List of street names in Frankfurt am Main / L
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Lachnerstrasse , Fechenheim
- The three Lachner brothers were all composers and band masters from Rain . Vinzenz Lachner (1811–1893) became music director in Frankfurt around 1845, his brother Ignaz Lachner (1807–1895) was hired as Kapellmeister in 1861, while the most famous of them, Franz Paul Lachner (1803–1890), did not appear here.
Lachweg , Eschersheim
- The mhd. Word Lache means "puddle". The Lachweg leads over the Lachgraben, from which it was often flooded. The former Roman road led from Heddernheim ( Roman town of Nida ) over the Berkersheimer Weg to Bad Vilbel ( Roman thermal baths in Bad Vilbel ) and from there to the Limes to Altenstadt Castle .
Ladenburgstrasse , Dornbusch
- Kommerzienrat Ernst Ladenburg (1854–1921), long-time city councilor in Frankfurt, from 1919 to 1921 President of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
Lahmeyerstraße , Riederwald
- Wilhelm Lahmeyer (1859-1907), Frankfurt industrialist founded in 1890, the company Wilhelm Lahmeyer & Co., which in 1893 the electricity AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. merged. The company, later renamed Lahmeyer AG , was merged with the RWE subsidiary Rheinelektra in 1997 .
Lahnstrasse , Gallus
- The Lahn , a 242 km long tributary of the Rhine , has its source in the Rothaar Mountains / North Rhine-Westphalia, passes the cities of Marburg , Gießen , Wetzlar , Weilburg and Limburg in Hesse , before flowing into the Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate near Lahnstein . Canoeists and cyclists in particular enjoy its route.
Lamboystrasse , Sachsenhausen
- Guillaume de Lamboy († 1659), imperial general in the Thirty Years' War , liberated Sachsenhausen from a Swedish army in 1635. In 1635/1836 he besieged Hanau, but was forced to withdraw by a Hessian-Swedish army. In memory of the liberation, the Lamboy Festival is celebrated there, and a district is named after him.
Landauer Strasse , Nied
- Landau (Pfalz) , independent city and seat of the district Südliche Weinstrasse , Rhineland-Palatinate
Land route , Sachsenhausen
- Path between the vegetable countries towards Oberrad
Landgraben , Bergen -Enkheim
- To protect against robbers, thieves and robber knights, so-called landweists were built in the Middle Ages, which were supposed to make life a little more difficult for the attackers with trenches and bridges planted between them made of entwined thorn hedges.
Landgrafenstrasse , Bockenheim
- Before its incorporation in 1895, Bockenheim belonged to the Counts of Hanau, and later to the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel.
Landgraf-Philipp-Strasse , Eschersheim
- Landgrave Philipp of Hesse , called the Magnanimous (1504–1567), pioneer of the Reformation , 1527 founder of the University of Marburg , the first Protestant university, 1531 co-founder of the Schmalkaldic League
Landgraf-Wilhelm-Strasse , Eschersheim
- Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen (1532–1592), son of Landgrave Philipp, founded the Kassel line of the Hessian dynasty of Hesse-Kassel and had the first observatory in Central Europe built in Kassel.
Landvogtstrasse , Dornbusch
- In the Hohenstaufen period , bailiffs were used for larger districts. One of them was u. a. responsible for the Wetterau and Frankfurt. Count Ulrich I von Hanau was named for this office around 1300.
Langenhainer Strasse , Gallus
- Langenhain, district of Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus district
Langenselbolder Strasse , Fechenheim
- Langenselbold , town in the Main-Kinzig district
Lange Schirn , old town
- The butcher's alley led from the market to the Saalgasse. Schirnen were small stalls in old Frankfurt where butchers and other craftsmen sold their products. The name of the former alley was the inspiration for the Kunsthalle Schirn , built in the 1980s .
Langheckenweg , Eschersheim / Dornbusch
- Based on an old field name that is reminiscent of the former Heckwald around today's Eschersheim water tower .
