New Frankfurt old town

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View from the cathedral tower to the Dom-Römer-Areal (April 2018), on the left the town hall on the market.
The most complex individual project was the reconstruction of the house at the Goldene Waage (January 2018)

The New Frankfurt Old Town (also known as the Dom-Römer-Viertel or -Quartier ) is the center of the old town of Frankfurt am Main , which was reconstructed from 2012 to 2018 as part of a major urban development project. Under the name Dom-Römer-Projekt , a plot of around 7,000 square meters between Römerberg in the west and Domplatz in the east, bounded by Braubachstrasse in the north and the Schirn Kunsthalle in the south, was redesigned and built on. As a so-called coronation path, the old market connects the two places that were important for the coronation of the Roman-German kings and emperors . The area forms the core of the old town, which was one of the largest and most important half-timbered towns with around 1250 half-timbered houses, mostly from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, until it was destroyed in the air raids in 1944 . From the beginning of the 1970s to 2010, the site was completely built on, including the Technical Town Hall and the Dom / Römer underground station .

As part of the Dom-Römer project, the squares and streets of the Alter Markt , Hühnermarkt , Hinter dem Lämmchen and Neugasse with their historic properties and courtyards, including the Rebstock farm on the market and the Goldenes Lämmchen , were largely restored. A total of 35 new buildings, including 15 as a developed creative replicas called reconstructions of historic Old Town houses. The Golden Scale House is the most valuable reconstruction and showpiece of the area . A design statute issued in 2010 applied to all new buildings , which, among other things, only permitted steep pitched roofs and prescribed the use of certain building materials that were and are typical of Frankfurt's region.

The archaeological garden with the remains of the Roman settlement on the cathedral hill and the Carolingian royal palace of Frankfurt, which were excavated between 1953 and 1973, is located in the construction area . In order to protect the excavations permanently and to keep them accessible and to compensate for the two meter difference in height between the market and today's Bendergasse , an ensemble of five buildings was built in the south of the area, the town house on the market .

The main local political decision for the project was made in September 2007 with a resolution by the city ​​council . This was preceded by a multi-year planning phase with an architecture competition, which was largely rated negatively in politics and the public, as well as the participation of the public and citizens' initiatives such as the Friends of Frankfurt . The civic engagement in particular led to the old town-oriented planning of the Dom-Römer project. The 35 designs for the new buildings were selected in several architectural competitions with more than 170 participants in 2010/11 . The foundation stone was laid at the end of January 2012. At the end of 2017, all the houses were largely completed from the outside. On May 9, 2018, the site fences were removed and the new quarter made fully accessible to the public. From September 28 to 30, 2018, a three-day old town festival took place to mark the opening. Between 250,000 and 300,000 people came to the citizens' festival in Frankfurt. In March 2019, the Frankfurt Dom-Römer project received the prestigious international MIPIM award.

prehistory

Center of the Dom-Römer area: the chicken market , 1903
Old town inventory from 1862 with supplements up to 1944 and overlay representation of the Technical Town Hall
( chromolithography by Friedrich August Ravenstein ). The buildings marked in yellow and green were demolished in the 19th century, the ones marked in violet as part of the breakthrough in the old town in 1904 for the tram lines through the newly created Braubachstrasse . The areas marked in dark red were demolished in 1927.
The destroyed old town in June 1945

During the Second World War, the medieval old town of Frankfurt am Main , until then one of the best preserved in Central Europe, was almost completely destroyed by bombing. Only a few buildings with historical structures have been preserved; in the post-war period, other damaged buildings were also torn down, mostly in favor of “ car-friendly ” traffic planning. There were very few external reconstructions of buildings, the majority of the former old town was rebuilt in the style of the 1950s, largely abandoning the historical road network.

Only the area between the Römerberg and the cathedral remained fallow land after the rubble had been cleared , the development of which was disputed for a long time. Meanwhile, from 1953 onwards, archaeologists were able to uncover the remains of a Roman settlement , but also more recent traces, especially from the Carolingian period, on the area under the high medieval layers . With this, a centuries-long search for the city's origins was considered to be over, even though the Königspfalz Frankfurt , which had previously only been handed down by documents, was not built by the legendary founder of Frankfurt, Charlemagne , but, according to findings, by his son, Ludwig the Pious .

In 1966, construction began on the B-route of the Frankfurt subway between the main train station and Konstablerwache . The route of the new underground line also ran through the old town, with a station under the previously undeveloped area between the cathedral and the Römer, which was used as a parking lot. During the construction of the Dom / Römer underground station in 1970/71, due to the open construction method, a large part of the oldest Frankfurt settlement soil, which had not yet been archaeologically investigated, would be destroyed.

Then, after years of discussion, the Technical Town Hall was built on the site in 1972–1974 as the seat of the technical offices of the city administration. For the excavation of the construction pit, five old town houses on Braubachstrasse that had survived the war were demolished. The building, erected in the brutalist architectural style, with its enormous dimensions represented an urban dominant feature in the old town, which took no account of the other, let alone former, small-scale development in the area. The construction costs totaled 93 million DM .

In addition to the subway , a two-storey underground parking garage was also built under the Dom-Römer area , which extends in an east-west direction from Domstraße to the Römer facade and in north-south direction from Braubachstraße to Saalgasse moves. After the construction work was completed, the ceiling of the underground car park formed the new level of the space, which was now around two meters above the historical floor level. The archaeological finds from the excavation of the old town from 1953, which were also initially removed, were preserved and made accessible to the public as an archaeological garden .

In 1994 the city of Frankfurt sold the Technical Town Hall to Deutsche Immobilien Leasing (DIL), a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, for DM 148 million . At the same time, the building was leased back to the city with the option that the city could buy back the town hall for 135 million DM after the lease expired in 2006, a so-called sale-lease-back agreement.

Planning history

2004-2006

Technical Town Hall, 2007
The facades of the Technical Town Hall, July 2008
House of the Golden Scales , around 1900
New Red House on the market , around 1910
Rebstock house (left) and Braubachstrasse 21, around 1910

In 2004 the project developers Max Baum Immobilien and Groß & Partner presented plans for the renovation of the now 30-year-old Technical Town Hall on behalf of the owner DIL . According to plans by the Frankfurt office of Stefan Forster Architects , the building complex was to be divided into two houses, thereby creating an alley from Braubachstrasse to the roundabout of the Schirn Kunsthalle . The concrete facades were completely redesigned with a perforated facade made of natural stone, and the city library, shops and restaurants were planned for future use in the four-story base. In addition, around 160 apartments were to be created in the three towers. The leasing contract with the city could have been extended to 20 years provided that the building was used in a modified manner.

The city council then decided in December 2004 to carry out an urban planning ideas competition in which both variants (conversion or demolition with subsequent small-scale development) should be played out. In this context, voices could also be heard, “based on the small-scale Gothic structure of the old town, there also [to] achieve a small-scale structure in the development”. If this already represented an unusual procedure, it made things even more difficult that no specifications were made for the future use of the area. The Chamber of Architects in Wiesbaden turned against this approach, considering the obligation to submit two drafts impractical and demanding a clear decision from the politicians. The competition announcement originally announced for January 2005 did not take place.

