Leipziger Strasse (Frankfurt am Main)

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Leipziger Street
coat of arms
Street in Frankfurt am Main
Leipziger Street
U-Bahn at the corner of Markgrafenstrasse
Basic data
place Frankfurt am Main
District Bockenheim
Connecting roads Adalbertstrasse (southeast)
Friesengasse, Grempstrasse (northwest)
Cross streets Landgrafenstrasse, Kurfürstenstrasse, Markgrafenstrasse, Am Weingarten
Buildings Ladengalerie Bockenheim, vacant Kaufhof department store, VHS Frankfurt office , excess hall and theater "The Dramatic Stage"
Technical specifications
Street length 780 m

The Leipziger Strasse is a central business and residential street in the Bockenheim district. Due to the incorporation of Bockenheim in 1895, a renaming of the street previously called "Frankfurter Straße" became mandatory. Historically were house numbers from the center of the formerly independent Hessian town Bockenheim until then the outskirts of the Bockenheimer waiting counted as still in the parallel street Large Seestraße the case. Since the incorporation, the house numbers have been assigned in ascending order from Frankfurt city center.

course

Leipziger Strasse runs in a slight curve from Adalbertstrasse at the level of Bockenheimer Warte in a north-westerly direction into the district. This curvature has a historical cause: the building site in the direction of the Grosse Seestrasse , southwest of Leipziger Strasse, is criss-crossed by strong water veins and does not contain as much basalt as in the direction of Sophienstrasse, northeast of it. Therefore, among others, the Siesmayer company had to drain the grounds of Kurfürstenplatz, a former swamp area, before it was designed to be park-like. The confluence of Basaltstrasse and Leipziger Strasse previously separated the northwestern Alt-Bockenheim from the southeastern Neu-Bockenheim. There, shortly before Hülya-Platz , Leipziger Strasse ends and splits into Friesengasse and Grempstrasse, formerly Kirchgasse .

traffic

Leipziger Strasse is in a 30 km / h zone . The small cross-section of the road allows only single-lane driving; it is shown in full as a one-way street out of town. It was one of the first one-way streets in Germany in which cycling against the main direction of travel was allowed in a test project.

The volume of road traffic consists almost exclusively of cars and small to medium-sized vans for delivery. Despite the narrow width of the lane, the volume of traffic from motor vehicles and bicycles for local and shopping traffic is high. Residents of the side streets use Leipziger Straße as a thoroughfare.

The C-route of the Frankfurt Stadtbahn runs under Leipziger Straße with the lines U6 and U7 between the Bockenheimer Warte and the Industriehof . The Leipziger Straße subway station is at Kurfürstenstraße .

Until May 1965 a line of the Frankfurt am Main tram ran from Bockenheimer Warte via Leipziger Straße and turned left at Kirchplatz in the direction of Schönhof . After the shutdown of the line operation, the line could be used as an operating line for a few years before the tracks and catenary were removed. Even today, some overhead line rosettes on old buildings along Leipziger Strasse bear witness to the earlier tram operation.

economy

The image of Leipziger Strasse on the ground floor of the development is consistently shaped by small and medium-sized specialist shops from all sectors. There are also craft businesses, service providers, restaurants and many grocery stores and vegetable stalls. In the northwest part is a department store of the Woolworth chain . In many backyards and also in the side streets there are more shops and businesses. In the eastern area between Adalbertstrasse and Leipziger Strasse there is a small shopping center, the Bockenheim gallery .

The economic structural change in the retail trade of the 1990s did not pass by on Leipziger Strasse either. A clear sign of this is the Kaufhof department store , which was closed in June 2000. The planned conversion into a boutique center was stopped in February 2007 due to a lack of building permits and construction defects. In May 2014, the online mail order company Zalando opened an outlet store here.

A number of specialty shops have disappeared, and it is not uncommon for the shops to have rapidly changing suppliers of cheap goods, telephone shops and internet cafes. However, this change is not as serious as in the west of Frankfurt, where a profound change has taken place, especially in Königsteiner Strasse in Höchst .

  • Impressions from Leipziger Strasse

  • Corner of Juliusstrasse

  • Structural contrasts

  • "The Dramatic Stage"

  • Coffee roastery in the backyard

Culture

The excess

The Excess Hall at Leipziger Straße 91 has been home to the Dramati Theater since 1993 , which mainly stages Shakespeare, Goethe and Molière. Since 1999 the theater has been staging open-air performances in the Grüneburgpark in summer .