Langobardenweg , Unterliederbach
- The Longobards , a Germanic tribe, successfully settled in Lombardy during the migration period around 568 and assimilated with the local population.
Langweidenstrasse , Hausen
- Willow trees are said to have stood here, which provided the material for the basket makers.
Lassallestrasse , Riederwald (1933–1945 Tannenbergstrasse )
- Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), German writer, politician, state socialist and workers leader, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of German social democracy.
Laubestrasse , Sachsenhausen
- Heinrich Laube (1806–1884), poet and dramaturge , was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848.
Launhardtstrasse , Ostend (until 1933 Göringstrasse )
- Wilhelm Launhardt (1832–1918), civil engineer for the Railway and Bridge Construction Office, rector of the Technical University of Hanover, economist.
Launitzstrasse , Sachsenhausen
- Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz (1797-1869), sculptor, creator of the Gutenberg - monument on Roßmarkt and other sculptures in the urban area
Laurentiusstrasse , Bergen- Enkheim
- Named after the patron saint of the evangelical churches in Bergen-Enkheim, St. Laurentius , Germanized Lorenz , who died a martyr's death around 258.
Lausitzstrasse , Niedererlenbach
- The Lausitz is a German-Polish border region in southern Brandenburg, the eastern Saxony and the Polish Lower Silesia.
Lauterbacher Strasse , Fechenheim
- Lauterbach (Hessen) , district town in the Vogelsbergkreis , where people like to lose their stockings (see Lauterbacher Strumpflied ) and consume rascals - because the first German Camembert was made there under the name Lauterbacher Strolch . Starting point of the Vulkanradweg on a former railway line
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Leberecht-Migge-Anlage , Kalbach-Riedberg
- Leberecht Migge (1881–1935), German landscape architect and author, promoter and developer of the garden city ; Together with Ernst May and the horticultural director Max Bromme , he designed the transition from the Frankfurt core city to the new settlements in the periphery. The gardens and green spaces of the Römerstadt settlement are a well-known example of this collaboration on the New Frankfurt project .
Legienstrasse , Unterliederbach (1933–1945 Wartburgstrasse )
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Carl Legien (1861–1920), politician and trade union leader, member of the Reichstag ( SPD ), chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB)
- Wartburg , castle near Eisenach , where Martin Luther completed his Bible translation.
Lehrbergerstrasse , Rödelheim (1935–1945 Ganerbestrasse )
- Israel Lehrberger († 1841) founded a printing company in Rödelheim in 1796. In 1832 he took over the Hebrew printing company operated there by Wolf Heidenheim , which was only relocated to Frankfurt in 1912.
- In old German law, inheritance meant joint ownership of several heirs to one thing, here the castle in Rödelheim .
Leibbrandstrasse , Ostend
- Karl von Leibbrand (1839–1898), civil engineer, early designer of articulated concrete bridges
Leibnizstrasse , Nordend
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German philosopher and scientist, mathematician, diplomat, physicist, historian, librarian, almost a universal genius of his time
Leimenrode , Nordend
- Glue means clay here. This was abundant in Frankfurt, and the walls of the half-timbered houses were built with it.
Leinwebergasse , Fechenheim
- After the profession of linen weaver , which was strongly represented in Fechenheim.
Leipziger Strasse , Bockenheim (until 1910 Frankfurter Strasse )
- Named after Frankfurt's twin city Leipzig , with which it not only connects the book fair.
- Well-known and popular shopping street in Frankfurt-Bockenheim .
Lenaustraße , Nordend
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), Austrian Biedermeier writer
Lenzenbergstrasse , Zeilsheim
- Lenzenberg, 492 m high elevation near Niedernhausen im Taunus
Leo-Gans-Strasse , Fechenheim (1938–1945 Friedrichshafener Strasse )
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Leo Gans (1843–1935), German chemist and industrialist of Jewish descent; Thanks to his ideas, the Cassella Farbwerke Mainkur achieved worldwide importance. He was made an honorary citizen in 1928 for his services as a patron and promoter of science and culture.
