GATEWAY TO EUROPE ─ SINCE 1945
The whole thing started with the Americans. They established an air base at the airport in 1945 as the “gateway to Europe”. Three years later they sent off 100,000 “candy bombers” from here to blockaded Berlin. For the next 44 years Gateway Gardens was a little bit of America in Germany: Besides supermarkets, a movie theatre, a church, schools, a youth centre and a kindergarden of their own, 1,200 residents in 300 flats even had their very own newspaper, “The Gateway”.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Americans returned Gateway Gardens to the City of Frankfurt am Main. Today the town develops Gateway Gardens together with three partners from the private economic sector: Fraport, Gross & Partner and OFB. The rest is history ─ and the future.
