List of streets and squares in Frankfurt am Main

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The list of streets and squares in Frankfurt am Main includes the major traffic routes such as the connected federal motorways or roads as well as some well-known shopping streets and squares.

Bridges can be found in the list of Main crossings and the list of Nidda bridges in Frankfurt am Main .

The following article explains their location and importance. For the origins of street names see the list of street names in Frankfurt am Main .

Highways

End of the A 648 motorway

Frankfurt am Main is directly connected to five motorways . In a north-south direction, the urban area is crossed by the A5 , which leads over the Europabrücke and crosses three other motorways. In the south it is intersected by the A3 at the Frankfurter Kreuz . This connects the Rhine-Main area with northwest Germany and Bavaria . The other two motorway junctions are in the north Main city area. The Westkreuz Frankfurt is located south of Rödelheim , in the north of the district is the Nordwestkreuz. The connected motorways are the A 66 from Wiesbaden and the short city motorway A 648 (which from the Eschborner triangle also bears the historical name Wiesbadener Straße). Both lead directly to the Frankfurter Alleenring. The A 661 , which was last completed in 1995 as an east bypass, connects the Taunus with the east of Frankfurt and serves the Rodgau in the southern section.

The federal motorways A 5 in the west, A 661 in the northeast and A 3 in the south surround Frankfurt as a motorway ring.

In addition to excellent as federal highway roads are developed even highway-like in Frankfurt Automotive streets . These include, for example, Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse , which connects inner-city districts and Nordweststadt . Especially in the south of the city there are federal highways that have been developed for express traffic . The interconnected federal highways B 43 and B 44 , which run at Frankfurt Airport , and part of the B 40 from Sindlingen are part of it.

Federal highways

Frankfurt is the junction of several important federal highways. Most of the federal highways run over the Frankfurter Alleenring through the high density Wilhelminian style districts. They share the following road sections:

  • B 3 : the eastern part, Nibelungenplatz to Henschelstrasse / Ostbahnhof ;
  • B 8 : the northern part, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage to Habsburger / Wittelsbacher Allee ;
  • B 44 : The western part, Friedensbrücke to Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage .

Other federal highways in the city are:

Ring and radial roads

From the 19th century onwards, the Frankfurt street system was converted from a medieval to a classic one based on the Parisian model. First the system ring was created, then the wider avenue ring.

Avenue ring

Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage

The Frankfurter Alleenring is the outer of the two inner city rings. It was originally planned as a new city boundary to prevent unhindered expansion. Today, however, it is primarily a popular bypass road. It runs from the main train station in the southwest to the north, to the end of the Autobahn 66 , where it bends to the east and then runs south again.

Plant ring

The Frankfurter Anlagenring (also Cityring ) consists of two parallel ring roads, which are separated from each other by the ramparts , which have been protected since 1804 . These were built in place of the 17th century fortifications , which Napoleon had razed, and enclose the city ​​center . The inner of the two parallel streets follows the course of the city wall from 1333 in a relatively straight line, the outer traces the jagged course of the baroque bastions . The two parallel rings are used in one-way traffic. The layout ring bears numerous street names in its course.

Radial roads

Mainzer Landstrasse as the border between Westend-Süd and the Bahnhofsviertel
Mainzer Landstrasse is an important connecting axis between the western parts of the city and the city center. It starts at the Taunusanlage, near the headquarters of Deutsche Bank , and continues to the west (in the direction of Mainz ) over the Platz der Republik and the Galluswarte (where it makes a slight right bend and passes under the S-Bahn). At Mönchhof, Schmidtstrasse branches off to the right and leads to Rebstock and Westkreuz. Shortly afterwards it crosses under the A 5 and continues through Griesheim to Nied , where after the Nieder Kirche (intersection Alt Nied and Nieder Kirchweg ) - shortly before the mouth of the Nidda, after crossing the Nidda - on Bolongarostraße in Frankfurt -Highly ends. Mainzer Landstrasse is very long, but at around 8,300 meters it is only the second longest street in the city. Only Homburger Landstrasse is even longer .
Important arterial road to the north. It starts at the Eschenheim tower and leads through the districts of Nordend , Westend , Dornbusch , Ginnheim to Eschersheim . The street is used almost continuously by the U1 , U2 , U3 and U8 tram lines (underground as far as Miquelallee).
Until the end of the 19th century , the Eschersheimer was almost undeveloped, so the designation as a country road was justified. With the incorporation of the districts of Ginnheim and Eckenheim , the Dornbuschsiedlung was created between these two along the Eschersheimer Landstrasse . On White stone chained up in the 1960s , the Heddernheimer highway from. With the construction of the Maybachbrücke , however, this section was replaced by the Maybachbrücke / Dillenburger Straße street .
Hanauer Landstrasse, one of the longest streets in Frankfurt, begins in the eastern part of the city center and then runs as a section of federal highways 8 and 40 through the districts of Ostend and Fechenheim in the direction of Maintal and Hanau . It was expanded in 1765 as part of an important traffic route between the cities of Frankfurt and Hanau along the Main . The four-lane road is now mainly important for car traffic, and a tram line runs in the middle of the street. While there are still many residential buildings in the inner-city section, the eastern part is characterized by the buildings of industrial and commercial enterprises (including Cassella color works, Neckermann headquarters , car dealerships, hardware stores).

