Palais Quartier

Logo of the Palais Quartier

Palais Quartier seen from the Main Tower

MyZeil entrance seen from the Zeil

The Palais Quartier (German: [paˈleː kvaʁˌtiːɐ̯]), formerly known as FrankfurtHochVier, is a building complex in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was built from 2004 to 2011.

The complex consists of four buildings:

• MyZeil, a shopping mall with a gross leaseable area of 77,000 sq m
• Palais Thurn und Taxis, a reconstruction of a palace from 1793 which had been badly damaged in World War II
• Nextower, a 136-meter (446 ft)-high rise office building with a floor area of 48,000 sq m
• JW Marriott Frankfurt (Jumeirah Frankfurt until April 2022), a 99-meter (325 ft)-high rise hotel building with 271 units

Beneath the complex lies the largest underground car park in Frankfurt's city centre with 1,396 parking positions.

Location

Palais Quartier is located on a 1.7-acre (0.69 ha) area between Frankfurt's main shopping street, the Zeil, and the historic Eschenheim Tower.

History

The site had been used for decades by Deutsche Post as the main post office in Frankfurt. It was sold to an investor in 2002 and plans were made for a new building complex including a large shopping mall because the site borders the Zeil, Frankfurt's top-selling shopping street. The demolition of the old post buildings, including one of Frankfurt's first high rise buildings, the 69-meter (226 ft)-high Fernmeldehochhaus, began in 2004, but legal disputes delayed the construction works for several months.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
• List of tallest buildings in Germany
• List of shopping malls in Germany
• MyZeil
• Palais Thurn und Taxis