Mainzer Landstrasse
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Westend-Süd , Bahnhofsviertel , Gallus , Griesheim , Nied |
| Created | 18th century as a road |
| Connecting roads | Taunusanlage (east), Bolongarostraße (west) |
| Cross streets | Taunusanlage, Hafenstrasse, Kleyerstrasse, Camberger Strasse, Schmidtstrasse, Waldschulstrasse , B 40a |
| Places | Republic Square , Güterplatz, Galluswarte |
| Buildings | Trianon , Alkmene, Frankfurter Büro Center , Westendstrasse 1 , City-Haus I , Galluswarte , Nieder Kirche |
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| Street length | 8.3 km |
The Mainzer Landstrasse in Frankfurt is a major arterial road in a westerly direction and connecting axis between downtown and the western districts. The street runs (with some distance) largely parallel (north) to the Main and, at 8.3 kilometers in length, is Frankfurt's second longest street after the Homburger Landstrasse .
history
The Mainzer Landstrasse was expanded into a Chaussee between 1746 and 1750 . Almost all long-distance traffic between Frankfurt and Mainz led through this road until the construction of the Höchst bypass, which was designated as Fernverkehrsstrasse 40 from 1932 to 1934 .
Founding years
The use of the area on both sides of Mainzer Landstrasse for commercial purposes became apparent early on. It developed into one of Frankfurt's industrial axes. The first factories were built in the first half of the 19th century around Guiollettstraße with the FA Junge bronze factory and a gas factory that produced gas from oil and resin with considerable odor emissions and posed a permanent fire hazard. The gas factory moved to Gutleutstrasse after 1860. In the 1880s, the development of the Mainzer Landstrasse shifted further west towards the Galluswarte, after a rail connection was available due to the proximity of the new freight and marshalling yard of the Hessian Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. The eastern end of Mainzer Landstrasse, now freed from the gas factory, has since developed into a residential area. Today the area is part of Westend Süd. In 1892, the street planning laid down in the official alignment plan was published. The street should be 26.28 meters wide, measured between the front gardens. In order for the city to be able to acquire the land required for this street width, it resorted to a tried and tested procedure: building permits were only issued once the necessary land shares had been assigned. The number of factories grew rapidly, and a tram line was built to transport workers, which runs from the main train station via Bahnstrasse and Mainzer Landstrasse to the Galluswarte. In 1898, the city of Frankfurt began electrifying the horse-drawn tram, with electricity being supplied over the route by means of a contact wire. Experiments with a tram powered by batteries had shown that recharging was necessary after every 3 km of travel, which spoke against battery operation. The battery factory on Mainzer Landstrasse disappeared a few years after this failure.
Up until the beginning of the First World War, there were 40 manufacturing companies on Mainzer Landstrasse. The companies Privat-Telefon-Gesellschaft Harry Fuld & Co., which has been in existence since 1899 , the Elektrical Normal-Uhr-Gesellschaft mbH, the Gesellschaft für electrical Anlagen mbH and the Telefon- und Telegrafenbau-Gesellschaft Lehner & Co. which were merged into Telefonbau und Normalzeit GmbH after the Aryanization . The companies often had their own rail connections to the freight station, so that to this day there are still isolated tracks from this time in the ground. By around 1910, industrialization was largely complete: Between Güterplatz and Galluswarte there was an approximately one-kilometer-long, closed flight of representative administrative buildings, behind which simple factory buildings and commercial backyards stretched into side streets. The parallel streets were also included in the industrialization process, the Adler factories were built on Kleyerstrasse, and supplier companies settled there. In the further course of the Mainzer Landstrasse to the west, residential buildings were built on its north side and further factory buildings on the south side. The focus of the start-ups on Mainzer Landstrasse were the modern industries of the time: motor vehicles and communications technology . The area designated for commercial use was still far too small for the expanding industry, and the demand for land drove prices up. In 1901, the city of Frankfurt finally started planning the Osthafen , which, as an industrial port , was to become the center of a new commercial enterprise.
Modern times
Since the completion of the Höchster bypass road (first Reichsstrasse 40 , then Bundesstrasse 40 , today Bundesautobahn 66 and Bundesautobahn 648 ) in 1934, this street has only been used for inner-city traffic. It was downgraded to a district road ( K 803 ).
course
Mainzer Landstrasse runs from downtown Frankfurt towards the west through the Westend , Bahnhofsviertel , Gallus , Griesheim and Nied districts to Höchst .
Westend / Bahnhofsviertel
The street begins at the Taunusanlage , part of the Frankfurt Wallanlagen , near the headquarters of Deutsche Bank . The first section between Taunusanlage and Platz der Republik forms the border between the Westend and Bahnhofsviertel districts . On the north, i.e. the Westend side, six well - known high-rise buildings follow one another closely: the twin towers of Deutsche Bank (155 meters each), Trianon (186 meters), Frankfurter Büro Center (142 meters), Westendstrasse 1 (208 meters), and finally the City-Haus I (142 meters) on the Platz der Republik .
Gallus
The Gallus begins to the west of the square, the central axis of which is the street. At the Galluswarte , a fortified tower from the 15th century, Mainzer Landstrasse crosses the course of the former outer city fortifications, the Frankfurter Landwehr , which is no longer visible today . In its place today the bridge of the Main-Weser-Bahn ( S-Bahn station Galluswarte ) forms a visible border between the city center and the west of Frankfurt. The street section in Gallus is known for the numerous car dealerships that are represented here. Gustavsburgplatz is located on Mainzer Landstrasse at the height of Rebstöcker Strasse .
Griesheim
At the border between Gallus and Griesheim , Mainzer Landstrasse crosses under the A5 motorway . The Griesheim section is located in a large industrial area with gas stations, wholesale markets and a large cinema. To the north of Mainzer Landstrasse is the Eberhard-Wildermuth settlement and to the south the Espenstrasse settlement .
Nied
Between Griesheim and Nied , the autobahn-like part of Bundesstraße 40 (southern bypass Höchst / airport feeder) joins Mainzer Landstraße. In Nied, the street runs through the middle of the district, with residential buildings in closed development on both sides. Shortly afterwards, the Mainzer Landstrasse crosses the Nidda River just before it flows into the Main. A prestressed concrete bridge built in the 1950s was demolished in June 2007 and replaced by a new bridge. After the Niddabrücke the Mainzer Landstrasse changes into the Bolongarostrasse .
Maximum
Mainzer Landstrasse ends at Bolongarostrasse. The country road to Mainz led over Bolongarostraße and its extension, Brüningstraße , through the Höchst old town to the Höchst industrial park , the factory site of the former Hoechst AG . Until the road was closed in 1957, the road ran through the plant into the Sindlingen district and on to Mainz .
tram
From the Platz der Republik , the intersection with the Alleenring, the Mainzer Landstrasse is continuously used by trams 11 and 21. In the Gallus, this runs on tracks laid directly in the carriageway, from Mönchhofstraße to Niddabrücke on its own route. The junction with the federal highway 40 is crossed by the tram on an elevated train- like flyover .
Web links
- ALKMENE, the atrium office building (accessed April 26, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map