Skyscraper master plan
The high-rise master plan is a preparatory plan in Frankfurt am Main . In it are defined areas where high-rise buildings should be built to so-called skyscraper clusters ( platoons to form). This procedure enabled the creation of the most important skyline in Germany. The plan is flexibly adapted as required.
history
The development of the high-rise and high-rise planning in the post-war period
The inner city , which was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in the Second World War, required investments from both private and public authorities to rebuild . The core city within the system ring (old ramparts) was between 51 and over 70% destroyed. The banking district area was no exception. The construction activity was stimulated by the bizonal administration of the Americans, which was based in Frankfurt. The choice of the new capital of post-war Germany , in which both Bonn and Frankfurt were discussed, encouraged investment here, as Frankfurt, as the administrative seat of the Americans, had good prospects of becoming the capital.
In downtown Frankfurt within the system ring, construction was carried out at an enormous speed. Especially in the banking district, which was better suited for private investments than the medieval core due to the plot of land, private investors built one commercial building after another. The rest of the city center was rebuilt by the public, so that the once medieval city center could be kept free of high-rise buildings despite the enormous urge to invest. Applications for higher development than indicated in the building area plan were submitted early on in Frankfurt. Although the then valid building area plan only allowed five-storey buildings in the city center, up to 14 storeys were built through dispensation . This exemption procedure quickly raised the question of where high-rise buildings should and should not be allowed. Since the first investors could be convinced of the city with exemptions, the procedure had to be continued in order to be able to book further investments for the city area. As a result, the demands of investors increased. Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch (from 1967 to 1979 head of the city planning office in Frankfurt and then from 1980 to 1988 head of the overall planning department) writes in his book about the history of planning since 1945:
"The applications for private high-rise buildings followed so quickly that the city planners struggled to find reasonably convincing justifications for the many new high-rise locations in the city center that investors were demanding."
It was not until the 1960s that public protests against the takeover of residential areas through office use in high-rise and commercial buildings became loud. The West End was particularly hard hit .
The skyscraper concepts since 1953
The plans that deal with possible locations for high-rise buildings have been discussed in Frankfurt many times since the end of the Second World War.
“But the plans have been overturned again and again by development, that is, by changing views on their usefulness and importance, by the implementation of ever greater building heights, the invention of ever new designs and, last but not least, certainly also by entrepreneurial initiatives and changing location preferences . "
The Wallservitut
After the ramparts were no longer needed, they were to be converted into green areas, whereupon a Prussian law was passed to protect the ramparts. The Wallservitut of 1907 states that the former ramparts, today's ring of enclosures, are to be kept free from development and are to be protected and preserved as urban green areas. A Prussian law of 1903 is the basis for this.
The first skyscraper plan
The question “where can high-rise buildings go?” Was answered in 1953 with the first high-rise plan. This plan limits the high-rise locations to a few prominent points and was largely implemented. The wall system concept was integrated in this high-rise plan, which states that the high-rise buildings should be built along the wall system at right angles to it. However, far more high-rise buildings were built in the years up to 1956 than indicated in the plan, although some possible high-rise locations were built at a lower height.
The finger plan
The finger plan from 1967/1968 in the aegis of the head of planning, Hans Kampffmeyer, was a rough sketch in which several strips were drawn in, starting from the plant ring, in which intensive development was to be permitted. These building strips spread apart like the fingers of a splayed hand. A compact development was also planned for the areas between the fingers. It was a plan “under the table”, combined with internal administrative planning, not a legally valid development plan. When the population's resistance became visible in the Frankfurt house-to-house warfare in 1971 , a “change ban” was imposed on Frankfurt's West End, and the finger plan was a thing of the past. On the basis of the finger plan, however, building law commitments had been given in anticipation of construction plans that did not yet exist. At the time, the planning and construction department referred to the corresponding building projects as "corpses in the basement". In order not to be liable for damages, the city had to issue building permits. One of these "basement corpses" is the Westend-Center (today Hochhaus am Park ) on Fürstenbergerstraße. It forms the “fingernail” of the northern finger in the Westend designed at the time.
