Lindenstrasse 27 (Frankfurt am Main)

East facade with main entrance to Lindenstrasse

South facade with garden

Memorial plaque on the house with details of its history

The Villa Lindenstrasse 27 in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt am Main is a listed building with a changing history and today the seat of the Frankfurt branch of the Merck Finck & Co bank

History of the building

In 1896/1897 the villa was built as the women's monastery of the Cronstetten and Hynspergian Evangelical Foundation . It was the foundation building and the residence of the canons from the old Frankfurt families. The architect was Alexander von Lersner . The property with a park-like garden borders on Lindenstrasse, where the main entrance is located, in the east, on Arndtstrasse in the west and on Kettenhofweg in the south . The west side of the property with its own entrance to the building has the different postal address Arndtstraße 28.

In 1940 the building was sold to the Gestapo under threat and used from 1940 to 1945 as the headquarters of the Gestapo for the Wiesbaden district . This time is poorly documented because most of the Gestapo documents were destroyed during the war. On September 12, 1944, the house was hit in an Allied air raid and the attic burned out. The Gestapo had previously been based in the Siemenshaus on Gutleutstrasse. After renovations, the Gestapo moved to Lindenstrasse 27 on April 1, 1941. In May 1942, the Gestapo Frankfurt had 180 employees.

In 1945 the building was used as the seat of the mayor of Frankfurt.

After it was returned to the Cronstetten Foundation, the villa was converted into an office building and rented out. The rental income is used by the foundation to finance its tasks. The first tenant was the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau . Later the house was from Bankhaus Löbbecke and the private bank Merck Finck & Co used. The current main tenant is the digital agency SYZYGY . A memorial plaque placed on the edge of the property on Lindenstrasse has been a reminder of the building's history since 1987.

Web links

Commons : Lindenstrasse 27  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The building at Lindenstrasse 27 in the late 1950s on the KfW banking group's website (with contemporary photo. Accessed August 25, 2011)
• Der Spiegel article Weißer Fleck on the history of the house as Gestapo headquarters (from issue 17/1994 of April 25, 1994. Accessed on May 9, 2010)
• State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cronstett'sches Stift In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article Weißer Fleck auf Spiegel Online
2. ↑ Monica Kingreen (Ed.): "After the Kristallnacht" - Jewish life and anti-Jewish politics in Frankfurt am Main 1938–1945 , p. 256. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1999. ISBN 3-593-36310-0 - Abridged online version on books.google.de
3. ↑ Adolf Diamant: Gestapo Frankfurt am Main, 1988, ISBN 3-9800194-6-2 , pp. 12–15, 177–178, 308–309

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 39.5 ″  E