Goethestraße

The Goethe Street is a street in Frankfurt am Main. It branches off to the east at Rathenauplatz by the Exchange Street and runs parallel south to the Opera Square to the Great Bockenheimer Street (better known as Freßgass ). It is considered a shopping street in textiles and consumer goods of the highlighted area. In addition to chain stores, there are long-established family business. Is the Small Bock Straße with Jazzkeller Frankfurt, jazz house and other places between the Goethe Road and the Great Bock Strasse. With an average of 2,040 pedestrians per hour ( 2011) it is the third most visited luxury shopping street in Germany.

History

The road was created from 1892 to 1894 as a street breakthrough south of the Great Bockenheimer lane to improve traffic flow between the Opera and Place Roßmarkt. To this end, the magistrate bought 37 buildings in order to let them go off and make room for the new road train. The founder temporal building was largely destroyed in the Second World War in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main. Today's street scene is characterized by sober functional buildings of the reconstruction period and the 1970s.

Traffic

The Goethe Street is designated as a bicycle road since 1992, but also released for local traffic with motor vehicles. For road transport the Goethe Street is set up in each direction from the high street and from the direction of Market Street to the intersection Old Rothofstraße as a one-way street, where motorized road transport is derived in south Junghofstraße.

Due to its character as a shopping street traffic volumes in the Goethe Street is very high. By a road bike very high levels of motorized transport, and the same scarce parking space result in the Goethe street regularly conflicts between wheel and road.

At the Frankfurt transport network, the Goethe Street is well served. To the east is the rapid transit node main station and in the west metro station Alte Oper. From 1894 to 1986, the Goethe road was used by several lines of urban streetcar between stations Opera Square and Goethe space.

Shops

On the Goethe Street is lined with shops of luxury like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Tiffany, Giorgio Armani, Jimmy Choo, Vertu, Bulgari, Versace and Prada.