Heusenstamm
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Heusenstamm is a town of over 18,000 in the Offenbach district
in the Regierungsbezirk
of Darmstadt
in Hesse
, Germany
.
. The lowest natural point is the Bieber’s riverbed, and the highest is the aptly named Hoher Berg (“High Mountain”). To the southwest is found Darmstadt
, the seat of the Regierungsbezirk. Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the low mountain ranges of the Odenwald
and Spessart
.
, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau
, in the south on the town of Dietzenbach
, and in the west on the town of Dreieich
.
Also constituting Stadtteile of a kind are the residential neighbourhoods of Waldesruhe and Patershausen.
and that he had further bestowed these holdings upon Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm. The place was later called Husinstam and, beginning in the 15th century, Heussenstain. About the middle of the 12th century, Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm had a moated castle built here. From the Middle Ages
until 1819, Heusenstamm and Rembrücken belonged to the Biebermark, an area held in common with several other villages.
After the Lords of Eppstein
died out, their position was filled by the new feudal lords, the Counts of Königstein
, and later, beginning in 1581, by the Elector of Mainz
. In 1545, Sebastian von Heusenstamm was chosen Archbishop-Elector of Mainz. In 1560 Eberhard von Heusenstamm gave leave to introduce Protestantism
, but Roman Catholicism was reintroduced in 1607.
After the Lords of Heusenstamm died out in 1616, the castle and the lordship passed to the family’s Austrian sideline, who then leased the place to the Frankfurt patrician Stephan von Cronstetten. During the Thirty Years' War
, the village and the castle were almost utterly destroyed. In 1661, the lordship over Heusenstamm, to which also belonged the places of Obertshausen and Hausen, was sold to the Mainz Oberamtmann (chief local administrator) Philipp Erwein von Schönborn.
When Emperor Franz I
was living at Schloss Heusenstamm in 1764 on the occasion of his son’s coronation (Goethe
relates the event in his Dichtung und Wahrheit
), an ostentatious tower was built in his honour, which stands to this day. In 1806, the Schönborn Amt of Heusenstamm with Obertshausen and Hausen was put under the Princes of Isenburg
-Birstein. The Amt of Heusenstamm then passed to the Hesse-Darmstadt
. In 1819, when the Biebermark was partitioned, Heusenstamm got its share of the forest. In 1896, the railway line from Offenbach by way of Heusenstamm to Dietzenbach, a branchline of the Rodgaubahn from Offenbach to Dieburg, was opened.
On 26 May 1959, Heusenstamm was granted town rights, thereby sidestepping Offenbach’s efforts to absorb the community. Instead, the new town itself expanded by absorbing one of its neighbours, Rembrücken, in 1977 in the course of municipal reform. In 1978, the town bought the estate of Patershausen, the Klosterwald and the Forst Patershausen (both wooded properties) as well as the Forst Heusenstamm (another wooded property) from Rudolf Graf von Schönborn (“Graf” being his noble title, “Count”). The castle the town likewise acquired in 1979 from the Counts of Schönborn, converting it in the year that followed into the Town Hall.
might be described thus: Argent an oaktree eradicated sprouting six leaves vert with three acorns Or, and a chief dancetty gules.
The chief (the red part at the top of the escutcheon) with its dancetty (zigzag) edge is drawn from the arms once borne by the Lords of Heusenstamm. The oak with the six leaves and three acorns symbolizes the affiliation with the Dreieich (which literally means “Three Oak”).
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and the Plague. Since then, the population has been rising almost continuously and only in the latest times has a slight decrease been noted.
Among the sights worth seeing in Heusenstamm are the three churches. The Catholic Saint Cecilia’s Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia) was built in 1739 by Johann Balthasar Neumann by appointment from Countess Maria Theresia von Schönborn, and it was given its famous ceiling frescoes in 1741 from Christoph Thomas Scheffler
. The sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera created the high altar. The Electoral Mainz court carpenter Franz Anton Herrmann made the pulpit, the choir stalls, the Communion bench, sacristy table and tabernacle table.
The likewise Catholic Parish Church Maria Himmelskron was built in 1956. One special gem is the Evangelical
Gustav Adolf Kirche. It was completed in 1923 with its striking onion dome
and steep roof with Swedish
and American support. Owing to the hyperinflation of the day
, the project’s total cost amounted to 73,004,221,367,662 Marks
and 17 Pfennigs.
Important sport clubs in Heusenstamm are:
interchange
, putting Frankfurt Airport
, by way of the Frankfurter Kreuz
only a short drive away. Not far away is also the A 661
with its Neu-Isenburg
interchange.
The town, lying on a branch of the Rodgaubahn (railway), has since late 2003 been linked by Line S2 (Niedernhausen
-Dietzenbach
) to the Rhine-Main S-Bahn
network. The building work around the railway station (bus station
, inn at the old station, railway station square) was completed in 2006. The S-Bahn runs to Offenbach’s and Frankfurt’s
city centres and the Frankfurt Main Railway Station
. On weekdays trains are half-hourly, and have since late 2006 been run with modern DBAG Class 423
rolling stock. Booster trains in the rush hours do not go through the Frankfurt City-Tunnel, but rather to Offenbach Main Railway Station.
