Colony (Frankfurt am Main)

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colony
Coat of arms Frankfurt am Main.svg
Settlement in Frankfurt am Main
View of the colony (Hildburghäuser Weg)
View of the colony (Hildburghäuser Weg)
Basic data
Creation time: 1900–1916 (old)
1925 (new)
location
District : 6 - West
District : Zeilsheim
District : 61 1 (Zeilsheim-Süd)
Center / main street: Neu-Zeilsheim
architecture
Architectural style: Art Nouveau
Architect: Heinrich Kutt

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′  N , 8 ° 30 ′  E

The Kolonie (also Colonie , rarely Neu-Zeilsheim ) is a residential area designed in the style of a garden city in the Zeilsheim district of Frankfurt . As the last fully preserved workers' settlement of the former Hoechst paintworks , it is a listed building .

The settlement today consists of two construction phases. The older part was built from 1900, the newer from 1925.

structure

Road network

The colony lies in the triangle between the main streets of Pfaffenwiese in the north and Alt-Zeilsheim / West-Höchst-Straße in the south. Neu-Zeilsheim street divides the triangle in half and serves as the main street of the settlement. The side streets that connect the residential buildings run orthogonally to this. These mostly simple one-way streets are named after locations and arranged alphabetically from east to west.

  • New colony
  1. Apoldaer Weg / Altenburger Weg
  2. Bernburger Weg / Braunschweiger Weg
  3. Coburg way
  4. Dessau way
  5. Erfurt way / Eisenacher way
  • Old colony
  1. Frankenthaler way
  2. Greifswalder Weg
  3. Hildburghauser way
  4. Jena way
  5. Kolberger way
  6. Ludwigsburg way
  7. Meininger way

The streets Frankenthaler Weg and Kolberger Weg have two lanes and serve as cross-connecting streets .

Transportation

As in the entire district, local transport is based exclusively on the city bus routes in the west of Frankfurt . The three Zeilsheimer bus lines 53, 54 and the district bus 57 bypass the colony and have in the northern area the stops Stadthalle Zeilsheim and Pfaffenwiese / Kolberger way and in the south the stop colony . However, since 2008 there has been an S-Bahn stop called Frankfurt-Zeilsheim between Zeilsheim and Sindlingen on West-Höchster Straße .

Old colony

In 1899 , Farbwerke Hoechst founded a housing association and bought the then undeveloped land in the Zeilsheim district. The houses should enable the employees of the company to live close to the factory in the countryside.

The settlement consists of houses in various designs. They are kept in the simple Art Nouveau style. The most common design is the semi-detached house . The living space of the semi-detached houses consists of two blocks of different lengths , which are distributed over two floors. The original room layout included a kitchen, a small living and dining room, a small toilet and a chicken coop on the ground floor. The bedrooms are on the first floor. Due to the decline in self-sufficiency, the chicken coop was converted into an additional bathroom or storage room in most houses.

Parish

Protestant church

The Evangelical Church on Frankenthaler Weg was inaugurated on August 18, 1912. It became the center of the Protestant community, which settled in the originally purely Catholic Zeilsheim through the colony. The Farbwerke supported the building of the church financially.

Käthe Kollwitz School

The school building was built in 1901 by the Hoechst paintworks to cope with the sudden increase in population in the district. A special feature of the building was the deep well with the water reservoir that supplied the colony with water. However, this is no longer available today. Today the school can accommodate around 800 students with the extension. She owns a primary school.


literature

  • Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , pp. 774-783.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Complete Appendix 12 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The monument topography names the following parts of the settlement as protected: Braunschweiger Weg 1-23; Coburger Weg 25-45, 30-78; Dessauer Weg 1-19,2-18; Eisenacher Weg 1-35,2-30; Erfurter Weg 1-47,2-46; Frankenthaler Weg 2-42,3-49; Frankenthaler Weg 33a (Protestant Church); Greifswalder Weg 1-43,2-46; Hildburghäuser Weg 1-41,2-36; Jenaer Weg 1-35,2-40; Cat forehead 2-4; Kolberger Weg 1-35a, 2-20; Crane potion 2-4; Ludwigsburger Weg 1-13,2-16; Meininger Weg 1-9,2-12; Neu-Zeilsheim 33-67, 44-56; Pfaffenwiese 38-50; West-Hochster Strasse 90-108