Industriehof (Frankfurt am Main)

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The archways of the former barracks, August 2006
Structure of the inner city district II . The hatched area (Industriehof) belongs to the Bockenheim district , but is located in the Mitte-West district .
Structure of the Mitte-West district. South of Hausen is Bockenheim, the larger part of which (hatched) is in the district of Innenstadt II.

The Industriehof is two-thirds of an office and commercial area and a third of a housing development with almost 2,000 residents in Frankfurt , which from a 2000 to 2010 by the German stock exchange AG rented administration building of Commerz Real is overlooked.

The approximately 35 hectare area is located north of CityWEST in the Bockenheim district and is separated from Rödelheim in the west by Ludwig-Landmann-Straße ( B 44 ) . In the north it borders on Hausen . An allotment garden colony in the Frankfurt green belt forms the southern end .

A common mistake is that the Industriehof belongs to Hausen. The source of the error could be the complicated administrative division of Frankfurt into local and statistical districts . The area is almost congruent with the statistical district 34 3 . This is not like the rest of Bockenheim in the district of Innenstadt II , but in the district of Mitte-West , to which Hausen also belongs. Furthermore, the industrial courtyard is visually separated from Bockenheim by a railway line and a green belt, which does not change the fact that it has “always” been part of its district.

history

The “nucleus” of the industrial courtyard was a barracks . Originally it was to be the largest anti-aircraft army barracks in Germany by the Air Force of the Armed Forces on the formerly undeveloped area in today's Frankfurter green belt built. The construction took place with a short interruption from 1936 to 1938. The military installations were badly damaged in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during the Second World War and were not put into operation afterwards. The barracks served temporarily as a residence for expelled Germans from the former eastern territories. The street names Königsberger , Tilsiter , Elbinger , Trakehner , Insterburger , Rossittener , Hohensteiner and Lötzener Straße are still reminiscent of the former East Prussian homeland of the expellees. It was only with the rearmament of the Bundeswehr in 1955 that the barracks were again used for military purposes; but now on a much smaller area, because the former air force base , now referred to as the industrial courtyard for the first time , was now largely used commercially. The barracks then initially served as a district military replacement office until it moved to Eschborn . Today the headquarters of the Bundeswehr Air Traffic Control Office is located there .

An initiative of the Frankfurt Economic Development Corporation and 15 other companies, founded on August 14, 2009, aims to upgrade the district and proposed that it be renamed the Brentano district . After a perceived as clumsy approach by the business development agency and the agency involved. B. had not included the responsible local council, the renaming was rejected by the local council. One of the reasons was the lack of a historical connection between the industrial courtyard and the name “Brentano”. There were also protests from residents who found the name “Industriehof” to be positive and voted against renaming it.

Streets

Area of ​​the former Fischsteinkreisel along Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse.

The industrial courtyard is located in a trapezoidal area, which is described by four streets. In the north is the street Am Industriehof, which is connected to the Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse running to the west via the former Fischsteinkreisel (now T-junction). The street Friedrich-Wilhelm-von-Steuben-Strasse / Breitenbachbrücke / Breitenbachstrasse runs to the east and Rödelheimer Landstrasse runs to the south.

Buildings

Lateral Towers Frankfurt, formerly Neue Börse

Lateral Towers Frankfurt, rear view, formerly the corporate headquarters of Deutsche Börse AG

The dominant building on the Industriehof is the former Neue Börse complex , which was specially completed by a Commerz Real Fonds in 2000 and which was rented as the administrative headquarters and headquarters of Deutsche Börse AG from 2000 to 2010 , until its tenant relocated to Eschborn due to low trade tax rates . According to the company, the savings potential amounts to around 60 million euros annually. At the end of 2013, Commerzbank moved into the Lateral Towers.

The eight-aisled structure, connected by a glass traverse, is reminiscent in its shape of the IG-Farben house built by Hans Poelzig . The individual six-story wings are getting shorter and shorter towards the outside, which gives the building a characteristic curve. The architects were RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky GmbH & Co. KG. A special feature was the blue illumination of the building in the evening.

House Rinck

In 2002, the office building for Rinck & Co. KG was completed in Elbinger Strasse. It was planned and built by Gruber + Kleine-Kraneburg , who also u. a. designed the office of the Federal President at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. The four-storey cube surrounds a set atrium with an air space 15 m high. The surrounding facade design underlines the characteristic character of the free-standing cube, whose uniqueness is underlined by the dark natural stone cladding (Nero-Assoluto, flamed) used on the facade.

Lighthouse

The lighthouse at Königsberger Straße 29 is characterized by the largest atrium (over 1,000 m²) of the industrial courtyard. It offers a total of 12,000 m² of office space on four floors.

House of Road Traffic, before that ascent to the Breitenbach Bridge

House of Road Traffic

Right next to it is the House of Road Traffic , built in 1961 . The architect Gerhard Balser designed this ten-story building as a kind of bridgehead for the Breitenbach Bridge. It was established by the long-distance freight transport working group, today's Federal Association of Freight Transport, Logistics and Disposal , as the main administration.

Federal Armed Forces Air Traffic Control Office (AFSBw)

The AFSBw is an agency of the Bundeswehr for military air traffic control for the armed forces in Germany. It reports directly to the Air Force Inspector. This is currently Lieutenant General Karl Müllner (* 1956). In addition, large parts of the office's military air traffic control department are located in the corporate headquarters of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH in Langen. The foundation date was October 1st, 1971.

Breitenbach Bridge

The Breitenbach bridge was in its present form in 1966 completed and is now, as an extension of Castle Street, the main access road from the direction of the district center and downtown is It spans in its present design not only. Main-Weser Railway (Section Westbahnhof - Eschersheim Bahnhof ) , but also the Breitenbachstrasse. It replaced an old bridge that was built in 1915 to lead a tram line over the railway line and thus close a gap in the Frankfurt am Main tram for the lines to Rödelheim and Praunheim . In addition, the two level crossings at houses Gasse and Rödelheimer Landstrasse were removed. The direct route Ginnheim - Rödelheim was thus interrupted. The namesake is Paul von Breitenbach .

Subway station

In 1986, the former tram routes on lines 18 and 22 were converted into light rail routes and have been served by the U6 and U7 underground lines ever since . Shortly after the Breitenbach bridge, the subway leaves the tunnel from Westend , reaches the above-ground station Industriehof and branches off to Hausen (U6) and Praunheim (U7).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brentanoviertel initiative founded
  2. ↑ Industriehof has a lot to offer Frankfurter Rundschau from November 19, 2014, accessed on July 7, 2019
  3. ↑ cf. Homepage of the architects
  4. ↑ Industriehof Frankfurt - A city district is rediscovering itself - Image brochure of the Industriehof Frankfurt am Main location initiative, p. 11

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E