In May 2005 the four alliance in the Römer, consisting of CDU , SPD , FDP and Greens , decided not to pursue the conversion option any further. The following specifications were then set for the urban planning competition: Small-scale development, the facades and roofs of which fit harmoniously into the old town, accommodation of 20,000 m² of gross floor area within the property boundaries of the Technical City Hall, building over the archaeological garden with 7,000 m², and use of the archaeological area still open to the public Garden with the remains of the royal palace and the restoration of the old “coronation path” between the cathedral and the Römer. The name “Krönungsweg”, an alternative name for the Gasse Markt (also known as the Alter Markt ), which existed until 1945, arose from the fact that a total of 16 coronation ceremonies for Roman-German kings were held in Frankfurt from the 14th to the 18th century . 20 offices took part in the urban planning competition.

In July 2005, the city and the DIL agreed on new contractual modalities following the demolition of the Technical City Hall. These stipulated that the city would not buy back the property, but that the leasing model would be continued.

In August 2005, the Free Voters submitted an application to the Römer that would allow the planned Dom-Römer area to be closer to the historic streets and squares as well as the reconstruction of some of the most important buildings in terms of urban development, such as the Haus zur Goldenen Waage or the Haus zum Esslinger ( also known as Junge Esslinger or Aunt Melber's house ). The winning design from the Frankfurt office KSP Engel und Zimmermann , which was chosen in September 2005 , only met a few of these requirements. The “coronation path” was not laid along the course of the street in the market, which even the construction of the Technical City Hall in 1972 largely respected, but in a dead straight diagonal from the stone house to the cathedral tower. The over-planned areas of the Technical Town Hall and the Archaeological Garden were again occupied with large buildings; a residential complex with three inner courtyards was to be built on Braubachstrasse. At the level of the Archaeological Garden, next to a narrow building, a trapezoidal square was planned, which, like the diagonal running towards the cathedral tower, had never existed in the history of Frankfurt city planning in a similar form.

During the presentation of the draft, planning director Edwin Schwarz (CDU) emphasized that it was only a suggestion of how the required building mass should be distributed: "What can be seen here will not be built like this". Further architectural competitions would decide on the final design. Furthermore, Schwarz spoke out against the reconstruction of individual historical buildings, as these would then stand next to modern buildings. A decision has not yet been made as to whether the city will extend the leasing model with the DIL or whether it will take advantage of the buyback option, said Schwarz.

The winning design was controversially discussed, in particular the relocation of the “coronation path”, the buildings that were perceived as too bulky and their flat roofs, which do not harmonize with the gable roofs of the old town, were criticized. There were also voices on the part of city councilors to revise the draft significantly and to align it more closely with the historical model. In September 2005 the Frankfurt SPD proposed that the decision on the design of the Dom-Römer area should be left to the citizens and that a referendum should be held. According to the SPD, two or three competing designs with historical or historicizing on the one hand and modern building on the other should be developed.

In October 2005 the Free Voters presented their concept for a historically accurate reconstruction of old houses, alleys and squares in a public event under the title “An old town for Frankfurt's soul”. In November 2005, the CDU presented its program for the local election campaign in the following year, in which it committed itself to a development that would adapt itself “as closely as possible” to the historical circumstances.

In December 2005 the CDU set up a special committee for the development of the old town, a similar committee had already existed in the early 1980s when planning the reconstruction of the Römerberg-Ostzeile ( Saturday Mountain ). It became clear that the factions in Römer could, by and large, agree on a common line: the most accurate possible restoration of the historical floor plan with its alleys, squares and courtyards, as well as the reconstruction of individual, town-planning important houses.

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Mayor Petra Roth (CDU) suggested that four buildings, including the Haus zur Goldenen Waage and the New Red House , A1 be reconstructed, but Roth was of the opinion that they should not be in their original location could rebuild. It should therefore be considered whether to arrange these buildings next to each other or in other places. In May 2006, a workshop organized by the Association of German Architects (BDA) in Hesse presented architectural models based on the KSP winning design. A total of 50 architects drew up proposals for 20 plots to be built on, with the range of designs ranging from modern buildings with a high proportion of glass to modern interpretations of half-timbered houses (similar to the houses built in the 1980s in Saalgasse ).

In June 2006 it was announced that the demolition of the Technical Town Hall could begin in 2008 at the earliest, as the relocation of the offices located there would be delayed due to renovations in the new branch. At the beginning of September 2006, the black-green coalition in the Römer decided, contrary to previous announcements, to buy back the Technical Town Hall on April 1, 2007 and thus to terminate the leasing contract with DIL. Furthermore, a working group was set up to present a usage concept for the area.

In order to involve citizens in the planning, the city organized a planning workshop with around 60 participants in autumn 2006. The first weekend event in October was attended by a third of the citizens who came from initiatives and associations proposed by the parliamentary groups of the city council and selected by lot. After the introduction with lectures and tours, we worked in groups on the topics of using the building plots and their parcelling, building over the archaeological garden, reconstruction of old town houses and design guidelines for the buildings . At the second event in December, the same participants discussed the revised urban planning concept. The recommendations of the groups were incorporated into the following key points.

In November 2006, the black-green coalition presented key points for future old town development: extensive restoration of the historic city plan, reconstruction of four buildings (Haus zur Goldenen Waage, Neues Rotes Haus , Haus zum Esslinger and Goldenes Lämmchen ) at the historical location by the city itself, as well as design guidelines for the other houses. The aim was to use a high proportion of living space, the archaeological garden should be built over in small parts and remain accessible to the public.

2007-2010

On April 1, 2007, the property of the Technical Town Hall was returned to the city for around 72 million euros . In May 2007 it became known that the coalition had increased the number of buildings to be reconstructed to six to seven: In addition, the Klein-Nürnberg and Alter Esslinger houses are to be rebuilt, and thus the entire row of houses north of the Hinter dem Lämmchen alley. In addition, it was decided to first examine the possibility of a reconstruction of the Rebstock house .

In September 2007 the city council approved a corresponding proposal from the municipal authorities, which also provides for the reconstruction of further buildings if private investors can be found. Five years were set for the construction period, although the demolition of the Technical Town Hall could not begin before mid-2009. A separate architecture competition was sought for the development of the archaeological garden. The development should come from a single source, as the underground car park underneath the site and the Dom / Römer underground station require complex site logistics.

In November 2008 it became known that the construction work for the Dom-Römer-Areal was to be put out to tender across Europe, after the city had initially favored a direct award to Frankfurter Aufbau AG and OFB Projektentwicklung. However, the planned tender was stopped when it became known that technical problems were to be expected with the demolition of the Technical City Hall: For example, if the ground floor was demolished, it was only guaranteed that the underground tunnel underneath the building would not be flooded by groundwater , in the event of a total demolition there is a risk if the new construction is not started at the same time. Central problems such as the relocation of the entrances to the subway in the new building are also still unsolved.

In March 2009, the city of Frankfurt announced that it would refrain from a Europe-wide tender and instead support a municipal project company with the new building project. In the opinion of the city, the legal requirements that stipulate a Europe-wide invitation to tender are not applicable to the award path now chosen, as the project company that is yet to be founded will be fully owned by the city. The move of the municipal offices from the technical town hall is now planned for autumn 2009, 2010 the demolition should then begin.

In July 2009, an architecture competition for the development of the archaeological garden, called “Stadthaus am Markt”, was launched, and Dom-Römer GmbH, a municipal company for the development of the Dom-Römer area, was founded. According to an initial cost estimate by Dom-Römer GmbH, the costs for the old town development were 95 million euros, 20 million of which were for the demolition of the technical town hall.

In December 2009, the design by the architectural office of Prof. Bernd Winking Architects for the “Stadthaus am Markt” was awarded first prize. This envisaged a compact building above the archaeological garden, but the design was to be revised in coordination with the planning office of the city of Frankfurt. The city asked the four winners of the competition for the “town house on the market” to revise their designs. This made it clear that the design that won the first prize will not necessarily be implemented.

In March 2010, after the review of a reconstruction of the Rebstock house had shown a positive result, the city announced that it would also reconstruct the neighboring building at Braubachstrasse 21. This increased the number of reconstructions financed by the city to eight, namely Markt 5 (Haus zur Goldenen Waage), Markt 17 (New Red House), Hinter dem Lämmchen 2 (Haus zum Esslinger), Hinter dem Lämmchen 4 (Alter Esslinger), Behind the Lämmchen 6 (Goldenes Lämmchen), Hinter dem Lämmchen 8 ( Klein-Nürnberg ), Braubachstrasse 19 ( Haus Rebstock ) and Braubachstrasse 21.

For 15 other buildings, Dom-Römer GmbH initially considered a reconstruction based on the available documentation to be feasible, provided that private investors could be found. Later, however, the number of additional possible reconstructions was reduced to nine, namely chicken market 18 (Schildknecht house), chicken market 20 (Zur Flechte), chicken market 22 (golden scissors) , chicken market 24 (Eichhorn), chicken market 26 (Schlegel), market 13 ( Grüne Linde), Markt 15 (Altes Rotes Haus), A2 Markt 28 (Würzgarten) and Braubachstrasse 27. The deadline for interested parties to acquire a property in the Dom-Römer area ended on July 31, 2010.

2010–2012

On June 12, 2010 the design statute for the Dom-Römer-Areal came into force. This described guidelines for the structuring and design of facades and roofs as well as the use of materials. In principle, only steeply sloping gable roofs with a slope of at least 55 degrees were permitted.

In August 2010 an open architecture competition for the new buildings on the Dom-Römer area was announced. A total of 56 architectural offices were selected to participate and were supposed to develop new building designs for a total of 27 plots. Together with the eight parcels that were firmly planned for the urban reconstruction, a total of 35 buildings were to be erected on the site.

In September 2010, after a round of revisions, the architecture firm Meurer Architekten, initially placed fourth, was selected with a revised design for the “town house on the market”. The draft envisaged building over almost the entire archaeological garden and moved the building closer to the cathedral. In order to maintain a fragmented appearance, the building mass was designed as an ensemble of five buildings.

In March 2011, the results of the architectural competition for the new buildings on the Dom-Römer area were presented. A total of 24 first and 12 second prizes were awarded, plus 13 recognitions. Plots that received more than one award were reassessed. No prizes were awarded for two parcels, Market 7 and Market 40. In April 2011, the designs were publicly exhibited in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt , while the planning services for the eight urban and nine optional reconstructions were put out to tender. For the two parcels Markt 7 and Markt 40, Dom-Römer GmbH launched another competition in July 2011, from which a first and three second prizes emerged in October 2011, plus two awards.

On January 24, 2012, Dom-Römer GmbH presented the results of which architects had been selected for the development of the Dom-Römer area and thus for the first time an overview of the future shape of the old town. In addition to the eight urban reconstructions, buyers were found for seven of the nine optional reconstructions. Only the owners of the parcels Hühnermarkt 18 ( Schildknecht House ) and Braubachstrasse 27 decided to build new buildings. A total of 15 reconstructions and 20 new buildings should be built. The chicken market as the central square of the new old town was reconstructed on three sides. The architects, who were awarded first prizes in 2011, prevailed among the new buildings, which fit harmoniously into the ensemble of the old town, but should still be recognizable as buildings of the 21st century. A citizens' initiative was formed in 2013 to counter the results of the competition and unsuccessfully tried to push through more reconstructions with the help of a referendum .

In February 2012 the budget coalition of the black-green city government presented a list of austerity proposals. a. contained a temporary waiver of the construction of the “town house on the market”. The proposal sparked mixed reactions: The citizens' initiative SOS Dompanorama, which is committed to maintaining the unobstructed view from the Römerberg to the cathedral, welcomed the decision, while others, such as Michael Guntersdorf, Managing Director of Dom-Römer GmbH, welcomed the old town project as a whole saw in danger. Because of the necessary expenditure for indispensable technical structures and outdoor facilities, foregoing the town house would have resulted in budget savings of only a maximum of 8 million euros.

Building history

Dom-Römer-Areal with the remains of the Technical Town Hall (August 2011)

At the beginning of April 2010, the demolition of the Technical Town Hall officially started with the first bite of the excavator . Until November 2010, the building was initially only demolished to the ground floor, then the two-storey underground car park was prepared for demolition, with all the building services being removed. From May 2011 to early 2012, the rest of the building was demolished.

On January 23, 2012, the symbolic foundation stone for the development of the Dom-Römer area was laid. With the laying of the foundation stone, work began on the floor slab for the future old town development. The buildings stand on the ceiling of the two-story underground subway station and car park Dom-Römer, built between 1970 and 1972 . For logistical reasons, the Dom-Römer area was built from south to north, the southernmost building being the town house on the market. In May 2012, the monument office had an investigation carried out to determine whether there were other important ground monuments in the eastern area of ​​the archaeological garden. Other parts of the Carolingian royal palace were discovered, which were included in the planning for the town hall. In August 2012, the so-called Schirn table, an extension to the Schirn Kunsthalle, was torn down to make more space for the new old town. During the foundation work for the town house and the southern row of houses on the market, the archaeological garden was wrapped in geotextile , filled with a gravel-like material and covered with a layer of concrete.

In the spring of 2013, the foundation work on the town hall was completed and the archaeological garden exposed again. In May 2013, the shell of the town house began. The completion of the town hall, originally planned for 2014, was delayed until the end of 2015, the completion of the entire Dom-Römer area was then planned for 2017. In December 2015 it was announced that the construction costs of the project will not be 170 million euros, but will amount to 185.7 million euros according to a renewed estimate. The townhouse finally opened in June 2016.

  • Construction site of the Dom-Römer area, seen from the Kaiserdom (October 2012)

  • Protests against the construction of the town house (autumn 2012)

  • The archaeological garden , shortly before its sealing, seen from the cathedral tower (October 2012)

  • Construction site town house on the market above the Archaeological Garden
    (June 2014)

  • Mostly finished shell structures, view from the Kaiserdom (April 2017)

  • Construction progress of the Dom-Römer project (October 2017)

On October 15, 2016, the city of Frankfurt celebrated the topping-out ceremony and opened parts of the construction site to citizens. A virtual project film gave an impression of what the old town will look like after completion.

On December 12, 2016, the managing director of the GmbH reported to the Dom-Römer special committee that the current calculation was 196 million euros. As the head of the planning department stated, the additional costs would arise from non-project costs, such as B. the renovation of the underground car park. At the same time, the 65 apartments on the site alone bring in 90 million euros for the city.

In December 2017, the externally completed reconstructions were presented at a press conference. Originally, the coronation path and Dom-Römer-Areal should be open to the public from the end of March 2018; ultimately it happened on May 9th. From September 28 to 30, 2018, the new old town quarter was officially opened with an old town festival, in which more than 250,000 visitors took part.

  • Facades at the chicken market ,
    before the destruction in 1944

  • Reconstructed and newly interpreted facades in the same place in 2018

The actual total costs of the project will be available in spring 2020, when all buildings are occupied and any deficiencies identified have been remedied. According to the current business plan, DomRömer GmbH expects total costs of “around 200, maximum 210 million euros”. The city of Frankfurt received around 75 million euros from the sale of the apartments. Over € 80 million was also transferred to the city's fixed assets, including the town house on the market (€ 25 million), the renovated underground car park (€ 35 million), the Goldene Waage and Neues Rotes Haus houses (€ 8 million and € 3 million, respectively) . The shops and restaurants from which the city generates regular rental income are worth around 12 million euros. Around 15 to 20 percent of the additional costs incurred during the construction period can be attributed to plan changes and interventions in the construction process.

Streets

In terms of approval, the Dom-Römer project comprised a single building project - "Reconstruction of an underground car park and a new building with residential and commercial use, museum, bar and restaurant, accommodation, sales and meeting places" - on parcel 199/41. The following buildings and ensembles were created, sorted by street:

Braubachstrasse - south side

Inner courtyard at Braubachstrasse 29

Five houses and a rear building with access from Neugasse were built on Braubachstrasse, one of which was a reconstruction. The house at Braubachstrasse 21 , formerly Im Rebstock 3, is a three-storey residential and farm building, the core of which dates back to the 16th century and was externally changed in the Baroque period. In the construction typical of Frankfurt, two cantilevered half-timbered floors rise above a stone ground floor . The house shows the reconstructed quarry stone fire wall facing Braubachstrasse , which was exposed when the road broke through in 1905 . The eaves to Hof Rebstock on the market with a dormer with baroque wave gable and several dormers divided. The reconstruction is a design by the Frankfurt office Jourdan & Müller . The ground floor is used by the administration of the Katharinen- und Weißfrauenstift , a non-profit foundation of the Frankfurt patrician and cleric Wicker Frosch, which dates back to 1353 . At the north-east corner of the house, as it has been since 1935, the preserved spoil of the vintner's monument is embedded.

To the west of this is the new building at Braubachstrasse 23 , a design by Ingartner Khorrami Architects , Leipzig. The four-storey residential building with a mansard roof is completely clad with the red Main sandstone typical of Frankfurt . The cider drinker is mounted on the northwest corner of the building on Neugasse , a spoil from the previous building built by Hermann Senf in 1940. The Goldenes Kreuz house (Braubachstraße 25b) by Bernd Albers, Berlin, is a rear building on Braubachstraße 23 and with it historical Model connected by three archways. Like its predecessor from the 18th century, the three-storey house has a dwelling on the north side of the eaves. The two gable sides face the Neugasse and the courtyard facing the vine.

The neighboring house on the western side of Neugasse is also made of red sandstone. The three-storey building at Braubachstrasse 27 with a two-storey classicist gable was designed by Eckert Neebger Suselbeek, Berlin. The house at Braubachstrasse 29 by Bernd Albers has two facades: The front facing Braubachstrasse consists of a ground floor with five arcades, above three horizontally structured upper floors, the top of which is set off by a cornice. The recessed attic is divided by a five-axis dwelling, with two attics next to it. The main portal is additionally emphasized by a figure of the Virgin in half relief . It leads into the inner courtyard of the golden lamb. The rear facade facing the Lämmchenhof is an exact reconstruction of the previous building from 1911, which in turn was a reconstruction of the state of 1693.

The Zum Glauburger Hof building (Braubachstrasse 31) was built based on the Art Nouveau building from 1913, which was demolished in 1970 for the Technical Town Hall. The design comes from Knerer and Lang Architects , Dresden. The lettering The new falls and old life blossoms out of the ruins , a parody of a sentence from Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, was embedded in its facade, which was already planned by Hermann Senf .

Market "Coronation Path" - north side

House Würzgarten (Market 28)
House To the Three Romans (Markt 40)

The north side of the market comprises four new buildings between the cathedral and the Hühnermarkt. The first, separated from the house at the cathedral by a narrow passage to the Rebstock farm on the market , is the Großer Rebstock house (Markt 8), first mentioned in 1342 , a design by Jordi Keller Architects , Berlin. The five-story house is exactly opposite the Golden Scales . The two arcades on the ground floor form the eastern entrance to the Dom / Römer underground station . Reinforced concrete spoils of the Technical Town Hall are inserted into the facade. Like the new building, its classical predecessor, built around 1800, was a stone building. The narrow building Schönau (Markt 10) adjoining to the west is a design by Ey's Berlin office . With its sandstone base and the four cantilevered, slatted upper floors, it is reminiscent of the Gothic previous building Schildknecht / Apotheke . The originally three-storey half-timbered house, first mentioned in 1472, was topped up with a wave gable in the 17th century. The Vorderer Schildknecht house (Markt 12) was designed by Dreibund architects from Bochum and is very similar to the Goldenes Haupt house (Markt 36) designed by the same office . There is a bar on the sandstone ground floor with its two high arched windows suggesting a bob floor. Its two cantilevered, plastered upper floors are reminiscent of the town houses on Saalgasse that were built in the 1980s . A three-axis loggia is embedded in the gable floor , and above it a Frankfurt nose is indicated in the roof gable, as in the Gothic predecessor building mentioned for the first time in 1339. A particularly striking slate facade with old German cover carries the corner house to the chicken market, Neues Paradies (market 14) by Johannes Götz and Guido Lohmann from Cologne. The predecessor was a five-storey classical building with a flat monopitch roof built around 1800. It was considered to be of little importance and was accordingly poorly documented.

