Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse
| Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse Ludwig-Landm.-Str.
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Bockenheim , Rödelheim , Hausen , Praunheim |
| Created | 1930s |
| Connecting roads | south: Theodor-Heuss-Allee |
| Cross streets | Heerstr. , BAB 66 , Hausener Weg, Am Industriehof (junction at Fischsteinkreisel), Rödelheimer Landstr., Katharinenkreisel |
| Buildings | Westhausen settlement , Russian Orthodox Church, Brentanobad |
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| Street length | 3.7 km |
The Ludwig-Landmann-Straße is an Arterial Road in Frankfurt . It runs in the west of the city through the districts of Bockenheim , Rödelheim , Hausen and Praunheim . It is part of the federal highway 44 . Unlike most of the other main streets in the city, it is not an old street, but a work of the 20th century.However, its two construction phases represent two important phases of Frankfurt's urban history : Ernst May's housing development at the end of the 1920s and the high phase of car-friendly urban planning around 1970.
designation
The street is named after the fifth mayor of Frankfurt, Ludwig Landmann , who initiated several housing developments along the street. Its former name was Hindenburgstrasse , after the former Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . The street bore his name from 1931 to 1947.
meaning
In addition to its supra-regional importance as a federal highway, Ludwig-Landmann-Straße is mainly an inner-city connecting link between the industrial areas in Bockenheim and those along Heerstraße in Praunheim. It also connects the northwestern satellite settlements with downtown Frankfurt. The north-western section was last greatly relieved by the construction of Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse .
course
The road essentially consists of two parts. The southern, younger part from the Katharinenkreisel to the roundabout in Hausen is a tangent that connects two highways leading into the city and that is only directly built on in a few places. The older part leads from Hausen directly out of town.
Katharinenkreisel
Ludwig-Landmann-Straße begins in the Bockenheim district at the Katharinenkreisel as part of the Bundesstraße 44 . The roundabout connects you with the street Am Römerhof (towards Rebstockgelände ), Theodor-Heuss-Allee (towards Kuhwaldsiedlung / Messegelände / city center), Voltastraße (towards City-West ) and Wiesbadener Straße ( federal motorway 648 ). The motorway originally ended at the Katharinenkreisel . A junction has existed there since 1967 , the motorway was extended over a bridge in the direction of the exhibition grounds in order to relieve the roundabout. The roundabout was originally named Opelrondell by an Opel dealer who had a branch here until the 1990s .
Southern road section
The road turns in a north-westerly direction from the roundabout and shortly afterwards crosses the Homburg Railway . On the right side is the northern part of Bockenheimer City-West, on the left side the postal settlement .
The Rödelheimer Landstrasse , which then crosses, was part of the medieval trade route from Frankfurt to Cologne until the 19th century , but today it is only of importance for its own district.
After the intersection, the street leads a short distance through the Frankfurt green belt. Then the Industriehof follows on the right . On the left is the Brentanopark in the Rödelheim district with the Brentanobad , the largest outdoor swimming pool in Europe, and the stadium at Brentanobad , the venue for the multiple German women's soccer champions 1. FFC Frankfurt and the traditional men's soccer club Rot-Weiss Frankfurt . At the former Fischsteinkreisel, Ludwig-Landmann-Straße runs a short distance through the Hausen district . There is also the Russian Orthodox St. Nicholas Church and the district's outdoor swimming pool.
Praunheim
After the roundabout, the subway line U6 runs in the middle of the eight-lane road . After crossing the Nidda, there is a short section through Rödelheim with the Hausener Weg underground station and then the Ludwig-Landmann-Straße motorway junction of the BAB 66 in clover leaf design . It is also the northern end point of the federal highway 44 to Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the district boundary to Frankfurt-Praunheim . The Praunheimer Niddaauen are now on the right-hand side of the street, and the Westhausen settlement created by Ernst May runs on the left . The road is now only four lanes with a subway line. This is followed by the stations Stephan-Heise-Straße and Friedhof Westhausen . The cemetery, however, is a bit remote beyond the housing estate and is one of the largest in Frankfurt. After the Westhausen housing estate , the road finally leads through the Praunheim housing estate , which is also part of May's New Frankfurt .
Heerstrasse
Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse ends at Heerstrasse , a former Roman road from Mainz to Nida . A new industrial area is currently being built here. About 200 m behind the Heerstrasse, only a dirt road leads further to the northwest. The oversized motorway bridge under the BAB 5 at the level of the Taunusblick tank and rest area is testimony to a former plan to extend the road over this dirt road to Steinbach .
history
The Praunheim district, which was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1910, was a focus of the New Frankfurt residential construction program due to its reserve of space . Between 1926 and 1931 , the Praunheim and Westhausen settlements were built here according to plans by Ernst May and Herbert Boehm . To develop the settlements, an existing path leading in the direction of the Vortaunus , on which a waterworks had been located since 1887, was expanded into the main urban road. The work was completed in 1931, the new Hindenburgstrasse led from the old Rödelheim-Hausener Landstrasse (today: Hausener Weg) to the northwest to Heerstrasse. An extension towards Steinbach ( Taunus feeder ) was planned.
In 1932, a tram line was opened in the course of the new road , which was initially served by line 2. The new tram route branched off in the center of Hausen, at the sports field, from the Schönhof - Praunheim Brücke line, which has been in operation since 1913, and follows Am Industriehof and Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse to Heerstrasse.
From the beginning of 1943 to March 1945 there was a forced labor camp at Ludwig-Landmann-Straße 210-216 for about 340 women who were deployed at Hartmann & Braun in Heerstraße. Most of them were from Russia , Ukraine and Belarus . A plaque, unveiled in 1995, commemorates their fate.
In 1947 the streets in the Westhausen settlement were named after anti-fascist resistance fighters. The Hindenburg street was named after the Jewish mayor , Ludwig Landmann, who had to flee from the Nazis into exile in the Netherlands. Street and settlements emerged during Landmann's tenure, he was an important initiator of the New Frankfurt and thus also the street that is now named after him.
The construction of the southern section of the road and the expansion of Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse to become the main inner-city traffic axis began in the 1960s. The project was part of an extensive plan to build expressways in the northwestern parts of the city. The previous junction Frankfurt-West on the A 5 motorway was converted into a motorway junction , and the A 66 was extended into the inner city area. A junction for the new city motorway was built on Ludwig-Landmann-Straße. It was extended to the new junction on Miquelallee in 1976. In 1974, the four-lane road from the Industriehof roundabout to Egestraße was opened, and from 1977 the rest of the road to Heerstraße followed.
The southern section of the road has been open to traffic in four lanes since 1976 up to Lötzener Strasse, and since 1980 up to the Opel roundabout at the time.
literature
- Bernd Kalusche, Wolf-Christian Setzepfand: Architecture Guide Frankfurt am Main. Reimer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-496-01100-9 .
- Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 .
- City of Frankfurt am Main, website. Chronicle of the districts Rödelheim , Hausen and Praunheim .
swell
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 45 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 17 ″ E