The asparagus in Ginnheim is unique.

Questions of taste as to its shape and design are superfluous.

He is slim, tall.

Its tip is characterized by a very unusual feature.

Seven rings caress her almost playfully, delicately.

An aesthetic delight.

Especially when the asparagus, as a nocturnal plant, is obsessed with its speciality.

As a sign of its class, the tip doesn't bother with the usual pale violet, it can change colors - red, green or, in the case of extremely dangerous turbulence from the east, blue-yellow.

The Ginnheimer "spargel" - we now put the quotation marks correctly - cannot of course be pricked, it is not suitable for consumption.

Residents of this part of Frankfurt, and not just them, are familiar with the linguistic gimmick used to describe the telecommunications tower on Ginnheimer Stadtweg, built in 1979 and 337 meters high.

However, the official name should not be concealed: Europaturm.

End of the rush of heights

Last but not least, the top plant is characterized by its unique selling point, it is unrivaled, so to speak.

The skyscrapers that are increasingly dominating Frankfurt city center are far away, the Ginnheim perspective makes them small.

Anyone approaching Frankfurt will recognize from afar: there is the "Spargel", there is Ginnheim.

For twenty years the pulpit (with a restaurant) below the top was open to visitors - with a great all-round view.

Safety concerns put an end to the rush of heights.

The "asparagus" - we don't want to hide that either - is strictly speaking not a Ginnheimer.

It was built between Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse and Ginnheimer Stadtweg, the address of which it also has.

This is only a very short distance, but the site is already part of the Bockenheim district, and the border runs along Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße.

So it is not the A 66 Frankfurt-Wiesbaden that, as one might assume, legally separates the two parts of the city.

So far, however, the Bockenheimers have not reacted with a harsh note to the appropriation of their growing area.

The Deutsche Bundesbank with the address Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse also resides on Bockenheimer land.

Nothing is known of attempts to assign them to Ginnheim like the "asparagus".

Ginnheim.

Let's stop flying high and get down to earth.

Let's start with what Ginnheim doesn't have.

It does not have a shopping street with a wide range of offers such as the Schweizer Straße in Sachsenhausen, the "Berger" in Bornheim, the "Leipziger" in Bockenheim.

This also eliminates what you could call a “promenade”, i.e. a space with potential for staying and communicating.

Consequently, there is no pub "scene" that would be identified with the district, as in Sachsenhausen.

Cultural offers in the broadest sense hardly get beyond smaller circles.

Ginnheim - so left behind, neglected, left behind?

Somehow still a village, wedged between heavily loaded traffic axes?

The wallflower of the big city?

Before we get into the questions: