From coarse to fine, conversion of industrial plants
An architectural tour for Frankfurt residents and visitors who are interested in the changes in the east of the city.
Gasworks, industrial plants and slaughterhouse were suitable uses in the east of the city, where the wind blew the smoke. The environmental problem is different today and with the arrival of the ECB a completely different wind is blowing. The east of Frankfurt has started to become chic.
From the city entrance of the Deutschherrenviertel with the MainPlazaTower, a high-rise building with a historicized brick facade, we cross this new residential area with a few office spaces on this architectural tour, which was built in the 1990s on the site of the former slaughterhouse.
With a magnificent view of the skyline, we cross the Main on the Deutschherren railway bridge. On the other side we reach the ECB, which has become a landmark of Frankfurt's east. It partially penetrates the former wholesale market hall by Martin Elsässer - a model building of 1920s industrial architecture. Information about the hall's devastating chapter, as a gathering place for the deportation of Frankfurt's Jews, can be found in the memorial on the edge of today's ECB site.
The architectural tour ends along the Wesel shipyard, where the first Frankfurt gasworks once stood and the Philipp Holzmann construction company began its rise.
German Mr. quarter
- MainPlazaTower (Hans Kohlhoff)
- Colosseo (Christoph Mäckler Architects)
- Townhouses (among others by Stefan Forster, Hilmer & Sattler, Dietz Joppien Architects AG, Muschalek architectes)
- Triangel (Novotny, Mähner Associated)
ECB
- ECB (Coop Himmelb (l) au)
- Wholesale Market Hall (Martin Elsässer)
- Memorial Deportation (Architectural Office KatzKaiser)
- Restaurant / Cafe Oosten (Schubert & Seuss)
Weseler shipyard
- Residential buildings (ia hgp, Hoechstetter, Frick + Reichert, Dietz Joppien Architekten AG)
- Kita Klanghafen (Ramona Buxbaum Architects)
- Steam Forming Station (Christoph Mäckler Architekten)
- Oskar Residence (Stefan Forster Architects)
