Kranichstein
49.8983333333338.6769444444444143Koordinaten: 49 ° 53 ' 54 " N, 8 ° 40' 37" E
Location of crane stone within Darmstadt
Crane Stone is a district of the city of Darmstadt.
The resultant from the 1960s through the large-scale construction of housing estates part crane stone was initially due to its geographic scope to the core city as so-called bedroom community. Today this urban character by an increasing convergence with the districts composers district and Arheilgen is not as pronounced as was the case in the early stages of new crane stone. The appearance was initially determined primarily by residential high-rises. Meanwhile crane stone is however influenced by many different styles of architecture, beside skyscrapers especially bungalow settlements, single-family homes as well as residential and new construction areas with model- building complexes and row houses in low-energy and passive houses.
Geographical location
Crane stone lies in the east of Darmstadt. It is bordered to the north by Darmstadt- Wixhausen, in the south -east of Darmstadt -east, south-west of Darmstadt- north and to the west of Darmstadt- Arheilgen.
History
The primeval history is certainly to be considered by the close geographical location to Arheilgen as the same thing.
Middle Ages
On May 6, 1399 first mention of Einsiedel- Rod at Messel way, later after its owner hen Cranich to Dirmstein crane or crane - Rod Rotth derived from a clearing, called appears.
Modern Times
In 1968, the Darmstadt relatively large urban development project " New Crane Stone " was started, the designs are by Ernst May's draft saw an expansion of the city for 18,000 residents in the form of a forest satellite ago. It is named after the nearby hunting lodge, the former summer residence of the Landgrave of Darmstadt and grand dukes. To the overall planning from the beginning belonged to the system of the civil parks with artificial hills and several ponds that have been created in the former clay pits, and the Brentano lake.
Initially up to the 1980s was the new, artificially created district due to its skyscrapers and rather one-sided social stratification as a social focal point and thus a failure. Numerous urban changes and new development areas for different types of settlement crane stone but is today a well-mixed and multicultural district with broad social structure, which has a linguistic and cultural diversity, which can boast more than any other part of Darmstadt come from more than 80 nations around 20 % of the population of foreign origin.
The precarious economic situation, particularly foreign residents creates a breeding ground for social problems, but these are addressed in a variety of initiatives. Due to the inclusion in the program " Social City" numerous projects developed to improve the living conditions in their development and implementation of the inhabitants were drawn. Thus crane stone has gradually developed into a lively urban district. He has a district library, four kindergartens, a forest kindergarten, two nurseries and a crèche. Erich Kästner school acts since 1996 as an integrated comprehensive school.
Traffic
Crane stone is connected by tram lines 4 and 5 of the public transport (LPT ) to the downtown Darmstadt. Additionally, there is a bus connection with the lines H and U in the direction of downtown. From the bus stop station crane stone drive commuter trains on Dieburg to Aschaffenburg and across the North train station to Darmstadt main station and from there to Wiesbaden and Mainz Hauptbahnhof (regional train line 75).
Attractions
- Hunting lodge Kranichstein
- Railway Museum Darmstadt- Kranichstein
Train
- Free Comenius School
- Erich - Kästner-Schule