Other famous streets in the city

Shopping streets and sights

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One of the most popular shopping streets in the city. The beginning lies in the Friedberger Anlage at the Chinese garden of the Bethmann Park. It crosses the districts of Nordend and Bornheim to the northeast. In the old town center of Bornheim it still has a village character. The construction of the federal motorway 661 cut it off from its continuation in the direction of Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim , Wilhelmshöher Strasse, and ends as a dead end for cars. The U4 underground line follows Berger Straße until just before it ends. Three subway stations are under the street.
The road breakthrough from Paulsplatz to Fahrgasse was created in 1902 . The name is derived from a side arm of the Main that has silted up since the Middle Ages and whose water was used for brewing . For several years the city has been trying to establish the street as an exclusive shopping street. The Braubachstraße is part of the so-called Old Town route of the streetcar Frankfurt and is traversed by the lines 11 and 12. FIG.
A thoroughfare and shopping street running through Niederrad in an east-west direction, the Niederräder main axis.
  • Freßgass (actually Kalbächer Gasse and Große Bockenheimer Straße ), city center
Formerly an important thoroughfare from Roßmarkt to Bockenheimer Tor , a pedestrian street was established here in 1977, which is not only used for shopping, but above all for eating and drinking.
Shopping street running parallel to Freßgass with a wide range of high-quality textiles and jewelry.
Connection from Hauptwache to Eschenheimer Tor . The Palais Thurn und Taxis and the Frankfurter Zeitung stood here , and later the Rundschau-Haus .
Known above all for the Goethe House and the Frankfurt Volkstheater . This is also the seat of the Free German Hochstift and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels .
Created in 1888 as a representative boulevard from the city center to the (then) new central station, later synonymous with the red light district in the Bahnhofsviertel, today an international mix of street cafes, porn cinemas, banks and foreign agencies, one of the most urban streets in Germany.
The main traffic axis and an important shopping street in the Unterliederbach and Höchst districts . It begins in the south on Bolongarostraße near the banks of the Main and then initially runs through Höchst as a pedestrian zone . This section is the main shopping street in the western part of the city. It is passable from Dalbergplatz and then extends north through Unterliederbach. There it is mostly a one-way street . Beyond the autobahn underpass of Bundesautobahn 66 , shortly before the Main-Taunus-Zentrum , it becomes Bundesstraße 8 for a short section . The road continues in a straight line and under the same name through the suburbs Sulzbach and Bad Soden to Königstein.
Former main street in the old town, today part of the shopping city south of the main guard.
Pedestrian zone, connects the Hauptwache with the Liebfrauenberg. The continuation in the old town is the Neue Kräme
Well-known and popular shopping street in Frankfurt-Bockenheim . It begins near the campus of the University at Bockenheimer waiting and goes to the corner Basaltstraße in the narrow Friesengasse about that crosses the village core Bock home.
Once one of the three north-south connections in the old town, today it is still the most important connection from the Hauptwache to Paulsplatz and the Römerberg . Oldest pedestrian zone in Frankfurt (since 1968).
Parallel street to Eschersheimer and Eckenheimer Landstraße , on which a large number of shops and especially restaurants are located. At the lower end of the street, at Eschenheimer Tor , there is a large multiplex cinema . To the north, the street then becomes a residential street with a few small shops and continuous Wilhelminian style buildings. Shortly before the Alleenring it turns into the Eckenheimer Landstrasse .
Shopping street running parallel to Große Eschenheimer Straße , partly pedestrian zone.
Shopping street of the Gründerzeit Sachsenhausen. Among other things, the location of several cider bars. At Schweizer Platz , the street has a connection to the Frankfurt U-Bahn network . In addition, the southern section of the Swiss road is used by trams .
Shopping street and pedestrian zone, connects Hauptwache with Goetheplatz.
Shopping street running south parallel to the Zeil.
Frankfurt's main shopping street, one of the most important retail locations in Europe.

