The Westend area of Frankfurt contains the two
districts one is Westen-Nord and second is Westen-Süd. The best residence area
in this district is Wilhelmina style buildings. Many old villas of this area
are now served as for law firms and companies of the financial community. The
first zoo of Frankfurt was laid out on the Bockenheimer Landstraße which was later
moved to Osten, this Zoo was built in 1858. In the 1950s the west area was
still clean residential area for around 40,000 people. These houses has four
floors as a general rule. In the 1970s another row of multi storey buildings
were built in westend such as the AFE-Turm on the university ground and
City-Hochhasus at Platz der Republik. Logest border line of this district is on
Bockenheim and end on west. The skyscrapers are here is higher than anywhere
else in Germany. As a predominantly residential area the Westend mainly has
narrow roads, which are one of good source for transport. Here is also a good
and nice driving school. The different streets of this district are famous for
driving schools. At one end sad story of this district is that there are no hospitals,
fire stations and police stations. All these services are closely located on
North end but Westend has one of the best universities and educational system,
a lot of schools and primary schools are here.
The one of the places of interest is “Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University”. The university has still date of starting this university.
“Messeturm” is the second tallest building in the “European Union”. It is
located on the western end of westend-Süd.
Festhalle is a civic center, which a freely supported dome construction
of glass and steel between stone corner-towers. It belongs to the first
building which were constructed on the fairground. Regular exhibitions and
concerts take place here.
The Westend form two parts of the city of Frankfurt am Main. According to their geographical location they are called Westend-South and North-West. The border between the districts is mainly the Grüneburgweg, in general, the Westend as a unit. The West End is considered bourgeois and upscale neighborhood with residents and expensive real estate. Along with the station district, the Northrend and Ostend are both parts of the founders in time developed and densely populated districts of downtown Frankfurt. Together with Bockenheim is the Westend district of the town center II.
History
Western district
Like the other founders also the Westend district time since the building was the Frankfurter Landwehr within its protective attachment and was part of the Frankfurt district. Largely consisting of farmland and Gentiles, are scattered farms were located on the territory of today's West End. The farms whose names still bear some roads were the Hellerhof, the Hynsperghof and Kettenhof.
Classicism and Historicism
With the beginning of the 19th Century the old Frankfurt fortifications were razed. Soon spread along the Bockenheimer highway, the main road to the neighboring town Bockenheim, numerous classical suburban villas with large gardens. Among them were the Gontardsche garden house and the Villa Leonhardi the architect Alexandre Nicolas Salins de Montfort, and the Rothschild palace of Frederick Hull. Around the middle of the 19th Century, the area was divided by the city and created streets and squares. The closely built Frankfurter Neustadt bursting at the seams and so more and more people moved to the western outer city. Model for road construction was in Paris, so great boulevards and plazas were created with radially outgoing roads. 1858 from the Bockenheimer Landstrasse Frankfurt Zoo was first created, which was published shortly after the Ostend. The West has established itself to the residential area for the wealthy, as well as in other cities with a Westend. It made numerous villas and spacious houses, many of which still exist today. End of the 19th Century almost the entire southern part of the West was built on. The northern end was the newly created palm garden Grüneburgweg with the resulting Grüneburgpark and the cooperation established by Heinrich Hoffmann asylum on Affenstein, called astray lock. Around the building spatially narrow, let Mayor Franz Adickes early 20th Century to build the avenue ring, which also combined all the new parts of the city. The northern part was through the spacious Grüneburgpark less densely built. 1930 built Poelzig the administrative building of IG Colors. Until the Second World War changed this situation a little. In the Third Reich were districts abolished and became part of the West End section Frankfurt-Nord. The police station 9 in Linden Street 27 was the headquarters of the Frankfurt Gestapo. When the air raids of World War II was the Westend of carpet bombing spared. After the war, almost all of the North-West (from Wolfsgangstraße) was declared a closed military zone. In the IG Farben Building advised the American military government its main headquarters. Surrounding area have been converted into settlements for GIs. In 1948, the barbed wire was then removed to the restricted area again.
