Praunheim is a quarter of
Frankfurt am Main
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,
Germany
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. It is part of the ''
Ortsbezirk Mitte-West'' and is subdivided into five ''Stadtbezirke'': Praunheim, Praunheim-Nord, Praunheim-Süd, Alt-Praunheim and Westhausen.
It is located along the north bank of the river
Nidda and is composed of two areas: ''Alt Praunheim'' (old Praunheim), a typical Hessian village with a central commercial street and some timber beam houses, located to the east and the ''Siedlung Praunheim'', a residential development built in the 1920s under the auspices of town planner
Ernst May
Ernst May (27 July 1886 – 11 September 1970) was a List of German architects, German architect and :German urban planners, city planner.
May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar R ...
located to the west. The development comprises 1500 houses that were built from 1926 through 1929.
Praunheim belonged to the
Archbishopric of Mainz. Ecclesiastical Middle Authority was the Archdeacon of the provost of
St. Peter in Mainz.
Notable residents of Praunheim have included the
jazz
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trombonist
Albert Mangelsdorff, his brother, the saxophonist
Emil Mangelsdorff and film maker
Rosa von Praunheim
Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In ov ...
.
References
Districts of Frankfurt
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