To the west of the chicken market, two reconstructions followed, then six new buildings. The south-western corner house at Hühnermarkt is called Schlegel (Markt 26). The replica of a predecessor built around 1830 in the strict design language of the classicist building regulations issued by city architect Johann Georg Christian Hess in 1809 comes from Hans Kollhoff , Berlin and Jourdan & Müller , Frankfurt am Main. Its entrance emphasizes the corner house function. The western neighbor Würzgarten (Markt 28) was first mentioned in 1292. The reconstruction comes from the monument concept , Bad Nauheim. It is a plastered half-timbered house from the 16th century with a two-storey, slatted gable, which has a characteristic cantilever directly under the roof ridge, the Frankfurt nose .

The old department store (Markt 30) is a design by Morger and Dettli from Basel. The three-story building with a pointed gable is formally reduced to the extreme and strictly limited to the basic elements specified by the design statutes. To the west are the new buildings Goldene Schachtel (Markt 32) by Tillmann Wagner Architects from Berlin and Alter Burggraf (Markt 34) by Francesco Collotti, Milan. Like the old department store , they are each connected to their rear buildings via a backyard, the facades of which face the narrow alley behind the Lammchen .

The Golden Head (Markt 36) by Dreibund Architekten occupies one of the narrowest lots in the Dom-Römer district. The towering ground floor is reminiscent of the bobsled surface of the previous building. In the house there is a shop of the Höchster Porzellanmanufaktur . The Stadt Milano house (Markt 38) by Michael A. Landes , Frankfurt, has a separate gable from its Baroque predecessor, but takes up its design elements in the form of the windows. The western end of the new building area is formed by the house to the three Romans (Markt 40) by Jordi Keller Architects with its three sides facing the market, the Römerberg and the alley Hinter dem Lämmchen. Various spoilers are built into the ground floor and the gable end. One of them is reminiscent of Dieter Bartetzko , who, as a member of the design advisory board , campaigned for the reconstruction of the old town. The sandstone arcades on the ground floor also show clear signs of war damage. They come from the ground floor of the Zum Saal building in Saalgasse 29, which was built in 1636 and demolished in 1950. The three-sided banner bears the engraved and gold-plated inscriptions “Dorn und Distel sten sehr. False tongues a lot more. But I would rather bathe through thistles and thorns, than be laden with false tongues. ”And“ If envy made fires like fire, then the wood would not be half as expensive and if the envious were still so much, what happens to God happens after all want". They come from the novella Der Mann aus dem Römer by the Frankfurt dialect poet Georg Wilhelm Pfeiffer .

Market "Coronation Path" - south side

View from the chicken market to the cathedral
View from the Schirn to the chicken market

Seven houses were built on the south side of the market, four of which were reconstructions. The House of the Golden Scales (market 5) of Jourdan & Müller was the most elaborate reconstruction of the Dom-Römer project. As before the destruction, it will in future be used as a branch of the Historical Museum , and a coffee house and the Stoltze Museum will also move in . The three following lots, Market 7 to Market 11, are only very shallow, as their backs butt against the rear building of the Golden Scales. The Weißer Bock house (Markt 7) is a new building by Helmut Riemann , Lübeck. It provides barrier-free access to the Goldene Waage, which does not have its own staircase, and is also used by the Stoltze Museum. The previous building, first mentioned in 1467, was a three-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with two attic storeys, which had been rebuilt in the 18th and late 19th centuries. The three-storey new building has a simple sandstone facade with six windows per storey, like the previous one. The neighboring building, Kleiner Vogelsang, is a semi-detached house (Markt 9/11) by Dreibund Architekten . The previous buildings from the 16th century were four-storey half-timbered buildings plastered up to the gable. The two plots are extremely narrow and were already one of the smallest plots in the old town. The style of the baroque gable of the house at Markt 11 leads into the reconstructed green linden tree (Markt 13). The building, first mentioned in 1439, was rebuilt in baroque style in the 18th century. Before it was destroyed, it housed a well-known inn; today there is a wine bar here . With their traufständigen Baroque façade that characterizes Green Linde the southern edge of the chicken market. Two plastered half-timbered upper floors with six window axes each rise above a high ground floor made of sandstone with a bob pavement. The mansard roof bears a wide dwelling with four windows and a triangular gable. The design comes from Claus Giel, Dieburg.

To the west of the Green Linden tree, two more replicas of important models follow, the Red House (Markt 15) and the New Red House (Markt 17), both by Denkmalkonzept , Bad Nauheim and Jourdan & Müller , Frankfurt am Main. The New Red House, first mentioned in 1322, probably dates back to the 14th century, the neighbor from the 16th century. The two houses were connected inside before, the New Red House did not have its own entrance. With its ground floor construction consisting essentially of only three oak wood columns, which carried the entire weight of the three-story building above, the New Red House was unique in the entire German half-timbered landscape and an attraction well known far beyond the city. It was considered an outstanding example of medieval urban development and community spirit in the lively center of the old town. The Red House formed the passage to Tuchgaden and stood at the entrance to the butcher's quarter on the Langen Schirn , where Frankfurter sausages have been sold since ancient times . The new building is also used by a butcher's shop, which also has a sales stand in the Kleinmarkthalle .

South of the new row of houses on the market, the town house on the market , consisting of five building parts, was built from 2013 to 2016 . The design comes from Meurer Architects , Frankfurt, with cba architectes , Luxembourg. On the one hand, the town house serves to preserve the archaeological excavations of the Roman settlement on the cathedral hill and the imperial palace Franconofurd and to make them accessible; on the other hand as a meeting and event building. House 5 , a residential building, forms the end of the building complex to the west to the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt . It is based on the course of the historic Tuchgaden alley .

There is a difference in altitude of more than two meters between the street level of the reconstructed Old Market and today's Bendergasse along the Schirn. It becomes clear in the section between the New Red House and the western entrance to the Dom / Römer underground station through a wall and pergola made of sandstone. In this section, due to the protruding rotunda of the Schirn, there was not enough space left for a southern row of houses opposite the houses Markt 26 to Markt 40. Before the destruction, three narrow streets, Goldhutgasse , Drachengasse and Schwertfegergasse branched off to the south in this section , which met again south of it at the Fünffingerplatz .

Rebstock farm

Hof zum Rebstock , left parts of the back of Markt 2

The east side of the Rebstock-Hof is the Haus am Dom , which was built between 2001 and 2004 through the renovation and expansion of the main customs office built by Werner Hebebrand in 1927 . Although it was built as part of the New Frankfurt project , the main customs office received a steep, curved gable roof as a tribute to the surrounding old town development, which was retained during the renovation. The house at the cathedral was extended at the southern end during the renovation, so that it protrudes a few meters from the historical building line of the old market and comes closer to the reconstructed golden scales . The neighboring house Großer Rebstock (Markt 8), on the other hand, keeps the original parcel. The northern entrance to the Rebstock farm is located between the two buildings. Its north side is the new Rebstock-Hof 2 building (Markt 2, formerly Im Rebstock 2), a residential and commercial building by Meurer , Frankfurt. With a sand-colored plastered facade and slate roof, it looks like an extension to the house on the cathedral. The reconstruction Hof zum Rebstock , built by Jourdan & Müller, is located on the western edge of the courtyard (Braubachstraße 15, formerly Im Rebstock 1). The building was built in the middle of the 18th century using older components from the previous Gothic building, first mentioned in 1392. Instead of the usual cantilevers, the two upper half-timbered floors were given wooden arcades in front, also on the back to the inner courtyard on Neugasse. The saddle roof is structured by a dwelling with a Rhenish wave gable and two rows of dormers. The non-profit Frankfurter Verband operates a senior citizen's café on the ground floor of Hof zum Rebstock . The neighboring building to the north, Braubachstrasse 21 (formerly Im Rebstock 3) already belongs to Braubachstrasse .