Skyscrapers and street battles
Even in the fifties, the West was a residential area for about 40,000 people. The houses were usually only four stories.
The first skyscraper
In 1938 the city of Frankfurt had come to a time-limited very reasonable price (linearization) in the possession of a 5.8-hectare site between Bockenheimer Landstrasse, Unterlindau, Staufenstraße and Reuterweg that had never heard of the old-established Jewish Rothschild family. Although in 1950 the purchase price has been rectified, put the Rothschild heirs by the return of one-third of the area. After receiving further permission for a high-rise construction, they sold the site returned to the Swiss Zurich Insurance and the Berlin trade company over there directly from the old opera house built office towers. Built in 1960 and now again torn Zurich Tower was the first skyscraper in Frankfurt's Westend. The country park from the late 19th Century, which was situated in the retained area, walked around the city in a public park, the Rothschild Park.
The housing destruction
After the abolition of rationing of housing developed in 1960 by Socialist Planning Department Hans Kampffmeyer a plan for decentralization of downtown. The adjacent neighborhoods, especially the West, should be the expansion area. The so-called five-finger plan of 1967 stipulated that along the axis leading through the Westend - Mainzer Landstrasse, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, Reuterweg, Grüneburgweg and Eschersheimer Landstrasse - was to be a more intensive development. Numerous Wilhelminian were demolished in the coming years as a result of real estate speculation. Their long-established residents have been displaced. 1970 already stood empty several hundred houses in the West End, they were often in quite bad condition. The development soon encountered resistance in the population. The bourgeoisie responded by founding one of the first citizens' initiatives, the Community Action West (AGW). The AGW created a register listed buildings worthy of protection and obtained in 1970 a change in the lock for the West End. The city was now replaced by a development plan initiated to reverse the trend. 1972 enacted the State of Hesse, a regulation living room misuse. Simultaneously developed the Frankfurt urban warfare, which was driven mainly by students of the University of Frankfurt, located in the West End. Numerous houses were occupied, again and again gave protesters fought street battles with the police. The young Joschka Fischer was involved. The highlight of the house battle was between 1970 and 1974. In 1972, the Red Army Faction terrorist organization perpetrated an attack on the American headquarters in the IG Farben building in which a soldier was killed. In the 70s, a number of other high-rise buildings were built in the West such as the AFE tower on campus. The Multi-storey building at the Republic, then the tallest skyscraper in Germany burned, 1973, to the cheers of some students, but was completed later. Although the 1976 development plan adopted did not provide further high-rise buildings in the West, were in the southern West always exceptions approved, especially along the Mainzer Landstrasse and the avenue ring. Today the southern West is largely grown together with the financial district. The gentrification in the West today is finished as far as possible. On the edge of the West End at the Exhibition Centre was the tallest skyscraper in Europe at times, the 257-meter high tower fair.
Location and boundaries
The West End is located on the northwestern border of the city's downtown and north of the railway station district and Gallus. The longest border it shares with Bockenheim in the West. North of the Westend district includes the bush, east from the Northrend. The northern boundary of the West is the same as the course of the former Frankfurt militia, which for centuries protected the territory of the Free City of Frankfurt. Usually designate Frankfurt the developed area as West bounded by Reuterweg Bockenheimer plant at Opera Square, Taunusanlage, Mainzer Landstrasse to Republic Square, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, Senckenberganlage, Zeppelinallee, Miquelallee Hansaallee and Bremer Road to Reuterweg. The official Frankfurt districts are slightly different with these perceived limitations. Then heard the entire western part of the premises, including exhibition and festival hall tower and limited by the S-Bahn, also to the West. It is the same with a marginal area in the west, which is usually associated Bockenheim, but include the Marriott Hotel, the Senckenberg Museum, and most of the campus Bockenheim the Goethe University officially still on Westend. In the East, the West extends to the Eschersheimer Landstrasse, but this area is from the Reuterweg often mistakenly added to the Northrend. To the north, the west end beyond Miquelallee so the Carl Schurz settlement also still belongs to the district. The border between West and South-West-North runs from Miquelallee by Siesmayerstraße (between Palm Garden and the Botanical Garden) and then follows the Grüneburgweg to Eschersheimer Landstrasse.
