Frankfurter Alleenring
The Frankfurter Alleenring is the outer ring road around the core city of Frankfurt am Main . It runs on the north side of the Main through the districts Bahnhofsviertel , Westend , Nordend and Ostend .
Emergence
The Alleenring was built at the beginning of the 20th century under Lord Mayor Franz Adickes . Its course almost traces the former Frankfurter Landwehr , a medieval fortification along the borders of the imperial city of Frankfurt.
The aim was a street system modeled on the Parisian Grands Boulevards . The ring road around Frankfurt Neustadt , which was built at the beginning of the 19th century, as well as the new alley ring to be created further outside, were intended to connect the entry and exit roads and create a system of ring and radial roads. The densely built-up districts of Westend , Nordend , Ostend and parts of Bornheim , which had grown between 1840 and 1890, were located within the avenue ring . In addition, there was part of the Bahnstrasse , which was laid out after 1888 , today: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage , which connected the main train station as well as the train station and Gallus district with Bockenheim .
course
Southwestern part
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| Baseler Platz / Baseler Strasse |
| At the Central station |
| Düsseldorfer Strasse / Platz der Republik |
| Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage |
The southwestern part of the avenue ring begins at the Friedensbrücke . Stresemannallee is on the opposite side of the Main . It initially runs through the Gutleutviertel and forms the Am Hauptbahnhof square in front of the main train station , which forms the border between the Bahnhofsviertel and Gallus . The Alleenring crosses the Mainzer Landstrasse at the Platz der Republik . While the section in front of the Platz der Republik is not yet green, an avenue-like expansion follows from there with a green strip in the middle. The green belt was last redesigned during the construction of a new underground line (so-called D-tunnel) and is now characterized by the conical glass bodies of the Festhalle / Messe underground station . City-Haus I and the 1950s building of the Goethe-Gymnasium are on the east side of this section of the street in the Westend-Süd district , while Kastor and Pollux , the Messeturm and the festival hall are on the west side .
The entire south-western part of the Alleenring is used by trams in the largely separated central part. At the beginning of the 20th century, this section was part of the newly built Bahnstrasse , which led to the Westbahnhof.
Northwestern part
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| Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage |
| Senckenberg plant |
| Zeppelin avenue |
| Miquelallee |
The northwestern part of the avenue ring runs in the Westend district near the border with Bockenheim . It is shaped by the Bockenheim campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . The area of the Senckenberganlage was fundamentally redesigned after the subway was built in the 1990s . The Senckenberg Society for Nature Research played a key role in the redesign. A landscape was created that takes up the exhibition in the adjacent Senckenberg Museum, dispensing with the original bodies of water . The most striking exhibits in the complex are the life-size model of a Tyrannosaurus rex and a primeval tree. Between the Bockenheim campus and the Institute for Social Research , the Adorno traffic light commemorates its former director Theodor W. Adorno .
The most important intersection road in this section is the Bockenheimer Landstrasse , which runs as an arterial road from Opernplatz to Bockenheimer Warte . To the north of the Bockenheimer Warte , the Senckenberganlage turns into the Zeppelinallee , on which there are some consulates , and others. a. that of Turkey .
From Miquelallee there is again no green median, but here horse chestnuts line the course of the road, which here encloses the palm garden and Grüneburgpark . On the opposite west side of the street, in Bockenheim, there is an upscale residential area. At the end of the northwestern ring of avenues, it joins the Miquelallee junction (Miquelknoten), where the lanes are divided. The southern lanes follow the further Alleenring, the northern lanes lead to Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße and the A 66 towards Wiesbaden . Here the transverse streets of the former Hundswiese were named after the directors of the chemical industry ( Karl Scheele , Carl Remigius Fresenius , Carl von Weinberg , Kalle , Walther vom Rath , Duisberg ) in the course of the new construction of the IG-Farben House in 1928.
Northern part
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| Miquelallee |
| Adickesallee |
| Nibelungenallee / Nibelungenplatz |
The northern part is the most famous section in the Alleenring these days. The reason for this is the direct transition to the A 66 to Wiesbaden . Many motorists refer to it after the concisely named junction pars pro toto Miquelallee , named after Johannes Miquel , u. a. one of the most important Frankfurt mayors because of his skillful social finance policy and his reform of poor welfare. This is the name of the street only up to the intersection with Eschersheimer Landstrasse. Well-known buildings along the street are the Church of the Episcopal and Anglican Church of Frankfurt am Main , Christ the King , the Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarters , the former Frankfurt Finance Directorate , the German National Library and the Citizens Hospital .
This heavily frequented section is crossed by important arterial roads to the north of Frankfurt, which means that the flow of traffic at rush hour sometimes comes to a standstill.
An extension of the motorway has been considered since the 1960s . Initially, it was planned to replace the entire section with an elevated expressway. For this purpose, all residential buildings should be demolished. High-rise office buildings were planned at the intersections of the arterial roads. The skyscraper on the corner of Eschersheimer Landstrasse and the Shell skyscraper on Nibelungenplatz were actually built . A third high-rise was to be built at what is now the German Library. However, the entire project was never realized due to massive resistance from the population.
Since then, people have been thinking about a motorway tunnel below the Alleenring (alley tunnel ). A first part was completed in 1963 as an advance payment for the construction of the subway under the intersection with Eschersheimer Landstrasse; it still serves as a pedestrian underpass today. The large distance between the north and south lanes of the A 66 in the area of the Miquel junction had already been chosen with a view to a tunnel project: there was to be space between the lanes for a tunnel connection. The Alleentunnel project was not implemented for financial reasons.
Eastern part
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| Rothschildallee |
| Höhenstrasse |
| Habsburgerallee |
| Henschelstrasse |
The eastern part of the avenue ring begins on Friedberger Landstrasse and leads through the eastern Nordend and Ostend . The residential development in this section is particularly dense.
Important cross streets in the Nordend are Günthersburgallee and Berger Straße . There is an underground station on the U4 line under Berger Straße . With the exception of the relatively narrow Höhenstraße , the entire street up to Henschelstraße is greened. In the Ostend, the federal road 8 branches off into Wittelsbacherallee towards Bornheim . The bundesstraße 3 follows the Alleenring to its end at the east station at the junction with the Hanauer Landstrasse / Sonnemannstraße . U-Bahn stations in Ostend are Habsburgerallee (line U7 ) and Ostbahnhof (line U6 ).
At the end of 2013, the Alleenring was connected at its eastern end - near Ostbahnhof and the new ECB building - via Hanauer Landstrasse, Honsellstrasse and -brücke , as well as the Osthafenbrücke with the Deutschherrnufer on the left bank of the Main .
