Depot Bockenheim, Former tram depot and theatre venue in Bockenheim, Frankfurt, Germany

Depot Bockenheim is a former tram depot whose main hall, built in 1900, is a three-nave structure of unplastered yellow brick with red cornices and ornamental bands. The central nave rises 12 metres, the side aisles 5.40 metres, and the hall covers 75 by 30 metres. The gable end has four pillars, a brick arch with a semicircular window, a clock and two pinnacles.

The building was constructed around 1900 as a tram depot and main workshop for Frankfurt's streetcar system. It replaced an earlier wooden structure that had served for horse-drawn trams.

The hall belongs to the City of Frankfurt and is used mainly by Oper Frankfurt, Schauspiel Frankfurt and occasionally the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. The opera stages Baroque works and contemporary music theatre here, including the German premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's Nacht in 2005 and Peter Eötvös's Der goldene Drache in 2014. From 1995 to 2004 the Theater am Turm performed in the building.

The location sits at Carlo-Schmid-Platz 1 and connects to multiple transit options including U-Bahn lines U4, U6, and U7 at Bockenheimer Warte station and tram line 16. Access depends on scheduled events, so check ahead before planning a visit.

The roof's semicircular timber arch trusses follow a system published by French Renaissance builder Philibert de l'Orme; the German Wikipedia notes the same construction survives in the dome hall of TU Wien. The central nave rises 12 metres, the side aisles 5.40 metres, under a span of 75 by 30 metres.