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29-515: Skyper is a building complex in the Bahnhofsviertel district of Frankfurt , Germany. The tallest of the three buildings is a 38-storey, 154 m (505 ft) skyscraper. Its quarter-circular silhouette is a distinctive part of the Frankfurt cityscape. Completed in 2004, the tower is linked by a 9 m (30 ft) glass atrium to a neo-classical villa dating from 1915. The villa is listed as

58-527: A building of historical importance and once belonged, along with the site as a whole, to the Philipp Holzmann construction group, which used the property as its corporate head office. A residential and commercial building with 52 one- to three-room apartments and ground-floor retail space completes the ensemble. The plans for the €480 million project originated from Frankfurt architects JSK, who were commissioned by Holzmann AG. With building approval granted,

87-476: A number of brothels in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel. In 1969, the Frankfurt contractors received Willi Schütz's approval for the opening of the first large brothel at 49-53 Elbestraße. The project was supported by the then Frankfurt police chief Gerhard Littmann, who saw in the creation of an Eros Center in the vicinity of the city the only way to deal with the numerous complaints about "commercial malnutrition" in residential areas. The 180-room establishment now bears

116-485: A three-phase alternator with a revolving field. The alternator revolved at 150 revolutions per minute , and had a rotating field magnet with 32 poles. It was rated at 300 hp and had a terminal voltage of 55 volts . The frequency of the current was 40 Hz . Power from the alternator was stepped up to 8000 volts for transmission by oil-insulated transformers . Later tests were carried out with transmission voltage up to 25,000 volts (between phases). The transmission line

145-554: The Second World War the quarter was not so strongly bombed as the inner city, but nevertheless many buildings were destroyed, particularly in the north. In the time of the occupation by the American armed forces the district developed an active nightlife, allowed soldiers free rein to endless brothels. The Bahnhofsviertel is well connected to the public transport system because of its central location. The Hauptbahnhof , which borders

174-595: The former western stations between the city and the new main station , which had been completed in 1888. Prompted by the Paris " Exposition Universelle " ( World Fair ) of 1889, Leopold Sonnemann , publisher of the Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper, interested the Electrotechnical Society in the idea of an exhibition. The Society expressed an interest and started preparations in the same year. However, there

203-756: The 1950s and 1960s, whilst several supplemented skyscrapers. Best known are the Silvertower and the Gallileo at Jürgen-Ponto-Platz (named after the murdered president of Dresdner Bank), the Skyper and the Gewerkschaftshaus in Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße. The latter was built in 1931, (the architect was Max Taut), and was then the biggest skyscraper in the city. The best known of many hotels in the Bahnhofsviertel,

232-649: The InterContinental, is also in Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße. There are no large parks but in the south of the district lies the Main Riverbank, one of the most popular green areas in Frankfurt. In 1860 a silted branch of the Main, the Kleine Main, was filled up and the offshore island Mainlust was connected to the main bank. On this land Sebastian Rinz, the city gardener, laid out a green area with Mediterranean vegetation which

261-496: The Kaisersack. Instead the main traffic vein today is Gutleutstraße, which flows into the theatre tunnel and offers a connection to the old part of town. The roads arrange in a chessboard-like fashion and make orientation easy. The wide east-west streets are constructed like boulevards and communicate the charm of a big city. Numerous nineteenth century buildings have survived through World War II and became chaste residential houses in

290-644: The Swiss banking group UBS . Bahnhofsviertel (Frankfurt am Main) The Bahnhofsviertel was developed between 1891 and 1915. Along with the Westend , the Nordend and the Ostend , it is part of Frankfurt's dense inner city districts. The Bahnhofsviertel is known as one of Frankfurt's main entertainment and red-light districts (the latter esp. around Taunusstrasse  [ de ] ), along with Alt-Sachsenhausen south of

319-399: The administrative capital, Heilbronn , thus making it the first place to be equipped with a power supply using three-phase AC. The name of the local power company (ZEAG) bears testimony to this event. The Frankfurt city council constructed its own power station near the harbour; yet another was built by a private company in the suburb of Bockenheim . A hydraulic turbine at Lauffen powered

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348-438: The arch: the one to the right carrying the name of the " Allgemeine Electricitätsgesellschaft " ("AEG" – General Electricity Company), which had been founded in 1887; the left-hand panel displayed the name of the " Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon " (Oerlikon Engineering Works). The entire entrance was illuminated with 1000 light bulbs and an electrically powered waterfall provided a further attraction. With 1,200,000 visitors from all over

377-501: The architects subsequently realised their plans on behalf of general contractors ABG and the new owner, DekaBank , which had purchased the building for an open real estate fund of its real estate subsidiary, Deka Immobilien. Following completion in 2005, DekaBank moved into offices on the lower floors as the main tenant. The higher floors of the building are occupied by well-known names such as HSBC and Houlihan Lokey . Skyper has been owned since 2006 by an investment company belonging to

406-603: The area was only slightly damaged by bombs, and that many of the hotels located there were used by the US occupation forces for the accommodation of military personnel. The great poverty of the German population and the in comparison very wealthy US soldiers formed the sociocultural background for the emergence of the red light district at this point. During the Cold War era, American soldiers referred to it as Kaiserstraße, or K-Street. There are

