Niederrad is a district or Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Germany

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 with about 23.000 Inhabitants. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Süd, and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Niederrad-Nord and Niederrad-Süd.

History

The district is mainly designated as residential area. It includes the urban planners in the 1920s by Ernst May

Ernst May

Ernst May was a German architect and city planner.May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during Germany's Weimar period, and in 1930 less successfully exported those ideas to Soviet Union cities, newly created under Stalinist rule...

, resulting Allotment Bruchfeldstraße and the Adolf-Miersch settlement and the settlement in the main field. The purchasing power is 22,067 euros per capita (as of 2009).

Situation

Niederrad is the site of the western part of the University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt naming of some important institutions, but the racecourse Niederrad is located administratively in the district of Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen may refer to:* Sachsenhausen , a quarter of Oranienburg, Germany* Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a detention and extermination facility established there in 1936...

 and the Niederrad business district belongs almost exclusively to the District Schwanheim

Schwanheim

There are communes and places that have the name Schwanheim in Germany:*Schwanheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Südwestpfalz district, Rhineland-Palatinate*Schwanheim , a district of Frankfurt...

, more precisely, its settlement Goldstein. Also the sewage treatment plant is located just adjacent to Niederrad Schwanheim.

Weblinks

• Niederrad on the Francfortsite (german)