- Friedrichshafen , district town in the Lake Constance district
Leonardo-da-Vinci-Allee , Bockenheim
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, anatomist, mechanic, engineer, natural philosopher; He is known as the Italian universal genius. The naming of the street honors his pioneering work in flight technology.
Leonhard-Heisswolf-Strasse , Sossenheim
- Leonhard Heißwolf, politician, head of the city council from 1924 to 1933, deputy chairman of the SPD in the Hessian state parliament from 1946
Leonhardsgasse , Seckbach
- Side street of Wilhelmshöher Straße , leads past Seckbacher Ried and in its extension ( Gwinnerstraße ) into the Seckbacher Niederung.
Leopold-Ehrmann-Strasse , Bergen -Enkheim
- Leopold Ehrmann (1881–1942), Jewish bag maker, citizen very actively involved in club life and instructor in the gymnastics club in Bergen, later its chairman; Leopold Ehrmann was taken into so-called protective custody in 1938, his wife Henny was abducted in 1942. She was sent to the Majdanek concentration camp . Both are considered lost. Her daughter Fränze managed to emigrate to the USA in 1939.
Leo-Tolstoj-Strasse , Nieder-Eschbach
- Leo Tolstoj (1828–1910), full name Lev Nikolajewitsch Count Tolstoy, Russian writer; His main work War and Peace had a decisive influence on the literary genre of the historical novel.
Lepsiusstraße , Griesheim formerly Wöhlerstraße
- Bernhard Lepsius (1854–1934), director of the Griesheim-Elektron chemical factory from 1899 to 1910
Lerchesbergring , Sachsenhausen
- Extensive orchards on Sachsenhausen Mountain attracted flocks of larks, hence the name, alien to the dialect.
Lersnerstrasse , Nordend
- Patrician family, ennobled in the 17th century; Outstanding representatives were Achilles August von Lersner (1662–1732), who wrote a chronicle of the city of Frankfurt, and his son Georg August von Lersner (1701–1749), who continued and completed this work.
Lessingstrasse , Westend
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), most important German poet of the Enlightenment ; With his dramas and his theoretical writings he had a major influence on the further development of German literature. Minna von Barnhelm and above all Nathan the Wise are still popular and exemplary plays of this genre.
Lettigkautweg , Sachsenhausen
- Lettig or Letten is a heavy clay containing slate that could be used in building houses. Between the Mühlberg and the Wendelsweg there was a pit containing this Lettig.
Light , Bergen- Enkheim
- Old field name, which is mentioned as early as 1392 as "Lichtholz vor dem Bruche zu Emekeym". By shifting the sounds in the dialect, the lamp already mentioned in 1483 was created, ie a forest clearing and pasture area, which also served as a military assembly point and military training area.
Leunastrasse , Höchst
- The city of Leuna near Merseburg is the center of the Central German chemical region . The street runs right in front of the East Gate, the main entrance of the former Hoechst AG . The two next parallel streets are called Ludwigshafener Strasse and Leverkuser Strasse . The three other large German chemical sites were honored right on the doorstep of the main factory of the former chemical company.
Leutholdstrasse , Bonames
- Anastasius Leuthold founded the Bonames paper mill, which existed until 1640, around 1540.
Leverkuser Strasse , Höchst
- Leverkusen is home to the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and therefore has a lot in common with Höchst (see Leunastraße for more ).
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Lia-Woehr-Platz , Gallus
- Lia Wöhr (1911–1994), born and raised in the Frankfurt district of Gallus, popular actor, director, dancer, singer and television producer, popularly through her roles in the Blauer Bock and the Hesselbach family .
