Zentgrafenstrasse (Frankfurt am Main)

Zentgrafenstrasse
Street in Frankfurt am Main
View through the Zentgrafenstraße to the Marienkirche
Basic data
place	Frankfurt am Main
District	Seckbach
Created	18th century, extended in 1949
Connecting roads	Im Staffel (north), Hofhausstraße (southeast)
Cross streets	Ellerstrasse, Probst-Goebels-Weg
Buildings	Marienkirche
Technical specifications
Street length	0.5 km

The Zentgraf street in Frankfurt is located in the north-eastern district of Seckbach . The street is named after a centgrave whose name has not been passed down, who was the spokesman for the Seckbachers during the Peasant Wars.

Street name

At that time Seckbach belonged to the Bornheimerberg county , from which the office of centgrave was exercised.

history

Half-timbered house on Zentgrafenstrasse

The community center of the Protestant Mariengemeinde with a kindergarten (1868) and day-care center, community office, group rooms, child and youth office is located in the street. In addition, the walled historic churchyard with cemetery borders the street. It used to form the local border of Seckbach, but not the district boundary. The cemetery and Marienkirche were built in the Baroque era and consecrated on September 7, 1710. A number of historical tombstones date from this period.

The warrior memorial for the Seckbachers who fell during the German Wars of Unification in 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 is in front of the churchyard of St. Mary's Church.

In the years 1888 and 1909 finds from Roman times were unearthed in the churchyard, which can be seen today in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt.

During the Second World War , both the large, stately-looking parish hall, which dominated the entire town and was jokingly referred to as Zionsburg by the Seckbachers , and the Marienkirche were destroyed by bombs in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . In the post-war period, the then Protestant pastor Karl Goebels (1901–1991), later provost in Frankfurt am Main, promoted the reconstruction, in which many Seckbachers actively participated with great commitment. Both buildings were rebuilt in a much simpler form.

In the northern section of today's Zentgrafenstrasse, a settlement for people who were displaced and bombed out was built in the post-war period. For this reason, the street that formerly ended next to the churchyard was extended to what was then Staffelstraße (today: Im Staffel). The section of the street next to the churchyard that used to belong to Zentgrafenstraße was later given the name An der Marienkirche.

Course of the road

Zentgrafenstraße is strong in its southern part, moderately rising in its northern part and is oriented towards the public park Auf dem Huth, which was built between 1910 and 1913 . A former stream that carried a lot of water in the spring was the Eller, which was drained in 1949 due to the construction of housing developments. Ellerstraße, a small side street that branches off from Zentgrafenstraße, is named after this stream. The whole of Zentgrafenstraße, which can be described as narrow, is built on in the southern part with larger residential buildings, which were mostly built in the 1950s and 1960s, while the northern part has an architecturally uniform architectural style. Green paths branch off here as access to the various house entrances. In the southern part of the street there is a population of old, tall trees, favored by the adjacent churchyard of the Mariengemeinde. The historical enclosure of the churchyard, which partly borders directly on the street, dates back to 1710. For children there is the Alter Seckbacher Friedhof playground on Zentgrafenstraße.

building

A number of houses in the street are listed , see also the list of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Seckbach .

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Data
	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstrasse 1	Zentgraf 1 street location hallway: 7, parcel: 44/1	Basically a baroque half-timbered house under plaster with extensions from the 19th century	18th century
	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstrasse 2	Zentgrafenstraße 2 Location hallway: 7, parcel: 28	Baroque half-timbered house with wood shingles and an extension from the 20th century	18th century
	Hofreite Zentgrafenstrasse 3	Zentgrafenstraße 3 Location hall: 7, parcel: 43, 81	Courtyard from a baroque half-timbered house with wooden shingles	17th century
more pictures	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstrasse 4	Zentgraf Straße 4 position hallway: 7, parcel: 29/1	Baroque half-timbered house behind wooden shingles	18th century
	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstrasse 5	Zentgrafenstraße 5 Location hallway: 7, parcel: 42/1	Baroque half-timbered house	18th century
	Hofreite Zentgrafenstrasse 6	Zentgrafenstraße 6 Location hall: 7, parcel: 30/1, 30/2	Baroque courtyard from half-timbered house with figures of men and barn	18th century
	Apartment building Zentgrafenstrasse 8	Zentgrafenstraße 8 Location hallway: 7, parcel: 31	Apartment building in neo-renaissance forms in front of a new building	1908
	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstraße 9	Zentgrafenstraße 9 Location hallway: 7, parcel: 40	Basically a baroque half-timbered house under plaster with additions from the 20th century	18th century
	Half-timbered house Zentgrafenstrasse 10	Zentgrafenstraße 10 Location hall: 7, parcel: 39	Baroque half-timbered house with barn extension	1723

literature

• Rochelmeyer, Folker: Seckbach und seine Umgebung , Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 - Polytechnische Gesellschaft (ed.), 1972, 84 p., Illustrated
• Rochelmeyer, Folker (Chronicle): Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach, 880-1980 , Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach e. V. (Ed.), 1980, 151 pp., Illustrated
• Festschrift 275 years of Mariengemeinde , The Church Council of the Evangelical Mariengemeinde (ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 1985
• Masala, Lino / Rödel, Volker / Risse, Heike / Schomann, Heinz: Monument topography City of Frankfurt am Main , Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt, Untere Monument Authority (ed.), 1986, 798 pages, illustrated, ISBN 3-528-06238-X
• Sauer, Walter: Seckbacher Geschichte (n), Ein Heimatbuch , Kultur- und Geschichtsverein 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V. (ed.), Ibid., 2000, 164 p., Illustrated
• 50 years of culture and history association 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V. , dto. (Ed.), Ibid., 2004, 53 p., Illustrated

Web links

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

• Website of the Protestant Mariengemeinde, Frankfurt am Main
• Culture and History Association 1954 Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtvermessungsamt Frankfurt am Main (ed.): Portal GeoInfo Frankfurt , city ​​map
2. ↑ Mariengemeinde ( Memento of the original from January 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: frankfurt-evangelisch.de 
3. ↑ History of the Mariengemeinde ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: mariengemeinde-frankfurt.de  
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Karl Goebels at: ekhn.de
5. ↑ Interior views of the Marienkirche ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: mariengemeinde-frankfurt.de  
6. ↑ Historical cemetery and exterior views of St. Mary's Church ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: mariengemeinde-frankfurt.de  
7. ↑ Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 , pp. 744-745