Frankfurt-Zeilsheim

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Zeilsheim coat of arms
Coat of arms of Frankfurt am Main
Zeilsheim
39th district of Frankfurt am Main
Altstadt Bahnhofsviertel Bergen-Enkheim Berkersheim Bockenheim Bockenheim Bonames Bornheim Dornbusch Eckenheim Eschersheim Fechenheim Flughafen Frankfurter Berg Gallus Ginnheim Griesheim Gutleutviertel Harheim Hausen Heddernheim Höchst Innenstadt Kalbach-Riedberg Nied Nieder-Erlenbach Nieder-Eschbach Niederrad Niederursel Nordend-Ost Nordend-West Oberrad Ostend Praunheim Praunheim Preungesheim Riederwald Rödelheim Sachsenhausen-Nord Sachsenhausen-Süd Schwanheim Schwanheim Seckbach Sindlingen Sossenheim Unterliederbach Westend-Nord Westend-Süd Zeilsheimmap
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Coordinates 50 ° 5 '49 "  N , 8 ° 29' 33"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '49 "  N , 8 ° 29' 33"  E
surface 5.467 km²
Residents 12,623 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 2309 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 65931
prefix 069
Website www.frankfurt.de
structure
District 6 - West
Townships
  • 60 4 - Zeilsheim-Ost
    (district Sindlingen )
  • 61 1 - Zeilsheim-Süd
  • 61 2 - Zeilsheim-Nord
Transport links
Highway A66
Train S2
bus 53 54 57 n8
Source: Statistics currently 03/2020. Residents with main residence in Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .

Zeilsheim has been a district of Frankfurt am Main since April 1, 1928 .

The population is 000000000012623.000000000012,623.

geography

Zeilsheim borders in the west on the municipality of Kriftel ( Main-Taunus-Kreis ) and the city of Hofheim am Taunus (Main-Taunus-Kreis), in the north on the municipality Liederbach am Taunus (district Oberliederbach , Main-Taunus-Kreis), in the northeast to the Frankfurt-Unterliederbach district , to the Frankfurt-Höchst district in the east and to the Frankfurt-Sindlingen district in the southeast . In the north and west, the district is bounded by the federal motorway 66 Wiesbaden-Frankfurt.

Transport links

Motorized private transport

The main thoroughfare in the district is state road 3018 , which leads to Wiesbaden-Medenbach . It bears the names Pfaffenwiese and Hofheimer Straße within the district and is the main axis of local public transport . Because the Pfaffenwiese is designated as a one-way street in the beginning , the traffic is directed out of town via the streets Neu-Zeilsheim, Pfortengartenweg and Alt-Zeilsheim towards Hofheim.

City bus transport

Zeilsheim is relatively well connected by three Frankfurt bus routes (53, 54, 57).

Local rail passenger transport (SPNV)

The Zeilsheim station of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn has existed on the Main-Lahn-Bahn approx. 500 m outside of Zeilsheim since May 13, 2007 . The south platform is already in the Sindlingen district. The S-Bahn line 2 (Niedernhausen - Eppstein - Hofheim - Frankfurt (Main) Höchst - Frankfurt Hbf - Frankfurt Konstablerwache - Offenbach (Main) - Dietzenbach) runs every day at approx. 30-minute intervals.

Settlements

Zeilsheim has a historic town center with a largely village-like character on the specifically named Alt-Zeilsheim street . In addition, there have been several settlements from different epochs since the beginning of the 20th century.

colony

View of the colony

The Zeilsheimer Kolonie was the first settlement that noticeably increased the housing supply within the former village. It was commissioned in front of the then Farbwerke Höchst from 1899 and was intended to enable employees to live cheaply in the immediate vicinity of the factory premises. The Heimchen in Unterliederbach is a similar settlement . There were different types of houses with different equipment. The most common was a semi-detached house with a small garden, stable and toilet. These houses are built in Art Nouveau style and stand out due to their continuous brick facade. Today they are under monument protection . The main street of the settlement is called Neu-Zeilsheim . Almost all cross streets are arranged alphabetically from south to north. The church, consecrated in 1912, forms the center . The Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule was built on the western edge in 1902 .

Stone slide

On the Welschgraben, the western border of the city of Frankfurt, a settlement was built in the 1930s with financial support from IG Farben , the style of which was clearly directed against the Bauhaus trend . Today there are mostly single-family houses there.

Taunusblick and fairytale settlement

The Taunusblick and Märchensiedlung settlements were built in the north and south-east of the district . The name of the northern settlement makes it clear that, due to the lack of buildings in the neighboring communities, the Taunus mountains can be seen in good weather . For 40 years, however, you can also see the neon advertising of the not far away Main-Taunus-Zentrum . A disadvantage of the good traffic situation is the directly adjacent federal motorway 66.

The fairytale settlement is located south of the Pfaffenwiese . The facades of the houses show pictures from fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm . A bus stop on the corner of Annabergstrasse and Katzenstirn is called "Märchensiedlung". During the Nazi dictatorship and in the years after the war, the so-called "wooden barracks camp" was located here (see below on the DP camp).

Friedenau

The Friedenau settlement was built around 1950 and consists of four streets that were named after Bergen im Taunus : Kellerskopfweg, Rabenkopfweg (namesake of the bus stop of the same name), Risselsteinweg and Hesselbergweg.