Licher Strasse , Nordend
- Lich , town in the district of Gießen , known for the original beer advertising of the local brewery
Lichtenbergstrasse , Eckenheim
- after a sideline of the Hanau counts, the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg ; Lichtenberg, near Bouxwiller (Bas-Rhin) in northern Alsace, fell to France in 1697. Even today, names such as Étang de Hanau in Alsace and Hanauerland near Kehl are a reminder of the former rule.
Lichtensteinstrasse , Nordend
- The Schurge zum Lichtenstein patrician family, which died out in 1514, owned the Oede around 1400 and was later taken over by the Holzhausen family.
Liebfrauenberg and Liebfrauenstrasse , old town
- In the Middle Ages, many churches and chapels were dedicated to Our Lady , Our Lady . This is also the case with the Liebfrauenkapelle , founded by Wigels von Wanebach († 1322) in 1308 on the aforementioned hill, which was upgraded to the Church of Our Lady in 1325 and remained Catholic after the Reformation .
Liebigstrasse , Westend
- Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German chemist; Justus von Liebig went down in history as the best-known, most famous and most successful chemist of his century and as the founder of organic chemistry , agricultural chemistry and nutritional physiology .
Liebknechtstrasse , Unterliederbach (1933–1945 Malmedystrasse )
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Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900), journalist and member of the Reichstag, one of the founding fathers of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and an important opponent of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
- Malmedy , until 1920 a German / Prussian city in East Belgium
Liederbacher Strasse , Unterliederbach
- Unterliederbach , district of Frankfurt; The road was laid out in the 1920s as a connection between Höchst and Unterliederbach.
Liegnitzer Strasse , Sachsenhausen
- Legnica (German Liegnitz), city in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in western Poland; It is located around 60 km west of the Lower Silesian capital, Wroclaw .
Liesel-Christ-Anlage , city center
- Liesel Christ (1919–1996), Frankfurt folk actress, popular because of her role as “Mamma” Hesselbach
Privet Drive , Frankfurter Berg
- Privet is a genus of plants belonging to the olive family
Liliencronstrasse , Dornbusch
- Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), German poet, lyric poet, prose and playwright, was stationed in Frankfurt for some time as a lieutenant in the Frankfurt 81st Infantry Regiment.
Lilienthalallee , Bockenheim
- Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), pioneer of aircraft development, died of the consequences of a crash.
Lili-Schönemann-Steige , Ostend
- Lili Schönemann (1758–1817) went down in literary history as Goethe's “Lili”. She was briefly engaged to Goethe, the two separated again. She then became the wife of a Strasbourg mayor.
Limescorso , Heddernheim
- The name is reminiscent of the Limes , which the Romans built to protect against the Teutons. Nida , in the former center of which the northwest center was built, had to be abandoned around 260 AD.
Limpurgergasse , old town
- Originally called Alhardis-Gasse , going from the Römerberg to the west, it formed the border between Haus Klein-Limpurg in the south, which in the Middle Ages was the permanent trade fair district for wool weavers from Limburg an der Lahn and in 1405 was taken over by the Frankfurt patrician society Alten Limpurg , and the Römerzeile in the north, the southernmost building of which - formerly the Laderam house , then Alt-Limpurg - had also passed into the possession of Alten Limpurg in 1495 .
Lindberghplatz , Bockenheim
- Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), American pilot, was the first person to cross the Atlantic from New York to Paris by plane in 1927 without stopping. The Rebstock area was home to one of the first German airports, and other streets in the vicinity commemorate important men and women in aviation.
Lindheimer Gasse , old town
- The no longer existing street ran from Töngesgasse to Schnurgasse (today: Berliner Straße), as the first parallel street west of the Fahrgasse. Today's Gasse Im Trierischer Hof is in the area of the former Lindheimer Gasse. Lindheim (today the municipality of Altenstadt ) is a place in the Wetterau . The Frankfurt aldermen Markolf von Lindheim (gen. 1302), who gave the street its name, named himself after him (1305 a house in vico Marcolfi de Lintheim is mentioned here).
Lindleystrasse , Ostend
- William Lindley (1808–1900), British engineer, built a. a. as town planning officer, the Frankfurt sewerage and water supply. His son William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1917) was his successor in office. How effective their work was is shown by the statistics, according to which the death rate from typhus in Frankfurt fell from 80 to 10 per 100,000 inhabitants between 1868 and 1883.
Linkstrasse , Griesheim
- Peter Link, Catholic pastor in Griesheim from 1890 to 1909, helped the community to have its own church.
Linnéstrasse , Bornheim
- Carl Linnaeus , Carl von Linné (1707–1778) after being raised to the nobility in 1761 , was a Swedish scientist who developed the foundations of modern taxonomy (binary nomenclature). According to this system, animal and plant species are characterized with a double name, consisting of the generic name and the addition for the respective species.
Lise-Meitner-Strasse , Bockenheim
- Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist of Jewish descent; Among other things, she provided the theoretical explanation for the first nuclear fission , which her colleague Otto Hahn succeeded in 1938. In 1938 she went into exile. Despite great recognition by the professional world, she did not receive a Nobel Prize for her discovery.
Lisbon Street , Gallus
Lixfelder Weg , Rödelheim
- Lixfeld, part of the municipality of Angelburg in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district
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Loënstrasse , Nordend
- Johann Michael von Loën (1694–1776), Prussian councilor and Frankfurt writer, great-uncle of Goethe
Löherstrasse , Sachsenhausen
Löhunggasse , Fechenheim
- Heinrich Lönung († 1868), mayor of Fechenheim from 1839 to 1868
Lohoffstrasse , Rödelheim
- Gottfried Eduard Lohoff (1838–1913), Protestant pastor in Rödelheim from 1883 to 1905, created one of the first kindergartens in Hesse there.
Lohrgasse , Seckbach
- according to the historical field name; Lohr meant "empty", "bare". The Lohrberg used to be unforested. Lohrgasse is located between Draisbornstrasse and Wilhelmshöher Strasse .
Local train station , Sachsenhausen
- The Frankfurt-Offenbacher Lokalbahn , opened in 1847, was a railway line between Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main . At this point it met the Main-Neckar Railway . In 1955 it was shut down as unprofitable.
London Street , Gallus
- London , capital of Great Britain , one of the most important financial centers in the world
Lönsweg , Schwanheim
- Hermann Löns (1866–1914), German journalist and writer; His characters "Mümmelmann" or the story of the "Murder Deer" are legendary. Löns volunteered for the military in the First World War and was killed near Reims in September 1914 . Löns was glorified in the Third Reich especially because of his nationalistic novel The Wehrwolf , which was set in the Thirty Years' War .
Lorelpraße , Unterliederbach
- after the 132 m high slate rock Lorelei on the banks of the Rhine near Sankt Goarshausen , famous above all for Heinrich Heine's poem, which was set to music by Friedrich Silcher in 1837 ( I don't know what it should mean ... )
Lorsbacher Strasse , Gallus
- Lorsbach, since 1972 district of Hofheim am Taunus in the Main-Taunus-Kreis
Lorscher Strasse , Rödelheim, formerly Feldbergstrasse
- Lorsch , town in the Bergstrasse district ; Lorsch is well known by the World Heritage appointed Lorsch Abbey , the place was Radilenheim mentioned in a deed already on September 21, the 788th
Lortzingstrasse , Nordend
- Albert Lortzing (1801–1851), German composer, actor and singer; He is considered the main representative of the German game opera, in which romantic opera and folk opera flow together. Best known for his opera Zar und Zimmermann .
Lötzener Strasse , Bockenheim
- Giżycko (German Lötzen), since 1945 Polish city in the former East Prussia , today's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Lotte Specht Park , Gallus
- Lotte Specht (1911–2002), founder of the first women's football club, lived in Gallus.
