger Straße. At that time, building areas in Frankfurt and Bornheim were already growing together on Sandweg.
Until around 1870, the heath was parceled out, covered with Wilhelminian-style, urban streets and squares, and then built on quickly. The late Classicist suburban villas that had already been built gave way to a dense, five-story inner-city development of residential and commercial buildings. Tram lines that crossed Taunusstrasse were laid out in Berger Strasse and Sandweg.
After the incorporation of Bornheim in 1877 there were two Taunusstrasse in Frankfurt, which is why the Bornheimer copy was renamed "Höhenstrasse", while Taunusstrasse at what was then the station of the same name was allowed to keep its name and after the abandonment of this station eleven years later it was expanded into one of the main streets of the station district has been.
In the 1890s, today's Alleenring was planned, a half-ring that was placed around the then urban area to the north. While Rothschildallee was relatively easy to plan on the heather north of Burgstrasse, which was still undeveloped, the layout of the southern continuation, Habsburgerallee, in today's Ostend am , which is divided into many gardens and sloping down towards the Main ( Bornheimer Hang ), extended to 1900.
While the street width of the Höhenstraße, which is considerably smaller than its two continuations, was primarily an aesthetic and urban planning problem in the past, it became a traffic obstacle in the course of mass motorization, for which the Alleenring was expanded into an inner-city high-performance street.
By demolishing corner houses to the west of the important intersection with Berger Strasse, the widening of the lanes could be relocated to the north side of Berger Strasse, but the "torn open" corner of the block was never closed and to this day offers an unsatisfactory urban development with fallow areas and fire walls on a busy traffic and a shopping street.
In the 1970s, the Höhenstraße underground station was built in an open excavation at the same intersection between Berger and Höhenstraße and opened in 1980.
traffic
Höhenstraße is the namesake of the subway station of the same name on the B-route (line U4) that runs under Berger Straße . There are exits at both ends of the station on both sides of Höhenstraße. Bus route 32 also runs over the entire Alleenring and thus also through Höhenstraße.
In road traffic, the Höhenstraße is part of two federal highways ( 3 and 8 ). There are four lanes of motor vehicle traffic on Höhenstraße.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '25 " N , 8 ° 42' 3.5" E