Rundschau house
The publisher of the Frankfurter Rundschau was one of the most famous buildings in the 1950s -years in the city of Frankfurt am Main . It was demolished in 2006.
The building was located on the corner of Große Eschenheimer Straße and Stiftstraße, directly at Eschenheimer Tor near the Zeil shopping street . Until July 2005 it was the seat of the editorial office of the national daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau and its publisher, the Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main GmbH.
The Rundschau House was built in 1953 according to plans by Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984), who also designed the Junior House on Kaiserplatz (1951) in Frankfurt . It essentially consisted of three components:
- A five-storey (the top floor is slightly set back), the curved course of the street, following the shallow office building on Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse. There were editorial rooms on the upper floors, shops and the Rundschau pharmacy on the ground floor ;
- the six-storey printing house on Stiftstrasse, the least representative of the three structures in terms of its industrial use. It housed the Rundschau kiosk, which in the days before the introduction of the Internet was the destination of numerous apartment hunters every early Friday morning because it was the first kiosk in the city to sell the freshly printed Friday Rundschau with the apartment advertisements;
- as well as the elegant, seven-storey corner building directly at Eschenheimer Tor. The large-scale glazing and the generous rounding of the building corner, which the glazing also follows, was striking. The main entrance of the complex and the publicly accessible archive of the newspaper were located on the ground floor. The corner building was crowned by a cantilevered, extremely thin flat roof. There was a small apartment on the roof, which was used by the then cartoonist Felix Mussil , among others .
The Rundschau House was part of an important former ensemble of urban post-war architecture at Eschenheimer Tor. To the north of the building, on the east side of the Eschenheimer Tor, stands the Bayer House (1952), which also has a striking, wide cantilevered flat roof. To the south, on Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse and directly adjacent to the Rundschau-Haus, was the 69-meter-high telecommunications tower of Deutsche Telekom , which was completed in 1956 and which was demolished in 2004 despite being a listed building to make way for the large-scale Palaisquartier building project . A large shopping center, two skyscrapers and the reconstruction of the former Palais Thurn und Taxis were built here by 2011 .
The Rundschau House was also completely demolished by mid-May 2006 after the financially troubled newspaper publisher had sold the property. After the demolition, the property was initially used for the construction site logistics of the Palaisquartier and was then to be rebuilt by 2010, whereby the characteristic "round corner" of the former Rundschau House was also to be included in the new building. However, the plans were not implemented. At the end of 2014, the property was acquired by the project developer STRABAG Real Estate. A design by Hadi Teherani emerged as the winner from an architectural competition. The building complex, which will be marketed as the “Flare of Frankfurt”, will house offices, a hotel, a boarding house , condominiums and shops and restaurants on the ground floor after its completion at the end of 2018 .
The editors of the Frankfurter Rundschau were based in Sachsenhausen from July 2005 and, following insolvency proceedings, moved to new premises on Mainzer Landstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the new owners Frankfurter Societät and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in September 2013 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Caricaturist Mussil: Five decades of caricatures . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on October 23, 2018]).
- ^ Groundbreaking for "Flare of Frankfurt" . In: hessenschau.de . July 6, 2016 ( online [accessed January 16, 2017]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 58 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 48 ″ E