Sandweg (Frankfurt am Main)
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| Lower sand path | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Northrend , Ostend |
| Connecting roads | Habsburgerallee (north), Friedberger Anlage and Pfingstweidstraße (south) |
| Cross streets | Baumweg, Königswarterstraße, Thomasiusstraße, Mousonstraße, Hegelstraße, Kantstraße, Waldschmidtstraße, Seumestraße, Nedergäßchen, Wingertstraße, Schellingstraße, Ingolstädter Straße |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 850 m |
The Sandweg is a street in Frankfurt am Main that forms the border between the districts of Nordend in the west and Ostend in the east.
course
The street begins in the south at the clock tower at the Friedberger plant . This is also where Pfingstweidstrasse, which leads east to the nearby Frankfurt Zoo , and the Zeil, which runs west, meet .
The Sandweg runs in a northerly or (from Thomasiusstrasse) northeastern direction and ends at Habsburgerallee , behind which it is "continued" in a northerly direction by Arnsburger Strasse. Berger Straße runs almost parallel to Sandweg in the west and Wittelsbacherallee in the east .
Surname
The name can actually be traced back to the sand that was previously mined in this area for the building of houses required in Frankfurt. In the local garb "In the sand", like in many other places on the Main Plain, it had piled up when the wind formed the drifting sand into dunes in the past .
history
After the demolition of Frankfurt city fortifications at the beginning of the 19th century, the Sandweg developed next to Berger Straße into an important road connection to Bornheim . Between 1820 and 1860, a dense settlement of petty-bourgeois apartment buildings, small businesses and individual industrial companies developed along the street.
The first factory was the weaving mill Bourguignon & Lindheimer built in 1842 at Sandweg 21, which only existed there until 1851. As a result, the building changed hands frequently: from 1852 to 1863 there was a cigar factory here , from 1864 to 1872 a rabbit haircutter , from 1874 to 1879 a corset factory , later a piano factory, a wallpaper factory and a manufacturer of table silver .
Another large company was the metal foundry Carl Beyer & Co., established in Sandweg 60 in 1857. Both factory locations are listed in the Picturesque Map of Frankfurt am Main and its immediate vicinity , which Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp created from 1859 to 1864.
The Engelhard Pharmaceutical Factory was the last major industrial company to set up shop in Sandweg 94 in 1891 . The factory was rebuilt after its destruction in World War II and only moved to Niederdorfelden in 2000 .
From 1879, the third line of the tram operated by the Frankfurt Tramway Company as a horse-drawn tram ran across Sandweg and Arnsburger Strasse to the clock tower in Bornheim. In 1898 the city of Frankfurt took over the private tram company and began electrification . From April 10, 1899, the first electric line of the city tram between Bornheim and the Palmengarten also ran on the Sandweg. The operation of this oldest Frankfurt tram line ended on May 17, 1953. It was replaced by a new route over the nearby Wittelsbacherallee.
In the immediate vicinity of the clock tower at Friedberger Anlage (not to be confused with the Bornheim clock tower), a large part of Frankfurt's Jewish population lived at the end of the 19th century . The lower sandy path also belongs to this area. After the November pogroms in 1938 , the authorities concentrated the remaining Jewish families in Frankfurt as planned in around 300 Jewish houses in the city, where they had to live in a very small space. The buildings Sandweg 7 , a former Jewish children's home, and Sandweg 32 also belonged to these Jewish houses . Some stumbling blocks laid in the pavement today commemorate the victims of the persecution .
The only architectural monument on the sandy path is located in the lower sand path at number 11 . The neo-Renaissance tenement house, completed in 1899, has a relatively elaborate clinker brick facade with an axial balcony porch and gable.
structure
The Sandweg is located in a mixed area that has both residential and commercial space. A large number of small retail shops and restaurants are located on the Sandweg.
Web links
- History of the Sandweg on the website of the Sandweg Trade Association (accessed on August 27, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Sandweg at Frankfurt-Nordend.de (accessed on August 27, 2013)
- ^ History of the north end of Frankfurt until 1899 (accessed on August 27, 2013)
- ↑ Horst me Elke, Claudia Jeanmaire, hundreds of years of Frankfurt trams , publishing railway, Villigen 1972, ISBN 3 85649 018 3 , p 24
- ↑ a b Ghettoization of the Jews in Frankfurt (1938–1942)
- ^ The house on Rothschildallee , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 7, 2010
- ↑ Monuments in the Nordend (accessed on August 27, 2013)
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 9.6 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 52.8 ″ E