Ein Fahrrad steht vor gelben Sitzmöbeln in der Straße.

Public – urban spaces for everyone

Bike Tour of Frankfurt Petrol Stations and Lecture

July2025
11
Fr
13:00
BDA Hessen & Janis Bärenfänger
BDA Hessen

When? 11 July 2025, 15:00
What? Bicycle Tour of Frankfurt’s Petrol Stations
Start: Braubachstraße 3, Frankfurt

19:00 Lecture by Janis Bärenfänger: The Petrol Station in Film

Accompanying the exhibition Fifty Something Gasoline Stations – Taking Stock of a Disappearing Urban Element.

Petrol stations are more than just infrastructure for cars. They serve as small local suppliers, places of communication, spaces of nostalgia, glowing landmarks – but also as representatives of a vast fossil fuel industry. For decades, they have been a familiar part of our urban landscape. But petrol stations are gradually disappearing: the transition to sustainable mobility and electromobility is leading to the obsolescence of the classic fossil-fuel station, making it a relic of a bygone era.

The exhibition documents all operational and, since 2020, closed fossil-fuel stations in the city of Frankfurt am Main, accompanied by explanatory infographics.

Public – urban spaces for everyone
Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA Hessen e.V.
Das Projekt stellt öffentliche Räume zur Diskussion und sensibilisiert für eine erweiterte Vorstellung von öffentlichem Raum und dessen Bedeutung für die demokratische Gesellschaft.