List of street names in Frankfurt am Main / O

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Oberer Schafhofweg , Sachsenhausen

After the former sheep farm or sand farm , where the sheep grazing in the city forest were housed at night.

Oberfeldstrasse , Praunheim

During the three- field economy , a field lay fallow every three years, which means that it was not cultivated and could recover. The corridors were therefore divided into upper, middle and lower fields.

Oberhöchstädter Weg , Praunheim

Oberhöchstadt , since 1972 district of Kronberg im Taunus ( Hochtaunuskreis )

Oberlindau , Westend

Derived from the former royal "Reichswald Lindau", which stood north of today's Bockenheimer Landstrasse . The city received this forest as a fiefdom around 1250, the linden trees standing on it were, as was to be expected in Frankfurt, gradually cut down, first converted to arable land, then to building land.

Obermühlgasse , Niederursel

after the former upper mill on the Urselbach, whose mill buildings are still visible today, but no longer serve their original purpose

Obernhainer Strasse , Bornheim

Obernhain , since 1972 district of Wehrheim im Taunus ( Hochtaunuskreis )

Oberschelder Weg , Heddernheim

Oberschelden , part of Siegen since 1974 .

Obertshäuser Weg , Fechenheim

Obertshausen , town in the Offenbach district

Oberurseler Weg , Niederursel

Oberursel , town in the Hochtaunus district . Oberursel and Niederursel are both located on the Urselbach, but were never politically a unit.

Oberweid , Schwanheim

Comparable to the explanation on Oberfeldstrasse, the Dreifelderwirtschaft is also the originator of this name.

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Odenwaldstrasse , Niederrad

The Odenwald , low mountain range beginning south of Darmstadt and reaching to Mosbach and Heidelberg . In addition to Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria also participate with places such as Miltenberg and Amorbach am Odenwald.

Odina-Bott-Platz , Westend

Odina Bott (1923–2000), district politician , founder and chairwoman of the Westend Action Group , which has been campaigning for the preservation of Westend since around 1970.

Odrellstrasse , Bockenheim (1937–1945 Guaitastrasse )

Dr. Leopold Odrell (1804-1884), son of the Jewish banker Isaac Abraham Oppenheim , lawyer, made a large sum available as grants for university education.
  • Stephan (1772–1848) and Luise von Guaita , Frankfurt donors (foundations from 1846)
  • Later, a Guaita street in Ginnheim was dedicated to the donor couple.

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Oeder Weg , Northrend

led to the Holzhausener- and Stalburger Oede , commonly called Oed , because these were deserted farms at that time.

Oeserstrasse , Nied

Dr. Rudolf Oeser (1858–1926), member of several governments of the German Reich from 1922 to 1924, primarily as Minister of Transport. From 1924 to 1926 Oeser was General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Since the Reichsbahn repair shop was located on this street and the former Rödelheimer Straße had to be renamed after the incorporation in Frankfurt in 1928, the important personality for the railway workers was remembered.

Oestricher Weg , Schwanheim

Oestrich , district of Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

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Offenbacher Landstrasse , Sachsenhausen

Offenbach am Main , city, associated with Frankfurt in mutual aversion

Ohlengarten , Praunheim

after the Ohl family from Praunheim, who had gardens here and were very respected

Ohmstrasse , Bockenheim

Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854), German physicist. As ohmic law , the proportionality between current and voltage is referred to in an electrical conductor that Ohm had found in the spring 1821st The constant of proportionality is called electrical resistance, the SI unit of which is the ohm (symbol Ω).

Okrifteler Strasse , Sindlingen

Okriftel , since 1972 district of Hattersheim am Main in the Main-Taunus-Kreis

Olbrichstrasse , Praunheim

Prof. Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908), an architect, was one of the Darmstadt artists' colony at

Olof-Palme-Strasse , Heddernheim

Olof Palme (1927–1986), Swedish Social Democrat and two-time Prime Minister of Sweden (1969–1976 and 1982–1986). Fell victim to an assassination that has not yet been resolved.

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Opera Square , downtown

The square in front of the Alte Oper is one of the most beautiful squares in the city. The opera house was built in 1880 and was considered one of the most beautiful in Europe. Destroyed by bombs in 1944, it remained in ruins before it was restored to its former glory in 1981 as a pure concert hall.

Oppauer Weg , Zeilsheim

Oppau is a district of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , in which BASF opened another plant in 1913. As a result, the farming village became an industrial community, which, united with the community of Edigheim in 1928 , received city rights in 1929. In 1938 Oppau-Edigheim was incorporated into Ludwigshafen.

Oppenheimer Landstrasse , Oppenheimer Platz and Oppenheimer Strasse , Sachsenhausen

Oppenheim am Rhein, located in Rheinhessen between Mainz and Worms , is in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Rheinhessen and thus also Oppenheim belonged to Hesse from 1815 to 1945.

