Bornheimer Hang housing estate
Architect Ernst May (1886-1970) and his colleagues created 1,540 apartments in the New Frankfurt program between Saalburgallee and Kettelerallee in the Bornheim district. As with all new housing estates in the ambitious housing initiative, the aim here was to build new buildings with clarity and functionality.
had two to three rooms and furnishings that were radically modern in the 1920s. The best example of this: the famous Frankfurt kitchen as part of every new residential unit. At the same time, the Bornheim project was a double challenge for the architects. On the one hand, the Bornheim slope in the east created a special topography and opened up the view from the estate down to the Riederbruch. Secondly, the young Bornheim district had grown up to the outskirts of Frankfurt in the 1920s. May and his colleagues therefore built here in a way that was virtually adapted to their circumstances. Multi-storey houses with pitched instead of flat roofs were built near Pestalozzi-Platz and the striking white Heilig-Kreuz church gave the estate a special visual focal point.
had two to three rooms and furnishings that were radically modern in the 1920s. The best example of this: the famous Frankfurt kitchen as part of every new residential unit. At the same time, the Bornheim project was a double challenge for the architects. On the one hand, the Bornheim slope in the east created a special topography and opened up the view from the estate down to the Riederbruch. Secondly, the young Bornheim district had grown up to the outskirts of Frankfurt in the 1920s. May and his colleagues therefore built here in a way that was virtually adapted to their circumstances. Multi-storey houses with pitched instead of flat roofs were built near Pestalozzi-Platz and the striking white Heilig-Kreuz church gave the estate a special visual focal point.
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Tourismus- und Congress GmbH Frankfurt am Main
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