Bendergasse

From the Middle Ages till the destruction in the air raid on 22 March 1944, it formed one of the main streets in the old town centre.

Also near here were two important historic buildings known as the Scharnhäuser which had connections to the early life of the German writer Johann von Goethe.

On the southern end, the streets Dreckgäßchen and Lange Schirn, and further west the small alley Gläsergäßchen between houses 29 and 31 which connected the Bendergasse with Saalgasse.

Leopold Mozart scratched the inscription in the window of his accommodation with his ring: In the 19th century, wealthy citizens left the old town and moved to the new districts outside the ramparts.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were trams and major road breakthroughs on Braubachstrasse and Bethmannstrasse streets but they did not reach this part of the old town.

The emerging tourism made Frankfurt's old town a popular travel destination and the Gothic canyon of Bendergasse was a frequently photographed postcard motif.

[citation needed] In May 1947, the Frankfurt magistrate decided that a comprehensive restoration of the old town was out of the question, apart from a few striking monuments.

[citation needed] While the general construction in the old town began in 1952 and was essentially completed in 1960, the area between the cathedral and the Römer remained a wasteland and the future shape of it was long debated.

[citation needed] As part of the Dom-Römer project, the archaeological garden with the preserved remains of the Roman settlement and the Carolingian-Ottonian royal palatinate Frankfurt was built over.