List of street names in Frankfurt am Main / V
Valentin-Schmetzer-Weg , Kalbach-Riedberg
- Valentin Schmetzer (1877–1937), social democrat and resistance fighter in the Third Reich, was arrested in 1935 for “political activities” and sentenced to three years in prison.
Valentin-Senger-Strasse , Bornheim
- Valentin Senger (1918–1997), born in Frankfurt and from a Russian-Jewish family, is one of the city's literary chroniclers. After the Second World War, the trained technical draftsman became a journalist, then an editor at Hessischer Rundfunk. Among other things, Senger wrote the novels “Das Frauenbad - and other Jewish stories” and his autobiographical novel Kaiserhofstrasse 12 . In this house he was able to survive the Nazi barbarism with his parents and siblings and get to work from there. B. in Friessstraße .
Varrentrappstrasse , Bockenheim
- Privy medical councilor Johann Georg Varrentrapp (1809–1886), doctor, became director of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . City councilor from 1867 to 1884. Responsible for the construction of a city sewer system and the establishment of holiday camps for school children. Until 1947 Manteuffelstrasse after Edwin von Manteuffel (1809–1885), Field Marshal General and Governor of Alsace-Lorraine .
Vatterstrasse , Seckbach
- Johannes Vatter (1842–1916) was head of the Frankfurt educational institution for the deaf and dumb from 1874 to 1916. In Friedberg the Johannes Vatter School for the Deaf is named after him.
Via Regia
- The Via Regia was a historical and prehistoric connection from Spain to Russia. In what is now Frankfurt's urban area, it ran from Höchst (old Elisabethenstrasse ) over the Nidda near Nied ( Rödelheimer Strasse , now Oeserstrasse ), past Rebstock through the Biegwald ( Biegweg ), then north past Bockenheim , over the Ginnheimer Höhe ( Diebsgrundweg ), the Dornbusch ( Marbachweg ) and the Lohrberg on to Bergen . The long-distance connection between Frankfurt and Leipzig was called Hohe Straße in the Middle Ages, probably because it avoided the wetlands and marshland as much as possible and could thus be used at all times of the year. In Bergen, the street name Hohe Straße is reminiscent of this name ; the traders who are loaded with heavy loads and who use them often stopped at the Ruhbank .
Victor-Gollancz-Weg , Eschersheim
- Victor Gollancz (1893–1967), British-Jewish publisher, humanist and fighter for human rights. He was an opponent of Hitler from the very beginning and an opponent of the inhumane treatment of the Germans after the Second World War. 1960 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
Victor-Slotosch-Strasse , Bergen- Enkheim
- Victor Slotosch opened an iron foundry in Enkheim in 1914, which over time developed into a factory for special steels, but ceased operations in 1996. The family grave is located in the Enkheim cemetery. On the former company premises (at the old foundry, Bessemerstraße, Victor-Slotosch-Straße and Vilbeler Landstraße), more than a dozen residential buildings have been built and moved into. The former name of Victor-Slotosch-Straße was Sandweg .
Victoria Avenue
- Before the Senckenberg complex was named in honor of Johann Christian Senckenberg, the street was named after Empress Victoria, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II.
Vierhäusergasse , Schwanheim
- One of the four oldest streets in Schwanheim, with only four houses. Including a house built in 1619, it is the oldest in this district.
Vilbeler Landstrasse , Bergen-Enkheim, Fechenheim, Seckbach
- South-north connecting road - Frankfurt's east bypass with a Stone Age past. (More details in own article Vilbeler Landstrasse ) .
Vilbeler Strasse , city center
- Named after Bad Vilbel in the Wetterau district
Voelckerstrasse , Nordend
- The patrician family, who previously moved from Darmstadt, had the “Black Star”, one of the most magnificent half-timbered houses in Frankfurt, built next to the Nicolaikirche on the Römerberg.
Vogelsbergstrasse , Nordend
- The Vogelsberg , a group of extinct volcanoes, represents the largest contiguous basalt massif in Europe and was formed around 19 million years ago. Its lava flows even reached Frankfurt, 60 km south-east (see basalt road)
Vogelsgesanggasse , old town
- This no longer existing street led from Maulbeerhof (in the former Ännchengasse ) through two passages to Schnurgasse, today's Berliner Straße . The Augsburger Hof, the commercial agency of the former Swabian metropolis, was located between the passages . The street was in the area of today's Kleinmarkthalle.
Vogelstrasse , Niederrad
- Johannes Friedrich Vogel (1795–1839) was chief forester in the Frankfurt city forest like his father and grandfather (1732–1797), that is, an entire forester dynasty.
Vogesenstrasse , Schwanheim
- Vosges , low mountain range, runs through Alsace, Lorraine and Burgundy. Highest point of the Grand Ballon / Großer Belchen with 1424 m.
Vogtstrasse , north and west end
- Nikolaus Vogt (1756–1836), poet, writer, was best known for his efforts to collect the art treasures from former monastery properties that had arisen in the course of secularization . Many museum depots have been refilled for free.
Volgersbrunnenweg , Riederwald
- In the east of the Riederwald, a groundwater pumping system for the water supply of the city of Frankfurt am Main was built in 1864 on the initiative of Dr. Otto Volger (1822–1897), the founder of the Free German Hochstift , he was a German scientist, geologist, mineralogist and politician.
Völklinger Strasse , Schwanheim
- Völklingen , city in Saarland.
Volkshausstrasse , Bergen- Enkheim
- The community center in Enkheim, Borsigstrasse, built in 1928, is called that. Theaters and events of all kinds take place there.
Volpenhennstrasse , Niederrad
- Franz Xaver Volpenhenn, born in Münster / Westphalia, † 1898 in Lorch am Rhein, was pastor from 1871 to 1895 in the then newly founded Catholic parish in the otherwise Protestant Niederrad.
Voltastrasse , Bockenheim
- Alessandro Volta (1745-1827). Italian physicist, inventor of the battery. The unit of measurement for electrical voltage "volt" has been named after him since 1897