Cityscape
The Westend is still characterized by some upper-middle-century architecture, which makes it one of the most expensive residential areas in Frankfurt. Obvious but also the '50s residential and office buildings of the 70s, in particular, the latter were built without regard to the surrounding structures. The south of the West, together with the western city and the eastern railway station district, the so-called Frankfurt's banking district. Here the concentration of office buildings is as high as anywhere else in Frankfurt. In the West, especially the street Bockenheimer conditioning / Taunusanlage / Mainzer Landstrasse is farmed with skyscrapers. From east to west here are the Park Tower (115 meters) and the Opera Tower (170 meters) at the Opera Square, the twin towers of Deutsche Bank (each 155 meters), the Trianon (186 meters), the Frankfurt office center (142 feet), the West Tower (208 meters) and the City Tower (142 meters) at the Republic Square. The fair tower (257 meters) on the fairgrounds, from 1991-1997, the tallest building in Europe, has become a landmark of the city. More skyscrapers in Weston-are the Marriott Hotel. (159 meters) and the AOD-tower (116 meters) at the Goethe University.
Infrastructure
Traffic
When overriding the West has largely residential area of narrow streets that are also restricted traffic. With few exceptions, all roads are one-way streets that change their direction at intersections. Therefore, the West is also popular with driving schools. The exceptions are streets of borough-border significance. First, these are the boundary lines Eschersheimer Landstrasse, plant and Alleenring ring that take up a large part of professional and trade traffic. More important traffic roads are Bockenheimer road as the main road in diameter east-west direction, the street Reuterweg / Bremerstraße / Hansaallee as arterial road to the north and the Grüneburgweg than other east-west connection. The Grüneburgweg is also the frontier West-North / West-South. The West End was one of the first parts of the city with access to the tram network. The main route at that time led the Bockenheimer Landstrasse. Since the construction of the C-line metro Frankfurt Westend has just about the fair line 16 on Alleenring departs the western district boundary. Also on the subway from the West End was hooked from the start. The tunnel extends O lines operate here under the Eschersheimer Landstrasse. Another underground route from the West End since 1986 below the Bockenheimer Landstrasse. The C lines run here from Opera Square to Bockenheimer waiting with the stations Old Opera House, West End and Bockenheimer waiting. A third subway line was added 2,001th The D-ring tunnel runs underneath the avenue and there served the eastern fairgrounds. On Bockenheimer wait resulted in a transfer station. About the stations Taunusanlage the east and the west, the West End Fair is also linked to the network of S-Bahn Rhein-Main.
Public Facilities
Despite the high population density and good transport infrastructure on the West End has no hospitals, fire stations and police stations. All emergency facilities are available but in the adjoining Northrend. Contrast in the West than average educational institutions are available. Besides the University of the West End has the Frankfurt Conservatory and the Sigmund Freud Institute. In the West there are numerous schools, including several primary schools (Elsa Brändström School, Engelbert Humperdinck-school and school wooden house), the IE Lichtigfeld School of the Jewish community, a private school (Anna Schmidt College) and several high schools:
The Westend form two parts of the city of Frankfurt am Main. According to their geographical location they are called Westend-South and North-West. The border between the districts is mainly the Grüneburgweg, in general, the Westend as a unit. The West End is considered bourgeois and upscale neighborhood with residents and expensive real estate. Along with the station district, the Northrend and Ostend are both parts of the founders in time developed and densely populated districts of downtown Frankfurt. Together with Bockenheim is the Westend district of the town center II.
History
Western district
Like the other founders also the Westend district time since the building was the Frankfurter Landwehr within its protective attachment and was part of the Frankfurt district. Largely consisting of farmland and Gentiles, are scattered farms were located on the territory of today's West End. The farms whose names still bear some roads were the Hellerhof, the Hynsperghof and Kettenhof.
