The area size of Bahnofvietel District is nearly half a
square kilometer. This is second smallest district after the Altstadt. One of
the famous streets “Mainzer Landstrasse” in the north and Anlagenring to the
east. The River on the south edge of Bahnhofsviertel. Innenstadt in the east of
Bahnhofviertel District and on the opposite side of Main lies
Sachsenhausen-Nord.
The area between the Frankfurt city wall and field of the
gallows had hardly been constructed by the early nineteenth century. The new
Frankfurt main station was on west of Bahnhofviertel District and 500m away.
The district Bahnofsviertel is well connected to public transport system
because of its central location. Two main tram lines (11,12) cross the
Bahnofsviertel. Air
China and Syrian Arab Airlines operate their Frankfurt offices in a facility in
Banhofsviertel. Other airlines with Frankfurt offices in Banhofsviertel include
Aeroflot, China Airlines, and Iran Air.
History
The area between the Frankfurt city walls and gallows field was still in the early 19th Century hardly cultivated. In the field there were only farms. The proximity to the urban boom and the unprotected location outside the city walls were a long time to no development. As with the industrial city walls were demolished, and the gallows, emerged first villas with large gardens. The technical progress made here especially noticeable. When in 1839 the Taunus car has been in the then city of Nassau High am Main in operation at the plant ring was the first station of the city. The track field in the Taunus station went right through the area of today's train station area. Later they were joined by the stations of the Main-Neckar Railway and the Main-Weser line. The West stations were in operation until 1888, when they were replaced by the new Central Station Frankfurt, who was about 500 meters to the west. Thus, the railway tracks were superfluous, and in 1889 was able to begin the allotment of. 1891, when hardly existed residential development, the station district was the exhibition grounds of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition, the Oskar von Miller headed. The upper-class buildings in the style of the period has now been declared a national monument. During World War II the area was not hit as strong as though the city center, but especially in the north, many buildings were destroyed. During the period of occupation by the American forces developed an active nightlife.
Population
The station area is a multicultural neighborhood. It has ownership in the population, most foreigners in Frankfurt, 65.8 percent have an immigrant background. At the same time it is also the neighborhood in which the number of children per woman is the lowest at 0.86 in Frankfurt and just a little more than half of the national average is. The population density is 4,771 people per square kilometer pretty low, but not at a low density of development is, but the high proportion of offices and business premises.
Infrastructure and Architecture
In the small area there are no large, central park, as in other parts of Frankfurt city, but in the south of the district is located on the banks of the Main Nice, one of the most popular parks in Frankfurt. 1860 was a silted tributary of the Main, the Small Main, filled in and connected the island of Mainlust with the bank. On the site put the city gardener Sebastian Rinz at a park with Mediterranean vegetation, which was popularly called soon from Frankfurt Nice. Since the 17th Century, the Frankfurt families Guaita and Loën had in the climatically favored area along the river west of the old city walls possessed large landscaped gardens.
Life
History
The area between the Frankfurt city walls and gallows field was still in the early 19th Century hardly cultivated. In the field there were only farms. The proximity to the urban boom and the unprotected location outside the city walls were a long time to no development. As with the industrial city walls were demolished, and the gallows, emerged first villas with large gardens. The technical progress made here especially noticeable. When in 1839 the Taunus car has been in the then city of Nassau High am Main in operation at the plant ring was the first station of the city. The track field in the Taunus station went right through the area of today's train station area. Later they were joined by the stations of the Main-Neckar Railway and the Main-Weser line. The West stations were in operation until 1888, when they were replaced by the new Central Station Frankfurt, who was about 500 meters to the west. Thus, the railway tracks were superfluous, and in 1889 was able to begin the allotment of. 1891, when hardly existed residential development, the station district was the exhibition grounds of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition, the Oskar von Miller headed. The upper-class buildings in the style of the period has now been declared a national monument. During World War II the area was not hit as strong as though the city center, but especially in the north, many buildings were destroyed. During the period of occupation by the American forces developed an active nightlife.
Population
The station area is a multicultural neighborhood. It has ownership in the population, most foreigners in Frankfurt, 65.8 percent have an immigrant background. At the same time it is also the neighborhood in which the number of children per woman is the lowest at 0.86 in Frankfurt and just a little more than half of the national average is. The population density is 4,771 people per square kilometer pretty low, but not at a low density of development is, but the high proportion of offices and business premises.
Infrastructure and Architecture
Its central location makes the station district is well connected to the transport network. The main railway station, the self is no longer a district but the neighboring Gallus offers a connection to the regional and long-distance traffic. The tram lines 11 and 12 pass through the district at the Munich street. The underground station Willy-Brandt-Platz (U1-U5) and the S-Bahn station Taunusanlage (lines S1-S6, S8, S9) to open up the east and northeast of the district.
In road transport, the famous Emperor Street has become less important, by the closure of the west end (Kaisersack) is no longer coming from the driveway Alleenring / main train station. Instead, the main thoroughfare is now Gutleutstraße, which opens into the theater tunnel and provides a connection to the old town. The chessboard arranged roads allow for easy orientation. The broad east-west roads are as boulevards and give city charm. Numerous historical building survived the Second World War and the demolition of the first waves of post-war decades, they are supplemented by more modest homes of the '50s and '60s, and several high-rise buildings. The best known of these are the Silver Tower at Jürgen-Ponto-Platz (named after the murdered chairman of Dresdner Bank, Jürgen Ponto) and the Gallileo on the corner of Imperial Street and Gallusanlage, both belonging to the corporate headquarters of the Dresdner Bank, and the Skyper in Taunusstraße and the union Office on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße. The latter was built in 1931, architect Max Taut, and was the first major high-rise building in the city. The best known of the many hotels in the station district, the InterContinental, also in the Wilhelm-Leuschner-Str.
Life
Contrary to popular belief, the red light commercial occupied only a small portion of the main station, it is concentrated mainly along the Taunus road and parts of their blocks. The railway station district, the Doña Carmen prostitute support group established and committed to the political and social rights of prostitutes. The notorious drug scene has been contained by the means of printing facilities and other social reception facilities, therefore, are drug addicts fixende largely disappeared from the streets.
The street scene in the station district is multicultural: In addition to numerous foreign restaurants, snacks, food and other stores, for example, there is also an Islamic cultural center with a mosque.
In the Munich street was created in 2005 with the Hammer Museum Frankfurt a first museum.
The red light district of Frankfurt am Main at night
ZDF reported in 2004 in the four-part docu-soap The station quarter and about life in the railway station area. The authors Ulli Rothaus and Bodo Witzke accompanied residents of the district for six months.
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