Berliner Strasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| View from the intersection of Berliner Straße / Neue Kräme in west direction | |
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Old town |
| Created | 1952-1953 |
| Connecting roads | Theatertunnel , Weißfrauenstrasse (west) and Battonnstrasse (east) |
| Cross streets | Fahrgasse , Neue Kräme , Paulsplatz , Kornmarkt |
| Buildings | Museum of Modern Art , Paulskirche , former Federal Audit Office |
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| Street length | 890 m |
The Berlin street is in the post-war scale road breakthrough and important road in the Frankfurt old town . In the section east of the Neue Kräme its course corresponds to the former Schnurgasse, which was destroyed in the Second World War .
location
The continuous four-lane road runs in an east-west direction from the Battonnstraße to Bethmannstraße where they eastern connection to the under the Willy-Brandt-Platz to the Gutleutstraße in Bahnhofsviertel leading theater tunnel manufactures. The aboveground branch opens at the level of Bethmannstraße in the Weißfrauenstraße . In addition to Untermainkai , Berliner Straße is the only major east-west connection in Frankfurt's old town.
history
Berliner Straße was built from 1952 as part of the modern redevelopment of Frankfurt's old town, which was largely destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during the Second World War . With the road construction, the development of the new residential buildings there should be ensured in terms of the car-friendly city . This was the second major road breakthrough in the old town, after the Braubachstrasse , further south, had been laid out between 1904 and 1908 .
The street follows the former Schnurgasse in the eastern section , but was designed many times wider than the previously existing narrow Altstadtgasse. The part to the west of the Neue Kräme , on the other hand, was laid out without taking into account the previous street layout.
The inauguration of the street took place after a construction period of around 15 months on November 16, 1953. Initially referred to as the street at the Paulskirche , it was renamed Berliner Strasse in 1955 . The last major change to the Berliner Straße so far took place in 1973 with the opening of the theater tunnel , for the connection of which a long ramp was built at the western end of the street.
To this day, Berliner Straße is used exclusively for private transport . Neither bus nor tram lines run on it.
Buildings
Immediately at the eastern end of Berliner Straße on the south side of the street is the Museum of Modern Art . Directly opposite, on the corner of the street to the Fahrgasse , is a ten-story house, completed in 1955. With its height of around 30 meters, it was the tallest residential building in the rebuilt old town and one of the first purely residential high-rise buildings in Frankfurt.
The further course of Berliner Straße is mainly characterized by simple residential and commercial buildings from the 1950s. To the west of the intersection with the Neue Kräme pedestrian zone , on the south side of the street, the Paulskirche in Frankfurt is the most striking building on the street. Berliner Straße forms the northern boundary of the Paulsplatz surrounding the Paulskirche . To the west of the Paulskirche is the north building of the Frankfurt town hall complex, built in the historicizing style at the beginning of the 20th century . The western end of the street marks the building of the Federal Audit Office in Frankfurt am Main, built between 1954 and 1955 . The building complex between Berliner Strasse and Bethmannstrasse, which has been vacant since he moved to Bonn in 2000, is to be used as a hotel in the next few years.
Here Berliner Straße crosses the Großer Kornmarkt , which, along with Fahrgasse and Neue Kräme, is one of the three historic north-south axes of Frankfurt's old town. The German Reformed Church was located here until it was destroyed in the bombing war .
For the construction of Berliner Straße, the ruins of the Weißfrauenkirche and the southern part of the Großer Hirschgraben were removed in the west of the route .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
Web links
- Reconstruction of the old town in 1952 ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )