Route of industrial culture Rhein-Main Mainspitze

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The route of industrial culture Rhein-Main Mainspitze is a section of the route of industrial culture Rhein-Main at the Mainspitze and includes the two Hessian communities Bischofsheim and Ginsheim-Gustavsburg . The project tries to open up monuments of industrial history in the Rhine-Main area .

List of routes at the Mainspitze

Bischofsheim

Bischofsheim
object	Year of origin	description	image
New Bischofsheim station	around 1900	Typical local style with echoes of half-timbered houses
Water tower	1912	Plastered brickwork on a red sandstone floor
Pedestrian walkway	1900	riveted three-span steel truss box bridge (dismantled at the end of November 2013)
old trainstation	1862	Ludwigsbahn railway station in typical railway station architecture
Goods shed	1935	Red brick facade
Training signal box	around 1912	probably served to train signal box personnel
Locomotive workshop	1868	original locomotive hall
Roundhouse and turntable	around 1902	The last remaining roundhouse in the Rhine-Main area
Transformer house	1926	Solid brickwork with zigzag bands
"Jerusalem" settlement	1927/28	Workers' settlement based on plans by the railroad architect Hans Kleinschmidt

Ginsheim-Gustavsburg

Ginsheim-Gustavsburg
object	Year of origin	description	image
MAN plant in Gustavsburg		The MAN plant is one of the most important industrial settlements in the Rhine-Main area
MAN frame parts production	from 1900	filigree steel construction with clinker brick facade
MAN heavy plate production	1906-08	3-aisled hall, so-called south plant
MAN side member production	1970	Steel construction hall with various extensions
MAN crane runway / assembly area		double row crane runway with overhead traveling cranes
Tannery	1861	The technicians Heinrich Gottfried Gerber and Johann Ludwig Werder were responsible for the conception and implementation of the Mainz south bridge at Klett & Co. (forerunner of MAN) . The fish belly girder developed by the two of them (upper chord as a strong pressure beam, lower chord as a narrow pull rope) therefore bears the name Gerber carrier. An originally preserved girder from 1861, which was originally used in the ramp of the railway bridge, is now a monument on the factory premises.
Former MAN administration building	1900	Renaissance architecture
Gerber house	1861	Administration building of the company Klett, today a youth center
Rhine port
Cramer-Klett settlement	from 1897	Workers' settlement based on plans by Karl Hofmann
Cramer-Klett settlement: steel houses	1948-1953	Ten model houses from the MAN house building system made of steel
Kostheim Bridge		The road bridge between Mainz-Kostheim (main street) and Ginsheim-Gustavsburg (Darmstädter Landstraße) is part of federal highway 43
Gustavsburg train station	1888	listed reception building
Gustavsburg shipyard	1886	founded by the Mainz shipbuilder Franz Schmidt
Hochheimer Bridge	1904	four-part steel bridge with portals made of red sandstone

literature

• Peter Schirmbeck (Ed.): Route of industrial culture. 40 stations between Bingen and Aschaffenburg. Nest Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-925850-47-3 .
• KulturRegion Frankfurt RheinMain (Ed.), Sabine von Bebenburg (Red.): Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-7973-0960-0 .
• RheinMain cultural region (ed.): Route of industrial culture . Identity and Change. Volume 2. CoCon-Verlag, Hanau 2009, ISBN 978-3-937774-70-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bischofsheim: Eiserner Steg is to be removed on Saturday by Ulrich von Mengden on main-spitze.de from November 20, 2013
2. ↑ Even the demolition is expensive - experts: Eiserner Steg between the water tower and Böcklersiedlung cannot be saved and must be removed and the Eiserne Steg must be preserved - IG summarizes the history and status of the pedestrian bridge and looking at signs makes you smarter - crane installation for The demolition of the bridge caused traffic chaos at peak times - the massive Riga crane is on verlag-dreisbach.de, online on the Internet: December 20, 2013

Web links

Commons : Route of industrial culture Rhein-Main Mainspitze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the local Mainspitze route as a PDF file
• Route of industrial culture Rhine-Main
• www.mo-nu-mente.de: Photographs on the route of industrial culture Rhein-Main
• New ways to the old industrial culture Article in the Frankfurter Rundschau from November 27, 2006