Frankfurt Am Main-Stadtbefestigung-Projektion Gegenwart

The Wallanlagen (lit., "Wall Park") is a

park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

area in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

which forms a five-kilometre-long green belt around the city centre. The parklands run along the course of the former

city walls A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications with towers, bastions and gates ...

, which were built from the 14th century and which were torn down in the early 19th century. The former course of the city wall was landscaped as a park between 1804 and 1812. The Wallanlagen parklands are commonly divided into seven areas, which are usually named after the former

city gate A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. Uses City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods ...

s. They are the ''Untermainanlage'', the ''Gallusanlage'', the ''Taunusanlage'', the ''Bockenheimer Anlage'', the ''Eschenheimer Anlage'', the ''Friedberger Anlage'' and the ''Obermainanlage''.Benno Reifenberg: Der Anlagenring. In: ''Das Einzigartige von Frankfurt''. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1979.

Gallery

File:Frankfurt Taunusanlage.20130418.jpg, Taunusanlage File:Bockenheimer Anlage, Frankfurt.jpg, Bockenheimer Anlage File:Theaterbrunnen-ffm001.jpg, Märchenbrunnen ("Fairy Tale Fountain")

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{{Coord missing, Germany Frankfurt Parks in Germany