Shared apartment on Bonameser Strasse
The Bonameser Strasse residential community (also: Bonameser Weg or Bonameser Platz) is a caravan warehouse that was built in 1953 in the Frankfurt district of Eschersheim on the border with the Frankfurter Berg district (then Bonames ).
There, based on a resolution by the Frankfurt city council, the caravan warehouse was built on the Bonameser Hang, today's "Bonameser Strasse residential community". The provisional area for the caravans in the city was built against the resistance of the residents and the people who were to live there in the future. The "travelers" such as showmen , circus members or artists would have liked to stay on the areas in the city that have been used for generations. Since the founding of the empire after 1870, however, “travelers” have been marginalized and discriminated against. This policy of exclusion increased under National Socialism to a policy of extermination, which for many travelers was associated with transport to a concentration camp.
The makeshift caravans and residential buildings, mostly built in-house, have now been largely replaced by the construction of houses. At first there was a lack of water and electricity connections. In 1977, a children's social station set up there by the city of Frankfurt burned down. In the colloquial language of the surrounding districts, Bonameser Platz is often referred to as the gypsy camp. An ethnic assignment of the residents to Sinti and Roma cannot be scientifically proven.
literature
- Sonja Keil: Social reality and history of the Bonameser Strasse caravan stand in Frankfurt am Main. Processes of unconventional habit formation in a special living environment. Frankfurt 2018.
Web links
- Video portrait of neighbors # 25: Bonameser Strasse shared apartment
- Frankfurt-Eschersheim: horror at the attitude of the city , FR, January 28, 2020
- The last free people , FR7, October 19, 2017
- Prejudices still prevail , Frankfurter Neue Presse, June 12, 2014
- In a landscape of mud and dirt , Frankfurter Rundschau, October 17, 2008
- Caravan stand Bonameser Straße. The diversity of its residents and the processing of a development history , Kulturexpress, June 11, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ N , 8 ° 40 ′ E