Nordend (Frankfurt am Main)

The Frankfurt Northrend form two parts of the city of Frankfurt am Main. According to their geographical location they are called Northrend Northrend West and East. The border between the districts is the Friedberger Landstraße; usually the Northrend is considered as a unit. The Northrend is considered part of town with a population of middle-class and upscale and expensive real estate.

Together with the West, the railway station district and the Ostend the Northrend one of the founders of time developed and densely populated Frankfurt city center districts. Currently in Northrend is a gentrification underway.

The Northrend is the local district downtown III. With more than 51,000 inhabitants in an area that is approximately that of the relatively small Frankfurt- Höchst, the Northrend to the highest population density of the Frankfurt urban area and has absolute terms the second highest population to Sachsenhausen.

• 4.1 Prehistory and manor houses
• 4.2 Founder time

Demarcation

The district borders the north of the contact ring to the center of Frankfurt. In the north it extends far beyond the outer Frankfurter Ring Road, the avenue ring, out, so that no clear demarcation to the adjoining parts of the city can be seen today. Can be roughly identifiable as boundary points of Eschenheim tower in the southwest, the radio home of the Hessischer Rundfunk and the new Jewish cemetery in the north, the Friedberger waiting in the Northeast, and the Gunthersburgpark in the east.

The significantly smaller Northrend east borders the sandy path to the Ostend district of Frankfurt. The limitation to Bornheim runs along the heights, castle and Comeniusstraße by water park and cemetery Bornheim along the Dortelweiler road to the Friedberger Landstraße.

The Northrend West is located between the Friedberger Landstraße in the east and the Escher Landstraße in the West. It is bordered to the east except the Northrend -east also in Bornheim and west to the West End. The northern boundary to the district Dornbusch marks the Bertram meadow and the Kühhornshofweg. The border with corner home runs through Frankfurt 's main cemetery.

Attractions

Parks and green spaces

The largest green area in the western Northrend is the 75 -acre Frankfurt 's main cemetery between the two major transport routes corner and Friedberger Landstraße Landstraße. The northern part of the cemetery as well as the adjacent new Jewish cemetery are already in the neighborhood corner home. At the western end of the district of Holzhausenpark lies with the Holzhausenschlösschen.

In the eastern Northrend the Gunthersburgpark and Bethmannpark are worth mentioning. The latter adjoins immediately to the north of the Friedberger Anlage, which is part of the Frankfurt ramparts. Since 1989 located in the park as a separate walled area of ​​the Chinese Garden of Heavenly Peace, one of the few Chinese gardens in Germany. All three parks were once private parks wealthy Frankfurt banker and patrician families.

Building

The most famous building of Northrend is probably the " Broadcasting House at the burning bush ." On this site of the German Bundestag should be settled shortly after the Second World War, was therefore begun in the immediate vicinity of the existing complex of buildings of a former teacher training college with the construction of the future Chamber. As Frankfurt narrowly lost in the capital question Bonn, the round building was built inside a broadcast center for the hr- radio. Only the exterior view and the imaginary for the Bundestag as a foyer porch ( " Gold Hall " ) remained unaffected by the re-scheduling; the " rotunda " was the architect of St. Paul Church, the seat of the first German National Assembly, modeled. By 1999 hr radio studio with the exception of the news studios, editing rooms for pre-productions, radio drama studios and offices of the radio equipment were housed in the " Rotunda ".

Adjacent to the " rotunda " later became the hr- broadcasting hall, a large hall for concerts and other public events, built, as its entrance the " Gold Hall " is used today. The whole complex of the hr- land on which in the following years, among other things in a skyscraper, the radio and television switchboards ARD were housed, then received the name of the adjacent district.

Not far away is the German Library at the intersection Nibelungenallee / corner Landstraße, which was established in 1946 for the collection of the German the printed matter for the Western zones in Frankfurt. Since reunification, it is the second location of the German National Library, next to the German Library in Leipzig. The building is well to recognize the artistic established brick sculptures.

On Nibelungenplatz is the tallest skyscraper in the district. It was built in 1966 by Shell and has a height of 110 m. The tallest building in the city at that time decreed among other things, a fallout shelter in the basement. After it was extensively remodeled in 1993 and equipped with a panoramic lift, today it is known as the Office Center Nibelungenplatz.

Since a few years the police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main is located in Northrend as well. At the intersection Miquel-/Adickesallee/Eschersheimer highway the complex is conveniently located.

In addition to the distinctive separate buildings, the Northrend is characterized by multi-storey residential buildings from the late 19th century. In inner-city southern part of the two parts of the city prevails an almost continuous development in the style of the period, the new Renaissance and the Late Classicism. Further north, the houses tend to have less floors and have a villa-like features on.

Infrastructure and Transport

The Northrend is one of the best connected parts of the city of Frankfurt. In the east-west direction, both the West and the Northrend Northrend East be opened from Alleenring. In a north-south direction is equal to run three major arterial roads: The westernmost is the Escher Landstraße towards Oberursel (Taunus ), and Bad Homburg. Then follow the corner Landstraße at the main cemetery and the Friedberger Landstrasse, which is part of the federal highway 3.

The Northrend but also has the largest metro density in Frankfurt. Three line branches ( U1/U2/U3/U8, U4, U5) through the neighborhoods and keep them there at ten stations ( Northrend West: 8, Northrend -Ost: 2). On top of a busy by lines 12 and 18 route of the tram. It lies on the Friedberger Landstraße; the U -Bahn lines run underneath or on the Escher Landstraße Landstraße the corner and the Berger Straße. However, the district has no connection to the network of S- Bahn or Regional.

Currently, the construction of a path of the federal motorway 66 is discussed, which would run from the Rat- Beil -Straße by the Northrend - east, so as to connect with the A661. The construction of an adjoining tunnel beneath the avenue ring, as it has been 40 years in the conversation is, at least for now unimaginable.

On 12 August 2008, the first " encounter zone " in Germany was opened in Frankfurt, but as traffic Calmed area. According to the Swiss model three residential streets were provided with new road markings and arranged walking speed in Northrend.

History

Prehistory and manor houses

The area of ​​Northrend was inhabited in ancient times. Long before the city of Frankfurt was founded, was near the Günthersburgpark parks at today Hartmann- Ibach - road with a Roman villa estate that belonged to the town of Nida, today's Frankfurt- Heddernheim. In the Middle Ages some royal Meier farms from which the Frankfurt patrician were at the turn of the modern era manor houses emerged. The names of some of these courts can be found today in street names again:

• Kühhornshof, later Bertramshof

• Stalburger yard or Stalburger desolation, east of Holzhausen- OED

• Glauburger yard

Since the end of the 14th century, these estates were protected by the Frankfurter Landwehr.

Founder time

The name of Northrend was built around 1850. At this time it turned the northernmost extension of the urban development represents the area between the old city core and the " funny village" Bornheim was reported in the building zone plan of Frankfurt as a residential district and from the early days until after the turn of the Nineteenth densely built-up to the twentieth century, so that it became the district with the highest population density. Wide avenues in wilhelminischem style emerged, and even today is a red sandstone base cover of the most frequent four-storey rows of houses. With the end of the 19th century they tried for the first time to divide the urban area into statistical districts. The Northrend thus consisted of the districts 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 These numbers remained virtually unchanged to this day. Under Mayor Franz Adickes the Northrend and the other founders temporal parts of the city expanded greatly. To put the building a border, a second ring road was built, which should encompass the highly compacted residential areas.

Social milieu

In a satire Günter Franzen describes the social milieu of Northrend.