435-512: The borough, offers connection to regional and long distance trains. Two tram lines (11 and 12) cross the Bahnhofsviertel on Münchner Straße. The Willy-Brandt-Platz U-Bahn station and Taunusanlage S-Bahn station are also easily reachable. The well-known meaning of Kaiserstraße has been lost among the street traffic, travel from the Alleenring to the Hauptbahnhof is no longer possible through

464-546: The city gallows and as an unprotected site outside the city walls, it was left alone for a long time. As industrialisation came in, the city walls and its gallows were torn down to be replaced initially by villas with large gardens. The technical advances were especially noticeable here. When in 1839 the Taunus Railway was built to the town of Höchst , still part of the Duchy of Nassau , the original Taunus station ( Taunusbahnhof )

493-469: The disused site of the three former Westbahnhöfe ( Western Railway Stations ) in Frankfurt am Main , Germany . The exhibition featured the first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current , which was generated 175 km away at Lauffen am Neckar . As a result of this successful field trial, three-phase current became established for electrical transmission networks throughout

522-469: The exhibition to demonstrate a commercially viable method for the transmission of electricity. Three-phase current with a minimal loss of 25% would be transmitted at high voltage from Lauffen am Neckar to Frankfurt. This took centre stage at the exhibition and was evidenced in the large three-section entrance gate. The central section took the form of an arch bearing the inscription "Power Transmission Lauffen–Frankfurt 175 km." Rectangular panels flanked

551-418: The guidance of Doña Carmen. Air China and Syrian Arab Airlines operate their Frankfurt offices in a facility in Bahnhofsviertel. Other airlines with Frankfurt offices in Bahnhofsviertel include Aeroflot , China Airlines , and Iran Air . International Electro-Technical Exhibition %E2%80%93 1891 The 1891 International Electrotechnical Exhibition was held between 16 May and 19 October on

580-608: The name Crazy Sexy and is the largest brothel in Germany. In 2013, five percent of prostitutes came from Germany; most came from Eastern Europe , Latin America or Asia . The Rote Haus at 34 Taunusstrasse has six floors and 67 rooms. There are 14 brothels in the station district. In the neighborhood there are occasionally large raids by the police. Counseling centers include the Diakonisches Werk operated Tamara project under

609-559: The railway tracks also became redundant, and the year 1889 was able to begin with a dividing up of the area. As there was still no significant residential zone existing in 1891, the area became the central site of the International Electro-Technical Exhibition led by Oskar von Miller. In the meantime, the large civil land development in the style of the Wilhelminian period was placed under monument protection. In

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638-505: The river Main. The Bahnhofsviertel is scarcely half a square kilometre larger than the Altstadt , making it the second smallest district of the city. The longest border line is just short of a kilometre long. Almost trapeze shaped, this district lies between the Alleenring to the west, Mainzer Landstraße in the north and the Anlagenring to the east. The Main river forms a natural border in

667-595: The south. Adjacent districts to the west are the Gutleutviertel and the Gallus around Frankfurt Central Station , the Westend in the north and the Innenstadt in the east. To the south, on the opposite side of the Main, lies Sachsenhausen . The area between the Frankfurt city wall and field of the gallows had hardly been constructed by the early nineteenth century. Only farming estates were to be found in this area. Near to

696-521: The world, the exhibition was an out-and-out success. The cost of a one-day entry ticket for an adult amounted to a considerable 15 marks . As far as Germany was concerned, the International Electrotechnical Exhibition settled once and for all the question of the most economical means of transmitting electrical energy . When the exhibition closed, the power station at Lauffen continued in operation – providing electricity for

725-676: The world. The "Elektrotechnische Gesellschaft" (Electrotechnical Society) was founded in Frankfurt in 1881 with the aim of promoting electricity and, in particular, furthering research into its application for industry and technology. Three years later, some ten manufacturers of electrical equipment had set themselves up in the city. In around 1890, some of the enterprises were established which would later become major firms in Frankfurt: Hartmann & Braun, Staudt & Voigt (from 1891 Voigt & Haefner) and W Lahmeyer & Co (from 1893 Elektrizitäts-AG, previously W Lahmeyer & Co). And it

754-441: Was another consideration apart from the setting up of an international exhibition – Frankfurt had an urgent problem to solve. The construction of a central power station had been under discussion in the city's political and technical committees since 1886. However, agreement had still to be reached over the type of current, and opinions were divided between direct current , alternating current and three-phase current . It fell to

783-503: Was constructed on the Anlagenring. The track of the Taunus station ran through the middle of the district of today's station quarter. Later the stations of the Main-Neckar and Main-Weser lines were added to that. The western stations were grouped together until 1888, after which time they were replaced by the new Frankfurt central station , which was situated another 500m further west. Thus

812-485: Was in Frankfurt that the Second Industrial Revolution began to emerge – a revolution that would bring about fundamental changes similar to those created 100 years previously by the introduction of the steam engine to the world of work. In 1891, the German electrical industry was ready to demonstrate its capabilities to the world at the International Electrotechnical Exhibition. A site was chosen – that of

841-495: Was soon named Nizza in common speech. The Frankfurt families Guaita and Loeen had already possessed large landscaped gardens in the climatically favoured area of the river west of the old city walls since the seventeenth century. Frankfurt's red-light district is in Bahnhofsviertel. The core of the district consists of Elbestraße, Moselstraße and Taunusstraße. The district was more and more dominated by prostitution , especially after 1945. The reason being that during World War II ,

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