Kennedyallee (Frankfurt am Main)
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
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Sachsenhausen , Niederrad |
| Connecting roads | Mörfelder Landstrasse |
| Cross streets | Holbeinstrasse , Stresemannallee , Niederräder Landstrasse |
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| Street length | 3070 m |
The Kennedy Avenue is a mutually zweispurig developed Arterial Road in Frankfurt am Main , the south of the Mains runs and as a part of the feeder to the highway entrance Frankfurt South applies. It begins at Otto-Hahn-Platz in the Sachsenhausen district , runs in a straight line to the southwest and ends at the Oberforsthaus in the Niederrad district . At this point it joins the Mörfelder Landstrasse . Kennedyallee is part of federal highways 43 and 44 , which run together here.
History of street names
The street was originally a riding and footpath and was later renamed Forsthausstraße . In June 1963, US President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) stayed in Frankfurt am Main during his trip to Germany and drove along Forsthausstrasse, among other things. After his murder in Dallas , the street was renamed in his honor.
Known residents
Carl Hagemann (1867–1940), head of Farbwerke Cassella from 1920 to 1925 and, after they merged with other chemical companies to form IG Farben, a member of the IG Farben board until his retirement in 1932, lived in a villa on what was then Forsthausstrasse.
Arthur von Weinberg (1860–1943), chemist, industrialist, patron and honorary citizen of Frankfurt , had been a partner in Cassella since 1882 and from 1925 a member of the IG Farben supervisory board . In 1908 he had the neo-baroque Villa Haus Buchenrode built in a large park on what was then Forsthausstrasse . After the November pogroms in 1938 , because of his Jewish origins, he was forced to sell the property to the city for a price that was far below its value and to pay the purchase price as a Jewish property tax. From September 1, 1939 until it was destroyed by the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944, the Buchenrode House housed the Musisches Gymnasium .
Development
From the beginning of Kennedyallee on Otto-Hahn-Platz to the Stresemannallee intersection, the development on the right-hand side (out of town) is closed, there are individual villas on the left-hand side of the street. From the large intersection, the buildings consist almost exclusively of villas. Almost all the houses date from the 19th century and are typical of the buildings of the Frankfurt bourgeoisie of that time. One exception is the residential and commercial building of the Parthenon restaurant. It is a cultural monument of the new objectivity and is under monument protection due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The elaborate design, which can also be seen in the stairwell, is typical here too.
The Frankfurt banker Eduard Beit von Speyer had the neo-Gothic style Villa Speyer built by the architect Alfred Günther in 1904 (number 70, corner of Stresemannallee 22). The city of Frankfurt "Aryanized" the building in 1937 and made it available to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biophysics. The building was restored after damage in World War II and housed the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics from 1948 to 2003 . The Greek architect Demetri Porphyrios , who specializes in historical buildings, converted the villa into the Hotel Villa Kennedy in 2003 . All new buildings were built in the same style and from the same materials. The hotel, which opened in March 2006, has the largest hotel suite in Germany at 326 square meters.
The following pictures show some villas from the residential area of the street, which is located between Stresemannallee and Paul-Ehrlich-Straße (right) or Waidmannstraße (left).
House number 72
House number 94
Semi-detached house, numbers 111 and 113
House number 123
A little further out of town, to the south, is Kennedyallee at Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse, the site of the former Sandhof , now part of the university hospital . Behind it, Kennedyallee is crossed by two railway bridges, over which the connecting line from the Main-Neckar Bridge to the Frankfurt-Hanauer Bahn and the Main-Neckar Bahn lead. On the other side of the railway bridges, Villa Mumm (Kennedyallee 151), built between 1902 and 1904, is a particularly eye-catching building, today the seat of the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy . The SC SAFO Frankfurt , one of the most traditional Frankfurt sports clubs, is based here.
A new performance center of the German Football Association is to be built on the grounds of the Frankfurt horse racing track by 2018 .
Culture
The Salon Kennedy exhibition space, connected to Cultural Avenue, the agency for contemporary cultural projects, has been located on Kennedyallee since 2013. As a permanent exhibition space, Salon Kennedy primarily supports the production of contemporary culture. On the one hand, specific exhibitions and works with international artists and designers are developed on a project basis, which is reflected in individual and group exhibitions. On the other hand, the salon brings people together through cooperation with, for example, international collections or externally curated events, thus providing a platform for discourse on all aspects of art and culture. Among other things, exhibitions with works by internationally known artists such as Jorinde Voigt , Michael Sailstorfer , Tomas Saraceno , Daniel Lergon or Alicja Kwade have been shown, but also younger positions such as the Australian artist Andy Boot, the Mexican artist Claudia de la Torre and students from the Städelschule such as Frankziska von Stenglin or Maximilian Arnold. Architecture and design projects can also be admired in the rooms, such as the launch of the Profile / Tourneur lamp series by the Rococo relevance research initiative.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ http://biggs.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/nachrichten/index.jsp?rubrik=21138&key=standard_document_30194256 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Arthur von Weinberg Herr im Poelzig-Bau, prisoner in Theresienstadt. FAZ , February 5, 2007, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 49.5 ″ E