Classicism and Historicism
With the beginning of the 19th Century the old Frankfurt fortifications were razed. Soon spread along the Bockenheimer highway, the main road to the neighboring town Bockenheim, numerous classical suburban villas with large gardens. Among them were the Gontardsche garden house and the Villa Leonhardi the architect Alexandre Nicolas Salins de Montfort, and the Rothschild palace of Frederick Hull. Around the middle of the 19th Century, the area was divided by the city and created streets and squares. The closely built Frankfurter Neustadt bursting at the seams and so more and more people moved to the western outer city. Model for road construction was in Paris, so great boulevards and plazas were created with radially outgoing roads. 1858 from the Bockenheimer Landstrasse Frankfurt Zoo was first created, which was published shortly after the Ostend. The West has established itself to the residential area for the wealthy, as well as in other cities with a Westend. It made numerous villas and spacious houses, many of which still exist today. End of the 19th Century almost the entire southern part of the West was built on. The northern end was the newly created palm garden Grüneburgweg with the resulting Grüneburgpark and the cooperation established by Heinrich Hoffmann asylum on Affenstein, called astray lock. Around the building spatially narrow, let Mayor Franz Adickes early 20th Century to build the avenue ring, which also combined all the new parts of the city. The northern part was through the spacious Grüneburgpark less densely built. 1930 built Poelzig the administrative building of IG Colors. Until the Second World War changed this situation a little. In the Third Reich were districts abolished and became part of the West End section Frankfurt-Nord. The police station 9 in Linden Street 27 was the headquarters of the Frankfurt Gestapo. When the air raids of World War II was the Westend of carpet bombing spared. After the war, almost all of the North-West (from Wolfsgangstraße) was declared a closed military zone. In the IG Farben Building advised the American military government its main headquarters. Surrounding area have been converted into settlements for GIs. In 1948, the barbed wire was then removed to the restricted area again.
Skyscrapers and street battles
Even in the fifties, the West was a residential area for about 40,000 people. The houses were usually only four stories.
The first skyscraper
In 1938 the city of Frankfurt had come to a time-limited very reasonable price (linearization) in the possession of a 5.8-hectare site between Bockenheimer Landstrasse, Unterlindau, Staufenstraße and Reuterweg that had never heard of the old-established Jewish Rothschild family. Although in 1950 the purchase price has been rectified, put the Rothschild heirs by the return of one-third of the area. After receiving further permission for a high-rise construction, they sold the site returned to the Swiss Zurich Insurance and the Berlin trade company over there directly from the old opera house built office towers. Built in 1960 and now again torn Zurich Tower was the first skyscraper in Frankfurt's Westend. The country park from the late 19th Century, which was situated in the retained area, walked around the city in a public park, the Rothschild Park.
The housing destruction
After the abolition of rationing of housing developed in 1960 by Socialist Planning Department Hans Kampffmeyer a plan for decentralization of downtown. The adjacent neighborhoods, especially the West, should be the expansion area. The so-called five-finger plan of 1967 stipulated that along the axis leading through the Westend - Mainzer Landstrasse, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, Reuterweg, Grüneburgweg and Eschersheimer Landstrasse - was to be a more intensive development. Numerous Wilhelminian were demolished in the coming years as a result of real estate speculation. Their long-established residents have been displaced. 1970 already stood empty several hundred houses in the West End, they were often in quite bad condition. The development soon encountered resistance in the population. The bourgeoisie responded by founding one of the first citizens' initiatives, the Community Action West (AGW). The AGW created a register listed buildings worthy of protection and obtained in 1970 a change in the lock for the West End. The city was now replaced by a development plan initiated to reverse the trend. 1972 enacted the State of Hesse, a regulation living room misuse. Simultaneously developed the Frankfurt urban warfare, which was driven mainly by students of the University of Frankfurt, located in the West End. Numerous houses were occupied, again and again gave protesters fought street battles with the police. The young Joschka Fischer was involved. The highlight of the house battle was between 1970 and 1974. In 1972, the Red Army Faction terrorist organization perpetrated an attack on the American headquarters in the IG Farben building in which a soldier was killed. In the 70s, a number of other high-rise buildings were built in the West such as the AFE tower on campus. The Multi-storey building at the Republic, then the tallest skyscraper in Germany burned, 1973, to the cheers of some students, but was completed later. Although the 1976 development plan adopted did not provide further high-rise buildings in the West, were in the southern West always exceptions approved, especially along the Mainzer Landstrasse and the avenue ring. Today the southern West is largely grown together with the financial district. The gentrification in the West today is finished as far as possible. On the edge of the West End at the Exhibition Centre was the tallest skyscraper in Europe at times, the 257-meter high tower fair.
