Siesmayerstraße 6
The Villa Siesmayerstraße 6 in Frankfurt-Westend is a listed building and was the last occupied house in the Frankfurt house war .
The House
The house was built in 1897 as a tenement house in the neo-baroque style with a distinctive risalit side . The richly structured facade is made of sandstone . The entrance hall in iron / glass construction, as well as the fencing and the balcony grilles, are original. For historical reasons it is designated as a cultural monument .
history
The builders of the house were a Jewish banking family (Isaac Dreyfus) who also lived in part of the house. The Swiss consulate was also housed in the building. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 the owners managed to escape. The house was " Aryanized " and came into the possession of an SA Sturmbannführer. In 1945 the US occupation forces confiscated the house, and later it was sold to Philipp Holzmann AG, which housed workers there.
In the 1960s, the real estate entrepreneurs Preisler, Herskovits and Gruca planned to acquire and demolish the houses at Siesmayerstraße 2 to 8 and to erect a 26-story office building there. However, the owner of Siesmayerstraße 8 refused to sell, despite a high purchase price in the millions, and the project failed. The Dutch company Land & Lynton has now acquired the house. A smaller skyscraper with 20 floors was planned.
The house at Siesmayerstraße 6 was occupied in 1971 as part of the “Frankfurter Häuserkampf”. The urban warfare led to a rethink in urban development policy. In 1972 the municipal dormitory GmbH signed a contract for electricity and gas supply with the squatters, which contained a clause that this would end with the demolition. However, there should not be a demolition. In 1976 the lower monument protection authority added the houses Siesmayerstraße 4 and 6 to the list of historical monuments. After the local elections in Hesse in 1977 , the CDU received a majority in the city council and Walter Wallmann became the new mayor. The city passed a new development plan that provided for residential development in this area. Land & Lynton sued both measures, but were unsuccessful at the Hessian Administrative Court . Land & Lynton announced a regulatory review procedure against this decision.
Instead, the Hessische Immobiliengesellschaft, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, acquired it for a purchase price of DM 11 million. The press reported that in return the city had given permission to build a six-story residential building in the backyard and to accommodate the company in other building matters. This representation was denied by the city.
In contrast to the other squats that had been cleared by the police, an amicable solution was found in the case of Siesmayerstraße 6. The Hessische Immobiliengesellschaft paid a nuisance premium of 300,000 DM to the squatters , who then moved out in September 1983.
The Hessische Immobiliengesellschaft renovated the building and furnished high-quality apartments there.
literature
- Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- Dieter Schwöbel: lavish parties and endless debates; in: FAZ of October 7, 2017, p. 39.
- Rainer Weber: Frankfurt - the capital of the transition; in: Der Spiegel from January 18, 1988, online
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Siesmayerstraße 6 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 10.9 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 35.9 ″ E