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Oranienstrasse , Heddernheim

after the princely family of Nassau- Orange , who have had the Dutch crown since 1813. Orange, French Orange, was a county, later a principality in the Rhone Valley in Burgundy / Bourgogne, which fell to Nassau-Dillenburg in 1530 by hereditary path. In 1714 it was annexed by France.

Orber Strasse , Fechenheim

Bad Orb , spa town in the Main-Kinzig district

Ortenberger Strasse , Bornheim

Ortenberg (Hessen) , town in the Wetterau district

Orthstrasse , Bornheim

Dr. Johann Philipp Orth (1698–1783) donated an orphanage to the city.

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Oskar-Schindler-Strasse , Bonames

Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German industrialist, who during the Second World War saved around 1200 Jewish slave laborers he had employed from being murdered in the Nazi extermination camps (concentration camps) . World famous for " Schindler's List ", a 1993 film by Steven Spielberg .

Oskar-Sommer-Strasse , Sachsenhausen

Oskar Sommer (1840–1894), Frankfurt architect, built the Städel and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange .

Oskar-von-Miller-Strasse , Ostend

Oskar von Miller (1855–1934), engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum in his hometown of Munich . In 1891 organized a power transmission from Lauffen, 176 kilometers away, to Frankfurt as part of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel .

Ossietzkystraße , Sachsenhausen

Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), German journalist, writer and pacifist . Was arrested in the Third Reich and sent to a concentration camp. In 1936 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 retrospectively , but the National Socialist government forbade him to personally accept it. Died in 1938 of complications from tuberculosis .

Ostparkstrasse , Ostend

The Ostpark , which the road passes by, was created between 1900 and 1908 by the horticultural director Carl Heicke as a public and landscape park.

East Prussia Road, Bergen- Enkheim

East Prussia , until 1945 a Prussian province around Königsberg and Danzig , after the Second World War divided between the Soviet Union and Poland . Today essentially the Kaliningrad Oblast , Russian exclave, or the Polish Warmia and Mazury with the capital Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ). Next to it, the former Memelland , now Klaipėda, which was closed to Lithuania . The German-speaking population was practically completely resettled.

Oswaltstrasse , Niederursel

Henry Oswalt (1849–1934), city councilor and co-founder of Frankfurt University. Marie Oswalt (1863–1932), chairwoman of the Association for People's Kindergartens.

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Ottilie-Wildermuth-Weg , Kalbach-Riedberg

Ottilie Wildermuth (1817–1877), German writer and author of books for young people

Otto-Brenner-Strasse , Sossenheim

Otto Brenner (1907–1972), German trade unionist and former chairman of IG Metall

Otto-Ernst-Weg , Unterliederbach

Dr. Otto Ernst (1870–1936), chemist at the Hoechst paintworks

Otto-Fleck-Schneise , Sachsenhausen

Otto Fleck (1868-1927), chief forester, made by the Frankfurt City Forest deserves

Otto-Hahn-Platz , Sachsenhausen

Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist born in Frankfurt. The Swedish Academy awarded Hahn the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for his work on nuclear fission , which King Gustav V of Sweden presented to him in 1946 .

Otto-Horn-Strasse , Schwanheim (industrial park)

From 1957, Prof. Otto Horn (1904–1991) was the first research director at Hoechst AG and co-founder of the plastics division (brand name Hostalen ) of this company.

Otto-Loewe-Strasse , Bockenheim

Dr. med. Otto Loewe (1878–1938), born in Frankfurt, had to give up his post as chief physician at the Markus Hospital in 1933 as a Jew . Killed in unexplained circumstances during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938 .

Otto-Meßmer-Strasse , Ostend

Otto Messmer (1858–1940) founded a branch of the Baden-Baden- based colonial goods store in Frankfurt in 1886 , which then dealt with the trade and sale of high-quality tea. Since 1990 owned by the East Frisian Tea Company based in Seevetal near Hamburg .

Otto-Schott-Strasse , Kalbach-Riedberg

Friedrich Otto Schott (1851–1935), German chemist and glass technician. Together with Ernst Abbe as well as Roderich and Carl Zeiss , he founded the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen , whose most famous product was the heat-resistant Jenaer glass .

Ottostrasse , Gallus

Emperor Otto the Great (912–973) visited the Frankfurt Palatinate several times .

Otzbergstrasse , Niederrad

Otzberg , 367 m high mountain in the Odenwald , crowned by the Veste Otzberg and the municipality of the same name in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district

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Overbergstrasse , Sossenheim

Bernhard Heinrich Overberg (1754–1828), also written as Bernard Overberg, Catholic priest and educator from the Münsterland, who revolutionized school teaching with his ideas.