A great if unnecessary pity which I shall miss. 700 yd from City Center 400 yd from Zeilgalerie Situated 10 minutes walk from Frankfurt am Mains downtown and less than 10 minutes on foot from Kleinmarkthalle, this hotel offers a satellite flat - screen, a bar and a cable flat-screen. In order that shoppers in the pedestrian area are not unduly disturbed by the rebuilding the transportation of debris is only allowed during 10 o'clock in the evening and 9.30 the following morning. In 2015, due to the fact that only 50% of the building with rental costs of around €250 per square metre was still occupied, It was therefore decided on financial grounds to demolish the building which has now started. At the top there was a cinema and also, the best of all, a small observation tower giving you a fantastic view over all of Frankfurt. However it was regular fun to go into the store going up on the multi-escalators and coming circuling down from floor to floor on foot looking into the usually small boutique shops but not really buying anything. Goodbye Zeil Galerie!īuilt in 1992 by the bankrupt architect Jürgen Schneider - one of the greatest finance scandals of the last 20 years - this shopping gallery was always a financial flop. A great if unnecessary pity which I shall miss. Die Idee des Bauunternehmers Jrgen Schneider war es, die Kaufhuser der Zeil vom Kaufhof bis zum Karstadt ber Dachterrassen zugngig zu machen. Das Foto zeigt den Steg, der von der Kaufhofterrasse zu den Terrassen der ZeilGalerie fhrte. However it was regular fun to go into the store going up on the multi-escalators and coming circuling down from floor to floor on foot looking into the usually small boutique shops but not really buying anything. Zeil - vor dem Abriss der faszinierenden ZeilGalerie. In its bottom right part, the engraving depicts the Pope, a Cardinal, a Jesuit high official (probably Superior General of the Order) and Prince Primates of the Holy Roman Empire gathered in a cave.Built in 1992 by the bankrupt architect Jürgen Schneider - one of the greatest finance scandals of the last 20 years - this shopping gallery was always a financial flop. They are discussing the upcoming anti-Protestant measures. To the left, the Jesuit is getting money from a wealthy nobleman for an anti-Protestant propaganda, nevertheless to no effect. Behind these figures in the house there are: a Jesuit, several released and deserter mercenaries, as well as a range of other villains the inscription above their heads goes: “Hic Inferis erat in terra Praesidium”, which means: “Here is hell on earth”. In the sky we can see the God wearing a Jesuit biretta and holding the insignia “IHS” with the nails and the pierced heart. In the background, various scenes take place, allegorically representing subversive activity of the Jesuits and the Catholic Church against the Protestants, or so-called Counter-Reformation. There are for instance big fish eating small ones ships in the sea with the inscriptions warning that the sea is infested with evil sea fish two beasts of prey chasing a stork with an accompanying explanation that this is an evidence that the piety is being persecuted two foxes attacking a chick, meaning that the malicious preponderance brutally exterminates the innocent and defenceless two cats attacking a mouse – a game naturally ending up with the death of the weak mouse, etc. Der Abriss der Zeilgalerie setzt einen Schlussstrich unter die jahrelangen Schwierigkeiten, die die Besitzer mit dem unorthodoxen Einkaufszentrum hatten. The texts in the engraving are mainly in Dutch. At the top to the right we can see the siege of a town attacked by an army and hit by the bullets and shots of an artillery. A brief explanatory text in German (quoted above) is written below the image. Katalogová čísla: Collection Český Šternberk, kód: 424/59 Original name: Der Jesuiten grosse Klag, wegen ihrer verlohrenen Häuser, insonderheit in Deutschland. This leaflet issued by the Protestant party mocks the failures sustained by the imperial army and the Catholic Church, in particular by the Jesuits, when several times defeated in Germany around the year 1630.
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