While the Rabenkopfweg, the Risselsteinweg and the Hesselbergweg typically consist of two-family semi-detached houses (which were gradually sold as single-family semi-detached houses), the Kellerskopfweg stands out due to the special construction of the smaller single-family semi-detached houses and its street-internal association. What is also special about this settlement is the high-rise building, which was built around 1969 and does not fit into the settlement image of one and two-family houses. The Friedenau is the easternmost settlement of Zeilsheim and delimits the district with arable land on the north and east side from the neighboring villages of Liederbach, Unterliederbach and Höchst. In addition, all four streets are directly connected to the Pfaffenwiese, connected by small pedestrian paths and dead ends.

history

The burial ground of a Roman villa with at least 34 graves was excavated in 2004/2005 in the "Langgewann" corridor. Like the city of Frankfurt am Main, the district was first mentioned in a document in 794 as an independent village of Ciolfesheim .

The Peace of Zeilsheim , concluded on October 5th, 1463 under a tree in the open field near Zeilsheim, ended the Mainz collegiate feud from 1461 to 1463. The peace cross at the exit from Zeilsheim to Münster is a reminder of this.

In 1917 Zeilsheim was incorporated into the town of Höchst . In 1928, Höchst and its districts were incorporated into the city of Frankfurt.

A small local museum with changing exhibitions on the history of the district is open to the public. The museum operated by the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein is located at the beginning of the Pfaffenwiese in the former syringe house.

The Jewish DP camp

Zeilsheim became famous for its DP camp for displaced persons , which was visited in 1946 by the later Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and the former American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt as the representative of the United Nations . In October 1946 there were about 3,570 Jews in the camp, almost all of them survivors from German concentration camps in Poland . The camp had a few schools, a Jewish theater company, a synagogue , a jazz orchestra, a sports club and a library with around 500 books. There were two Yiddish newspapers: Unterwegs and Undzer Mut (Our Courage).

On November 15, 1948 - the State of Israel had meanwhile been established - the US Army dissolved the camp. The houses requisitioned for the camp were returned, mainly to IG Farben workers in nearby Höchst .

The DP camp was located north of the Pfaffenwiese, in the so-called "stone barracks camp". During the Nazi dictatorship, foreign workers and forced laborers were housed here, as well as in the "wooden barracks camp" south of the Pfaffenwiese. After the end of the war, the US Army housed German prisoners of war in this part. Today the fairytale settlement is located here.

Since 1988 a small memorial in the Bechtwaldpark behind the town hall has been a reminder of the former reception or foreign labor camp. There were also two memorials for Jewish terror victims in the DP camp. Details are not known about their location or whereabouts.

administration

Zeilsheim is divided into three districts: North, South and West .

The district belongs to the Frankfurt-West district of local advisory board 6. In federal elections Zeilsheim is part of the constituency Frankfurt I .

Churches

There is the Evangelical Church Zeilsheim , the Catholic Church St. Bartholomäus , the Free Evangelical Congregation Zeilsheim and a congregation of the New Apostolic Church .

Clubs (selection)

Almost 50 clubs are organized in the Vereinsring Zeilsheim eV. Below are

  • the ASC-Zeilsheim eV,
  • the German Red Cross - local association Zeilsheim,
  • the DJK-SG 1929 Zeilsheim eV,
  • the volunteer fire brigade Zeilsheim 1913 eV,
  • the Kulturforum Zeilsheim eV,
  • the shooting club 1960 Zeilsheim eV
  • the sports club 1919 Zeilsheim e. V.,
  • the gymnastics community Zeilsheim 1885 e. V.,
  • the Zeilsheimer Gewerbeverein e. V.,
  • the Zeilsheimer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV,
  • the 1st Zeilsheim Carnival Club 1956 eV
  • the cycling club 1903 Zeilsheim eV and
  • the VfL Zeilsheim 1950 eV
  • Allotment gardeners association Taunusblick eV
  • the fanfare parade Frankfurter Herolde 1995 eV

The association ring organizes regular events, such as the Zeilsheim afternoon, the frog fountain festival and the Christmas market.

Personalities, sons and daughters of Zeilsheim

literature

  • Adalbert Vollert : Zeilsheim: a Frankfurt district in old and new times . Published by Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822, Frankfurt 1983.
  • Peter Fasold , Andrea Hampel , Markus Scholz , Marianne Tabaczek : The Roman burial place of Frankfurt am Main-Zeilsheim - tombs and graves of the provincial upper class , publishing house "Schnell und Steiner", writings of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3- 7954-2974-4
  • Percy Herrmann: "Your deeds are ascribed to our decent German Jews". Reactions to Eastern European Jews in the Frankfurt-Zeilsheim DP camp . In: information. Scientific journal of the German Resistance Study Group 1933–1945 , Issue 89, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt-Zeilsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman burial ground in Frankfurt Zeilsheim
  2. ↑ The red sandstone wayside cross, built in 1759, originally stood on the old Römerstrasse, which was known as Steinstrasse, Hohe Strasse or Elisabethenstrasse . In 1958 it was moved about 50 meters to the south due to the expansion of the Rhein-Main-Schnellweg to the federal motorway 66. ( http://www.kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de/de/page92.html )
  3. ^ Fritz Bauer Institute: "A New Life - The Robinson Album" , information on the traveling exhibition of the same name on everyday life in the DP camp Zeilsheim (1995 to 2016), including further references; Accessed November 25, 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.kreisblatt.de/lokales/main-taunus-kreis/Erinnerungen-an-das-Lager;art676,663700 ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Online edition of October 23, 2013, accessed on November 25, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreisblatt.de
  5. ^ Art in public space Frankfurt: Memorial Lager-Zeilsheim , accessed November 25, 2017
  6. ^ TU Darmstadt: "Jewish survivors in Frankfurt-Zeilsheim" , level 2/2, panels 42/115 and 43/115 of this "virtual exhibition"; Accessed November 25, 2017