Sossenheimer Unterfeld
The Sossenheimer Unterfeld is a group of contiguous fields, fields and meadows in Sossenheim , a western part of the Hessian city of Frankfurt am Main . The Sossenheimer Unterfeld parcel, used for agricultural and recreational purposes, is part of the western arm of the Frankfurt green belt and is part of the green belt and green corridors conservation area in the city of Frankfurt am Main .
location
The Sossenheimer Unterfeld is about eight kilometers west of downtown Frankfurt. In the north it borders on the Sossenheim development, in the south on the right bank of the river Nidda . The east-west extension of the parcel extends from the Nidda tributary Sulzbach in the west to the route of the federal motorway 5 in the east. The eastern part of the Unterfeld is crossed in a north-west-south-east direction by the federal motorway 648 , the two motorways form the motorway junction Westkreuz Frankfurt in the south-eastern corner of the Sossenheimer Unterfeld . At the southwest corner of the Unterfeld the Sulzbach flows into the Nidda. In the Unterfeld there are also two right oxbow lakes of the Nidda, the Holler and the Kollmann-Weiher . Both oxbow lakes are named after their former owners.
Emergence
The Sossenheimer Unterfeld was part of a swampy Nidda floodplain until the end of the 19th century, then the area was drained by a system of drainage ditches - Dottenfeldgraben / Laufgraben . In 1881 land consolidation took place and a meadow orchard landscape was created . In 1893 the first local fruit and horticultural association was founded.
use
The area in the Frankfurt green belt is largely used as arable land and is used to grow corn, grain, potatoes and other crops. Local types of fruit such as the service tree , pears and plums are grown on orchards . The Sossenheimer Unterfeld has the largest occurrence of the service tree in terms of the number of trees in the Frankfurt city area; some of the trees are very old. Sossenheim taverns with their own production harvest the Speierling in Unterfeld in order to add the juice obtained from them to the cider they press . After the Second World War , the two Nidda oxbow lakes in the Sossenheimer Unterfeld that were created in the 1920s by river straightening were also used commercially. There was a nutria breeding farm on Holler ; Animals that escaped from there formed the basis of the beaver rat population that still exists today on the lower reaches of the Nidda. Gravel and sand were quarried at the Kollmann-Weiher , which the steep banks of the oxbow lake bear testimony to today.
The Sossenheimer Unterfeld is also a well-known local recreation area for the Frankfurt population. Various hiking routes start here, including a section of the hiking trails from the Rhein-Main regional park to the Opel Zoo in Kronberg im Taunus . The Sossenheimer Obstpfad, an educational trail with 16 stations on 4.5 kilometers, leads through the Unterfeld and provides information about the history of fruit growing on site. A section of the green belt circular hiking trail leads along the southern edge of the Sossenheimer Unterfeld on the Nidda bank .
The Chlodwig-Poth facility , which was set up in 2006, is located in the western half of the Sossenheimer Unterfeld . It is dedicated to the memory of the draftsman and writer who died in 2004 and lived in Sossenheim from 1990 until his death; Two of his series of pictures are on permanent display on site. In honor of Poth, a service tree was planted in the complex. Poth's drawings in the enclosure are part of the series Komische Kunst im Frankfurt Green Belt .
On the banks of the Nidda in Unterfeld near the mouth of the Sulzbach and the renatured section of the river at the level of the former Höchst weir , the Im Mittleren Sand housing estate (official name Sossenheim III ) has been located since the 1950s . After the establishment of the Frankfurt Green Belt in 1991, whose legal status as urban open space is protected by a constitution, its demolition was discussed. In 2010, the estate was guaranteed grandfathering by the municipal authorities of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): City waters - discover rivers, streams, oxbow lakes . Frankfurt 2004 (With several chapters on the waters in and on the Unterfeld.)
Web links
- Sossenheimer Unterfeld, structure and location of the Rheinmain Regional Park
- Sossenheimer Unterfeld Frankfurt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
- ↑ a b City of Frankfurt am Main, Umweltamt (Ed.): Stadtgewässer - Discovering rivers, streams, oxbow lakes, p. 64 f .: Chapter old arms Nidda III . Frankfurt 2004
- ↑ a b Sossenheimer Unterfeld frankfurt.de, accessed on Feb. 2, 2020.
- ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Office (ed.): Stadtgewässer - Discover rivers, streams, oxbow lakes, p. 82: Chapter Dottenfeldgraben / Laufgraben . Frankfurt 2004
- ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): Stadtgewässer - Discovering rivers, streams, oxbow lakes, p. 59: Altarme Nidda - history . Frankfurt 2004
- ↑ a b c Sossenheimer Unterfeld ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. regionalpark-rheinmain.de, accessed on July 6, 2012.
- ↑ Green belt info point at the Chlodwig-Poth-Anlage
- ↑ The settlement Im Mittleren Sand on verband-wohneigentum.de (accessed on April 28, 2017)
- ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main, Department for Environment, Health and Personnel (Ed.): 20 Years of the Green Belt Frankfurt - People, Data and Projects - 1991–2001 . In it: Chapter Service: Green Belt Constitution, p. 76 f.
- ↑ Anita Strecker: Unusual Residence III: Settlement in the wild . Article of the Frankfurter Rundschau from August 22, 2008 (accessed April 28, 2017)
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 23 ″ E