Deutsche Bundesbank Headquarters, Central bank headquarters in Bockenheim, Germany.
The Deutsche Bundesbank Headquarters is a brutalist office tower at Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße 14 in Bockenheim, designed by the ABB office of Otto Apel, Hannsgeorg Beckert and engineer Gilbert Becker. Its cornerstone was laid in 1967 and staff moved in in 1972. The slab is 217 metres long but under 17 metres wide, rising 54 metres over 13 storeys. Smaller buildings surround it, among them the main cashier's building, a guest house, the money museum and newer office blocks.
The brutalist structure was completed in 1972 by architects Otto Apel and Hannsgeorg Beckert, marking Frankfurt's rise as a major European financial center. The architectural design symbolized the desire to represent a permanent and secure institution.
The Miquelanlage park next to the tower was laid out in the early 1970s with the new building and named after Johannes von Miquel, Frankfurt's mayor from 1880 to 1890 and later Prussian finance minister. It received the "Vorbildliches Bauen in Hessen" award in 1978. Its roughly 5,000-square-metre pond gained a fountain and a small bridge in a 2002 renovation.
The site lies on the former Diebsgrundweg in Bockenheim, between Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße and the A66; the section is often wrongly counted as neighbouring Ginnheim. Since 1 July 2015 the Bundespolizei has guarded the grounds under § 5 BPolG, so the perimeter is fenced and not open to walkers. The adjacent Miquelanlage park is public and linked by footbridges to the Grüneburgpark, Europaturm and Niddapark.
The site also holds part of Germany's gold reserves, guarded by the Bundespolizei since 1 July 2015 under the Bundespolizeiinspektion Deutsche Bundesbank. The adjacent Miquelanlage park, laid out with the building in the early 1970s, was named after Johannes von Miquel, Frankfurt's mayor from 1880 to 1890, and received the "Vorbildliches Bauen in Hessen" award in 1978.
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