Dornbusch (Frankfurt am Main)

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  Map of Frankfurt's quarters, Dornbusch in light blue in the northern middle
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  Map of Frankfurt's Ortsbezirke, Dornbusch lying in number 9
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  Location of Ortsbezirk Mitte-Nord (number 9) within Frankfurt
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  Subdivision of Ortsbezirk Mitte-Nord into Dornbusch, Eschersheim, and Ginnheim

Dornbusch is crossed by the so called Line A of the Frankfurt Subway. Line A is the oldest part of the subway, opened in 1968. There are three subway stations in Dornbusch. These are from south to north:

• "Dornbusch (Hessischer Rundfunk)" (Thornbush (Hessian Broadcasting))
• "Fritz-Tarnow-Straße" (Fritz-Tarnow-Street) and
• "Hügelstraße" (Hill Street)

The next station to the north, "Lindenbaum" (Linden Tree), is already located in Eschersheim. All three stations in Dornbusch are served by lines

• U1 (Frankfurt Süd → Ginnheim)
• U2 (Frankfurt Süd → Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim)
• U3 (Frankfurt Süd → Oberursel-Hohemark) and
• U8 (Frankfurt Süd → Riedberg)

Although the stations are called U-Bahn stations (Untergrundbahn = underground train), all of them are located above ground in the middle of Eschersheimer Landstraße (Eschersheim Country Road). The U-Bahn tracks cannot be crossed except at the stations, and hence divide Dornbusch into a western and an eastern part. The subway enters the tunnel south of Dornbusch in the direction of the city center, between the stations "Dornbusch (Hessischer Rundfunk)" and "Miquel-/Adickesallee/Polizeipräsidium" (Miquel-/Adickes Avenue/Police Headquarters), which is the first station located underground. Via the stations "Holzhausenstraße" (Holzhausen Street), "Grüneburgweg" (Grüneburg Way) and "Eschenheimer Tor" (Eschenheim Gate), the subway reaches the city centre of Frankfurt at the station "Hauptwache/Zeil" (Main Police Station/Zeil).

Line B (U5 Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof → Preungesheim) also touches Dornbusch's territory. The stations

• "Hauptfriedhof" (Main Cemetery) and
• "Neuer Jüdischer Friedhof" (New Jewish Cemetery) (currently closed; will be newly constructed)

are on the border between Dornbusch and Nordend-West, and the station

• "Marbachweg/Sozialzentrum" (Marbach Way/Social Centre)

is on the border between Dornbusch and Eckenheim.

Anne Frank's first residence at Marbachweg 307, where she lived from 1929 to 1931, is located in the middle between the stations "Dornbusch (Hessischer Rundfunk)" of line A in the west, and "Marbachweg/Sozialzentrum" of line B in the east, east of Eschersheimer Landstraße, while her second residence at Ganghoferstraße 24, where she resided from 1931 to 1933, is located between the stations "Fritz-Tarnow-Straße" and "Hügelstraße", west of Eschersheimer Landstraße. Ganghoferstraße is located in the "Dichterviertel" (Poets' Quarter), an upper class neighbourhood where the streets are named after famous poets. When the Franks resided there, Marbachweg 307 still belonged to Frankfurt-Eckenheim, while Ganghoferstraße 24 lay in Frankfurt-Ginnheim. Dornbusch was only created in 1946 out of parts of Eckenheim and Ginnheim. In 1933, Edith, Margot and Anne Frank moved to Edith's mother at Pastorplatz 1 in Aachen before settling in Amsterdam.

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  Stele in front of the Franks' first home (1927-1931) at Marbachweg 307
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  The Franks' second home (1931-1933) at Ganghoferstraße 24
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki, born in 1920 in Włocławek, lived at Gustav-Freytag-Straße 36, at the intersection with Fritz-Reuter-Straße, in the Poets' Quarter, west of the subway station Fritz-Tarnow-Straße, from 1974 until 2013.

• Anne Frank
• Margot Frank
• Edith Frank (née Holländer)
• Otto Frank
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki