Wendelsweg

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Wendelsweg
coat of arms
Street in Frankfurt am Main
Wendelsweg
Beckmann's view of Wendelsweg and Villa Henninger with balcony.
Basic data
place Frankfurt am Main
District Sachsenhausen
Buildings Villa Henninger (No. 64), Villa Schubert (No. 70)
Technical specifications
Street length 3,120 m

The Wendelsweg is a street in Frankfurt , located in the district of Sachsenhausen is.

course

The road begins in the northwest on Hühnerweg, directly above the B3 and in the immediate vicinity of the local train station. It runs in a south-easterly direction and ends just before the A661 in the Frankfurt city forest . Only in its northern part is Wendelsweg an urban street with buildings, while in the southern part it leads through the Frankfurt city forest as a broad forest path.

In the northern part of the street are the Villa Henninger (birthplace of Bruno H. Schubert at number 64) and the Villa Schubert (home of Bruno H. Schubert at number 70). At the transition from the built-up to the undeveloped part of the street, you will find the Seehofpark and the Hessen Police Rider Unit (number 128).

Until the play park Goetheturm on the edge of Frankfurt's city forest extends a small garden . Then the Wendelsweg leads as a forest path through the city forest and in its southernmost section past the nearby Maunzenweiher .

history

Entrance to the Schubert Garden and the Villa Schubert located in it, Wendelsweg 70
Wendelsweg in the Frankfurt city forest

The name of the street goes back to the chapel of St. Wendelinus , built in 1369 , which was located on Wendelsplatz. In 1394, right next to the chapel with the "Born behind St. Wendelin", the first Frankfurt fountain , the so-called Bettelbrunnen, was created, the source of which was on Wendelsweg.

Villa Henninger

In 1869 a brewery settled east of the lower section of the Wendelsweg , which was named Henninger Bräu in 1874 when it was taken over by Heinrich Henninger . Soon afterwards, the construction of Villa Henninger began, which was completed in 1875 and is located at number 64 on Wendelsweg.

Bruno Schubert later acquired the brewery and moved into Villa Henninger, where his wife gave birth to all eight sons that had emerged from the marriage. In 1928, at her request , Max Beckmann, a friend of Mrs. Schubert, painted an oil painting entitled Der Wendelsweg in Frankfurt am Main , in which - not true to detail - the Villa Henninger and part of the Wendelsweg are depicted.

Villa Schubert

Ownership of the brewery and Villa Henninger later passed to the eldest son, Bruno H. Schubert. In the mid-1950s, he had a villa built in the 1.7 hectare park, which is now known as the “Schubert Garden”, which can hardly be seen from the street. It was completed in 1956 and is known today as Villa Schubert. The entrance to Villa Schubert is under number 70, the Schubert garden extends over the entire property area (numbers 64 to 70).

Even after the brewery, including the property, was sold to Reemtsma in 1980, Schubert kept the two villas. While he continued his center of life in the Villa Schubert (in which he had a lifelong right of residence), he, who had already been appointed Consul General of Chile in 1952, established the Honorary Consulate General of Chile in the Villa Henninger . Both objects have been declared cultural monuments. Nevertheless, permission has now been given to demolish the listed Villa Schubert. This led to corresponding resentment in the neighborhood and a citizens' initiative was formed to try to prevent the destruction of the historically significant villa (the receptions of the Frankfurt honorary citizen Schubert are "to be regarded as an extraordinary tradition in Frankfurt"). After all, Schubert's former - and now sold - oak dining table is considered "the most famous Frankfurt table". Here he accommodated guests like Niki Lauda . The entire site has belonged to Actris since 1999 , which is managed by Daniel Hopp, the son of SAP co- founder Dietmar Hopp . The company plans to build 800 apartments on the approximately nine hectare site, the square meter prices of which are expected to be between 3,400 and 6,000 euros.

Trivia

  • The Wendelsweg connected the Frankfurt Mainfurt directly with Dieburg , the capital of the Civitas Auderiensium .
  • Wendelsweg was one of the original locations in the 2012 film “ End of the Line” .
  • In November 2015, a car accident took place on the section of Wendelsweg in Frankfurt's city forest, in which three girls aged 14 and 15 were involved. First of all, the two surviving girls told the police that an unknown man, around 30 years old, had driven the car and had fled after the accident. But it quickly became apparent that the teenagers had driven the stolen car themselves.

Web links

Commons : Wendelsweg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Wendelsweg in Frankfurt am Main. ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at Strassenverzeichnis.Deutschlandblick.com
  2. ↑ Melanie Gärtner: Those who go through fire. In: Offenbach-Post . April 19, 2010.
  3. ↑ Wendelsweg. In: Frankfurt Zoom. accessed on December 30, 2015.
  4. ^ Frankfurter Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Frankfurt am Main and its buildings. 1st edition. DOGMA in Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95507-344-2 , p. 508.
  5. ↑ KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain (Hrsg.): Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (Frankfurt, 2015) at krfrm.de
  6. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Difficult legacy. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 6, 2009.
  7. ↑ Mechthild Harting: Wrestling for the development of the Henninger area. In: FAZ . December 9, 2009.
  8. ↑ Marc Widmann: Bizarre until after death. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 15, 2011.
  9. ^ A b Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Urban development: Schubert-Villa is demolished. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 2nd September 2015.
  10. ↑ Urban Planning Office: Explanation for the development plan No. 847 - Around the Henninger Tower - ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) June 7, 2011.
  11. ↑ Sabine Börchers: A life under the hammer. In: FAZ. May 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ 800 new apartments around the Henninger Tower. In: Journal Frankfurt . 15th October 2014.
  13. ↑ Thomas J. Schmidt: Death drive in the city forest: 15-year-old dies in a car accident. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse . November 13, 2015.

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 50.8 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 55.5 ″  E