Wolfsgangstrasse
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| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| District | Northrend and Westend |
| Created | 1873 |
| Connecting roads | Oeder Weg (beginning), Grüneburgweg (end) |
| Cross streets | Justinianstrasse, Nesenstrasse, Hammanstrasse, Eschersheimer Landstrasse , Hansaallee , Auf der Körnerwiese, Leerbachstrasse, Reuterweg , Parkstrasse, Oberlindau |
| Places | Bremer Platz |
| Buildings | Engelbert Humperdinck School (No. 106), Steinhausen House (No. 152) |
The Wolfsgangstraße is a street in the Frankfurt districts Northrend and Westend .
location
The street begins behind number 95 of Oeder Weg and runs west to Grüneburgweg , behind number 98 of which it ends. Wolfsgangstraße is the geographical continuation of Keplerstraße in the east and is in turn extended to the west by Feldbergstraße.
history
The street name is reminiscent of a former chapel of St. Wolfgang , to which a path from Eschersheimer Landstrasse led. This chapel is still recorded in the escort map from 1572, in the plan map of the Frankfurt area in a scale of 1: 25000 by A. Ravenstein (1853) the Wolfsgangstraße is still referred to as the "Weg aus dem Wolfgang". According to another version, the name refers to a wolf plague from 1415, which even prevented field riflemen from entering the vineyards located in front of the city gates at that time.
The road was laid out at the point of this field path that led to the intersection with field road, today's Reuterweg . This western section between Eschersheimer Landstrasse and Reuterweg in Frankfurter Westend is as old as the section in the north end immediately east of Eschersheimer Landstrasse, which was originally designed as a dead end . In this area, only the houses with the numbers 53 to 61 on the south side and the numbers 68 (formerly 72 and now replaced by a new building) and 70 (formerly 74) on the north side were built in the 1870s. House number 66 followed around 1880 and building number 64 in 1884 to complete what was then a dead end. It was not until 1911 that the street within the Holzhausenviertel was extended beyond Hammanstraße to Oeder Weg and built on until 1935.
Architectural monuments
A total of seven neoclassical tenement houses on Wolfsgangstrasse are among the architectural monuments of the north end of Frankfurt. These are numbers 21, 35, 39, 41 and 43 on the south side of the street and numbers 34 and 56 on the north side. They are all located in the eastern section between Oeder Weg and Eschersheimer Landstrasse and were built - with the exception of house number 21, which was only built in 1923 - in 1912/13.
The series of cultural monuments continues in the area of the west end. The house numbers 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 92, 94/96/98, 100, 150 and 152 are listed as historical monuments.
Famous residents
The section in Frankfurt's Westend was home to a number of well-known artists. The writer Mile Braach (1898–1998), daughter of the leather manufacturer Otto Hirschfeld, lived in house number 116 . The journalist and writer Alfons Paquet (1881-1944) lived in number 122 with his wife Marie Paquet-Steinhausen (1881-1958). The daughter of the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen (1846-1924), who also devoted himself to painting was already grown up in this street, her father in 1886 moved into a new building at the end of point 152, where he remained until his death today Steinhausen- Inhabited house . The painter Hans Thoma (1839–1924), a close friend of the Steinhausen family, resided in the neighboring house at number 150 from 1886 to 1899.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurt escort card 1572
- ↑ Plan map of the Frankfurt area on a scale of 1: 25000 by A. Ravenstein (1853)
- ^ Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art, Volume 3, Issue 8, 1905
- ^ The Wolfsgangstrasse at Frankfurt-Nordend.de
- ^ Heinz Schomann: Das Frankfurter Holzhausenviertel (Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010), p. 239ff ISBN 978-3-86568-581-0
- ↑ Monuments in the Nordend at Frankfurt-Nordend.de
- ↑ Frankfurt main cemetery: graves of important women
- ^ The Bockenheimer Landstrasse and its side streets (PDF; accessed on March 20, 2013; 79 kB)
- ↑ Visiting Mr. Steinhausen