Location and boundaries
The West End is located on the northwestern border of the city's downtown and north of the railway station district and Gallus. The longest border it shares with Bockenheim in the West. North of the Westend district includes the bush, east from the Northrend. The northern boundary of the West is the same as the course of the former Frankfurt militia, which for centuries protected the territory of the Free City of Frankfurt. Usually designate Frankfurt the developed area as West bounded by Reuterweg Bockenheimer plant at Opera Square, Taunusanlage, Mainzer Landstrasse to Republic Square, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, Senckenberganlage, Zeppelinallee, Miquelallee Hansaallee and Bremer Road to Reuterweg. The official Frankfurt districts are slightly different with these perceived limitations. Then heard the entire western part of the premises, including exhibition and festival hall tower and limited by the S-Bahn, also to the West. It is the same with a marginal area in the west, which is usually associated Bockenheim, but include the Marriott Hotel, the Senckenberg Museum, and most of the campus Bockenheim the Goethe University officially still on Westend. In the East, the West extends to the Eschersheimer Landstrasse, but this area is from the Reuterweg often mistakenly added to the Northrend. To the north, the west end beyond Miquelallee so the Carl Schurz settlement also still belongs to the district. The border between West and South-West-North runs from Miquelallee by Siesmayerstraße (between Palm Garden and the Botanical Garden) and then follows the Grüneburgweg to Eschersheimer Landstrasse.
Cityscape
The Westend is still characterized by some upper-middle-century architecture, which makes it one of the most expensive residential areas in Frankfurt. Obvious but also the '50s residential and office buildings of the 70s, in particular, the latter were built without regard to the surrounding structures. The south of the West, together with the western city and the eastern railway station district, the so-called Frankfurt's banking district. Here the concentration of office buildings is as high as anywhere else in Frankfurt. In the West, especially the street Bockenheimer conditioning / Taunusanlage / Mainzer Landstrasse is farmed with skyscrapers. From east to west here are the Park Tower (115 meters) and the Opera Tower (170 meters) at the Opera Square, the twin towers of Deutsche Bank (each 155 meters), the Trianon (186 meters), the Frankfurt office center (142 feet), the West Tower (208 meters) and the City Tower (142 meters) at the Republic Square. The fair tower (257 meters) on the fairgrounds, from 1991-1997, the tallest building in Europe, has become a landmark of the city. More skyscrapers in Weston-are the Marriott Hotel. (159 meters) and the AOD-tower (116 meters) at the Goethe University.
Infrastructure
Traffic
When overriding the West has largely residential area of narrow streets that are also restricted traffic. With few exceptions, all roads are one-way streets that change their direction at intersections. Therefore, the West is also popular with driving schools. The exceptions are streets of borough-border significance. First, these are the boundary lines Eschersheimer Landstrasse, plant and Alleenring ring that take up a large part of professional and trade traffic. More important traffic roads are Bockenheimer road as the main road in diameter east-west direction, the street Reuterweg / Bremerstraße / Hansaallee as arterial road to the north and the Grüneburgweg than other east-west connection. The Grüneburgweg is also the frontier West-North / West-South. The West End was one of the first parts of the city with access to the tram network. The main route at that time led the Bockenheimer Landstrasse. Since the construction of the C-line metro Frankfurt Westend has just about the fair line 16 on Alleenring departs the western district boundary. Also on the subway from the West End was hooked from the start. The tunnel extends O lines operate here under the Eschersheimer Landstrasse. Another underground route from the West End since 1986 below the Bockenheimer Landstrasse. The C lines run here from Opera Square to Bockenheimer waiting with the stations Old Opera House, West End and Bockenheimer waiting. A third subway line was added 2,001th The D-ring tunnel runs underneath the avenue and there served the eastern fairgrounds. On Bockenheimer wait resulted in a transfer station. About the stations Taunusanlage the east and the west, the West End Fair is also linked to the network of S-Bahn Rhein-Main.