Lotzstrasse , Nied
- Wilhelm Lotz (1829–1879), writer, wrote about Nassau architectural and art monuments. For a long time, Nied belonged to the Duchy of Nassau . Before the incorporation in 1928, the street was called after Kaiser Friedrich III. .
Louis Appia Passage , Ostend
- Louis Appia (1818–1898), a Hanau-born doctor, co-founded a forerunner organization of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Louis-Pasteur-Strasse , Niederursel
- Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French scientist and pioneer in the field of microbiology ; Pasteur developed vaccines and a. against anthrax and rabies . He also discovered that brief heating of food kills a large part of the germs it contains. This process is therefore also called pasteurization .
Löwengasse , Bornheim
- after the former Gasthaus zum Löwen ; Bornheim used to be a very popular excursion destination for Frankfurt's citizens, with many restaurants and other amusements. The expressions "Bornheimer Schlippsche" and "Bornheimer Mädche" still bear witness to this. The alley connects the Bornheimer five-finger cookie with the Bornheimer slope.
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Lübecker Strasse , Westend
- Lübeck , Hanseatic City on the Baltic Sea; During the construction of the IG Farben administration building , Bremer Strasse (now Reuter Weg / Bremer Platz) was planned, Hansaallee was newly laid out and the former Affensteiner Weg was renamed "Lübecker Strasse".
Lucaestrasse , Eschersheim
- Gustav Lucae (1814–1885), physician and zoologist, professor of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society , author of many anatomical works
Luciusstrasse , Höchst
- Eugen Lucius (1834–1903), chemist, founded the tea paint factory Meister, Lucius & Co. , which later became the Hoechst paint factory , in 1863 with Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister and Ludwig August Müller .
Lucy-Hillebrand-Strasse , Kalbach-Riedberg
- Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997), architect, from 1927 with her own studio in Frankfurt, after 1945 intensive occupation with school and educational buildings, with a focus on Lower Saxony, where she was responsible for many school, cultural and youth buildings.
Ludolfusstrasse , Bockenheim
- Jobus Ludolfus (1624–1704), a Frankfurt scholar and orientalist from Erfurt who dealt with airship travel for the first time
Ludwig-Emmel-Weg , Bergen-Enkheim
- Ludwig Emmel (1936–2004), ornithologist and natural scientist; Berger local curator of the Frankfurt Museum of Prehistory and Early History and honorary chairman of the Local History Museum in Bergen-Enkheim. He researched the Enkheimer Ried and the history of viticulture on the Berger slope.
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage , Westend
- Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977) was Minister of Economic Affairs and second Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1963 to 1966, but above all he is still considered the father of the economic miracle .
Ludwig-Fulda-Weg , Kalbach
- Ludwig Fulda , actually Ludwig Anton Salomon , (1862–1939), poet, playwright and translator born in Frankfurt; From 1889 he worked in Berlin, where he founded and directed the Free Stage . He committed suicide in 1939.
Ludwig-Gallmeyer-Strasse , Oberrad
- Ludwig Gallmeyer (1865–1909) was a teacher in Oberrad, a writer and poet, as well as a choirmaster of the local choir "Eintracht".
Ludwig-Gehm-Weg , Praunheim
- Ludwig Gehm (1905–2002) was a socialist resistance fighter in the Third Reich and was therefore imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1936 to 1943 . In 1970 he was awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse. Until his death, he worked as a contemporary witness to come to terms with the Nazi crimes.
Ludwig-Hensler-Strasse , Unterliederbach
- Ludwig Hensler (1871–1935), from 1910 Catholic pastor at the Justinuskirche in Höchst , saved it from slow decline.
Ludwig-Jost-Allee , Unterliederbach
- Ludwig Jost († 1977), Frankfurt city councilor, co-founder of the local CDU
Ludwig-Klemann-Weg , Bergen -Enkheim
- Ludwig Klemann, Mayor of Bergen-Enkheim from 1886 to 1917; On his initiative, most of the fortifications there were demolished, occasionally against considerable resistance from the population. In this context, Enkheim tried to break away from Bergen, initially with success, but ultimately failed.
Ludwig-Landmann-Straße , Bockenheim, Hausen, Praunheim, Rödelheim (formerly: Hindenburgstraße )
- Ludwig Landmann (1868–1945) was Frankfurt's Lord Mayor from 1924 to 1933 and is considered the father of the “New Frankfurt”. During his tenure, among other things, modern housing estates such as the Römerstadt and the Heimatsiedlung emerged under the direction of city building officer Ernst May as well as the first plans for a motorway ( HaFraBa ).
Ludwig-Quidde-Strasse , Nieder-Eschbach
- Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941), historian, politician and pacifist, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 ; After the National Socialists seized power, he emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
Ludwig-Rehn-Strasse , Sachsenhausen
- Ludwig Rehn (1849–1930), general practitioner in Griesheim, from 1886 chief physician and surgeon at the municipal hospital, from 1914 professor at the University of Frankfurt.
Ludwig-Reinheimer-Strasse , Heddernheim
- Dr. Ludwig Reinheimer (1894–1945), until 1935 city doctor in the city health department, arrested in 1943, temporarily imprisoned in the Heddernheim labor education camp , probably murdered in 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp .
Ludwig-Richter-Strasse , Eschersheim
- Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) was an important painter and draftsman of German Romanticism.
Ludwig-Ruppel-Strasse , Bonames
- Ludwig Ruppel, last mayor of Bonames
Ludwigsburger Weg , Zeilsheim
- Ludwigsburg , district town in Baden-Württemberg, north of Stuttgart.
Ludwig-Scriba-Strasse , Höchst
- Ludwig Scriba (1847–1933), manufacturer, founder of the Höchst iron foundry L. Scriba. Deputy Mayor of the City of Höchst.
Ludwigshafener Strasse , Höchst
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein is like the Höchst headquarters of a global chemical company, BASF (see also Leunastraße ).
Ludwigstrasse , Gallus
- King Ludwig the German (approx. 806–876), grandson of Charlemagne , was a great patron of Frankfurt, where he also died.
Ludwig-Tieck-Strasse , Eschersheim
- Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), German poet, writer, editor and translator of the Romantic period.
Ludwig-Zamenhof-Weg , Sachsenhausen
- Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859–1917), Polish ophthalmologist and philologist, founded the most widespread international planned language, Esperanto (see also Esperantostraße in Sachsenhausen).
Luginsland , downtown
- After an old fortress tower in the Frankfurt city wall.
Luisenplatz and Luisenstrasse , Bornheim
- Mayer Carl Freiherr von Rothschild named the 1864/66 built Luisenhof by Baroness Louise von Rothschild .
Lupinenweg , Frankfurter Berg
- Lupins are a genus of plants in the subfamily of the butterflies (Faboideae) within the family of legumes
Lurgiallee , Niederursel
- named after Lurgi AG, a system manufacturer based in Frankfurt. The company name is derived from the middle letters of the original name Metallurgical Society .
Luthmerstrasse , Nied
- Ferdinand Luthmer (1842–1921), secret building officer, professor and architect, described a. a. the Nassau architectural and art monuments. Until the incorporation of Nied in 1928, the street was called Elisabethstraße, after Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary ( Sissi ).
Luxemburgerallee , Ostend
- the Luxembourg family provided a very sympathetic ruler with Emperor Karl IV (1316–1378). With the Golden Bull in 1356, he made Frankfurt the official city of choice for the empire. All German emperors were elected there until 1792.
Luzernenweg , Frankfurter Berg
- Alfalfa , a useful plant from the legume family (Fabaceae). Alfalfa is the American name for lucerne. Alfalfa sprouts are used in the kitchen in salads and as a topping on bread.
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Lyoner Strasse , Niederrad
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