Mainzer Landstraße

The Mainzer Landstrasse in Frankfurt am Main is a major arterial road in a westerly direction and the axis connecting the downtown area and the western parts of the city. The road runs ( by some distance ) largely parallel ( north ) on Main and is 8.3 kilometers in length Frankfurt's second longest road to the Homburger Landstraße.

• 2.1 Westend / Station District
• 2.2 Gallus
• 2.3 Griesheim
• 2.4 Nied
• 2.5 maximum

History

The Mainzer Landstrasse was built 1746-1750 to the road. Almost all long-distance traffic between Frankfurt and Mainz led to the construction of the Highest bypass this road, which was designated as trunk road 40 from 1932 to 1934.

Early Years

The use of the land on both sides of the Mainzer Landstrasse for commercial purposes became apparent early. It developed into one of the industry axes of Frankfurt. The first factories arose in the first half of the 19th century, at about the level of Guiollettstraße with the bronze factory FA Boy and a gasworks, gas from oil and resin produced with significant odor emissions, and a permanent fire hazard posed. The gas factory moved its location after 1860 in the Gutleutstraße. in the 1880s, the development of the Mainzer Landstrasse moved further west on the Gallus waiting after standing by the proximity of the new freight marshalling yard and the Hessian Ludwig Railway Company a near railway connectivity. The eastern end of the Mainzer Landstrasse, now freed from the gas factory, has since developed into a residential district. Today the area is part of the South West. 1892, determined in accordance with the official line of flight plan road design has been published. The road should be 26.28 meters wide, measured between the front gardens. So that the city could come into possession of the need for this road width plots, they resorted to a tried and tested method: building permits were issued only after the necessary land shares were transferred. The number of factories grew rapidly, and to transport workers a tram line was built leading from the main train station across the web road and Mainzer Landstrasse to Gallus waiting. Began back in 1898 the city of Frankfurt with the electrification of the horse-drawn tram, where the electricity was supplied by means of a contact wire above the road. Experiments with a tram, which was driven by accumulators had shown that a reload was necessary after both 3 km driving, which spoke against the battery. The battery factory on the Mainzer Landstrasse disappeared a few years after this failure again.

Until the beginning of the First World War were 40 manufacturing establishments at the Mainzer Landstrasse. Among the most important were the still existing since 1899 company private telephone company Harry Fuld & Co., the Electric normal clock -Gesellschaft mbH, the society for electrical installations mbH and the telephone and telegraph company Lehner & Co., were grouped according to the linearization in the Telefonbau and Standard Time GmbH. Often, the company had its own railway connections to the freight depot, so that a few isolated pieces of track are to this day from that time in the soil. Around 1910, the industrialization was largely completed: Between Güterplatz and Galluswarte was a about one kilometer closed flight representative administrative buildings, behind which extended simple factory buildings and commercial establishments backyard to the side streets into it. The parallel streets were included in the industrialization process in Kleyerstrasse created the Adlerwerke supply companies moved into the area. In the further course of the Mainzer Landstrasse westward caused to their north side houses on the south side more factory buildings. Main focus of the start-ups at the Mainzer Landstrasse were the modern sectors of the time: motor vehicles and communication equipment. Reported for commercial use area was for the expanding industry but much too small, the land demand drove prices up. 1901 finally took the city of Frankfurt on the plans for the east side, which should be as an industrial harbor center of a new commercial enterprise.

Modern Times

Since the completion of the highest pass ( first national highway 40, along road 40, now the Federal Highway 66 and Federal Highway 648) in 1934, this road serves only the urban traffic. It was graded for county road (K 803).

Course

The Mainzer Landstrasse runs from the center of Frankfurt to the west by the districts of Westend station district, Gallus, Griesheim, Nied until after peak.

Westend / Station District

The road starts at the Taunus conditioning, a part of the Frankfurt city walls, near the headquarters of Deutsche Bank. The first section between the Taunus conditioning and Republic Square forms the border between the districts of Westend station district. On the north, so the Westend page, followed by six well-known high-rise buildings close to each other: the twin towers of Deutsche Bank ( each 155 meters), Trianon (186 meters), Frankfurter Büro Center (142 meters), Westend Straße 1 (208 meters), and finally, at the Republic Square, City House I ( 142 meters).

Gallus

West of the plaza begins Gallus, whose central axis is the road. At the Galluswarte, a fortified tower of the 15th century, crosses the Mainzer Landstrasse the ( no longer visible ) Course of the former outer city wall, the Frankfurter Landwehr. In its place today is the bridge of the Main- Weser Railway ( S-Bahn station Galluswarte ) a visible boundary between the city center and west of Frankfurt. The road section in Gallus is known for its numerous representatives here car dealerships.

Griesheim

At the boundary between Gallus and Griesheim Mainzer Landstrasse crosses under the A5 motorway. The Griesheim section is in a large commercial area with gas stations, hypermarkets and a large cinema.

Nied

Between Griesheim, Nied the highway-like -developed part of the main road leads 40 ( maximum southern bypass / airport shuttle ) to the Mainzer Landstrasse. In Nied the road runs through the middle of the district, on both sides of houses are in closed development. The Mainzer Landstrasse crossed shortly after the river Nidda shortly before its confluence with the river Main. A built in the 1950s prestressed concrete bridge was demolished in June 2007 and replaced by a new bridge. After the Nidda bridge Mainzer Landstrasse passes into Bolongarostraße.

The Mainzer Landstrasse ends at the Bolongarostraße. The road led to Mainz on the Bolongarostraße and its extension, the Brüningstraße, through the old town to the Highest Industrial Park, the premises of the former Hoechst AG. Until the closure of the road 1957, the highway ran through the work in the district Sindlingen and on to Mainz.

Tram

From the Republic Square, the junction with the Avenue Ring, Mainzer Landstrasse is continuously traversed by trams 11 and 21. In Gallus these drives directly laid in the road tracks, from the Mönchhofstraße to Nidda bridge on a separate line. The node with the federal highway 40 is crossed by the tram on a high rail -like Flyover.