Westhausen settlement
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 House on Ludwig-Landmann Strasse |
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| Basic data | |
| Area : | 0.7 km² |
| Population : | 2,268 |
| Population density : | 3,240 inhabitants / km² |
| Creation time: | 1929-1931 1949 |
| location | |
| District : | 7 - middle-west |
| District : | Praunheim |
| District : | 42 3 (Westhausen) |
| Center / main street: | Kollwitzstrasse |
| architecture | |
| Architectural style: | classic modern |
| Urban planner: | Ernst May |
| Architects: | Ferdinand Kramer et al. |
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ N , 8 ° 37 ′ E
Westhausen is a new Frankfurt settlement in the Praunheim district that has been recognized as a cultural monument .
history
The Westhausen settlement is the last major settlement in the New Frankfurt (1929–31). Upon completion, it comprised 1,116 rental apartments. All apartments were equipped with a Frankfurt kitchen .
In the 60s, 80s and 90s there were still isolated new buildings.
Involved architects
As town planning officer, Ernst May was responsible for managing the housing program and drawing up the general development plan, with the support of Wolfgang Bangert , Eugen Blanck , Herbert Boehm and Eugen Kaufmann , among others . The arcade houses were designed by the architects Eugen Blanck and Ferdinand Kramer . As the city's horticultural director, Max Bromme was entrusted with planning the green spaces.
Streets
Residential rows and routes are arranged orthogonally (horizontal to vertical). When the settlement was laid out, the new streets were named with letters ( A - D ). The curiosity, however, only lasted for a short time: after the National Socialists came to power , all streets were renamed after actors and locations of German colonial rule in Africa and Oceania. After the Second World War , the streets were given new names on the initiative of residents in 1947, to commemorate local resistance fighters and those persecuted by National Socialism.
| Current name (namesake) | investment | Origin Surname | time of the nationalsocialism |
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| Stephan-Heise- Strasse | 1929 | Street A. | Lettow-Vorbeck- Strasse (1933–1947) |
| Johanna-Kirchner- Strasse | 1929 | Street B. | Samoa Trail (1933-1947) |
| Siblings Scholl- Strasse | 1929 | Street C | New Guinea Trail (1933-1947) |
| Egestraße ( Albrecht Ege ) | 1929 | Street D. | Togo Trail (1933–1947) |
| Ludwig-Landmann- Strasse | 1929 | Hindenburgstrasse (until 1947) | |
| Kollwitzstrasse ( Käthe Kollwitz ) | 1930 | Kollwitzstrasse | Tanga street (1935-1945) |
| West ring | ... | West ring | no renaming |
| Zillestrasse ( Heinrich Zille ) | ... | Zillestrasse | no renaming |
Location and infrastructure
Westhausen borders directly on the A66 to the south . In the east runs Ludwig-Landmann-Straße , an entry and exit road with underground line 7 running between the lanes . The settlement is accessed there by two tram stations. In the north is one of the largest cemeteries in Frankfurt, the Westhausen cemetery . It is also one of four honorary cemeteries for Italian war victims in Germany.
To the west, the settlement is bounded by the railway line of the Homburg Railway , which, however, has no stopping point there.
Kollwitzstrasse, which runs parallel to Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse on the western edge of the original residential area, forms the center of the settlement. All public institutions are located there. With the Europaschule Liebigschule , the Gymnasium Westhausen and the Lycée français Victor-Hugo , a French school named after the writer Victor Hugo , the settlement has three high schools. In addition, the Protestant community, a kindergarten and a parking garage are located on Kollwitzstraße, which was built due to the lack of parking spaces in the narrow streets. Westhausen does not have its own primary school, but is in the school district of the Ebelfeldschule, which is located in the neighboring Praunheim settlement . Westhausen also has a youth club and an allotment gardening association.
literature
- Helen Barr, Ulrike May: The New Frankfurt: Walks through the Ernst Mays housing estate and the architecture of its time . 1st edition. B3 Verlag, Frankfurt 2007 (architecture guide through the "New Frankfurt").
- Dietrich W. Dreysse: May settlements . 2nd Edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1994 (architectural guide through eight settlements in the new Frankfurt 1926-1930).
- Felix Schürmann: "The Brief History of Colonial Street Names in Frankfurt am Main, 1933–1947." In: WerkstattGeschichte 61 (2013): pp. 65–75 ( abstract ; download ).
See also
Web links
- Renaming of streets in the time of National Socialism and after resistance fighters and the persecuted
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook 2008 City of Frankfurt accessed on Feb. 26, 2020
- ↑ .
- ↑ Felix Schürmann: "The Brief History of Colonial Street Names in Frankfurt am Main, 1933–1947." In: WerkstattGeschichte 61 (2013): pp. 65–75.