Development

Leipziger Strasse is unevenly built on. There are some architectural monuments, such as B. the Delkeskampsches Haus at the beginning, a number of buildings from the Wilhelminian era and Art Nouveau , as well as classicism . Only a few buildings survived the Second World War . The vacant lots were filled with functional buildings in the post-war period and in the 1970s and 1980s. The building of the former department store opposite the street Am Weingarten on the corner of Rohmerstraße, where Leipziger Straße widens like a square, is striking .

The ground floors of the buildings are completely occupied with commercial space. On the upper floors there are apartments, practice rooms and occasionally small service providers.

Branch department store Woolworth-Bockenheim

Woolworth branch in Bockenheim

In 1812, Adolf Keller built an imposing town house on this site. Among other things, he was a supporter of the Protestant church community and many non-profit institutions in Bockenheim. In 1968, Hertie GmbH built a branch at Leipziger Strasse 88-90 for their full-range retailer in the low-price range under the name Bilka . A self-service restaurant with its own kitchen was opened in the basement, which was very popular with pensioners and students. The modern clad upper floors contained storage and administration rooms. Hertie GmbH (taken over by Karstadt in 1994) had to sell its subsidiary Bilka to Woolworth in 1989 . This closed the restaurant after 21 years of operation and expanded its sales area there. In 1998, the German businesses of Woolworth were brought into the Frankfurt-based DWW Deutsche Woolworth GmbH + Co.OHG as part of a management buy-out . The capital was provided by the English company Electra Private Equity . The entire basement was leased to the Hugo Leibbrand Group, the current REWE Group , which withdrew at the end of 2010. The original American Woolworth concern has since been liquidated. The German DWW Deutsche Woolworth GmbH + Co. OHG with currently around 330 shops (202 department stores and 128 mini-shops) and a total of 13,000 employees is urgently looking for higher returns. Therefore, an experiment with a concept store model is being carried out here and in Koblenz . For this purpose, “marketplaces” should be created on the sales area, which should have had a positive effect on sales. The then investor, the English company Electra Private Equity, passed on the investment to the British financial investor Argyll Partners in 2007 .

Former department store Bockenheim (formerly Schreiber department store)

The converted former Kaufhof building

In 1944 the buildings on the corner property at Leipziger-Rohmerstraße were destroyed by bombs. A commercial building was built here after the end of the war. After the announcement of the plans to build a district branch of Kaufhof AG, considerable concerns arose against the planned development because of a feared negative pull effect on the sales of other existing retail stores. In the 1960s, Kaufhof AG set up branches in various parts of the city, including Bornheim and Bockenheim, with contemporary, modern facades at the time. However, the economic yield did not correspond to the set goals, especially since the opened subway siphoned off purchasing power and relocated it to the Zeil. After the takeover of Kaufhof AG by Metro AG , it was decided in the summer of 2000 to close this branch because of insufficient returns. Two months later the property was sold to a private investor. The renovation work was not completed in 2008 either, and citizens' groups complained about building activities such as noise and dirt. With the newly built house facade, part of the area has been leased by the DM drugstore chain since 2010 . In May 2014, the online mail order company Zalando opened an outlet store here, which has become a customer magnet. A branch of the Berlin food company Kochhaus also leased space for a shop here. The building was raised and the additional space was rented out as apartments.

Shop gallery at the Bockenheimer Warte

Main entrance to the shop gallery

The shop gallery was completed in October 1984. The owner is currently the closed real estate fund DG-Immobilien-Anlage Nr. 15. The high expectations failed due to excessive rent demands. Until the 2010s, the retail space on offer was vacant again and again, despite the existing underground car park, residential development, subway proximity and convenient location between Adalbertstrasse and Leipziger Strasse. The original gallery concept was not accepted like this. From the 2010s, full letting has been achieved again, especially through smaller shops and restaurants. Currently (as of 2019) there are several anchor tenants, in particular the branches of Netto Marken-Discount , KiK and Frankfurter Sparkasse . The "Joey's Burger" snack bar has been located in the former subway branch since mid-2019.

See also

Web links

Commons : Leipziger Straße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city ​​map
  2. ↑ Bockenheim building site - page 4 (PDF; 4.5 MB)
  3. ↑ Last used on line 3 - shut down at the timetable change on May 28, 1965  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.beku-bildarchiv.de  
  4. ^ Report of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung of March 31, 2005
  5. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse and Frankfurter Rundschau of February 8, 2007
  6. ↑ Zalando opens second outlet in Frankfurt on faz.net on May 15, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 42 ″  E