Platenstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| Section between Franz-Werfel-Straße (left) and Sudermannstraße (right) | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Westend , Dornbusch , Ginnheim |
| Connecting roads | Hansaallee (beginning), Stefan-Zweig-Straße (end) |
| Cross streets | Jakob-Leister-Strasse, Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse, Ernst-Schwendler-Strasse, Am Dornbusch, Fallerslebenstrasse, Immermannstrasse, Franz-Werfel-Strasse, Sudermannstrasse |
| Buildings | Astrid Lindgren School (number 75) |
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| Street length | approx. 1,300 m |
The Platenstraße is a street in Frankfurt am Main , in the district of Westend starts and the longest section in Ginnheim is where they also ends.
Former Housing Area
The street is named after the German poet August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835). Furthermore, the street is the namesake and center of today's Platensiedlung, which surrounds the western part of the Platenstrasse. The former Dr.-Robert-Koch-Siedlung (named after the physician and microbiologist Robert Koch , 1843–1910) is the largest of the former housing areas in Frankfurt with 777 apartments . After the Americans moved out in 1994, the 80 to 115 square meter apartments in the Ginnheim district of Frankfurt were transferred to the federal government , which sold them to the city of Frankfurt.
The houses belonging to Platenstraße already end in the area of Immermannstraße, behind the intersection of which there are numbers 60, 62 and 64 on the north side. The houses on both sides of Platenstraße behind the intersection with Sudermannstraße in the north and Franz-Werfel-Straße in the south all belong to these two streets and to the south also to Franz-Kafka-Straße.
Visit from Elvis Presley
At the end of the 1950s, Robert Stephen Marquette, who suffered from polio and was the March of Dimes poster child in 1958 at the age of six, lived under number 2238A . As part of a charity campaign , several photos of little Robert were shot at the end of 1958 together with the soldier Elvis Presley, who was stationed in Germany at the time . A second photo shoot took place on January 18, 1959, when Elvis Presley and actress Vera Chekhova visited the Marquette family in their apartment at Platenstrasse 2238A.
Transport links
The number 64 bus crosses the Platenstraße and stops at the same stop that near the intersection of the cross streets Am Dornbusch, Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse and Ernst-Schwendler Street is located.
The citizens' initiative Rettet die U5 submitted a proposal to the city of Frankfurt under the name Ginnheimer curve . This is aiming for an underground connection between the terminus of the U1 (Ginnheim) and U4 ( Bockenheimer Warte ) lines. According to the proposal submitted to the municipal authorities, one of the planned three stops on this section will also be named Platenstrasse .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas Roth: The Ultimate ELVIS IN MUNICH Book (Selbstverlag, Munich 2004), p. 19 / ISBN 3-00-014671-7
- ↑ The Platensiedlung is better than its reputation ( FAZ article from April 14, 2005)
- ↑ Green Plan for Ginnheim ( FNP article from February 10, 2012)
- ↑ Andreas Roth: The Ultimate ELVIS IN MUNICH Book (self-published, Munich 2004), p. 6ff
- ↑ Elvis and polio-victim Robert (English; accessed July 24, 2014)
- ↑ Photos by Elvis Presley and Robert Marquette
- ^ Ginnheim curve: Projects / Platenstrasse station (accessed on July 24, 2014)
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 31.8 ″ E