Hochstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| Hochstrasse 56 at Opernplatz | |
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Downtown |
| Created | 1810 |
| Connecting roads | Neue Mainzer Strasse (south), Bleichstrasse (north) |
| Cross streets | Freßgass , Kleine Hochstrasse, Kaiserhofstrasse , Börsenstrasse |
| Places | Opernplatz , Eschenheimer Tor |
| Buildings | Sofitel Frankfurt Opera, Hilton Frankfurt City Center |
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| Street length | 545 m |
The Hochstraße in Frankfurt am Main is part of the inner system ring of Frankfurt south of the Bockenheimer Anlage and connects the Opernplatz and the western ends of the Freßgass and Goethestrasse with the Eschenheimer Tor . The street is the direct continuation of Neue Mainzer Straße north of Opernplatz. There are several listed buildings in Hochstraße, including classicist , Wilhelminian style and buildings from the time of reconstruction in the 1950s. The largest and most eye-catching buildings are the Sofitel Frankfurt Opera, which opened in 2016, and the Hilton Hotel Frankfurt City Center, which opened in 1998 . In addition to the two hotels, there are smaller shops, restaurants and cafes, offices and apartments.
history
The Hochstraße was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century as part of the Frankfurter Anlagenring on the site of the Frankfurt city fortifications between the Eschenheimer Tor and the former Bockenheimer Tor . It runs along the inner city wall from the 15th century. On both sides of the six to eight meter high and 2.5 to three meter thick quarry stone wall there were about three to four meters wide kennels . From 1632 a 45 meter wide fortress based on the Dutch model was placed in front of the wall . Two pentagonal bastions, the Bockenheimer bulwark and the peasant bulwark, were built between Eschenheimer and Bockenheimer Tor . After the end of the Free Imperial City in 1806, Prince-Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg had the fortifications removed and an inner and outer ring of roads built around the city in their place. City gardener Sebastian Rinz designed a landscape garden in the English style, the ramparts, between the two ring roads . The Eschenheimer tower was also supposed to be demolished in 1806, but an objection by the French ambassador Comte d'Hédouville preserved it.
The Hochstraße, originally Hohe Straße , got its name because the inner ring of facilities in the area of the Bockenheimer plant is a few meters above the outer one and the difference in height when the fortifications were demolished was not evened out but included in the landscape park. A strict building statute, issued in 1809 by city master builder Johann Georg Christian Hess , which, among other things, stipulated the classicistic architectural style, applied to the development. Two of the structures built according to these statutes have been preserved: Hochstrasse 27 and 33. Hochstrasse soon developed into a preferred residential and business location on the edge of the city center. The plot of land at Hochstrasse 10–22 was acquired by the publisher Marcus Johann Nebbien , who had a house built here. The associated summer house is still preserved.
The opera house at Bockenheimer Tor was built from 1873 to 1880, which then became the Opernplatz . From 1881 to 1887 a block of Wilhelminian style residential and commercial buildings was built between Opernplatz and Hochstraße.
A large part of the buildings on the south side was lost in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in World War II. They were replaced by mostly inconspicuous commercial buildings in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1963, Stadtwerke Frankfurt built an energy center with a transformer station to supply the banking district and a rectifier substation for the Frankfurt am Main tram on the property at Hochstrasse 42-46 . The substation was connected to the Gutleutstrasse power plant and the Berger Warte substation via two 110 kV double cables . From 2008 to 2011, Mainova relocated the substation to a 17-meter-deep underground structure in order to create space above ground for the construction of a new luxury hotel and a residential building. The hotel opened in September 2016.
Cultural monuments
As usual in Frankfurt, the house numbers on Hochstraße run down the Main from Eschenheimer Tor to Opernplatz, i.e. against the current direction of travel of the one-way street.
The building complex of the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank (Hochstraße 2) consists of an eight-storey high-rise building with a pitched roof , which is at right angles to the Hochstraße, and an attached five-story transverse wing along the street. It was created from 1945 to 1956 based on an award-winning design by Rudolf Letocha and William Rohrer.
To the west of it was the Stadtbad Mitte , which opened in 1960 . In 1995, the city sold the swimming pool in need of renovation to the Hilton Group, which tore down the administrative wing and built a hotel tower instead. The listed swimming pool was retained and integrated into the new building.
Opposite at the confluence of Börsenstrasse is the house Hochstrasse 27, built around 1810. It is a two-story corner house with facades facing Hochstrasse and Börsenstrasse. It was restored from 2010 to 2014, and it turned out that considerable parts of the classical building fabric have been preserved inside.
The house at Hochstraße 33 is the former headquarters of the A. Mosthaf stamp and sign factory . The classicist tenement house was built in 1828. The original attic was damaged in World War II and only partially restored. In 2014 a fundamental renovation was carried out with the addition of a new, complete attic.
At the southwest end of the Hochstraße there are several Wilhelminian-style buildings. Hochstraße 48 is a four-storey apartment building from 1887 in a hybrid of neo-renaissance and baroque. Hochstraße 50 is a three-story neo-renaissance house from 1882. The neighboring house, Hochstraße 52, dates from 1882. The corner house, Hochstraße 56, forms a double house with the house at Opernplatz 6. It was built in 1881 by Franz Jakob Schmidt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ^ Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main, aufbau-ffm.de ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Mainova AG (Ed.): Electricity and heat from Frankfurt am Main. P. 34 (PDF)
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Stadtbad Mitte In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hochstrasse 27 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Hochstrasse 27, residential and commercial building ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2018 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. , accessed on May 29, 2017 (pdf)
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hochstrasse 33 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ Claudia Michels: Wandel an der Hochstraße , fr online from February 16, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2017
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hochstraße 48 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Hochstrasse 50 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Hochstrasse 52 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Hochstraße 56 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
