The photo was taken during the “Move your quarters” campaign in 2021. (Photo: Simon Malz) Johannes-Morhart-Straße will be closed for four weeks
As early as September 2021, Johannes-Mohart-Straße between JuZ-Nordend and the playground was closed as part of the “1 Month Future – 1 Month Nordend” campaign. This project will be repeated during the summer holidays of 2023 and extended to four weeks from July 31st to August 25th.
The district management at Nordend has thought ahead and is making the area available primarily to children and young people. “The Nordend offers families and especially children and young people few opportunities to meet outdoors, play together or just enjoy the summer. It’s all the nicer that the ‘Bewegte Straße’ makes encounters and exchanges possible during the summer holidays,” says City Treasurer and Social Affairs Director Martin Wilhelm enthusiastically.
Various activities are planned on the square together with the JuZ-Nordend, the girls’ floor and other participants from the district. Football and volleyball, handicrafts, visits to the Spielmobil and concerts will shape the days for the visitors. Special highlights are small concerts on Fridays and an open-air cinema on Thursday, August 17, from 8 p.m. “Using the road means great added value for our work in the north end!” says the head of JuZ-Nordend Sebastian Wenzlitschke happily.
The project is financed from the prize money for the “Hans Sauer Prize 2023” and the disposal fund of the urban development support program “Social Cohesion Offenbach Nordend”. 30 districts took part in the competition for the Hans Sauer Prize 2023 and eight districts were awarded in the three categories social/fair, ecological and spatial at the conference “It’s moving something” – mobility projects in the district in Munich, the district Nordend belonged to. The disposal fund offers initiatives, private individuals or groups the opportunity to facilitate projects easily via the neighborhood management and the Nordend Round Table.
“The four-week closure can be a start to further thinking about the use of roads in the north end,” explains neighborhood manager Marcus Schenk. “Most of the open spaces in the north end are used for streets and parking spaces. That inevitably leads to problems in such a densely populated district.” A permanent closure of Johannes-Morhart-Strasse is being discussed as part of the urban development funding program.
The idea of a traffic-calmed super block in the north end has already found interested citizens and the HfG has taken up the topic theoretically with its study work “OFblock – design of a super block”. Such projects have already been successfully implemented in Barcelona and people experience a better quality of life.
(Text: PM City of Offenbach)
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