In the middle sand

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Residential houses on the Nidda bank on the southern edge of the settlement; View to the northeast

The settlement Im Mittleren Sand is a housing estate in the west of Frankfurt am Main in the Sossenheim district . Most of the houses in the settlement date from the 1950s. Individual houses were built in the 1940s, one house dates from before the Second World War . The settlement has been part of the German Settlers Association since 1959 . The official name of the settlement is Sossenheim III .

location

The settlement is located in the Sossenheimer Unterfeld , which belongs to the western arm of the  Frankfurt green belt  and which is part of the green belt and green corridors conservation area in the city of Frankfurt am Main . In the south the residential development borders on the right bank of the Nidda , a few meters west of the settlement the Sulzbach flows into the river. In the north and east, the Im Mittleren Sand road separates the settlement from the surrounding agricultural areas in the nature reserve of the Green Belt. A western section of the green belt circular hiking trail runs between the southern edge of the settlement and the banks of the Nidda .

history

The renatured Nidda between Höchst (left) and Nied (center), view upstream. In the background on the left residential houses of the settlement, in front of it the pedestrian bridge over the river (June 2015)
Nidda footbridge, built in 2012

The settlement Im Mittleren Sand comprises 50 houses and is completely developed. Originally planned by the city of Frankfurt am Main in order to provide makeshift quarters for displaced persons after the Second World War, the demolition of the settlement was discussed in 1997 when Tom Koenigs, then head of the environment department, wanted the formerly illegally built settlement to be demolished. It was feared that a precedent would be created that would make it possible to build on further open spaces in the green belt, which has been protected by a constitution since 1991. After the area had been inhabited for 40 years at that time, resistance to the planned demolition arose in the form of a citizens' movement. In 2010 the settlement was recognized by the city and placed under grandfathering.

The settlement in the Middle Sand is a vivid example of the urban sprawl and suburbanization (English: urban sprawl ) in Frankfurt after the Second World War. Today the building types of semi - detached houses attached to one side and detached single - family houses are predominant in the settlement .

In the course of the renaturation of the Nidda near Höchst from 2012 to 2013, there were concerns on the part of the residents, who feared an increased risk of flooding for their houses, which has not occurred to date. As a replacement for the Höchst weir, which was demolished in the course of renaturation , and previously the Nidda crossing closest to the settlement, a new pedestrian bridge was built a few meters further upstream and directly on the southern edge of the settlement as a connection to the Nied district .

Web links

Commons : Im Mittleren Sand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MMCM Groupsystem.CMS, Bonn, mmcm.de: Home | Verband Wohneigentum eV Accessed April 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011
  3. ↑ Development of the discussion about the demolition of the settlement (PDF file, 552 KB. Accessed April 28, 2017)
  4. ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main, Department for Environment, Health and Personnel (Ed.): 20 Years of the Green Belt Frankfurt - People, Data and Projects - 1991–2001. In it: Chapter Service: Green Belt Constitution, p. 76 f.
  5. ↑ Anita Strecker: Unusual Residence III: Settlement in free nature on fr.de.
  6. ↑ The settlement in the middle sand on verband-wohneigentum.de
  7. ↑ Holger Vonhof: Barrage: The next Nidda weir is to fall ( memento of the original from April 27, 2017 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. . Article on the renaturation of the Nidda, Höchst Kreisblatt dated December 4, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreisblatt.de
  8. ↑ Lukas Gedziorowski: Nidda-Wehre - A river for the fish . Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau of May 6, 2012, accessed on June 8, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 34.22 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 7.86"  E