The cluster plan
The 1974 cluster plan or banking plan was drawn up solely for the banking district and divided the high-rise buildings into clusters, next to which there were zones of low development. This plan wanted to give the banks' urge to build ever taller buildings an urban framework.
The city master plan
The city master plan from 1983 was designed by Speerplan and covers a large part of the city center. This long-term concept, which was developed due to the displacement of housing from the inner city, should take the city into account. The most important goal was to secure living in the city and still create central jobs. In the same year, the then young architect HR Hiegel designed the unrealized campanile near the main train station. The development axes that were discussed for the first time in the finger plan were revised in the city master plan and supplemented by additional axes. In these newly identified development axes, an investment volume of 1 billion DM was to be realized. The plan was also drawn up to ensure investment security, manage capital investments and thus keep investment pressure out of other urban areas. An important part of the plan was the upgrading of the east of Frankfurt. For this reason, the eastern development axis "Hanauer Landstrasse" was added. Despite the metropolitan character, which is increasingly shaping Frankfurt, there was and still is an extensive mix of functions, so that although the main areas of use have developed in districts, monostructured districts have only rarely emerged. The master plan should counteract the ongoing separation of functions . As part of the city master plan, a job census was carried out in Frankfurt in 1970 and 1977/78. At that time, 70% of the employees in Frankfurt worked in the tertiary sector, but the national average was only 49%. In Frankfurt there was already a supra-regionally important service focus (especially banks) in the structure of the central locations of the FRG.
The financial district master plan
The framework plan from 1990, which was presented by the Offenbach architects Novotny, Mähner and Associates, suggested new high-rise locations. These were realized through the development plan No. 702 - banking district. He mainly deals with the traditional banking district and still makes some statements about the surrounding areas, such as the station district and the Westend. In the areas mentioned, it was shown how the quality of urban development can be improved. In addition, it was determined how and where it could be compacted in an urban way. Like the city master plan, this plan should also guide investments and keep office use out of residential areas such as the Westend. The existing public transport system should be better used by densifying it in well-developed areas. In this framework plan, reference is made to the Wall Service and from this a concept is developed that will keep the wall systems free and provide for a gradation. The gradation should be such that high-rise buildings are built in the "second row", which means that only low buildings are permitted directly on the ramparts and high-rise buildings may only stand in the "second row". Exceptions are only permitted at corner points as a gate situation. Another stipulation is the maximum height of 160 m for new high-rise buildings.
Development plans for the banking district
There are a number of development plans for the banking district, but not all of them have become legally binding:
- Development plan no. 281 - between Neue Mainzer Strasse and Junghofstrasse
- Building plan no. 669 - Bankenviertel I - between Neue Mainzer Strasse and Neue Schlesingerstrasse
- Building plan no. 670 - Bankenviertel II - between Neue Mainzer Strasse and Taunusanlage
However, the procedures for these development plans were discontinued and merged into B-Plan No. 702 - banking district.
This development plan was developed on the basis of the framework plan for the banking district from 1990 and implements the high-rise locations for the banking district. The aim of the development plan is to densify the inner city and to secure the banking district. The designation of living space, storeys and restaurants is done in order to increase the proportion of inner-city living space and to liven up the district.
Planning for the Westend
The broad public support for the new building projects until 1974 and the generosity of the building authorities until the beginning of the 1970s, as well as the bonus procedures for the high-rise buildings led to the fact that the population was sensitized and protested against the advance of high-rise building into residential areas, so that it was necessary to to secure residential use in the Westend through B-plans. The Westend framework development plan from 1971, known as the Schüsselplan, comprised the residential area with high-rise buildings. The final plan from 1972/74 implemented this idea in such a way that a residential area was comprised of mixed areas.
The high-rise development plan from 1998
The draft for a new high-rise development plan, which the architects Jourdan & Müller conceived under the title Frankfurt 2000 , was presented to the public in September 1997. The draft envisaged 18 new high-rise locations in three “compression zones”. An important guiding principle of the plan was the “group concept”, which states that the high-rise buildings should stand together in groups. Wentz, responsible for planning at the time, said that this concept would keep other parts of the city free of high-rise buildings “... and preserve their urban, social and cultural identity.” This is intended to limit the pressure to invest to three defined high-rise areas.