Public Facilities
Despite the high population density and good transport infrastructure on the West End has no hospitals, fire stations and police stations. All emergency facilities are available but in the adjoining Northrend. Contrast in the West than average educational institutions are available. Besides the University of the West End has the Frankfurt Conservatory and the Sigmund Freud Institute. In the West there are numerous schools, including several primary schools (Elsa Brändström School, Engelbert Humperdinck-school and school wooden house), the IE Lichtigfeld School of the Jewish community, a private school (Anna Schmidt College) and several high schools:
- Bettina The school is a Neusprachliches Gymnasium. It was founded in 1898 under the name of Victoria School as Higher School for Girls and renamed in 1947 in Bettinaschule. (By Bettina von Arnim).
- The Goethe-Gymnasium was spun off in 1897 as a grammar school founded in 1520 from the urban high school. The first headmaster was the educational reformer Karl Reinhardt. The school grounds at the former railway line (today Friedrich Ebert-Anlage) is located in southern West.
- The classical language Lessing-Gymnasium was also the 1897th It continues the humanistic tradition of the old Frankfurt School. His school is located since 1902 at the Hansaallee in Westend.
Attractions
Age campus with the Senckenberg Museum
Along the Senckenberganlage of the Georg-Voigt-Straße to Bockenheimer waiting is the "campus Bockenheim" of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The main building dates from the early days of the university and was built simultaneously with today's Senckenberg Museum.
Even the structure of the Senckenberg Museum is impressive. It was for the "Senckenberg society" in the period from 1904 to 1907, built according to plans by Ludwig Neher, as well as the Jügelhaus University. Both buildings being built in the tradition of baroque castle building. Worth seeing is the representative of the whole front, which offers connection to the wings of the "physical association" and the "Senckenberg Library" in the form of open arcades.
U.S. house
The building was inaugurated in 1958 on the corner Reuterweg / Staufenstraße should be "House of Friendship of Nations" the Frankfurters bring closer to American culture through books, movies and music. The staff moved on 29 September 2005 in its new home at the new U.S. consulate building in the district corner home. Following extensive renovations, has since 22 September 2008, the Instituto Cervantes opened its Frankfurt office. The inauguration took place in the presence of Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia. The Instituto Cervantes has the objective to promote the Spanish language and to make the cultural heritage of all Spanish-speaking countries known and maintain.
Messeturm, Festhalle and Hammering Man
The Frankfurt Fair Tower, formerly of Frankfurt, Europe's tallest skyscraper, is located on the western edge of Weston-right on the Frankfurt fairgrounds. It also includes other attractions. The festival hall with its self-supporting dome structure made of steel and glass towers between stone was among the first buildings at the fairgrounds. Here regularly hosts exhibitions and concerts. In the forecourt of the two buildings, the Hammering Man is a moving statue of the American Jonathan Borofsky.
New campus with IG Farben Building and Grüneburgpark
Built in 1928, the former headquarters of IG Colors located on Grüneburgpark in Westend-Nord and forms since 2001, the "University Campus Westend" the Frankfurt University. The IG Farben building was formerly the headquarters of the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe. The surrounding system Grüneburgpark lies in the curve of Miquelallee and is one of the largest parks in Frankfurt.
Stable
One of the few surviving original buildings is the old "Livingstonsche stable" in the Elm Street. It is the only building of a magnificent villa complex of Marx Lowenstein.
Westend synagogue
The only one of four major Frankfurt synagogues that survived the Holocaust is that from 1908 to 1910, built Westend Synagogue in Altkönigstraße. She has an exceptional Assyrian architecture with elements of Art Nouveau.
Suhrkamp house
The functional buildings of the Suhrkamp publishing house, formerly the company's headquarters was located in Linden Street. He was torn 2011th.