Connecting roads

Camberger Strasse connects the districts of Gallus and Gutleutviertel in the form of a bridge over the tracks in front of Frankfurt Central Station. It begins on Mainzer Landstraße at the level of the Galluswarte and ends on Gutleutstraße and thus represents an important connection between the Gallus and Gutleutviertel districts, which are separated from each other by the station apron.
Ramp into the theater tunnel in Gutleutstrasse
Gutleutstrasse begins in the Gutleutviertel , south of the platform in front of Frankfurt Central Station as a feeder road . It then runs east past the reception building of the main train station and finally ends in the theater tunnel, which passes under Willy-Brandt-Platz and the subway crossing station of the same name and ends in Berliner Straße .
Hoechster-Farben-Strasse was created in the 1950s when the Hoechst company closed its factory premises with gates to the public. This eliminated an important section of the Mainzer Landstrasse , which from today's East Gate to West Gate led. As a substitute, the street “on the Great Wall of China”, as the factory wall was ironically called, was an obvious choice. It was generously expanded to four lanes. Large roundabouts were built at the ends of the Höchst and Sindlingen districts , of which only the one in Sindlingen still exists today. The road has been completely renewed since 2005 as part of a renovation. The commissioning of the Leunakreisel in Höchst is also under discussion.
  • Homburger Landstrasse , Bornheim / Nordend-West, Eckenheim, Preungesheim, Frankfurter Berg, Bonames, Nieder-Eschbach
The narrow, sometimes inconspicuous street between Friedberger Warte and the northern city limits in Nieder-Eschbach is the longest street in Frankfurt at 8,922 meters - and thus around 600 meters longer than Mainzer Landstrasse.
  • Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse ( L 3004, formerly Nordweststrasse ), Bockenheim, Ginnheim, Heddernheim (Nordweststadt), Niederursel (as Frankfurter Landstrasse : Weißkirchen, Bommersheim, Oberursel)
The Praunheimer Landstrasse connects Hausen and Praunheim. This begins in Hausen Kleine Nelkenstraße and ends at the Praunheimer bridge / former tram turning roundabout

Thoroughfares

Old town / city center

After almost the entire old town of Frankfurt , a remarkable ensemble of medieval buildings, was bombed in the Second World War , the few remaining monuments were cleared in order to be able to lay a wide main street through the old town. Today this represents a continuation of the Gutleuttunnel (see below), which leads west to the main station and the A 5 . The end of Berliner Strasse is at the intersection with Fahrgasse, the medieval main thoroughfare that runs parallel to Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse , which was also rebuilt after the war and with which the city administration made the remains of the historic Jewish ghetto disappear, as no residents either there were more.

Gallus, train station and Gutleut district

Frankenallee, near Hufnagelstrasse
An avenue in the middle of Gallus. It begins at Güterplatz , is interrupted by the railway embankment on Schlossborner Strasse and ends at the border with the Griesheim district . It runs parallel to Mainzer Landstrasse . The headquarters of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Neue Presse are located in this street . Currently (as of 2018) the green belt is being beautified and converted. The weekly market in the Gallus takes place every Friday on Frankenallee.
Parallel street to Kaiserstraße, former name (until around 1947) Kronprinzenstraße. The street begins at Frankfurt Central Station and crosses the station district . It leads to the system ring and ends at Willy-Brandt-Platz. It is one of the few inner-city streets used by trams .
Street in the red light district of the Bahnhofsviertel, at the eastern end is the Silver Tower .

Ginnheim

A thoroughfare through the former housing area of ​​the US Army in Ginnheim between Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse and Wilhelm-Eppstein-Strasse

District Höchst

Bolongarostrasse
Next to Königsteiner Straße (see above) the most important shopping and small business street in the Höchst district . It is named after the Swiss-Italian trading family Bolongaro , who had a trading office in Höchst in the 18th century and had the Bolongaro Palace built there.
Next to Königsteiner Straße, it is an important shopping and main thoroughfare in the district.
One of the main streets of Sindlingen, which connects the northern part with the southern part.

Heddernheim, Niederursel and Nordweststadt

The Heddernheimer highway was until the 1960 years, the main street of Heddernheim . It is the continuation of the Eschersheimer Landstrasse and begins at the old bridge over the Nidda . It originally led across the district north to the neighboring district of Niederursel . In 1911, the Wiesenau housing estate was built on Heddernheimer Landstrasse . With the construction of the Northwest Road it lost its importance for through traffic. During the construction of the A-route of the Frankfurt underground (U 1) it was interrupted for car traffic in 1967 at the level of today's underground station “Heddernheimer Landstraße”. The section north of the underground line has since been called Niederurseler Landstrasse . Heddernheimer Landstrasse also lost its direct connection to Eschersheimer Landstrasse when the new Maybach Bridge was built in 1959 . The Dillenburger Straße took over the function of the Heddernheimer (traffic) main street.
Ringstrasse in the new part of Niederursel, This meets the Praunheimer Weg at both ends.

