Münchener Strasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Bahnhofsviertel |
| Created | after 1888 |
| Connecting roads | At the main train station (west); Große Gallusstraße / Willy-Brandt-Platz (east) |
| Cross streets | Weserstrasse, Elbestrasse, Moselstrasse |
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| Street length | 530 m |
The Munich Street is a downtown street in Frankfurt . It runs from the Gallusanlage across the station district to the main station .
history
Like the parallel Kaiserstraße and Taunusstraße , the street owes its existence to the abandonment of the old Frankfurt Westbahnhof when Frankfurt Central Station was opened in 1888 - 600 meters further west. The resulting wasteland opened up the possibility of building a completely new city district with the Bahnhofsviertel. Its southern area, which previously carried the Main-Neckar-Bahn systems with the Main-Neckar train station , was opened up by today's Münchener Strasse, which was then Kronprinzenstrasse .
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| The three western train stations, around 1860 | The still incompletely built Kronprinzenstrasse, 1893 |
The development, as well as the relocation of the stations, took place as part of the preparations for the International Electrotechnical Exhibition , which took place on the site in 1891. Kronprinzenstrasse was named in honor of Crown Prince Friedrich, who later became Emperor Friedrich III. , the naming of the Kaiserstraße in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The naming goes back to the proclamation of the Emperor and the Crown Prince as honorary members of the Masonic Lodge for unity in the year 1883, whose property is located between these two streets.
Location and importance
Münchener Straße, together with Kaiserstraße as the central boulevard and Taunusstraße to the north of it, also runs parallel to it, opens up the station district. The most important intersecting streets are Weser, Elbe and Moselstraße.
While the parallel Taunusstrasse and the aforementioned cross streets form the center of the Frankfurt red-light district and are characterized by brothels and other establishments in the industry, Münchener Strasse is a multicultural shopping street. A large number of shops with management and products, especially from the Turkish , Islamic - Asian and Far Eastern areas, as well as mosques located in the backyards, shape the image of the street. In the Münchner Straße 21 located for example Merkez Camii the DITIB . The multicultural side of Frankfurt is clearly evident here.
The offer is complemented by the Hammer Museum Frankfurt .
Development
The Wilhelminian style - historicist development - despite the damage caused by the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in World War II and insensitive renovations in the 1960s and 1970s - still shapes Münchener Strasse today.
Public transport
The entire length of Münchener Strasse is crossed by the inner-city route of the Frankfurt tram , which runs here with lines 11, 12 and the Ebbelwei-Express . The parallel underground lines U4 and U5 , on the other hand, mostly run under Gutleutstrasse, which runs roughly parallel to the south .
Publications
- Michaela Böhm: A trip around the world in Frankfurt - Many nations are at home on Münchener Strasse in the Bahnhofsviertel - peaceful coexistence but not yet a successful coexistence . In: Frankfurter Rundschau - Frankfurt [local part] of June 15, 2010, p. F 2f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
- ↑ Schmidt, Alfred, Thoma, Heinz and Grossmann, Gerhard (1992): The unfinished building , 1992, ISBN 978-3-9803066-0-7 , p. 33.
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 27 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 8 ″ E