The first compression zone is the traditional banking district , in which Jourdan & Müller proposed the construction of five high-rise buildings with heights between 130 and 228 meters. The second congestion zone Messe / Europaviertel includes the exhibition grounds and the area of the directly adjacent main freight station , which was abandoned in 1996 and on which a new city quarter (the Europaviertel) is planned. A total of five high-rise buildings have been proposed for the area, including the 369-meter-high Millennium Tower . The Parkviertel was intended as the third compression zone with six high-rise locations. The Parkviertel was to become a new urban district on the track apron of the main train station , as Deutsche Bahn wanted to replace the above-ground terminal station with a through station in the underground as part of the Frankfurt 21 project .
Of the 18 proposed locations, 16 were approved by the City of Frankfurt. The decision to build a high-rise on the Allianz site at the Taunusanlage (90 meters) and a high-rise on the former Telenorma site (160 meters) was postponed.
The compression zones are described in detail below.
Financial district
The banking district is not an independent district. It consists of the western part of the city center , the southern part of the west end along Mainzer Landstrasse and the eastern part of the Bahnhofsviertel . It represents the classic development zone for high-rise buildings. On the approximately 2.5 km² there are three buildings with a height of over 200 meters ( Commerzbank Tower , Westendstrasse 1 , Main Tower ). The zone is very well connected to the local public transport network. The S-Bahn stations Taunusanlage and Hauptwache (S1 – S6, S8 – S9), the underground stations Willy-Brandt-Platz (U1 – U5 and U8) and Alte Oper (U6 – U7) as well as the main train station are fast reachable.
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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MAX | 228 m | City center , Große Gallusstr. 10-14, Neue Schlesingergasse 10-16 | Deutsche Bank | The skyscraper was supposed to replace the Deutsche Bank dealer center. The start of construction was initially planned for 2003, but planning was stopped after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . In 2015, Deutsche Bank sold its entire site, known as the Deutsche Bank Triangle , to a project developer. He plans to rebuild the area with four high-rise buildings from 2017, again with a 228-meter high-rise building at the original MAX location. |
High-rise complex Neue Mainzer Strasse | 197 m | City center , Neue Mainzer Str. 57–59, Junghofstrasse 27 | Frankfurter Sparkasse , Württembergische Hypothekenbank | The property neighbors planned a shared twin tower. In 2001 an architecture competition was launched, which KSP Engel and Zimmermann Architects won. However, the plans came to nothing during the subsequent slump in the office property market. There are currently (as of 2016) no known high-rise plans for the location. |
High-rise Bankhaus Metzler / LHB Internationale Handelsbank | 175 m | City center , Große Gallusstr. 16-18 | Bankhaus Metzler , LHB Internationale Handelsbank | In 2001 the neighbors planned a new high-rise building together, but the plans came to nothing during the subsequent lull in the office property market. Bankhaus Metzler gave up its headquarters at Große Gallusstraße 18 in 2014 and acquired the property at Große Gallusstraße 16 from LHB Internationale Handelsbank. Metzler sold both properties in 2015 to Tishman Speyer Properties , which has had an unnamed 185-meter-high office and building since the beginning of 2016 Erect residential buildings. |
Kaiserkarree | 135 m | City center , Taunustor 3, Neue Mainzer Str. 37–39 | Rheinische Hypothekenbank | The property was sold to Commerz Real AG and Tishman Speyer Properties in 2007 . After the plans were revised, the project was renamed Taunusturm . It includes a 170 meter high office tower and a 63 meter high residential building. The buildings were erected between 2011 and 2013 without pre-letting. |
Skyscraper Frankfurter Sparkasse / Landeszentralbank | 130 m | City center , Neue Mainzer Str. 47–51 | Frankfurter Sparkasse , state central bank | No known plans. |
Messe / Europaviertel
The exhibition grounds extend over the districts of Bockenheim , Gallus and Westend-Süd . The area can be reached via the underground line U4 ( Festhalle / Messe ). The main train station is only one stop away. The best-known buildings are the Messeturm , Westend Gate , Kastor and Pollux . The new development area Europaviertel has been under construction since 2006 on the site of the abandoned main freight station directly at the exhibition grounds . An extension of the underground line B is to connect the Europaviertel with the main station and the city center in the future .
