Taunusstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Bahnhofsviertel |
| Created | from the middle of the 19th century |
| Connecting roads | Great Gallusstrasse (east) |
| Cross streets | Taunustor , at the main train station |
| Buildings | Skyper , silver tower |
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| Street length | 530 m |
The Taunusstraße is a downtown street in Frankfurt . It runs from the Taunusanlage across the station district to the main station .
history
The street owes its name, just like the Taunusanlage and Taunustor, to the road connection in the direction of Frankfurt's Taunus mountain range , which left the medieval city here. Very close also Frankfurt's first railway station, the terminus of the of to have been held since 1839 peak and Wiesbaden coming Taunusbahn , the Taunus station . It was roughly where Kaiserstraße joins the Anlagenring today . In 1888 the new, considerably larger central train station , located 600 meters further to the west, was opened and the Taunus train station was shut down together with the other Frankfurt western train stations . Today's Bahnhofsviertel with Kaiserstraße as a splendid boulevard and the representative streets Kronprinzenstraße (today Münchener Straße ) and Taunusstraße accompanying it were created on the vacated site .
Location and importance
Your southern parallel street is the nationwide famous Kaiserstraße . While this is a synonym for the Frankfurt red light district , although it is outside the actual tolerance zone for prostitution , Taunusstraße is the actual main street of the Frankfurt red light district . Here and in the cross streets of Weser, Elbe and Moselstrasse are numerous brothels and other establishments in the industry.
The easternmost section of Taunusstrasse, between Weserstrasse and Taunusanlage, on the other hand, is shaped by the former corporate headquarters of Dresdner Bank . The 166 m high silver tower , from 1978 to 1990 the tallest building in Germany, stands on the south side of the street at the corner of Taunus and Weserstraße. Directly opposite, on the property of the former group headquarters of Philipp Holzmann AG , stands the 154 m high skyscraper Skyper , completed in 2004, and at its feet the villa built in 1915, the former seat of the Holzmann board of directors.
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- ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city map
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 33 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 1 ″ E