Merianstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Northrend |
| Connecting roads | Merianplatz (beginning), Friedberger Landstraße (end) |
| Cross streets | Elkenbachstrasse, Gaußstrasse, Feststrasse, Bäckerweg |
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| Street length | 289 m |
The Merianstraße is a street in Frankfurt , located in the district of Northrend is.
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The street begins in the south-east directly at Merianplatz . Both are named after the Merian family of artists from Basel who owned a publishing house in Frankfurt. The copper engraving "Plan Frankfurt from the bird's eye view", published in 1628, by Matthäus Merian the Elder , shows the Frankfurt buildings and their fortifications.
There is a subway station of the same name on the U4 line at Merianplatz . On its way to the northwest, Merianstrasse crosses Elkenbachstrasse, Gaußstrasse, Feststrasse and Bäckerweg before it ends at Friedberger Landstrasse .
Historical data
The street was built in the middle of the 19th century. On the Ulrich map from 1819 , today's eastern section of the road is shown as a field path on the southern edge of the Bornheimer Heide (the western section of the road is outside the map). The Ravenstein plan from 1861 shows two unnamed street sections in this area: a short strait on Friedberger Landstraße and a longer street from today's Gaußstraße to Musikantenweg. The latter section today mostly belongs to Merianplatz and from Berger Straße to Musikantenweg to Hegelstraße. The geometric road regulation with widening and connection of both road sections was indicated on the plan. The development at that time consisted of individual free-standing buildings .
On September 18, 1848, the present-day intersection with Elke Bach road at a were at today Merianstraße in the area popular uprising two members of the Frankfurt National Assembly , General Hans von Auerswald and Prince Felix Lichnowsky shot. The trigger was the National Assembly's approval of the armistice in the Prussian-Danish war .
From the 1880s onwards, the street was almost in its current form, with mostly closed perimeter block development on both sides with front gardens . In addition to residential use, some smaller commercial enterprises have settled in Merianstrasse, such as For example, at house number 18–22, the Frankfurt Central Dampf dairy Heinrich Kleinböhl , which has been in existence since 1869 and which still existed in the 1940s as a milk supply to Frankfurt am Main . The former, now mostly undeveloped company site is currently (2015) used by a shipping company. In 1908 the company Frankfurter Spezialfabrik für Babyschuhe, J. & CA Schneider, was founded in Merianstrasse , which after moving to Mainzer Landstrasse in 1914 became the world's largest slipper factory and was expropriated in 1938 .
In 1957 the painter Karl Lorenz Kunz (1905–1971) rented a studio on Merianstrasse.
In 2012 a stumbling block was erected in front of house number 39 in memory of the Jew Blanka Brück, née. Blumhof (1896–1943), who was deported to Auschwitz on September 20, 1943 and murdered there on December 1, 1943. Her Catholic husband Karl-August Brück was a co-founder of the Brück & Schultheiss roller shutter factory , which was located at Merianstrasse 39. Both his workshop and his apartment in the same building were destroyed in the air raid on January 29, 1944 .
Trivia
The novel Merianstrasse , published in 2008, is about a shared apartment on Merianstrasse in Frankfurt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Merianstrasse in Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Strassenverzeichnis.Deutschlandblick.com
- ↑ kultours-frankfurt.de, Nicole Rodriguez: Review of the book: Frank Berger, Christian Setpfandt: 101 Unorte in Frankfurt . Frankfurt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7973-1248-8 ( online )
- ^ Waldemar Kramer: Frankfurt Chronik , Frankfurt 1964, p. 313
- ^ Friedrich Bothe: History of the City of Frankfurt am Main , unaltered reprint 1977 of the 1929 edition, p. 296f.
- ^ Volker Rödel: Factory architecture in Frankfurt am Main 1774 - 1924 . Frankfurt, 1985, ISBN 978-3-7973-0435-3 , online at frankfurt-nordend.de
- ↑ Matthias Trausch: When the Eintracht kickers still made slippers . In: faz.net , June 18, 2008
- ^ Stumbling block for Blanka Brück accessed on Feb. 22, 2020
- ↑ Biographical data on Blanka Brück accessed on Feb. 22, 2020
- ^ Sascha Ehlert: Merianstrasse. vmn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940168-11-5 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 38.3 ″ E