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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Millennium Tower | 369 m | Gallus , Güterplatz 3–7 | Vivico | Originally planned as the tallest building in Europe. Building law has existed since 2001. Most recently, the project was presented as a building mass model at the Cityscape 2007 real estate fair in Dubai . There are currently (as of 2016) no known high-rise plans for the location. |
Tower 1 | 210 m | Gallus , Osloer Strasse | Vivico | In 2002, the architect Jean Nouvel presented a design for a 212 meter high office tower, which, however, was never realized. In 2014, an architecture competition was announced, which Meurer Architekten won with a design for a 175 meter high office and hotel tower. Construction is to begin when tenants for the hotel and office space have been found. |
Tower 185 | 185 m | Gallus , Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35–37 | Vivico | Erected from 2008–2011. The main tenant is the auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers . The building height has been increased to 200 meters. |
Tower 2 | 160 m | Gallus , Osloer Strasse | Vivico | In 2008 the Global Hyatt Corporation planned a 113 meter high hotel tower on the property, but in 2013 Hyatt withdrew from the operating contract for the “Grand Hyatt Frankfurt”. Since the beginning of 2016, gsp Gesellschaft für Städtebau und Projektentwicklung has been building a 176-meter high-rise with 401 apartments on 47 floors, the tallest residential building in Germany. |
Skyscraper at the former police headquarters | 145 m | Gallus , Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 11 | State of Hesse | The state of Hesse has been negotiating the sale of the property with an investor since 2010. The problem here is that the planned extension of the U5 underground line under the property could restrict the new development including high-rise construction. |
Park district
A new city quarter was to be created as the Parkviertel on the platform in front of the main train station between the Gutleutviertel and Gallus districts in connection with the Frankfurt 21 project of Deutsche Bahn . It was planned to handle the rail traffic completely underground, to expand the main station from a terminus to a through station and to develop the areas that would become free for residential and office use.
The following six high-rise buildings were to be built:
- Skyscraper Deutsche Bahn 3 (290 m)
- Skyscraper Deutsche Bahn 2 (250 m)
- Skyscraper Deutsche Bahn 4 (230 m)
- Deutsche Post West skyscraper (175 m)
- Skyscraper Deutsche Bahn 1 (170 m)
- Deutsche Post Ost high-rise building (160 m)
In 2002 the railway gave up the project for financial reasons. With RheinMain plus , a follow-up project was presented that no longer provides for tunneling under the track apron.
The 2008 high-rise development plan
In 2005 the city of Frankfurt commissioned Jourdan & Müller to update the high-rise development plan from 1998. Although more high-rise buildings since then were built (about Westhafentower , Gallileo , PalaisQuartier , Skyper or) approved ( Opera Tower , new European Central Bank , Gatehouse II, high-rise on the former Tele Norma's area) was, however, among them was none of the projects from the first Skyscraper master plan. As part of the update, the six high-rise locations that had disappeared due to the failure of Frankfurt 21 should also be deleted from the plan.
The new design was presented to the public for the first time in March 2007. This envisaged 16 new locations for a total of 29 individual projects, 12 buildings from a height of 100 meters and 17 buildings below the 100 meter mark (so-called “high points”). The principle of bulk formation in the large clusters of the banking district and Messe / Europaviertel was retained and supplemented by a new cluster "Northern City Center" with residential high-rise buildings on Stiftstrasse and on the Turmpalast area in the vicinity of the Palaisquartier high-rise buildings. Deviating from the cluster concept, Jourdan & Müller also suggested locations where there are no high-rise buildings so far, such as at the main station , at the Osthafenmole and at the Ratswegkreisel.
