Starkenburgring (Offenbach am Main)
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| The road from the south | |
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| place | Offenbach am Main |
| District | Offenbach city center |
| Created | 19th century |
| Buildings | Offenbach Clinic |
The Starkenburgring is an avenue in the south of Offenbach's city center. The street is named after the old Hessian province of Starkenburg , to which Offenbach am Main belonged. As part of the Offenbacher Anlagenring , the facility is a listed building .
course
The avenue begins at the Sprendlinger Landstrasse intersection not far from the Buchrainweg . After the intersection with Senefelderstraße, the name changes to Friedrichsring without this being visible in the structure. The street is widest in this area and, in addition to a park-like green verge, also has a traffic-calmed lane. It is part of the Offenbacher Anlagenring.
history
The Starkenburgring was first laid out as a simple street in the 19th century. In 1894 the decision was made to relocate the hospital from Hospitalstrasse here.
In 1902, following the initiative of Leonhard Eißnert , the city decided to enclose the city with an avenue on the southern development boundary. The Isenburgring emerged as the first avenue in Offenbach's Westend, followed by the Starkenburgring in 1907, which was continued the following year into the Friedrichsring (with pond, fields and meadows). It was considered chic to live on the Starkenburgring; its attractiveness was enhanced by the opulent planting of the park-like central strip. Contemporary reports rave about intoxicating flower beds . Members of the Society for Building a Walk Around Town donated money to enable the administration to purchase land for the project. To this day, the large number of postcards with motifs from the avenue is striking, on some of which you can see small palm trees on pedestals. The construction of the street with large apartment buildings began as early as 1900. In contrast to the planting, an anniversary oak was also planted in 1911, which is now a natural monument.
Until the 1960s, the road served as an important east-west axis for through traffic. The street was accessed by a trolleybus , a role that two bus routes have now taken on. In 2004, police station 3 moved from the old building at No. 12 to an industrial area in Lauterborn , and in the same year the hospital's multi-storey car park was relocated to Sprendlinger Landstrasse. In 1971 the Café Starkenburg opened , which is now operated as a café and pizzeria.
The clinic moved to the new building in June 2010.
In the novel Seipel's Secret by Ludo A. Kaiser, the fictional person Inspector Heinz Döbert lived with the old lady Josefine Vetter to sublet: Inspector Döbert sank into the pillow with the rose pattern, pulled the blanket over his head, closed his eyes and wished to be someone else. An inconspicuous existence. Somewhere in this world. Maybe in Hanau. At least far from the beautiful Starkenburgring with the large trees.
Development
The northern development begins at the intersection with Sprendlinger Landstrasse, with an apartment building that was built around 1970 and highlighted as a corner house above the adjacent buildings. This replaced two three-storey classicist town houses from the 19th century.
The subsequent higher development was badly damaged in the Second World War , but like most buildings on the street, it was largely rebuilt in its original state. Some buildings have details that can be assigned to the early Art Nouveau . Exceptions are the prefabricated building No. 71 with a supermarket and the building with the Sparkasse branch.
The Sana Klinikum Offenbach has the address Starkenburgring 66, but extends over a large part of the south side of the street, including the old building (today: Dr. Rebentisch Zentrum), the high central building and the new building completed in 2010.
The State Welfare Association of Hesse operates the facility Habitat - Stationary living for people with mental disabilities in house number 41 .
House No. 17 was designed by the architect Friedrich Bossert in 1911 . It is probably the largest, originally preserved property of Offenbach's Starkenburgring from the time before the First World War and a typical example of the type of craftsman's house that can often be found in Offenbach. The front tenement house was the pension scheme for the self-employed master craftsman and his family, while the backyard housed the farm buildings that were necessary for the practice of the respective craft. The appearance and furnishings of the front apartment buildings were especially important because they wanted to attract wealthy tenants.
House No. 12A was once planned as a district health office and designed by the architect Karl Wagner. The stylistic mix of traditional construction and Art Déco elements is unusual. The building later served as a police station.
The German Freethinkers Association is located in house number 4.
Part of the green area is interrupted and built over. It concerns the building of the medical emergency service, as well as the municipal daycare center on Starkenburgring (No. 50).
people
Numerous doctors had their homes or their practices along the avenue, probably due to the proximity to the hospital.
In addition, the following personalities lived in the street:
- During his time in Offenbach, the German-Swiss ethnologist Meinhard Schuster lived in house number 6
- During his time in Offenbach, the writer and former member of the Bundestag, Gerhard Zwerenz, lived in house number 10
- The hydraulic engineer and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit Hans Hoebel lived in house number 33, where the editorial office of his magazine Die Wasserwirtschaft was also located
- During his time at the Institute for Applied Geodesy in Frankfurt, the astronomer Hans-Ullrich Sandig lived in house number 37
Landmarks
- Buildings and characteristics of the street from west to east
The water house at the intersection with Sprendlinger Landstrasse
Dr Erich Rebentisch Center of the Clinic
New building of the clinic
Memorial stone on the Jahn oak
The intersection with Arndtstrasse around 1910
The intersection with Arndtstraße 2010
Geometric Art Nouveau ornament on house number 14
Tiles in a hallway, also house number 14
Art Nouveau window stairwell Starkenburgring 17
Art Nouveau tiles stairwell Starkenburgring 17
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Anlagenring In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ↑ 1850: From the hospital to the palace of justice. From: offenbach.de , May 9, 2008, accessed April 30, 2016.
- ↑ Lothar R. Braun: 1900: The dream of a beach promenade (sic!). From: Offenbach-Post . In: offenbach.de. May 9, 2008, accessed April 29, 2016 (original title: The dream of a city promenade ).
- ↑ Lothar Braun: Offenbach in old postcards . Flechsig, Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-88189-009-2 , p. 70 .
- ^ Protected areas in Offenbach. Formerly in: offenbach.de. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Relocation to the new clinic: One birth and few mishaps. In: echo-online.de. June 13, 2010, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; accessed on February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Ludo A. Kaiser: Seipels Secret. Reading sample. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007 ; accessed on February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Volume 7 - S. 141, 1961.
- ^ Gerhard Zwerenz: Kurt Tucholsky, p. 311, 1979.
- ↑ Communications from the Astronomical Society, issue 61, 1949.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 44.3 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 27.4" E