# Gewerkschaftshaus Frankfurt

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In Frankfurt’s Gutleutviertel, Gewerkschaftshaus Frankfurt presents a listed office building shaped by functionalist architecture. The architectural firm Taut & Hoffmann designed the building. Inaugurated in 1931, it rises with a steel skeleton and large glass surfaces. Its original programme included offices, a hotel, restaurants, and event halls. The design belongs to the New Frankfurt period and brought modern forms into a former residential area. That contrast led to criticism and a legal dispute.

The unions won the case, while the court barred the hotel and garden restaurant from operating. National Socialists seized the building after banning free labour unions. The German Labour Front used it as a House of Labor, but planned monumental extensions never appeared. Free trade unions regained control of the building in 1946. The building serves as headquarters for the German Trade Union Confederation, Hesse-Thuringia, Frankfurt-Rhine-Main, and ver.di’s Frankfurt district and region. The listed building connects Frankfurt’s labour history with its architectural record. This Frankfurt location is recorded as wheelchair accessible.

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