WRS Immobilien - 2 room apartment in the heart of Frankfurt's Ostend - quiet residential street

Apartment building with small commercial unit in the heart of the Ostend.

Public transportation and shopping facilities are in the immediate vicinity.

The district is located in the inner city district IV and borders the inner city district to the west, Frankfurt Nordend to the northwest, Frankfurt-Bornheim to the north, Riederwald to the northeast, Frankfurt-Fechenheim to the east, and Offenbach am Main, Frankfurt-Oberrad and Sachsenhausen-Nord to the south on the opposite side of the Main.

Population

Residential area on the banks of the Main. Compared to other inner-city districts such as Westend or Nordend, the population of Ostend is less affluent. However, the district has recently become much more attractive thanks to the redevelopment measures that have been carried out.

Before the Second World War, the Ostend was dominated by the Jewish population in the west. The orthodox synagogue built at the beginning of the 20th century stood on Friedberger Anlage - a bunker still stands in its place today - while the Jewish orphanage and hospital were located on Röderbergweg. Today, many street names such as Reinganumstrasse and Königswarterstrasse are reminders of the large Jewish community in Ostend.

Infrastructure
Osten­d is connected to the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network via the Ostendstraße S-Bahn stop. With the exception of the S7, all S-Bahn lines stop there. There are also several subway stations on lines U6 and U7, and lines 11 (Fechenheim - Höchst) and 14 (Bornheim - Neu-Isenburg) of the Frankfurt streetcar network complete the local connections. It also has a regional train station, Ostbahnhof, for trains to Hanau and Würzburg. The main street in the district is Hanauer Landstraße.

Rear of the portal of the former Riederhöfe from the 15th century on Hanauer Landstraße
Paul-Arnsberg-Platz­At Frankfurt's Osthafen, the now disused wholesale market hall will soon be converted into the new headquarters of the European Central Bank and extended by the Skytower skyscraper. The high-rise master plan was specially amended for this purpose. In the eastern areas, workers' housing estates such as the Riederwald-Siedlung, which today forms its own district, were built in the wake of the Osthafen development (from 1908). With Frankfurt Zoo, the Ostend is also home to an institution known far beyond Frankfurt.

The district recovered only very slowly from the comparatively severe war damage and population losses caused by deportation, but it has been regarded as a forward-looking district even before the ECB was built. Areas that were often only used extensively after 1945 and the site of the former gasworks on the Main have already been converted into residential areas, and one of the city's most innovative service and commercial districts has developed along the Osthafen on old industrial wasteland. In addition, the "Hanauer (Landstraße)" with its diverse range of clubs, restaurants and bars is a popular place to go out.

The district is also becoming increasingly attractive in other areas. In 2002, the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (which emerged from the Bankakademie and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), one of Germany's leading private universities, settled in Ostend, and in spring 2005 the Ostend Education Center, which houses several schools, opened right next to the Bankakademie. The traditional Dr. Hoch's Conservatory - Music Academy also moved into its new building on Sonnemannstrasse in 2005. In October 2005, the Frankfurt House of Literature moved into the rebuilt classicist Old City Library dating from 1825. Paul-Arnsberg-Platz was created between the education center, Ostendstraße and Rückertstraße.