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Frankfurt / Rhein-Main
SAUL / SAUL Plus in Frankfurt
Bonames Airfield
Bonames is a former military airfield within Frankfurt. The area is becoming accessible to a new residential zone where up to 6000 homes are being built - a new satellite of the city. The SAUL project created new uses for this harsh concrete environment which is adjacent to ecologically sensitive water meadows. A new wilderness area is being encouraged within Frankfurt’s Green Belt, with minimal change allowing wildlife to take its natural course. Imaginative re-use of old military buildings for social, creative and educational activities, and a new river footbridge to create greater access have brought the site to life. An employment skills training programme gave opportunities to unemployed young people.
Bonames Airfield
Route of Industrial Culture
Within the Frankfurt Regional Park, the Route
of Industrial Culture Rhein-Main, a project to raise awareness
of the region’s industrial heritage, identified 150 sites,
including factories, and aimed to make them more accessible. The
concentration along the rivers Rhein and Main, forming the spatial
backbone of the region, has led to the definition of the route as
a wide corridor and part of the cultural and leisure amenities of
the region. SAUL has facilitated on-site information, excursions,
sightseeing and guided tours, including an annual event weekend
with 130 events, which now attracts around 7000 visitors. These
have made the Route more ‘real’ for local people, and
brought new organisations into the partnership.
Regional Park Rhein-Main
The Regional
Park Rhein-Main, a long term concept of the regional planning
authority Planungsverband Ballungsraum Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (whose
members are municipalities) has been developed incrementally over
ten years. The Regional Park is the Frankfurt region’s main
instrument to safeguard, enhance and develop open space through
a network of routes and sites. SAUL has been involved in promoting
a range of measures to be implemented jointly by the Planungsverband
and the municipalities, using public limited companies owned by
them for construction and maintenance. In this way both planning
and implementation are co-ordinated.
Waterworks Park
Dietzenbach began life as two villages that merged into a new town with commuters from Frankfurt and satellite industries. With no natural centre, creating a new identity is a challenge. The Waterworks Park project built a new partnership between the municipality, Planungsverband, the water company and local stakeholders, to agree how the traditional but little known water supply industry could be revealed and explained to citizens in a contemporary context. Education about water supply and its importance, locally and internationally, shaped the project. SAUL influenced regional and local approaches to the way the project could be designed through partnership building, and funded physical installations such as a Water Temple, tree lined avenue, and routemarker feature.
The Hohe Strasse
The Hohe Strasse is the historic high road between Leipzig and Frankfurt, important to the City’s trade in the middle ages. It had been neglected until this partnership project between the Planungsverband and six municipalities transformed a 20-kilometre section into a popular cycle route, with a series of rests revealing distant views of the modern skyline. Although linked through a common design concept, each station is a unique installation. Local residents of the towns and rural areas proposed the themes based on local history or other ideas, and worked with artists to realise them. The project culminated in a high profile celebration where each locality acted as host for the rest. These municipalities had not worked together on a project before. Now through SAUL they have formed a joint company and can see they have the capacity to plan for future objectives.
Installation along the Hohe Strasse
Further information about the outcomes of the above SAUL projects can be found in the partnerships Final Report.
TEMS (Training, Employment, Maintenance and Sustainability)
This region also participated in the transnational TEMS project.
Current Project - SAUL 2 EXT
The future site of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt is in a historically disadvantaged area on the edge of the city centre. The 'Landscape Gap' concept refers to the missing link of the Frankfurt Green Belt here. SAUL 2 EXT will begin the process of extending the Green Belt through this site with the aim of reaching an overall concept for the Green Belt link which is shared by investors, developers, owners and commercial enterprises. Engaging with stakeholders - from the public and private sectors, and local communities - will be key to developing the vision. Representatives from London will offer advice on how the pitfalls encountered at London Docklands, where some established communities were alienated, may be avoided, and representatives from Luxembourg will offer advice about temporary landscape interventions and events that may encourage and guide the process.
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