In 2008, the city of Frankfurt created its own template based on the recommendations of Jourdan & Müller with 25 individual projects at a total of 17 locations. Almost all the locations suggested by Jourdan were adopted, but many were reduced in height. 3 of the 5 proposed high-rise buildings on the Emser Bridge in the Europaviertel, one of two high-rise buildings on Hafenstrasse, one of two high-rise buildings on the Turmpalast area and a high-rise building for the DZ Bank on Platz der Republik were deleted. A third skyscraper has been added on the Maintor area and a skyscraper at the festival hall . The high-rise for DZ Bank was finally included in the plan, albeit with a reduced height. The high-rise at the main train station, proposed by Jourdan & Müller with a height of 180 meters and initially reduced to 100 meters by the city, was ultimately granted a height of 200 meters.
The expanded high-rise master plan with 26 new high-rise buildings in a total of 18 locations was passed on December 11, 2008 with the votes of the CDU, the Greens and the FDP in the city parliament.
An updated version of the high-rise master plan is to be adopted in 2018.
Financial district
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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Marienturm | 210 m | Bahnhofsviertel , Taunusanlage 9–11 | DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale , DB Real Estate, Degi | In 2004 there were initial considerations to demolish the Taunusanlage 11 high-rise in order to create a new 250-meter-high building. The maximum height was finally limited to 210 meters due to the threat of shadowing in the area. In 2013, the Hochtief construction company acquired the Taunusanlage 9-10 plots and presented plans for a tower that was only 155 meters high. The property at Taunusanlage 11 is no longer part of the planning, the high-rise was renovated in 2011-2013. The construction of the 155 meter high Marienturm began in 2016 and should be completed in early 2019. |
Skyscraper on Republic Square | 175 m | Westend-Süd , Republic Square | DZ Bank | DZ Bank is planning a third high-rise between the high-rise buildings Westendstrasse 1 and City-Haus I as an extension of its headquarters. The location was initially rejected by the city of Frankfurt because of the threat of shading the West End, but ultimately approved. In return, DZ Bank must undertake to concentrate new jobs in the tower and to convert the Union Investment high-rise into a residential tower in order to meet the city's demand for a 30 percent residential share. In 2014, however, DZ Bank sold the Union Investment high-rise to DIC Asset AG . |
WINX | 110 m | Old town , Neue Mainzer Straße 6–12 | DIC asset | Part of the Maintor project. The plans initially envisaged a 150 meter high tower, but the height was reduced in negotiations with the city of Frankfurt. Construction work started in 2015, and completion is scheduled for the end of 2017. Union Investment rented around 60 percent of the office space before construction began . In November 2014, the WINX high-rise was sold to the entrepreneur Susanne Klatten . |
Maintor Porta | 70 m | Old town , Weißfrauenstrasse 7–9 | DIC asset | Erected from 2012 to 2014 as part of the Maintor project. Union Investment moved into the high-rise in 2015 as the sole tenant. |
Maintor Panorama | 64 m | Old town , Neue Mainzer Straße 2-4 | DIC asset | Erected from 2013 to 2015 as part of the Maintor project. The main tenant is the commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle . |
Allianz high-rise | 60 m | Westend-Süd , Taunusanlage | Allianz SE | A 90-meter-high building on the Allianz property at Taunusanlage was already being discussed for the high-rise master plan from 1998, but a decision was not made at the time. From 2003 to 2006, Allianz redeveloped the property, keeping the construction site for the high-rise building free. The alliance brought up a height of 170 meters on several occasions, similar to the neighboring Opera Tower , but the city of Frankfurt stuck to its negative attitude because of the threat of shadowing the Opernplatz . The high-rise was finally included in the new high-rise master plan from 2008, but only with a maximum height of 60 meters. In the meantime (as of 2016), Allianz is no longer planning a high-rise on the site, as all high-rise variants at this point would result in shading of the Opernplatz. |
Mainzer Landstrasse 36 | 60 m | Westend-Süd , Mainzer Landstrasse 36 | St Martins Property Group | The high-rise building was abandoned again due to the threat of shading the residential area behind in the Westend. From 2015 to 2016, a new eight-story building called “Vista” was built on the property. |
Messe / Europaviertel
