Sinai nursery

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The Sinai nursery was a nursery in Bad Soden am Taunus and Frankfurt am Main .

history

The water tower in Bad Soden am Taunus was built in 1911 to irrigate the nursery.
The former Sinai site in Frankfurt was redesigned into the " Sinaipark " between 1983 and 1986 .

In 1890 Friedrich Sinai founded the nursery for cut flowers named after him. In 1930 Friedrich Sinai died and his son Willi took over the business. The company was known for its breeding of the Frankfurt lilac and its carnation production .

During the Second World War , production was massively reduced and the greenhouses were used to grow vegetables. Production resumed after the war. In 1949 the company had grown to become the second largest nursery in Germany. In the company's greenhouses that year grew 60,000 lilac plants, half a million carnations, 50,000 chrysanthemums. In addition, drift roses were grown on around 6000 square meters.

In the years that followed, the company benefited from the economic miracle and the new transport options offered by commercial aviation near Frankfurt Airport . In 1953 150,000 lilacs were sold. The number of carnations had risen to around half a million, that of chrysanthemums to 80,000 and that of rose plants to 40,000.

In 1954 the company passed to Sinai's son-in-law Will Claas. The nursery in Bad Soden was expanded from 17,000 to 35,000 square meters in size in the 1950s. The nursery had a total of 70,000 m² of greenhouse space.

Former gardening building in today's Walter-Leiske-Straße

With the increased energy costs and the cheaper imports from Holland but also from Africa, the operation of greenhouses in Germany became unprofitable. In 1978, operations in Frankfurt were discontinued and the premises were later sold as building land. The original plans to build a packaging hall for cut flowers on the site in addition to residential buildings were dropped after public protests.

The abandoned company premises hit the headlines in 1983 because of a crime that has not yet been resolved: On March 20, a former warehouse and residential building burned down and the fire was extinguished by the fire brigade. A search of the site of the fire did not produce any particular results, but arson was assumed . When the ruins were demolished a few months later, the remains of a person were discovered in the rubble, which must have been in the building before the fire. At first it was suspected that it was a dead vagabond who might have accidentally started the fire, but then it was discovered that it was a young girl. How exactly the victim, who had been identified with great effort, died could no longer be determined, and a report on the case in the television program Aktenzeichen xy Unsolved did not produce any result.

The Sinaipark is located on the production site in Frankfurt today .

Today the production areas in Bad Soden are mainly used for agriculture. The water tower , which was built to irrigate the Sinai nursery, is a listed building.

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