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The New Frankfurt Old Town (also known as the Dom-Römer Quarter) is the centre of the old town of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which was reconstructed from 2012 to 2018 as part of a major urban development project called the Dom-Römer Project (German: Dom-Römer-Projekt). The project redesigned and developed a 7,000 m2 (75,000 sq ft) property between Römerberg in the west and Domplatz in the east, delimited by Braubachstrasse in the north and the Schirn Kunsthalle in the south, in an effort to remake the old city centre, the Altstadt (old town), which was severely damaged during World War II, in the style of the pre-war architecture.
Due to the heavy bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II, most of the city's old town was destroyed. Efforts to rebuild parts of the historic fabric of the old town began in the 1950s with the Römer city hall, which was built as a modern office building behind the old façade that was still standing after the war. An underground car park was built under the Römerberg square, and on top of the Romerberg area, in front of the Cathedral, the brutalist Technisches Rathaus[1] ("Technical City Hall") was built in 1974. The Technisches Rathaus was demolished in 2010–11, and the reconstruction of the old town core began. The project was built on top of a 1970s underground multi-storey car park and the U-Bahn Line B station.
Civic engagement in particular led to the old town-oriented planning of the Dom-Römer project.[2] The 35 designs of new buildings were determined in several architectural competitions with more than 170 participants. The foundation stone was laid in January 2012. At the end of 2017, all of the houses' exteriors were largely completed. On 9 May 2018, the fences were removed and the new district was made fully accessible to the public.[3][4] From 28 to 30 September 2018, a three-day festival was held for the opening,[5][6] which attracted between 250,000 and 300,000 visitors.[7] In March 2019, the Frankfurt Dom-Römer project received the prestigious international MIPIM award.[8]
- ^ Photos of the former Technisches Rathaus Frankfurt
- ^ "New Old Town Frankfurt", Frankfurter Rundschau (in German), 9 May 2018, retrieved 11 May 2018
- ^ The construction fences fall: opening of the new Frankfurt old town from par.frankfurt.de, the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- ^ Matthias Alexander; Rainer Schulze; Helmut Fricke (9 May 2018), "The newest old town in the world", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German), retrieved 6 November 2018
- ^ Altstadtfest Frankfurt, official website, accessed 1 October 2018.
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Rahmenkonzeptwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Over 250,000 visitors: everyone wanted to go to the Altstadtfest bei par.frankfurt.de, the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on 1 October 2018.
- ^ Recognition by Messe-Award: City of Frankfurt wins award for new old town, fnp.de, 16 March 2019.