Saalgasse

From the Middle Ages to the destruction of the city on 22 March 1944, the Saal, together with the more northerly alte Markt and the central Bendergasse, formed one of the three east-west traffic axes of the Old Town.

Initially the street was called Saalhofgasse after the imposing Saalhof, but in the seventeenth century it was shortened to Saalgasse.

[2] After the war it was decided that with the exception of some important historical buildings, the old town would not be rebuilt.

However, part of the Saalgasse remained undeveloped until the eighties when the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt was built.

[3] Today it is an access road to a residential area from the 1950s; on its northern side there are post-modern town houses from the 1980s.