Ostend (Frankfurt am Main)
Ostend is a district of Frankfurt am Main. It arose from the so-called outer eastern city that developed in the 19th century.
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Location
The district is located in the local district downtown IV and begins in the west - at the Flößerbrücke and Obermainanlage - at the district border to downtown. To the northwest lies - behind the gravel road - the district Northrend East. In the north, bounded by the Bornheimer Landwehr and Ratsweg, is Bornheim and next - above the track system of the East Railway Station - the Riederwald. In the east closes on from the diesel road Fechenheim. In the south, separated by the Main, is located - clockwise - the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main, Oberrad and Sachsenhausen -Nord.
Population
Compared to other inner-city neighborhoods like the Westend or Northrend Ostend applies due to the proximity of the Eastern Harbour and Great Market Hall as a working-class neighborhood, hence the prosperity of the people of the East End is still low. However, the district won by the performed construction and renovation work and still ongoing structural changes in the services sector in recent times as more attractive.
Ostend was coined prior to the Second World War in the west of the Jewish population. The beginning of the 20th century rose to the Friedberger Anlage built in 1938 and desecrated Orthodox synagogue and worn - a bunker still stands in its place - on Röderbergweg there were the Jewish orphanage and the hospital. Today many street names such as Reinganum or Königswarterstraße remember the large Jewish community in Ostend.
Infrastructure
Ostend is connected to the S- Bahn stop Ostendstraße to the network of S- Bahn Rhein -Main. Except for the S7 there keep all S -Bahn lines. In addition, there are several metro stations of the lines U6 and U7, the Middle closure complement the lines 11 ( Fechenheim - maximum ) and 14 (Bornheim - Neu-Isenburg ) of the Frankfurt tram. With the Ostbahnhof it also has a regional station for the trains direction Hanau and Würzburg. The continuous main street of the district is Hanauer Landstrasse. It is a residential and commercial street in the West. From the railway bridge at the Ostbahnhof it widens and from the Ratswegkreisel again to a busy arterial road towards the Main -Kinzig -Kreis.
Near the Frankfurt's harbor is since February 2010, the abandoned wholesale market expanded with a new building and expanded to the headquarters of the European Central Bank ( ECB). For extra- Frankfurt high-rise master plan was amended.
Parallel to construction of the ECB, the road network is being rebuilt or fundamentally renewed. This includes the upgrading of the Honsellbrücke and the construction of a new Main Crossing ( Osthafenbrücke ).
In the eastern areas (as of 1908) working-class quarters emerged in the wake of Osthafenbaus as the Riederwald - settlement, which forms its own district today. With the Frankfurt Zoo, the Ostend also houses a well-known far beyond via Frankfurt institution.
Of the comparatively heavy war destruction and depopulation by deporting the quarter recovered only very slowly, but it applies not only since the new ECB announced as future-oriented district. After 1945, often only extensively used areas and the site of the former gas station on Main have been converted into residential areas, along the eastern harbor has developed on old brownfield one of the most innovative service and commercial districts of the city. Additionally, " Hanauer " ( highway ), with its diverse range of clubs, restaurants and bars, a popular nightlife area.
In other areas, the district is becoming increasingly attractive. In 2002, the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management has ( emerged from Bank Academy and the School of Finance and Economics ) as one of Germany's leading private universities in Ostend ( Sonnemannstraße ) settled and in the spring of 2005 has opened direct the education center Ostend near the bench Academy, that and several schools the Frankfurt community college houses. In addition, the traditional Dr. Hoch's Conservatory - Academy of Music, which takes its new construction as well referring to Sonnemannstrasse 2005. In October 2005, the Frankfurt Literature House moved to the reconstructed neo-classical old city library from 1825 to. Between training center, Ostendstraße and Rückertstraße the Paul Arnsberg Square was created. Yet He could, however, the expected function of a public district meetings not assume, as the cool stone surface must not be used as a children's playground.