The famous Frankfurt writer and local poet Friedrich Stoltze was born in the Rebstock Ensemble on November 21, 1816.

Chicken market

The Stoltze fountain on the resurrected chicken market

The chicken market is the center of the New Old Town. All houses on the Hühnermarkt have the address Markt , except for the Haus zum Esslinger , which already belongs to the Gasse Hinter dem Lämmchen . Eight of the eleven houses around the chicken market are reconstructions. Five of them are located on the south side or at the corners of the market and are described in the street there. These are the houses Grüne Linde (Markt 13), Neues Paradies (Markt 14), Rotes Haus (Markt 15), Neues Rotes Haus (Markt 17) and Schlegel (Markt 26). The corner house Markt 22 Goldene Schere , by Hans Kollhoff, Berlin, and Jourdan & Müller, Frankfurt is a baroque four-storey building with an octagonal roof lantern . Markt 24 Eichhorn , also by Kollhof and Jourdan & Müller, is, like its southern neighbor, Markt 26, an example of the strict classicism of the building regulations issued by city architect Johann Georg Christian Hess in 1809 .

The north side is formed by the reconstructed houses Zum Esslinger (Hinter dem Lämmchen 2) and Markt 20 Zur Flechte , between which the narrow Neugasse to Braubachstrasse runs. Both houses are of Gothic origin, with clear overhangs on the upper floors, which were later rebuilt in Baroque style. They both received a mansard roof with a mid-house with a triangular gable and oculus window facing the chicken market. The Haus zum Esslinger is one of Frankfurt's Goethe sites: It belonged to Goethe's aunt Johanna Melber and her husband, the merchant Georg Adolf Melber . The poet lived with his aunt in 1755/56 and set her in Out of my life. Poetry and Truth a literary monument . In 1841 Johann Matthias Andreae bought the house including the "material and color goods store" located in it. The pharmaceutical wholesaler Andreae-Noris Zahn later developed from this . From May 2019 the Struwwelpeter Museum will use the house.

The three-storey house Schildknecht / Spiegel (Markt 18), which was built around 1405 and in its final form in the 17th century, formed the northeast corner building of the chicken market. At almost two meters, it had the largest overhang of all Frankfurt half-timbered houses. It was the building of the shoemaker's guild and had a richly painted facade. Stylistically it belonged to the Renaissance. The new building by dreibund architekten, ballerstedt, helms, koblank , Bochum picks up on the typical style elements of the pointed wave gable. Its southern neighbor, the Kleine Seligeneck (Markt 16) by Van den Valentyn – Architektur, Cologne, is stylistically strongly based on its predecessor, a classicist building from around 1830.

Behind the lamb

Behind the lamb, view of the chicken market

The neighboring house to Haus zum Esslinger , Alter Esslinger (Hinter dem Lämmchen 4) is the reconstruction of a mighty three- story Renaissance half-timbered house built in the 17th century by Dreysse Architects , Frankfurt am Main. Two cantilevered half-timbered upper floors rise above a stone ground floor, each of which is remarkably high compared to the neighboring buildings. The eaves gable roof carries a two-storey, slated, dwarf house with a wave gable. The "Alte Esslinger" will also be used by the Struwwelpeter Museum from May 2019.

The front building of the Golden Lämmchen (Hinter dem Lämmchen 6) was reconstructed by Macholz - Kummer Architects , Darmstadt for architect Claus Giel, Dieburg. The half-timbering of the two upper floors is plastered, as has been customary in Frankfurt since the 18th century. The neighboring house Klein Nürnberg (Hinter dem Lämmchen 8) stood on the corner of the Nürnberger Hofgäßchen , the southern entrance to the Nürnberger Hof . The three-storey renaissance building from the 16th century was reconstructed by Dreysse Architects , Frankfurt am Main and Jourdan & Müller , Frankfurt am Main. The vaulted hall, with six cross vaults resting on two central pillars, is a reminder of its earlier importance as a trade fair building . The new building is used by the Evangelical Regional Association of Frankfurt am Main as the parish hall of the Paulsgemeinde and the Indonesian community.

The only reconstruction on the south side of the alley is the Goldene Schere house (Markt 22, side entrance, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 1) by the architects Hans Kollhoff , Berlin and Jourdan & Müller , Frankfurt am Main. The four-storey building in classicist forms was created in the 18th century by converting two older predecessor buildings. The overhangs of the two upper floors have been preserved on the facade of the alley behind the Lammchen . The neighboring building to the west is the rear building of the old department store (Markt 30, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 3). The baroque sandstone portal built into the rear is about five meters wide and 3.50 meters high, the largest spoiler used in the Dom-Römer project. This is followed by the rear building of the Golden Box (Markt 32, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 5). At the Alten Burggraf (Markt 34, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 7) the lane runs in two right angles around the annex of the stone house. It is therefore designed as a corner house with an additional gable. This is followed by the two narrow houses Goldenes Haupt (Markt 36, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 9) and the city ​​of Milan (Markt 38, formerly Hinter dem Lämmchen 11).

Spolia

60 spoilers were installed in the entire project . These are mostly original parts of the building fabric that was destroyed in the war, some of which were not used in the post-war construction and were therefore stored in different places until then. The largest spolia is a baroque portal five meters wide and three and a half meters high. It originally belonged to a garden house behind the Kleiner Taubenhof in the northwestern Neustadt , which was demolished in 1872 for the construction of the New Stock Exchange . Fried Lübbecke had the portal moved to the garden of the Liebieghaus in 1914 , where it remained for 100 years until it was reused in the Hinter dem Lämmchen 5 building (old department store) . Other conspicuous spoils are the winegrowers' monument on the corner of the house Braubachstrasse 21 / Rebstock-Hof and the cider drinker on the corner of the house Braubachstrasse 23 / Neugasse.

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Cider drinkers
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Portal at the old department store


reception

Public criticism and approval accompanied the project from the start. Often the lines of argument followed the same pattern as since the beginning of the reconstruction debate immediately after the destruction. Dieter Bartetzko compares the old town with an unfathomably deep well that draws from the myths of the past and gives life to the present. He reminds us that the well at the chicken market was already drilled in Roman times and that the people of the Carolingian era were probably already aware that they lived on historical ground. This explains why Frankfurt was referred to as locus celeber , a celebrated site , in its first documentary mention in 794 . With Nietzsche , he describes the old town as an architectural palimpsest , which always preserves the memory of the past in the minds of the townspeople, regardless of how often it is overwritten. He explains this thesis using the example of the new Großer Rebstock building (Markt 8) and the reconstruction of Braubachstrasse 21 . In contrast, the Technical Town Hall, "rammed as a concrete juggernaut in the middle of the previously closed row of houses on Braubachstrasse," remained a provocative and ignorant foreign body in the urban fabric for decades. Despite his architectural quality, this was his undoing.

