Apr 10, 2012

Dornbusch


The Dornbusch is also district of Frankfurt. The size of this District is 2.325 Km2. The population of this district is 18,413 and the density of this District is 7,920 /Km2.  Postal codes are 60320, 60341, 60433 and area code is 069. Between bush and Eschersheim, which had in 1938 been extended to the hill road, there was until after the Second World War are still large areas east of Eschersheimer Landstrasse, which were occupied by large nurseries, also Germany had arguably the greatest lilac breeding. The district was created in 1946 from Dornbusch parts of Ginnheim and corner home and grew after the withdrawal of the Taunus foothills nurseries together with Frankfurt-Eschersheim. The existing part before the First World War building dates back to the early days, when not only the neighboring districts Westend and Northrend expanded greatly and was built mainly along the arterial roads and outside the ring avenue. The poet district west of Eschersheimer Landstrasse and the Bertram area south of Marbach path even then belonged to the new preferred residential areas in Frankfurt.

Attractions


Dornbusch church
Interesting that is artfully designed huge stained-glass window with almost 20 square meters on the northern outer wall was built in 1960 and 2004, completely rebuilt evangelical Dornbusch church. The Frankfurt architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt suggested affected by a fall in visitor community to a larger church partially cancel and only leave the sanctuary as church. The space for standing bell tower is used today (2011) for community events such as the Christmas market. The bell tower is, at least for the Christian inhabitants of the district, and also as a landmark. At the annual World Architectural Festival in Barcelona in 2008, the draft of Meixner Schlüter Wendt in the category Religion and Contemplation Award.

Additional points of interest

  • In the south of the district are the approximately four acre meadow Bertram, now a sports complex and the Bertramshof. It was built in 1888 as a dairy farm by Baroness Louise von Rothschild. Until after the Second World War from here much of the built-up areas of the district today were cultivated. The Bertramshof is built of red brick hard-burnt ensemble of stables, barns, farm and water tower. It is a listed building and was restored a few years ago. Today the Bertramshof radio studios of the Hessian Radio, the hr Advertising GmbH, the pension fund broadcasting and the production company Degeto.
  • Their name for the Bertramshof that Bertram meadow and the adjacent road by Henry Bertram of Bertram, a Frankfurt patrician who in 1660 acquired the medieval Kühhornshof, one armed with moat and defensive tower medieval manor, an important part of the Frankfurt Landwehr. He also wore the name Knoblauchshof some time, according to the Frankfurt patrician Jakob Knoblauch, who had bought this farm 1323rd The first water supply in the form of coupled Frankfurt gallery fountain was installed on the nearby field garlic. The farm was abandoned in 1868, only the tower remained. He stands on the site of the Hessian Radio, however, already belongs to the district of Northrend.
  • West of Eschersheimer Landstraße on the historic site is the former Grünhof-Henry and Emma Budge home. The two-storey building in the Bauhaus style was built from 1928 to 1930 by the architect Mart Stam, Ferdinand Kramer, Werner Moser and Erika Habermann on behalf of the American founders. After the war, the home was on a to 1995, the U.S. military occupied area. In its rooms a dental clinic was located. Since 2001 is here again a nursing home ("Grünhof in the Park").
  • When Anne Frank was born in 1929, her family lived in the house 307th Marbachweg From 1931 until 1934 the family emigrated Frank lived then in the Ganghoferstraße 24 in Dichterviertel.
  • In the villa at the corner Inckusstraße / Wanebachstraße was from August 1945 to mid-1946 the European headquarters of the American soldiers station American Forces Network.
  • At Kaiser Sigmund Road 2004, the house was built in the choirs, a rehearsal room for the four Frankfurter oratorio choirs.

Infrastructure

The district is divided by the apparent Eschersheimer Landstraße into an eastern and a western part. Other major roads are Marbachweg the south corner Landstrasse and Jean Monnet road to the east and the hill road in the north. Dornbusch is also the Metro Frankfurt coined the wrong here exclusively above ground. The Linienast A (U1, U2, U3 and U8) has its own line in the middle of Eschersheimer Landstrasse. Many residents of the largely impassable tracks are considered disruptive fragmentation. On the eastern edge of the district, the U5 wrong tram-like on the corner Landstrasse.
Used as a recreational facility with several playgrounds will be designed on the site of a former nursery Sinai Park. In the southeast part of the park is the nature reserve of so-called Sinai wilderness, a wild overgrown approximately one acre site, which is crossed by narrow paths. By Klimsch park on the opposite side of the Eschersheimer Landstraße forms the Sinai Park a green belt that runs through until after Ginnheim and lacks only a transition for pedestrians and cyclists on the Eschersheimer Landstrasse.


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