Sachsenhausen

The Darmstadt highway is a multi-track developed in both directions Arterial Road in Frankfurt . The approximately 4.7 kilometers long, mostly dead straight road is a section of the federal highway 3 . In a north-south direction it crosses part of the southern Main district of Sachsenhausen as well as the Frankfurt city forest and merges into Frankfurter Straße at the city limits to Neu-Isenburg .

Seckbach

Places

Hauptwache

In addition to important traffic arteries, shopping streets and boulevards, there are a number of well-known city squares in Frankfurt am Main .

The former most important eastern city gate is the starting point of the Hanauer Landstrasse and a synonym for the second largest red light district of the city.
The Hauptwache is the center of the city and, next to the main station, the most important transport hub.
  • Baseler Platz , Gutleutviertel
Baseler Platz is located at the intersection of the B 44 ( Baseler Straße / Alleenring ) and the Gutleutstraße motorway slip road and is accordingly very busy. After the last redesign, there is now a large oval building on the east side.
The Bockenheimer Warte is mainly associated with the Goethe University, which has its traditional location here.
Forecourt of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Schillerstrasse. Here is the sculpture of the bull and bear known from television .
  • Danziger Platz , Ostend
The square in front of the station building of the Ostbahnhof forms the southeast end of the Frankfurter Alleenring . After the tram was removed in the early 1990s and the traffic routing changed, the square became increasingly dilapidated. In 1999 the “Ostbahnhof” underground station with access structures to Danziger Platz was built.
Well-known square in the northern city center with a subway connection and the Eschenheimer Tower as the focal point.
  • Friedberger Tor , city center
Former city gate, today a somewhat noticeable traffic junction in the ramparts. The Friedberger Landstrasse begins here.
The former watch tower on Mainzer Landstrasse is the traffic hub in Gallus.
Centrally located town square and location of the Goethe monument. It goes north into the Rathenauplatz, to the south into the Roßmarkt. Goethestrasse , the city's most expensive shopping street, begins west of Goetheplatz . On the east side it is connected to the An der Hauptwache square by the Steinweg .


Square on the edge of the Höchst old town , where the Höchst weekly market, which has been handed down since 1356, has been held three days a week since 1923.
Highest palace square
According to many Frankfurters, the most beautiful square in the city is in the Höchst old town, between the Höchst Castle and the Maintor.
Star-shaped Gründerzeitplatz with well-known buildings such as the Commerzbank Tower , the Hotel Frankfurter Hof and the Juniorhaus .
One of the central rapid transit hubs in the city and part of the Zeil pedestrian zone . The design of the square is considered to be in need of improvement.
Central square of the northern old town. Well-known buildings are the Liebfrauenkirche , the Haus zum Paradies and the Kleinmarkthalle . Important streets that flow into it are Liebfrauenstrasse, Töngesgasse and Neue Kräme .
The former Bockenheimer Tor is now one of the most beautiful squares in Frankfurt with the opera house and Lucae fountain.
  • Parliament Square, Ostend
  • Paul-Arnsberg-Platz , Ostend
The square, opened in 2005, is a triangle between Martin-Elsaesser-Weg in the west, Rückertstraße in the east and Ostendstraße in the north.
The square between Paulskirche and Neuer Kräme only got its current size after the destruction of the bombing war. The square is a popular location for street cafes.
A central city center square between the pedestrian streets Zeil , Freßgass and Schillerstraße . In the south it turns into Goetheplatz.
The most famous square in Frankfurt, the city's “Gute Stube”, is the center of the old town and the venue for numerous events.
The link between Hauptwache and Kaiserstraße looks more like a short, wide boulevard than a square.
  • Schweizer Platz , Sachsenhausen-Nord
Wilhelminian style, star-shaped square on Schweizer Straße , the boulevard Sachsenhausen.
The square is located at the former Gallus Gate in the Untermainanlage . Until 1992 the square was called Theaterplatz , because the opera and theater of the municipal theaters is located on the southern side . Today the square is dominated by the high-rise building of the European Central Bank , which was built in the seventies by the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft. The representative green area with the Euro sculpture is one of the most well-kept in the city. In 2005 the square was redesigned and the tram stops were modernized. In the course of the ECB's move to Ostend, however, the euro sculpture will be dismantled.

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