Dankwart Guratzsch points to the broad consensus in which the reconstruction was decided. “It is the will of a committed citizenry ... It is a piece of civic pride that manifests itself in these houses, and the best craftsmen, artists, monument experts and architects are involved in it ... The citizen of the almost exclusively digitally located society insures himself the lost anchor its origin and provides it with the rock-solid solid stiffening made of cement. "

Jürgen Tietz doubts that the new old town will make a contribution to the future of the city. It is a fairy tale world, the danger is great that “only a doll's house will be created, a backdrop for tourists taking photos, selfie stick drawn and thumbs up. What defines historic old towns cannot be prescribed and cannot be simply built. ”The creative replicas are“ fake architecture ”,“ between the concrete structure and the exposed stone wall, the insulating wool peeps out and proves that history can even be seen in the face of today's building regulations cannot be reproduced true to the original ”.

Philipp Oswalt made a similar statement . It is absurd to build so few apartments for 200 million. The city has stopped building social housing , subsidizing luxury apartments and thus privatizing public goods. The whole Dom-Römer project is an expression of a conservative zeitgeist that conceals the disintegration of public cohesion through symbolic and media replacement. “It's not about the question of how you can build a city that is useful today - it's about generating an image of a city”.

Stephan Trüby criticized the whole project sharply . The New Old Town goes back to an initiative by Claus Wolfschlag , a "right-wing radical with connections to the extremist milieu". That is no coincidence, "the reconstruction architecture in Germany is currently developing into a key medium of the authoritarian, völkisch, historical revisionist right". It is "scandalous that the initiative of a right-wing radical without any noteworthy civil society resistance led to a slippery city quarter with seemingly seamless repetitive architecture". The New Old Town is "a sub-complex healing world building that reduces history to a one-dimensional request concert ... A history in which National Socialism, the German wars of aggression and the Holocaust survive at best as anecdotes of an otherwise unbroken national history". Trüby's theses also received international attention, for example in the Observer .

The architecture journalist Enrico Santifaller contradicts this . The debate about the old town has historical roots, and since 1880 there has been a constant struggle to redesign it, although the opponents and supporters of reconstructions did not fit into any right-left scheme. Even the reconstruction of the Römerberg-Ostzeile went back to an idea of ​​the SPD Mayor Rudi Arndt . At the same time left and would Spontis the Frankfurt urban warfare instigated, "today view the sociologists beginnings of a second homeland security exercise." The “storm of indignation” triggered by the “remarkably mediocre facade views” of the winning design from the 2005 competition was decisive for the reconstruction project of the New Old Town. “Unlike the second place winning design ... a. paid tribute to the place with a multi-angled roof landscape, the "construction sin" of the technical town hall in the historic center of Frankfurt was to be replaced by the usual dreary cough of the real estate industry. "Only then did a dynamic develop," in which the idea, close to the The highest skyscraper in continental Europe to build an »old« and »cozy« new city suddenly became a consensus. ”Santifaller advocates doing away with ideological blinkers and“ risking a second look ”. Only through this is it possible to see , in addition to all the banal reproductions and new creations as well as detailed errors, the “subtle and not always legible references to breaks and discontinuity” in the case of the house to the Three Romans or the building at Braubachstrasse 21 .

Also Matthias Alexander points out in his reply to Trübys polemic that "reconstructions are to be classified politically neither right nor left. They draw their legitimacy from two sources: their quality of craftsmanship and their civic acceptance. Both are given in Frankfurt. "

Hanno Rauterberg contradicts the thesis that the reconstruction of the old town is accompanied by an erasure of the sense of history and guilt. The debate alone leads to more people thinking about the destruction and its background. On the other hand, “no one in Frankfurt felt reminded of the bombing war and the Shoah when they saw the now demolished Technical Town Hall.” Most critics mocked questions of taste. "It is often said that this type of architecture is just magic, untrue, inauthentic ... But architecture is always illusionary ... Only in some residential and commercial areas, where every design claim is sacrificed for profit, the architecture [is] actually true."

Even Laura Weißmüller emphasizes the quality and attention to detail with which the New Old Town was built. Starting with the planning through to the careful construction, all those involved in Frankfurt - building owners, architects, planners and construction companies - pulled together. “One would like to see so much attention to detail and care put into a building project that doesn't pretend that the Second World War never happened”.

Michael Guntersdorf talks to Matthias Alexander about his experiences with the Dom-Römer project. The project was essentially about urban repairs. One of the main benefits of the project is the reclamation of Braubachstrasse. In the past 70 years, virtually no urban space has emerged that has the quality of the new old town. The ensemble effect is even better than originally thought. Suddenly the architects were on the defensive and were conducting a professional discussion of the state of mind. One can learn from the project for future new building projects “that one needs more depth in dealing with architecture. It should no longer be a question of just creating volume. You have to ensure identification with special design elements. You have to pay more attention to the details ”. He opposes criticism that many social housing could have been built for the same money; this thinking is "totally limited". “That was a sensible investment, it brings the city forward. Especially the foreigners whom we took over the construction site were of the opinion that the people of Frankfurt should have reflected on their history as a European metropolis much earlier. ”He personally likes the two new buildings Zu den Drei Römern (Markt 40) and Großer Rebstock (market 8) best; The golden box (Markt 32) and its neighbor Alter Burggraf are the least successful .

Andreas Maier describes the New Old Town for the FAZ's travel paper from the “most beautiful and useless place in Frankfurt”, the belvedere of the golden scales , “eye to eye with the cathedral tower”. He knew Belvederchen, which was destroyed in 1944, from “illustrated books about old Frankfurt”, which he studied as a young man, “the evocation of an epoch that can no longer be imagined, ... pure history ... Frankfurt as a possibility for a total idyll” architectural reconstructions, using the example of the Dresden Zwinger , the Bone Carver's Office and Warsaw's old town , which in different ways preserved the memory of their destruction. He recalls an earlier article he wrote about the planned demolition of the Technical City Hall and reconstructions in the old town for Die Zeit , and in which he made fun of the “half-timbered longing”, the “longing for a city like that looks like the cities that Frankfurters may also like to visit as tourists ”. After a tour of the construction site, however, he was impressed by the quality of the construction and also the architecture, and the enthusiasm of the craftsmen. He states: “Valuable materials, traditional craftsmanship, everything of the finest quality. With its new old town, which could also be in the Manufactum catalog, Frankfurt is making itself a gift. And as a praline on top there is the Belvederchen. ”In addition to the Belvederchen, he was particularly impressed by the Schönau house (Markt 10) -“ a very narrow thing with a deeply drawn slate facade ... and the slightly convex curve of the elegantly stepped front. Probably absolutely unique. "

literature

Summarizing presentations

  • Matthias Alexander (ed.): The new old town. Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-95542-307-0 .
  • Philipp Sturm, Peter Cachola Schmal (ed.): The always new old town. Building between cathedral and Römer since 1900. (= catalog for the exhibition The Always New Old Town in the German Architecture Museum), Jovis-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86859-501-7 .
  • City of Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Frankfurt building . Special edition for the inauguration of the DomRömer quarter. ( stadtplanungsamt-frankfurt.de [PDF; accessed on January 22, 2019] published for the opening ceremony from September 28 to 30, 2018).

