Kettenhofweg 124 / 124a
The address Kettenhofweg 124 / 124a is a listed semi-detached house from the early 20th century. The press has been reporting on the house on Kettenhofweg in Frankfurt 's Westend district since 1994 because of a six-fold murder in the brothel establishment there.
The building
The building is a double tenement house in the neo-baroque style with a rich, partly carved stone facade and domed side risers . The fencing is partly original. It was built in 1902.
The brothel murders
Since 1977 the house has been owned by the married couple Gabor and Ingrid Bartos, who lived on the ground floor. They operated an exclusive brothel in the expanded basement, on the first and second floors . On August 15, 1994, the owner couple and four prostitutes were found murdered. Sofia B., a former prostitute from the brothel, and her husband Eugen B. were identified as the perpetrators. Eugen B. was sentenced to life imprisonment for sixfold murder.
In Frieda Vogel's novel Angel of Death about Frankfurt: a psychological thriller about the brothel murders in Kettenhofweg by Frieda Vogel, the murders were used as a motif.
literature
- Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Main band. 2nd Edition. Published by the city of Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , p. 356.
- Frank Berger, Christian Setzepfandt : 101 Unorte, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7973-1248-8 , p. 33
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Kettenhofweg 124 / 124a In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Web links
- Gisela Friedrichsen: Cabbage rolls and champagne - Article from April 1, 1996 about the sixfold murder in a Frankfurt noble brothel on spiegel.de (accessed on August 7, 2014)
- Thomas Kirn: Noble brothel on the Kettenhofweg in Frankfurt - crime in a stylish ambience on faz.net (accessed on August 16, 2014)
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 15.1 ″ E