Gutleutviertel

The Gutleutviertel is a district of Frankfurt am Main.

• 4.1 Living and working on the river
• 4.2 parks
• 4.3 memorial stone family Jürges
• 4.4 Industrial and Commercial
• 4.5 Future Development

Location

The Gutleutviertel lies on the north bank of the River Main. In the east it extends over the bridge of peace addition to Wiesenhüttenstraße where the station quarter begins. To the west it borders immediately before the Europe bridge on which the A 5 is guided over the Main, at the district Griesheim. In the north it is bordered by Gallus and leading from the main station to the west tracks.

Population

The Gutleutviertel counted on 31 December 2010 5810 inhabitants. The former working-class neighborhood was a high, now declining (2010: 32.5 percent) proportion of foreigners of a social focal points of the city. With the development of residential and commercial area at the former Frankfurt West harbor area (project " Living and working on the river "), the district is changing. There are new shops and it is a whole new dining establishments have settled.

New landmark and architectural highlight is the was finished in 2004 109 meters high Westhafentower - popularly known for its reminiscent of a traditional cider glass facade ", the Rib " - which stands very close to the Peace Bridge on Westhafenplatz over the rooftops of the neighborhood.

It has its name from the medieval Gutleutviertel Gutleuthof, an establishment located outside the city walls hospital for lepers, which was first mentioned in 1286.

History

The Gutleuthof

The Gutleutviertel was until the end of the 19th century no structured neighborhoods, but agricultural area on the outskirts of the city. There ( 1532) was for a contemporary report to the Galgentor about a good quarter of an hour " hard power down to the Mayn " the Gutleuthof, has marked the history of this area.

The emergence of Gutleutviertels

The basically free area of ​​the station area and the Gutleutviertels took the city planners end of the 19th century to the establishment of a number of infrastructure objects.

1849, the Peace Bridge is (then Main-Neckar Railway Bridge, later Wilhelm bridge ) near the eastern border of the district opened.

1877 Gutleutkaserne was built in this area. She was until the end of the Empire accommodation of 1 Kurhessische Infantry Regiment No. 81 After the use by the Wehrmacht barracks were taken by the U.S. Army in fog in 1945, which remained until 1977. In 1985 we renovated the brick facade of the building complex. In 1994, a center authorities after five years of reconstruction from the former military construction. Today there are, inter alia, several tax offices, the Office of Highway and Transportation Frankfurt Hesse road and traffic management as well as the Frankfurt labor court and the Hessian Regional Labour Court accommodated.

Under Mayor Miquel will be inaugurated on the Main river in Gutleutviertel 1886, the West Harbour. On this site was also the old " Grind fountain", which was mentioned in the 13th century. The fountain had been recast yet in 1839, but was then at the inauguration of the Western Harbour in Nice, the main promenade of the station district, laid.

At the northern border of the area of the main station is in 1888 on the former " boom box " opens; the old West stations on the Taunus plant to be demolished. On their previous track systems today Bahnhofviertal arises.

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 residents, the area was never considered posh residential area. 1984 lived 6100 people in Gutleutviertel, 20 percent of children and 73 percent foreigners. It was at that time started to renovate the district 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 on the river Main.

In 2008, the cultivation of the river Main, with around 212,000 square meters of gross floor area ( 121,000 square meters spread over 91,000 square meters of commercial use and residential use ) is largely completed.

Mark at the eastern end of the new residential and commercial area is the Westhafentower. At the western end of the area is by the west harbor pier completed: five fingers splayed building with a shingled sheet metal facade on a two-story parking garage.

There was a whole series of apartment buildings, some with boat dock, plus a marina with moorings and sailing school, a new supermarket and a number of restaurants. Another Daycare - in Gutleutviertel are already two urban and two church exists - is currently under construction.

Parks

To the west of the district near the new Main-Neckar bridge is located on the banks of the Main tucked the summer Hoff park with its old trees. The park is named after the family summer Hoff, who sold the created by the Frankfurt banker Johann Noe Gogel in 1803 manor house in 1928 to the city of Frankfurt.

Memorial stone family Jürges

At the northeast entrance of the authorities Centre in Gutleutkaserne overlooking the Stuttgarter Platz and the southern exit of the central station, the family - Jürges Square. An inconspicuous simple memorial stone commemorates Martin Jürges, the former Protestant city youth pastor and pastor of Gutleutgemeinde, and to his family. Rev. Martin Jürges sat down for disadvantaged people in his district, and was a dedicated fighter for peace.

Martin Jürges came together with his family on May 22, 1983 at Flugtag misfortune of Frankfurt killed. A Starfighter of the Canadian Air Force crashed on State Road 44 and debris hit the family car. The aircraft had taken part in an air show at the Rhein- Main Air Base.

Industrial and commercial

The east of the district is increasingly characterized by administrative, office, and service companies.

• In the newly established authorities center in the former Gutleutkaserne be found today primarily the five Frankfurter tax. The building of the tax is decorated with colored hats, which can be seen as a train Santander at the entrance and exit to Frankfurt.
• The authorities Center also houses the Hessian Regional Labour Court and the Labour Court Frankfurt am Main.
• The Western Harbour Tower offers 30 floors above 23,000 square feet of rental office space; there brokers, attorneys and financial service providers have settled.
• Since December 1996, the German Post AG operates in the Gutleutstraße a mail distribution center, the third largest of 83 mail centers in Germany. There, about 1,300 people are employed.

The western part of the city - from the heating plant to the highway A5 - is used still mainly industrial.

• The river port Gutleuthof was commissioned in 1968 and has a connection to the port rail. The loading facilities and the port building to the river port to be used in high dimensions due to its good transport links to road, rail, airport and river. Is hitting the other primarily mass exemplary bulk and general cargo. It is adjacent to the eastern harbor, the only remaining continuously in operation Frankfurt port facility.
• On the grounds of the river port Gutleuthof there is a concrete work of Sehring Beton GmbH & Co KG.

• The west power plant with its 1989 finished blocks 2 and 3 still forms the basis of the Frankfurter power supply.
• The CHP plant has its own jetty and is still supplied via the Main by ship with coal. Noteworthy is the technical body of the dock with a crane that conveyed by means of an Archimedean screw in his trunk, the finely ground coal from the ships. About a conveyor belt, the coal passes through the office building of the western harbor pier at the power plant.

Future Development

Long in the discussion is to build on the south side of the main station on the so-called Khasanagelände with the Campanile is one of the tallest buildings in Europe was. Among other things, because of the absence of consent under a neighbor was in the 80s the construction of the planned 300 m building.

Also plans of the German railway, there to build the 210 -meter track called Tower, which should be used primarily for offices of the railway employees, were dashed. The train took place in these planned new building in the vacant silver tower of the former Dresdner Bank.