The Gutleutviertel is district of Frankfurt with size of
2.257 km2 and population is 5,738. The postal codes of this district
are 60327, and 60329. The area codes is 069. The name of this town “Gutleuthof”
in on the name of refuge for lepers.
Population
The Gutleutviertel counted on 31 Residents December 2010 5810th. The former working-class neighborhood was a high, now declining (2010: 32.5 percent) share of foreigners of a social focal points of the city. With the development of residential and commercial area at the former Frankfurt western port area (project "Living and working on the River"), the district is in flux. There are new shops and have a number of new dining establishments located. New landmark and architectural highlight is the in 2004 completed 109 meters high Westhafentower - popularly known for its reminiscent of a traditional cider glass facade called "The Rib" - which stands very close to the Peace Bridge on Westhafenplatz over the roofs of the neighborhood. It takes its name from the medieval Gutleutviertel Gutleuthof, an area outside the city walls hospital for lepers, which is mentioned in 1286 for the first time.
History
The Gutleutviertel was until the end of the 19th Century no structured neighborhood, but agricultural land on the outskirts of the city. There was according to a contemporary report (1532) before Galgentor about a good quarter of an hour "hard on the Mayn down the stream" of Gutleuthof that marked the history of this area.
Population
The Gutleutviertel counted on 31 Residents December 2010 5810th. The former working-class neighborhood was a high, now declining (2010: 32.5 percent) share of foreigners of a social focal points of the city. With the development of residential and commercial area at the former Frankfurt western port area (project "Living and working on the River"), the district is in flux. There are new shops and have a number of new dining establishments located. New landmark and architectural highlight is the in 2004 completed 109 meters high Westhafentower - popularly known for its reminiscent of a traditional cider glass facade called "The Rib" - which stands very close to the Peace Bridge on Westhafenplatz over the roofs of the neighborhood. It takes its name from the medieval Gutleutviertel Gutleuthof, an area outside the city walls hospital for lepers, which is mentioned in 1286 for the first time.
History
The Gutleutviertel was until the end of the 19th Century no structured neighborhood, but agricultural land on the outskirts of the city. There was according to a contemporary report (1532) before Galgentor about a good quarter of an hour "hard on the Mayn down the stream" of Gutleuthof that marked the history of this area.
The emergence of Gutleutviertels
The basically free area of the train station area and the Gutleutviertels used the town planner end of the 19th Century to the establishment of a number of infrastructure facilities. 1849 near the eastern border of the district is the Peace Bridge (then called Main-Neckar Railway Bridge, later Wilhelm Bridge) opens. 1877 in this area was built Gutleutkaserne. She was to the end of the empire of the 1st property Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 81 After use by the armed forces to barracks in 1945 was commissioned by the U.S. Army in fitting, which remained until 1977. In 1985, we renovated the brick facade of the building complex. 1994 after a five-year reconstruction period from former military construction, an administrative center. Today there are inter alia housed several tax offices, the Office of Highway and Transportation Frankfurt the Hessian Road and Traffic Authority and the Frankfurt labor court and the Hessian Regional Labour Court. On the northern boundary of the area in 1888 on the former "boom box" to the station opens, the old West stations at Taunusanlage be demolished. On their previous track systems produced today's railway station area. 1894 created the "Centrale", the first public power station at Frankfurt Gutleutstraße (at the site of today's thermal power station west). End of the 19th Century begins the influx of population, the area was never a fashionable residential area. 1984 6100 people lived in the Gutleutviertel, 20 percent of children and 73 percent foreigners. It was then begun to redevelop the area with the help of committed federal funds.
Gutleutviertel today
Living and working on the river
On 24 June 1993 the City Council decided to expand the Gutleutviertels on the former Westhafenglände the Main river. Features at the eastern end of the new residential and commercial district is the Westhafentower. At the western end of the area is completed by the Western Harbour Pier: five fingers splayed building with shingled metal facade on a two-story parking garage. There was a whole series of apartment houses, some with boat dock, plus a marina with moorings and sailing school, a new supermarket and a number of restaurants. Another nursery - in Gutleutviertel Already two urban and two church exists - is to be built.
Parks
To the west of the district near the new Main-Neckar bridge is located on the banks of the Main something Sommerhoff park hidden with its old trees. The park is named after the family Sommerhoff that sold by the Frankfurt banker John Noe Gogel in 1803 landscaped mansion in 1928 to the city of Frankfurt.
Memorial stone family Jürges
At the northeast entrance to the authorities in the center Gutleutkaserne overlooking the Stuttgarter Platz and the south exit of the central station, and the family-Jürges Square. An inconspicuous simple memorial stone commemorates Martin Jürges, the Protestant city youth pastor and director of Gutleutgemeinde, and to his family. Rev. Martin Jürges sat for disadvantaged people in his district and was a committed freedom fighter. Jürges Martin came with his family on 22 May 1983 at the airshow disaster in Frankfurt died. A Starfighter the Canadian Air Force crashed on the highway 44 and debris hit the family car. The aircraft had taken part in an air show at the Rhein-Main Air Base.
Industry and trade
The east of the district is dominated increasingly by administrative, office, and service industries.
- In the newly established authorities in the former center Gutleutkaserne found today primarily the five Frankfurter tax. The building of the tax which is decorated with colored hats, which can be seen as the train Santander at the entrance and exit to Frankfurt.
- The administrative center is also home to the Hessian State Labour Court and the Labour Court in Frankfurt am Main.
- The Western Harbour Tower offers 30 storeys over 23,000 square meters of office rental space, where the authors have agents, lawyers and financial service providers established.
- Since December 1996, the German Post AG operates Gutleutstraße a letter distribution, the third largest of 83 letter mail centers in Germany. There, about 1,300 people are employed.
The western part of the city - from the power plant to the A5 motorway - is still used predominantly industrial.
- The river port Gutleuthof was commissioned in 1968 and has a connection to the port rail. The loading facilities and the terminal building to the river port to be used due to its good transport links by road, rail, airport and river in strong degree. Vice hitting primarily is mass-like bulk and general cargo. It is adjacent to the east side, the only one still in operation continuously Frankfurt port facility.
- On the grounds of the river port Gutleuthof is a concrete factory of concrete Sehring GmbH & Co KG.
- The west power plant with its 1989 finished blocks 2 and 3 is still the basis of the Frankfurt power.
- The CHP has a private dock and is still supplied via the Main by ship with coal. Remarkably, the technical body of the dock with a crane that conveyed by an Archimedean screw in his trunk, the finely ground coal from the ships. On a conveyor belt, the coal passes through the office building of the western piers in the power plant.
Future development
Long in the discussion it was to build on the south side of the main station on the so-called Khasanagelände with the campanile of the tallest buildings in Europe. Partly because of the lack of consent of a neighbor in the 80s remained under the construction of the planned building with 300 m. German Railways also plans to build there the 210-meter track called Tower, which should be used primarily for offices of the railway employees were dashed. The train took place in this planned construction in the vacant Silver Tower of the former Dresdner Bank.
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