Gallus (Frankfurt am Main)

The Gallus (until 2007 officially Gallusviertel ) is a district of Frankfurt am Main.

Location and boundaries

The district stretches north of the Main River, bordered to the east by the railway station district, to the south by the Gutleutviertel, on the west by Griesheim, on the north by Bock home with the new housing estates on the vine park and the European quarter and the northeast by Westend- Süd with the fairgrounds.

Frankfurt Central Station, the largest German railway node belongs, as approximately half of the Gallus as for the most part one of the biggest construction sites of the city of Frankfurt, the European quarter on the site of the former main goods station.

Economy and infrastructure

The Gallus is a term coined by industrial and craft area since the construction of the main station. The oldest farms are the Adlerwerke Kleyerstrasse and the iron foundry Mayfarth & Co. also played craft (eg shoe manufacturer ), the brakes factory Alfred Teves (ATE ) and the German private telephone construction company Harry Fuld & Co. (later Telefonbau and standard time, short Norma Tele or T & N ) a major role. At the Mainzer Landstrasse in postwar car dealers had a meaning, since they are largely located on Hanauer Landstrasse.

For the workers in these establishments under the direction of Ernst May Baustadtrats were designed and built the Hellerhof and the Friedrich- Ebert- settlement than typical workers' settlements.

For decades, found in Gallus because of its unfavorable ' trapped ' situation between the track leading up to the main railway station and the tracks of the main freight depot hardly takes urban development. With the abandonment of the main freight depot by the German railway in 1996 resulted in the district then completely new options, since 2006, created the European quarter here as a lively neighborhood with homes, offices, hotels and parks. This expansion of settlement areas will bring the district a population change: the European quarter mainly high-priced apartments are offered; a creeping gentrification of Gallus takes place currently. Close to the trade fair was the 200- meter skyscraper Tower 185 completed in early 2012. In August 2013, the large-scale Skyline Plaza shopping center was opened in the eastern European quarter after two years of construction. The beginning of 2014 will follow the convention center cape Europe.

As an economic axis, the Mainzer Landstrasse cuts across the district. After the disappearance of production and Crafts ( Publishing and securities trading as well as large areas of Commerzbank AG with its service center ) has since 2000, to a considerable extent the service industry located in new buildings. The Central Passenger Deutsche Bahn AG is next to the site of the former railway repair plant south of the fair. In addition, the Gallus houses the publishing and editorial offices of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Some streets are considered to be socially disadvantaged due to different CVs of residents (social assistance, immigration, drug or alcohol abuse). For this reason, the Gallus has been included in the Social City project. Under this federal-state program projects be enforced in the district without much bureaucratic red tape ( provided they meet the requirements of the project). Interesting from a sociological perspective, the future teeth and interpenetration of northern Gallus likely to represent the new European quarter.

History

Historically, the Gallus is the former gallows field west of the medieval city limits of Frankfurt. The name derives from the Gallus waiting (actually gallows waiting ), one of four medieval towers of the city waiting. With the Holy St. Gallus the name of the neighborhood has originally nothing to do, but the name was changed in the late 18th century to take the area the dubious reputation. A 1905 newly built Catholic church in this neighborhood is also dedicated to St. Gallus.

History of the district is a mixed area. In addition to production and craft transportation played a major role in the abandonment of the freight depot but it lost significance. Still a landmark, however, is the built from 1880 Frankfurt Central Station.

In June 2006, the town council Gallus decided unanimously on the initiative of the Group of the Greens, as a future official name only to use the name Gallus and to dispense with the additional quarter, on the grounds that such a designation long corresponds to common usage. On 3 April 2007 the decision was officially implemented.

"Cameroon "

Since around the turn of the century, the then- new area west of the Gallus waiting, often the whole Gallus, popularly referred to as " Cameroon ". Another part of the Gallus north Mainzer Landstrasse was referred to as the Goi. A third old local name for a small housing development north of the tram stop Mönchhofstraße is Babbedeggelhausen. At that time (1905 ) 15,400 inhabitants lived in Gallus. Where do these names originate, is not secured until today. There are different explanations:

Moroccan mercenaries - - After the First World War, the border crossings at the Mainzer Landstrasse of French occupation soldiers were occupied. Go to the Cameroonians was the dictum have been if you had been traveling from the Gallus to these transitions.
Another theory points to the soot that lay out numerous chimneys after the industrialization of the district. Black as Cameroon was then.
Some also says the district was so far from the other city's population by the industry and being relocated laboring population, that it was for the rest of the population as far away as the German colony of Cameroon.
Another version refers to the Adler works in which typewriters were produced. After the shift, the workers often came with stained color of typewriter faces from the factory and it means that you 've also due to the popularity of the former colonies, called, " Cameroon ".

Culture and sights

The cultural places can be found in Gallus off the main thoroughfare Mainzer Landstrasse.

Probably the most famous is the Gallus Theater is in the former Adlerwerke in Kleyerstrasse that offers both solid ensembles as well as freelance artists and groups a stage. Also for his children's theater program, it is known far beyond the city 's borders part.

There are also several independent initiatives - the district initiative Koblenzerstraße is an example of this. In addition to cultural events and a bicycle repair shop several other projects to help design and revitalization of the neighborhood exist.

With Adlerwerke and Central Station, Gallus has two groundbreaking functional buildings of the industrial age. In parallel, the residential buildings of the Hellerhof created as part of the new program by Frankfurt Ernst May The machines of this age are preserved by the Technical Hochhut collection and made accessible to the public. Until today, the embossing is still visible through the industrial culture in many places in the district.

In the Henry Street 2, the oldest still in operation fire station of Frankfurt is located after the demolition of the fire station in Frankfurt's North with the fire station Gallus.

Famous people

Lia Woehr (1911-1994) grew up in Gallus. The city of Frankfurt named a place on the edge of Gallus after her and stood there a memorial stone on.
Kleyer Heinrich (1853-1932) was involved as a founder and later as CEO of Eagle works much in the construction industry in Gallus.
Michael Thurk ( b. 1976 ) grew up in Gallus. His football career began at the neighborhood club FFV Sportfreunde 04
Thor Kunkel ( b. 1963 ) grew up in Gallus. The plot of his novel The Black Light Terrarium plays a large extent in this district.
Lotte Specht (1911-2002) grew up in the Gallus and founded in 1930 the first football club for women in Frankfurt. Later, she organized the first stage dialect of Frankfurt.

Pictures

Adlerwerke Kleyerstrasse

Publishing house of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Europa Allee in the European quarter (June 2013)

"House Gallus ", scene of the first Auschwitz trial, 1963-65

Commerzbank skyscraper on the port road

Galgenfeld with the gallows, 1782 (Drawing by Johann Caspar Zehender )

The largely undeveloped Gallus, 1893

St. Gallus Church in Gallus

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