Planning and viewpoints

reception

Web links

Commons : Dom Roemer Project (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Media reports and program information

Videos

Footnotes

A1This was the name used until the destruction in 1944. Deviating from this, Dom-Römer GmbH used the name Red House for this building (Markt 17) and the name New Red House for the neighboring building (Markt 15) . The name change followed the documentation for the old town created in 2006 on behalf of the city of Frankfurt .
A2This corresponds to the name used until the destruction in 1944. In contrast to this, Dom-Römer GmbH used the name New Red House for this building (Markt 15) at times . The name change followed the documentation for the old town created in 2006 on behalf of the city of Frankfurt .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Gerner , half-timbered house in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 (Polytechnische Gesellschaft) (Ed.), Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-7829-0217-3 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Wahl : The Roman military base on the Frankfurt Cathedral Hill. With an investigation into the Germanic settlement of the Frankfurt urban area in pre-Flavian times. Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7749-1960-7 (= writings of the Frankfurt Museum for Pre- and Early History 6).
  3. ↑ New Old Town Frankfurt . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 9, 2018 ( Dossier [accessed May 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The construction fences are falling: Opening of the new Frankfurt old town at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  5. ↑ a b Matthias Alexander, Rainer Schulze, Helmut Fricke: The newest old town in the world . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 9, 2018 ( FAZ.net [accessed November 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b Altstadtfest Frankfurt , official website, accessed on October 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b Annex to the municipal submission M231
  8. ↑ a b Over 250,000 visitors: Everyone wanted to go to the Altstadtfest at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on October 1, 2018.
  9. ↑ Recognition by Messe-Award: City of Frankfurt wins prize for new old town , fnp.de, March 16, 2019.
  10. ↑ Verbatim minutes of the 19th plenary session of the city council on Thursday, December 15, 1994 (2:03 p.m. to 11:40 p.m.). In: PARLIS - Parliamentary Information System of the City Council of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 7, 2011 .
  11. ↑ a b Urban planning - renovation instead of demolition - new plans for the Technical City Hall in Frankfurt. In: faz.net. November 8, 2004, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Budget application E 187 2004 of November 24, 2004 (last update of the status quo: December 21, 2004). In: PARLIS - Parliamentary Information System of the City Council of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 7, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Verbatim minutes of the 39th plenary session of the city council on Thursday, December 16, 1994 (4:02 p.m. to 9.45 p.m.). In: PARLIS - Parliamentary Information System of the City Council of Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 7, 2011 .
  14. ^ Matthias Alexander: Urban planning - At the Technical Town Hall on the way to the great solution. In: faz.net , September 4, 2005.
  15. ↑ a b Demolition of the Technical City Hall secured. In: faz.net , July 25, 2005.
  16. ^ New Old Town - KSP win competition for the center of Frankfurt (September 19, 2005). In: BauNetz. Retrieved August 16, 2009 .
  17. ^ Günter Murr: The long way to the new Frankfurt old town. , In: fnp.de , May 8, 2018.
  18. ↑ Urban planning competition for the area of ​​the Technical Town Hall decided. In: faz.net , September 16, 2005.
  19. ↑ Urban planning: Department wants architectural competitions for Frankfurt's new center In: faz.net , September 20, 2005.
  20. ↑ SPD wants to ask citizens about future old town development. In: faz.net , September 23, 2005.
  21. ↑ Ideas for rebuilding. In: faz.net , October 7, 2005.
  22. ↑ The CDU wants to lower the business tax. In: faz.net , November 2, 2005.
  23. ^ Matthias Alexander: Special committee on the old town. Lots of wishes and concerns. In: faz.net , December 8, 2005.
  24. ↑ "I want to give Frankfurt its heart back". In: faz.net , December 31, 2005.
  25. ^ Matthias Alexander: Views of the old town. In: faz.net , May 7, 2006.
  26. ^ Matthias Alexander: Old Town. Working group for the old town area. In: faz.net , September 7, 2006.
  27. ↑ stadtplanungsamt-frankfurt.de
  28. ↑ Significant old town houses are being reconstructed "high quality". In: faz.net .
  29. ↑ City of Frankfurt buys back the Technical Town Hall immediately. In: faz.net , January 31, 2007.
  30. ↑ Seven old town houses are to be reconstructed. In: faz.net , May 7, 2007.
  31. ↑ FAZ.NET special: The future of Frankfurt's old town. In: faz.net , June 25, 2008.
  32. ↑ A total reconstruction is still conceivable. In: faz.net , September 7, 2007.
  33. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Danger of floating up. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 29, 2008.
  34. ^ Matthias Alexander: City of Frankfurt founds building company for the old town. In: faz.net , July 10, 2009.
  35. ↑ Matthias Alexander: Old town project costs a good 100 million euros. In: faz.net , October 10, 2009.
  36. ↑ Matthias Alexander: town house on the foundation of the king's hall. In: faz.net , December 19, 2009.
  37. ↑ Matthias Alexander: City house designs are being revised. In: faz.net , August 26, 2010.
  38. ^ Dom-Römer project: overview map of the quarter
  39. ↑ Rainer Schulze: Further reconstructions of the chicken market and coronation path. In: faz.net , June 11, 2010.
  40. ↑ A maximum of 17 houses are being reconstructed in Frankfurt's old town. In: faz.net , March 15, 2011.
  41. ↑ Design statutes for the Dom-Römer-Areal. (pdf) In: Official Journal No. 7, 141st year. City of Frankfurt am Main, February 16, 2010, p. 127 , accessed on October 1, 2018 .
  42. ↑ Matthias Alexander: Meurer architects prevail. In: faz.net , September 24, 2010.
  43. ↑ a b Dom-Römer-Projekt: Masterplan (PDF) accessed on November 7, 2018.
  44. ^ "Save the Old Town" initiative in Frankfurt
  45. ^ Matthias Alexander: Old town project overall in danger. In: faz.net , February 9, 2012.
  46. ^ Old town dispute is burning again. ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) February 14, 2012.
  47. ^ Felix Helbig: End of a Frankfurt city chapter. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 12th. 2010.
  48. ↑ Reconstruction of Frankfurt's old town has started (rheinmaintv) on YouTube .
  49. ^ Dom-Römer-Projekt: The DomRömer-Projekt is making visible progress
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