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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High-rise Theodor-Heuss-Allee 2 | 140 m | Westend-Süd , Theodor-Heuss-Allee 2 | DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale | The 62 meter high “Poseidon House” built in 1986 at the intersection of Theodor-Heuss-Allee and Hamburger Allee was the headquarters of Aventis (now Sanofi ) from 2000 to 2003 . In 2008 the property was included in the high-rise master plan as a potential high-rise location. In 2010 ING-DiBa rented the entire building for its new German headquarters. In order to be able to provide the required 40,000 square meters of office space, part of the Poseidon House was demolished and replaced with a higher part. In 2013 ING-DiBa moved into the building complex that has been called "Leo" since then. |
Kulturcampus Hochhaus Senckenberganlage 15 | 140 m | Westend-Süd , Senckenberganlage 15 | ABG Frankfurt Holding | The 116 meter high AfE tower of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University was on the property from 1970 until the demolition on February 2, 2014 . This belonged to the Bockenheim campus of the Goethe University and until March 2013 housed the offices and seminar rooms of the social sciences, educational sciences and psychology departments. On August 23, 2011, the state of Hesse sold the Bockenheim campus to the city's own ABG Frankfurt Holding , as the Goethe University had decided to close the Bockenheim site and relocate the departments to the Westend campus and the Riedberg campus . In September 2015 Commerz Real acquired the property for the open-ended real estate fund hausInvest and is planning the construction of a 140 meter high hotel and residential building on the Senckenberganlage. For the first 16 floors, a long-term lease for 25 years was signed with Meliá Hotels International , who want to open a four-star hotel here. Up to 300 apartments will be built from the 17th to the 40th floor. An architecture competition was concluded in January 2016, but there was no clear winner, as only three equal second prizes were awarded. The three architectural offices were then commissioned to revise their designs. In March 2016, the revised design by Cyrus Moser Architects was chosen as the winner. Construction of the hotel and residential high- rise (also known as the hybrid high-rise ) is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2016. The property for the second possible high-rise building with a height of 100 meters ( called the North Office Building) is still owned by ABG Frankfurt Holding. |
Skyscraper at the Matthäuskirche | 130 m | Gallus , Hohenstaufenstrasse | Evangelical Hope Congregation Frankfurt am Main | In 2002 the regional assembly of the Evangelical Regional Association decided to demolish the St. Matthew Church and sell the property, since the church, which is designed for 600 people, is only visited by around 30 people per service on average. The planned demolition was criticized from various sides. The architect and town planner Jochem Jourdan made the proposal in 2007 to preserve a considerable part of the church building and to integrate it into a new high-rise building. This compromise solution was specified in the high-rise master plan for 2008: There it is stated that the St. Matthew's Church should be preserved as far as possible and, if necessary, be integrated into a new high-rise. There are currently (as of 2016) no known high-rise plans for the location. |
Hafenstrasse / Adam-Riese-Strasse high-rise | 110 m | Gallus , Hafenstrasse, Adam-Riese-Strasse | A skyscraper between the tracks of the main train station and the 93 meter high skyscraper at Hafenstrasse 51 is to form the southern end of the exhibition center. There are currently (as of 2016) no known high-rise plans for the location. | |
Skyscraper at the Emser Bridge (north) | 100 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee (construction site 42a) | Aurelis | In 2013, Messe Frankfurt GmbH bought the property directly adjacent to the exhibition grounds. With the construction project “Messeeingang Süd”, an office and hotel building with at least 35,000 square meters of gross floor area is to be created. In 2014, the architectural firm Cyrus Moser Architects won a corresponding architecture competition. The start of construction for the 100-meter high-rise was planned for 2016 and completion for 2018. In 2015, however, the start of construction was postponed indefinitely. |
Kulturcampus office building north | 100 m | Westend-Süd , Senckenberganlage | ABG Frankfurt Holding | Two high-rise buildings can be built on the site of the former AfE tower . A section has the Commerz Real acquired and plans from 2016 the construction of a 140 meter-high hotel and residential building (project Senckenberganlage 15). ABG Frankfurt Holding is still looking for a buyer for the 100 meter high office building north (as of 2016). |
Skyscraper at the Emser Bridge (south) | 80 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee (construction site 29) | Aurelis | In 2014 the property was bought by P + B Planen und Bauen GmbH & Co. KG and the Porsche Design Group. The clients are planning an exclusive residential high-rise, the “Porsche Design Tower Frankfurt”. The architectural firm Grüntuch Ernst Planungsgesellschaft won an architecture competition in 2015 with a design for a 100 meter high residential tower. However, the second-placed design by blauraum Architects, who also designed a 100-meter tower, is to be implemented. Construction is scheduled to start in 2016 and be completed in 2018. |
