Ben-Gurion-Ring settlement
The Ben-Gurion-Ring housing estate is a large housing estate from the 1970s in the Nieder-Eschbach and Bonames districts of Frankfurt . The ring road that gives it its name and opens up the settlement is named after the Israeli statesman David Ben-Gurion . The settlement is increasingly being referred to by the former field name Amügel .
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Location and development
The Ben-Gurion-Ring settlement covers an area of around 35 hectares and is located in the south of the Nieder-Eschbach district and in the north of Bonames. It borders on the subway tracks in the south, on Homburger Landstrasse in the east, on the Berner Strasse industrial estate in the north and on the 661 federal motorway in the west . Since the historic center of Nieder-Eschbach is about 1.5 km away and the Ben-Gurion-Ring settlement is directly connected to Bonames, it is spatially associated with this part of the city, although it is mainly located in the Nieder-Eschbach area.
The ring road Ben-Gurion-Ring opens up the settlement and connects it to the regional road network in the north via Berner Strasse and in the west via Am Martinszehnten. The underground station Bonames-Mitte can be reached on foot via several sidewalks in the south through the streets Homburger Hohl, Friedrich-Stampfer-Straße and Theodor-Thomas-Straße. Via this and bus line 29, the settlement is connected to local public transport . Parking spaces are mainly located in parking decks and in parking lots that are accessible from the Ben-Gurion-Ring. The residential buildings can be reached within the Ringstrasse via sidewalks.
Origin and development
In the post-war period, a settlement with three- and four-story residential buildings on Friedrich-Stampfer-Strasse and Theodor-Thomas-Strasse was built on the Bonames district north of the railway on an area of around five hectares. Following this development, the actual Ben-Gurion-Ring settlement was built further north in the 1970s, mainly in the Nieder-Eschbach district. The builder, owner and landlord is GWH Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH Hessen , which was formerly known as Neue Heimat . Between 1973 and 1977, a total of around 80 residential buildings with around 1,350 apartments were built with funds from social housing . Around 4,000 people live there. (As of December 31, 2008). Since 2016, the north-eastern, formerly commercially used area has been restructured into a residential area.
Development
The settlement was primarily built as a high-rise building and thus followed the urban planning model of the time it was built. The urban layout was arranged in groups and slices of up to ten-story buildings. Most of them are surrounded by green spaces and placed around a central green corridor. The large housing estate is structured in such a way that some of the high-rise groups form large courtyards by means of angular, mutually standing buildings. The buildings are staggered one below the other at heights of four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten storeys. The buildings are also aligned in such a way that the apartments are well exposed to the sun. The skyscrapers consist partly of precast concrete parts and are designed in a typical construction style. The architecture is characterized by exposed concrete, which was partly colored, exposed aggregate concrete and colored facade elements made of fiber cement .
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Infrastructure
The central green corridor covers around three hectares and is designed as a scenic park with extensive lawns, trees, paths and playgrounds. The moving topography divides the green area into different areas. At the deepest point in the north there is a small lake. The social infrastructure includes a community center, two day-care centers (Kita 1 and Kita 71), a youth center, a social town hall, and a meeting and service center. The two Christian churches are represented by meetinghouses, a kindergarten, a Protestant church hall and the Catholic Church of St. Lioba. To the east is a shopping mall with shops for daily needs and a medical center.
References
literature
- Hans-Reiner Müller-Raemisch: Frankfurt am Main. Urban development and planning history since 1945 Campus-Verlag Frankfurt 1996
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 19.7 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 41.6" E