Niederrad

• 371 - Niederrad North
• 372 - Niederrad -South

Niederrad is since 1 July 1900, part of Frankfurt am Main.

Location

Niederrad is located south of the Main River, about 2,7 km from the Frankfurt main station, and is bordered to the north by the Gutleutviertel, on the east by the Sachsenhausen and in the south and west by Schwan 's home. In the south and west it is surrounded by a portion of the Frankfurt City Forest.

General

The district is mainly classified as residential. It includes which originated in the 1920s among urban planner Ernst May Allotment Bruchfeldstraße and the Adolf- Miersch settlement and the Mainfeld settlement. The purchasing power is 22 067 euros per capita (as of 2009). Niederrad is the site of the western part of the Frankfurt University Hospital.

Curiosities

Some important Frankfurter institutions are usually locates in Niederrad, although they do not or mainly not be administratively in the district Niederrad: So is the greater part of Niedrrad office city in the neighboring Swan home, the sewage treatment plant Niederrad and the golf club are fully Schwanheimer district. The racecourse is located in Niederrad Sachsenhausen -Süd, as well as the Commerzbank Arena.

Policy

• Lower wheels local councils: 3 ( in Frankfurt's town council No. 5)
• Lower wheels Alderman: 3

History

First mention was made of turned my finished to Frankfurt in 1900 the district in 1151 as Rode ( clearing) in the former Wild Dreieich. At that time the place was already 15 different buildings. The mention of the sand court, a royal Wasserburg, was the first time in 1193 in a deed was witnessed in that the knight Konrad von Hagen had acquired 200 acres of land. The forest between Frankfurt and Niederrad, which should be later referred to as part of the Frankfurt City Forest, acquired the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt in 1372nd Since located in a one loop of the Main, an ancillary activity of the rural population for washing and dyeing took shape in Niederrad, especially since the arable land was very limited. For a long time it referred to the Frankfurter as " scrubbers village, '" as soon as more than 100 companies leading the cloth in a soft water stream ( Big Waschbach called ) purified and then bleached.

In 1850 Niederrad had 2000 inhabitants. 15 years later was the opening of the racecourse and again after 15 years, a railway bridge was built in 1880 to Frankfurt on the Main, the Main-Neckar bridge. The construction of a needle weir and a ship lock (1883 ) and the commissioning of a sewage treatment plant (1887 ) followed before the final incorporation together with Seckbach and Oberrad the incorporation into the city of Frankfurt. Niederrad had at this time on July 1, 1900 8,800 inhabitants.

In Niederrad the merchant Eugen René Lacroix built in 1925 with 350 employees now have an international delicacy company and put there the turtle soup here, which has made him famous. An eyewitness said that " the whole yard full of turtles " and was " Lacroix eyeing each individual ." Since 1994, the low gearing no longer exists; after its demolition homes were built there.

After the Second World War Niederrad counted 18,000 inhabitants (1950) and grew steadily in the following years. Eleven years later, there were 25,000 inhabitants, and in 1963 started with the construction of the " office city in the country", now called Niederrad business district, the district also in the business world has known.

Traffic

Public transport

Niederrad is connected to the network of S- Bahn Rhein - Main as well as to the city's tram and bus network.

The Bahnhof Frankfurt- Niederrad is a stop on the S -Bahn lines S7, S8 and S9 as well as regional trains RE70 (Mannheim Hauptbahnhof) and RE80 ( Koblenz Hauptbahnhof). It was built in 1977 for the S -Bahn operate as a high station, replacing the more northerly station. The station is located on the Lyons road on the eastern border of the Niedrrad office city. The line S7 leads from Ried City Goddelau about Niederrad Frankfurt Central Station. The lines S8 and S9 drive from Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof either Mainz Hauptbahnhof (S8 ) or Mainz -Kastel (S9 ), Rüsselsheim, Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt Stadium, Niederrad, Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt Main Station and Offenbach Ost to Hanau Hauptbahnhof. On Niederrad Station provides direct interchanges to the tram lines 12 and 19 as well as the bus lines 78 and 79

Tram lines 12, 15, 19 ( only runs at certain times ), 20 (runs only in the Commerzbank - Arena at events ) and 21 have their origins in the net of the Frankfurt Forest Railway. The line 12 connects Niederrad Swan Home, Sachsenhausen, Central Station, city center, Northrend, Bornheim, Ostend and Fechenheim. Line 15 has its end point in Niederrad on Haardtwaldplatz and from there, via Sachsenhausen, South Station and Oberrad to the city limits Offenbach. The line 19 is a pure student line with only two trips a day between Swan Home, Niederrad, Sachsenhausen and South Station. The line 21 leads from the station via Niederrad, Sachsenhausen, Central Station and gallic after Nied, as an amplifier line, the line 20 is inserted between the stadium and the main train station.

The bus lines 51 ( Niederrad, Swan Home, High, Industrial Park ), 61 (airport, stadium, Niederrad, Sachsenhausen, South Station ) and 78 ( Swan home, office, city, Niederrad, Sachsenhausen, South Station ) and the ring bus line 79 ( Niederrad station, office district, Haardtwaldplatz Niederrad station) complete the range of public transport in Niederrad.

Road

Niederrad located near the Frankfurt Cross, just off the motorway and is 5 - after decades of planning - July 8, 2013 at reach from the north. From the motorway 3 Niederrad can be reached via the exit Frankfurt Süd. By Niederrad leads the federal highway 43 from Wiesbaden to Hanau and the federal highway 44 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Cycle paths

On the Main river run several cycle routes:

• The Hessian Radfernweg R3 (Rhein -Main -Kinzig- cycle path ) leads under the motto in the footsteps of the late harvest rider. along the Rhine, Main and Kinzig over Fulda to Tann in the Rhön. On section to Eltville - Hochheim am Main results of the R3 via the Rheingau Riesling Route.
• The Main Bike Trail leads from the sources of the White and the Red River Main to Mainz to the mouth of the Rhine.
• The D- Route 5 (Saar -Mosel -Main ) from Saarbrücken to Trier, Koblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt, Würzburg and Bayreuth to the Czech border ( 1021 km ).

Attractions

• As a factory building in the baroque of the Women's Court was built from 1761 to 1781. The property with the archway above the Kelsterbacher street was originally on the outskirts of the village. From 1841 she was temporarily in the possession of Catherine and white woman pin. 1937 large parts of the property were demolished, was retained only the archway with the two side wings. In 1944, the archway was badly damaged by a bomb and repaired temporarily.
• The resulting 1927 Allotment Bruchfeldstraße ( " zigzag living" ) is a part of the major project New Frankfurt, which was developed with the Frankfurt city planner and architect Ernst May. Your particular angular façade arrangement owes the nickname " zigzag living".
• At low wheels district are three urban green spaces or parks: The Carl-von -Weinberg park with forest playground, the Elli - Lucht - Park, and decorated around 1900 light and air bath Niederrad, a former River Swimming Pool, located on the of the old lock Niederrad formed headland on the south bank of the Main.

Regular events

• Mostly in June takes place the Black Forest Street Festival as district festival.
• Wäldchestag is Whit Tuesday. The festival to begin but already at Pentecost.