Kulturcampus residential tower | 70 m | Westend-Süd , Robert-Mayer-Strasse | Aurelis | The property is still used by the Goethe University for the Institute for Computer Science. |
Skyscraper at Europagarten (south) | 60 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee 101–103 (construction site 22–23) | Aurelis | The Nassauische homestead has bought the land and building since November 2014 residential tower "Praedium" with 242 apartments. The 66 meter high building should be completed in 2017. |
Skyscraper at the Europagarten (north) | 60 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee (construction site 43) | Aurelis | The property designated as “Baufeld 43” is still for sale (as of 2016). |
Skyscraper at the festival hall | 60 m | Westend-South | A 60 meter high office building is planned between the festival hall and the exhibition tower . There are currently (as of 2016) no known high-rise plans for the location. | |
City portal west Europaboulevard (north) | 60 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee 140–142 (construction site 3a) | Aurelis | Revitalis Erste Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG has acquired the property and has been building the “Westside Tower” since the beginning of 2014. The 66 meter high tower with 244 rental apartments is due to be completed in spring 2016. |
City portal west Europaboulevard (south) | 60 m | Gallus , Europa-Allee 165 (construction site 4a) | Aurelis | Wilma Wohnen Süd GmbH has acquired the property and has been building the “AXIS” residential tower with 152 condominiums since November 2013. The 60 meter high building was completed in early 2016. |
Northern downtown
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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Stiftstrasse / Katzenpforte high-rise | 60 m | Downtown , Stiftstrasse | SEB AG | From 2012 to 2013 the northwestern part of the area between Bleichstraße, Katzenpforte and Stiftstraße with the former Tower Palace cinema was demolished. The “Turm-Carrée” residential and commercial building was built there by 2014. There are currently (as of 2016) no known plans for the residential high-rise planned in the southeastern area. |
Sireo-Telekom-Areal high-rise | 60 m | City center , Stiftstrasse 23-27 | Deutsche Telekom | In 2012, an urban design ideas competition was held for the property. The Max Dudler architecture firm was awarded a second prize for a design for a 90 to 100 meter high residential building; a first prize was not awarded. In consultation with the city of Frankfurt, the design was revised and now provides for three towers with heights of 40, 50 and 80 meters. The project developer Corpus Sireo is looking for an investor for the realization of the high-rise complex "Drei Schwestern" with around 180 apartments. In February 2016, Becken Development acquired the property. The plans are to be fundamentally revised again, including a. the proportion of apartments is to increase to 250 to 300. Construction could start in mid-2017. |
More locations
Project name | height | address | owner | status |
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Skyscraper at the main train station | 200 m | Gutleutviertel , Mannheimer Strasse / Stuttgarter Strasse | Vivico | A 300 m high building called the "Campanile" was supposed to be built on the parking lot on the south side of the main train station in the 1980s, but the plans failed due to disputes with a neighbor. When Deutsche Bahn signaled interest in the location for around 3,000 employees in 2008, the permitted height of the planned building was doubled from 100 to 200 meters. The plans for a Frankfurt Railway Tower came to nothing in 2009 when Deutsche Bahn rented the Silver Tower in Frankfurt's banking district for around 2,000 employees . |
Skyscraper on the Osthafenmole | 60 m | Ostend , Osthafen | In 2011 the development plan 799 “Honsellstrasse” came into force, which stipulates a hotel with a maximum of 100 beds and a building height of a maximum of 60 meters. The restriction with regard to the number of beds was justified by the Seveso II directive , as there is a dangerous goods hall in the nearby east port in which chemicals are stored. In 2013, hotel specialist Harald Peters presented plans for a 95 meter high building with 150 to 180 rooms, as a smaller hotel would not be economically viable. | |
City portal east Ratswegskreisel (north) | 60 m | Ostend , Hanauer Landstrasse | No known plans. | |
City portal east Ratswegskreisel (south) | 60 m | Ostend , Hanauer Landstrasse | No known plans. |
See also
literature
- Jourdan & Müller PAS: Frankfurt 2000 high-rise development plan, catalog 11/98. Aedes West, Berlin 1998.
