Student house Mertonstrasse
| Student house | |
|---|---|
 Student house, east facade |
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| Data | |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| architect | Otto Apel |
| Construction year | 1953 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '7 " N , 8 ° 39' 2.9" E |
The Studierendenhaus Mertonstraße in Frankfurt am Main is a student event center on the Bockenheim campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . The house in the Westend district was completed in 1953 and has been a listed building since 2000. It is the seat of the AStA of the university, which also administers the house.
Location and use
The house is on the northern edge of Mertonstrasse, which runs across the campus as a pedestrian zone between Senckenberganlage in the east and Gräfstrasse in the west. Immediately opposite, on the southern side of the road, is the Jügelhaus , the historic main building of the university.
The student house has three wings and three to four storeys around an inner courtyard. The ground floor is used by the Café KoZ, for offices and, since 1971, the university's day-care center, which includes a children's playground in the inner courtyard. The upper floors house a two-story ballroom for events such as the university cinema and an ecumenical chapel , which often hosts concerts. In addition, there are several offices and apartments for students in the building.
history
After the destruction from the Second World War , none of the former seven Frankfurt student houses were available any more. Therefore, among others, Federal President Theodor Heuss suggested building new student houses. At the same time, the aim was not only to create living space, but also spaces for cultural and social exchange. The architect Otto Apel was commissioned with the planning and design . The building was financed by the city of Frankfurt and the state of Hesse with the help of a donation from the American University Commission, and in 1953 the building was inaugurated by the then university rector Max Horkheimer . On the occasion of the opening, in addition to Horkheim's Federal President Heuss, the Hessian Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn , the Mayor of Frankfurt Walter Kolb and other personalities from current affairs spoke . Around 1995 the building was renovated.
Today the student house houses a day-care center and a dormitory, the back entrance of the house leads to the apartments for students. The AStA runs the Café KoZ and rents the other rooms to various groups and initiatives.
Monument protection
The building was classified as a historical monument by the State Office for Monument Preservation in Hesse due to the Monument Protection Act. The reason is:
“Historically, the student house stands for the early Frankfurt reconstruction, when the student body should be provided for not only socially, but also culturally - and thus also church-wise. In terms of usage history, the chapel is one of the rare surviving testimonies of an early ecumenical worship space in flexible use. Apel incorporated the chapel organically into the student house in order to distinguish it artistically as a special component. "
Recent developments
In the course of the relocation of the facilities from the Bockenheim campus to the Westend campus , the AStA of the Goethe University will also move its headquarters there in the coming years. The Open House of Cultures initiative emerged from a citizen participation process and aims to open a self-administered socio-cultural center in the student house .
The building was bought in 2011 by the housing company ABG Frankfurt Holding . Before 2013, the demolition of the building was also discussed.
Web links
- The student house on the website of the AStAs Uni FFM
- Studierendenhaus Mertonstraße at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
Individual evidence
- ↑ Open House of Cultures: Concept brochure Open House of Cultures. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Website of the Uni-Kita Frankfurt - day-care center at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität e. V. (accessed on May 14, 2019)
- ^ AStA University of Frankfurt: Student House. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Description of the Frankfurt student residence Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Addresses for the opening of the student house on February 21, 1953 ; Digital copy of the Festschrift on asta-frankfurt.de . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt 1953 (PDF file, 740 kB, accessed on May 14, 2019)
- ↑ On the building history and conception: K. von Freytag-Loringhoven: Education in the Kollegienhaus, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 419–442.
- ^ AStA University of Frankfurt: Student House. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ^ Association of the Open House of Cultures: The Association. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Perspectives for Bockenheim. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .