Living on Kennedyallee Frankfurt

Mumm’sche Park, located on the edge of the city forest in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, is one of the most attractive residential areas in the Hessian metropolis. The district is characterized by representative palace-like buildings on large, park-like properties.

An exception to this was a very large office building built in the 1970s, which was most recently used by German air traffic control. When this Federal Air Traffic Control Agency was relocated to the neighboring community of Langen, the Frankfurt location and building were abandoned and the property was made available for the construction of residential buildings.

Nine free-standing buildings form an ensemble of solitary buildings that emphasize the original park character of the property.

While the new buildings along the adjacent streets define the backbone of the complex, the five to seven story high point houses positioned inside the quarter create open, flowing green spaces and highlight an attractive neighboring building: the Villa Mumm, a building built between 1902 and 1904 in the style The palace was built in historicism for the family of the “champagne baron” Hermann Mumm von Schwarzenstein.

Two of the buildings were built according to the plans of Turkali Architects. They are positioned along the busy Kennedyallee and organized as a four-horse team. On the noise-prone side they show a plastered, urban-looking perforated facade with floor-to-ceiling windows. The interior of the quarter is characterized by loggias in front of it that are built like shelves and are approximately 2.5 meters deep. Regardless of the size of the adjacent apartment, all loggias are identical in size and have a glass balustrade.