- Philipp Sturm, Peter Cachola Schmal: High-rise city Frankfurt. Buildings and visions since 1945 . Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5363-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main - urban development and planning history since 1945 . Frankfurt / Main / New York 1996, p. 53
- ^ Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main - urban development and planning history since 1945 . Frankfurt / Main / New York 1996, p. 174.
- ^ FAZ , September 10, 1998
- ↑ October 15, 2014 Europaviertel Frankfurt: Architecture competition for high-rise decided
- ↑ Frankfurt's skyline continues to grow ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ben van Berkel builds luxury hotel at the fair . FAZ
- ↑ No Grand Hyatt for Frankfurt am Main .
- ↑ 160 meters: Germany's tallest residential building is being built in Frankfurt . FAZ
- ↑ Frankfurt am Main high-rise development plan 2007 update (PDF; 46.0 MB)
- ↑ Frankfurt am Main high-rise development plan 2008 update (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ Third office tower: high-rise construction against the financial crisis
- ↑ High-rise buildings in Frankfurt: an exquisite, but not a lush vintage
- ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse, December 12, 2008: This is how Frankfurt grows into the sky ( Memento from December 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Neue Presse, December 12, 2008
- ↑ ImmobilienZeitung , October 10, 2017
- ↑ DIC Asset AG buys Frankfurt Landmarkbuilding from DZ Bank . 20th November 2014
- ↑ BMW heiress Klatten buys skyscrapers in Frankfurt . Mirror online
- ↑ Speculation about new high-rise buildings
- ↑ a b More space for new towers . FAZ
- ↑ New perspectives for the people of Mainz
- ↑ ING-Diba refers to “Höhle des Löwen” ( Memento of the original from March 30, 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.
- ^ Land sells Bockenheim campus to ABG Frankfurt Holding. Press conference after signing the purchase agreement - the chances for rapid implementation of the third construction phase on the Westend campus increased . ( Memento of the original from March 30, 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. Press release, August 25, 2011; accessed on June 1, 2015.
- ↑ Spectacular hotel and residential high-rise in a prime location: Commerz Real invests in construction projects in Frankfurt for open-ended real estate fund hausInvest . ( Memento of the original from March 30, 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. Press release, September 15, 2015; accessed on March 29, 2016.
- ↑ Expensive neighborhood planned . January 21, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
- ↑ High-rise quarter on the AfE area - Cyrus Moser win in Frankfurt . March 24, 2016; accessed on March 29, 2016.
- ↑ a b Striking architecture for the new high-rise district on the Frankfurt culture campus . ( Memento of the original from March 30, 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. Press release. March 11, 2016; accessed on March 29, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d Europaviertel marketing stand
- ↑ Messe Frankfurt celebrates record sales
- ↑ Architectural competition “Messeeingang Süd” by Messe Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from 19 August 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Frankfurter Messe reports record sales
- ↑ “Porsche Design Tower” planned
- ↑ International architecture competition for the Porsche Design Tower Frankfurt has been decided . (PDF) porsche-design-tower-frankfurt.com
- ↑ Porsche Design Tower Frankfurt is realized with blauraum . deal-magazin.com, August 6, 2015
- ^ High- rise residential building Prädium Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ “Praedium” in the Europaviertel has its foundation stone: an estate with 19 floors
- ↑ Westside Tower facts and figures (PDF)
- ↑ Topping- out ceremony for the Westside Tower: residential tower with a narrow waist
- ↑ AXIS - the newest view of Frankfurt
- ↑ Europaviertel: groundbreaking for the Axis
- ↑ Urban development: dialogue with citizens' initiatives
- ↑ High-rise for sale on Stiftstrasse residential tower
- ↑ Drei Schwestern Homepage ( Memento of the original from April 1, 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.
- ↑ Becken buys Frankfurt high-rise project Drei Schwestern
- ↑ Plans for a luxury hotel on the Osthafenmole