Heusenstamm benefits from its proximity to the Frankfurt am Main economic centre and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, as well as from the very good transport connections.
In the town itself and into neighbouring places run various buslines, among others route OF-30 to the outlying centre of Rembrücken. At night and on the weekends from Saturday afternoon, a share taxi
takes over public transport within town, including Rembrücken.
Most established firms and businesses in Heusenstamm have organized themselves into the Gewerbeverein Heusenstamm e.V. (business association). Shopping opportunities are concentrated downtown on Frankfurter Straße, at the shopping centre Alte Linde and at ALDI
and toom on Werner-von-Siemens-Straße in the industrial zone.
The biggest employer in the town of Heusenstamm is Deutsche Telekom AG
with several hundred positions. The daughter business T-Systems
Business Services GmbH and the landline division maintain great real estate holdings in the town of Heusenstamm. Besides the many small and midsize businesses, the three great international firms Levi Strauss & Co.
, Kenwood Electronics and Konica Minolta Business Solutions
have their German representation here. Furthermore, BKK Mobil Oil, through its merger in 2008 with the former Krankenkasse Eintracht Heusenstamm (both the old and merged companies are institutions for sponsoring health insurance
), has a seat here.
) kindergartens and three further ones in municipal sponsorship. Moreover, there are two daycare associations.
-Schule, the Otto-Hahn
-Schule and the Matthias-Claudius
-Schule. Secondary schools are the Adolf-Reichwein
-Schule (Hauptschule
and Realschule
, ARS for short) and the Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium
(ARG). In 2004, the Schule am Goldberg was opened, a special school for pupils with intellectual handicaps but who are trainable, with a section for those who also have physical handicaps. Adult education is handled by the Volkshochschule
Heusenstamm.
Offenbach (district)
Offenbach is a Kreis in the south of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Neighbourhood districts are Main-Kinzig, Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Groß-Gerau and the cities of Darmstadt, Frankfurt and Offenbach.-History:The district Offenbach was first...
in the Regierungsbezirk
Regierungsbezirk
In Germany, a Government District, in German: Regierungsbezirk – is a subdivision of certain federal states .They are above the Kreise, Landkreise, and kreisfreie Städte...
of Darmstadt
Darmstadt (region)
Darmstadt is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the south of the state.- External links :*...
in Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, Germany
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.
Geography
Location
The town lies on the river Bieber. Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district. The town lies in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region south of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main at an average elevation of 121 m above sea levelSea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
. The lowest natural point is the Bieber’s riverbed, and the highest is the aptly named Hoher Berg (“High Mountain”). To the southwest is found Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
, the seat of the Regierungsbezirk. Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the low mountain ranges of the Odenwald
Odenwald
The Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Upper Rhine Rift Valley with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of...
and Spessart
Spessart
The Spessart is a low mountain range in northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse, Germany. It is bordered on three sides by the Main River. The two most important towns located at the foot of the Spessart are Aschaffenburg and Würzburg....
.
Neighbouring communities
Heusenstamm borders in the north on the district-free city of Offenbach am Main, in the northeast on the town of ObertshausenObertshausen
Obertshausen is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:-Location:Obertshausen is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district...
, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau
Rodgau
Rodgau is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It lies southeast of Frankfurt am Main in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and has the greatest population of any municipality in the Offenbach district...
, in the south on the town of Dietzenbach
Dietzenbach
Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the river Bieber. Before the Second World War, the current town was a farming village with not quite 4,000 inhabitants...
, and in the west on the town of Dreieich
Dreieich
Dreieich is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It lies roughly 10 km south of Frankfurt am Main and with more than 40,000 inhabitants is the district’s second biggest town.- Location :...
.
Constituent communities
Heusenstamm’s Stadtteile are Heusenstamm, with 16,266 inhabitants and Rembrücken, with 2,116 inhabitants (each time at 31 December 2006).Also constituting Stadtteile of a kind are the residential neighbourhoods of Waldesruhe and Patershausen.
History
In 1211, Heusenstamm had its first documentary mention in an Eppstein fief book in which Gottfried of Eppstein documented that he held the castle and village of Huselstam in fief from the EmpireHoly Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...
and that he had further bestowed these holdings upon Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm. The place was later called Husinstam and, beginning in the 15th century, Heussenstain. About the middle of the 12th century, Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm had a moated castle built here. From the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
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until 1819, Heusenstamm and Rembrücken belonged to the Biebermark, an area held in common with several other villages.
After the Lords of Eppstein
Lords of Eppstein
The Lords of Eppstein were a family of German nobility in the Middle Ages. From the 12th century they ruled extensive territories in the Rhine Main area from their castle in Eppstein, northwest of Frankfurt, Germany.-History:...
died out, their position was filled by the new feudal lords, the Counts of Königstein
Königstein im Taunus
Königstein im Taunus is a climatic spa and lies on the thickly wooded slopes of the Taunus in Hesse, Germany. Owing to its advantageous location for both scenery and transport on the edge of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, Königstein is a favourite residential town...
, and later, beginning in 1581, by the Elector of Mainz
Archbishopric of Mainz
The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps...
. In 1545, Sebastian von Heusenstamm was chosen Archbishop-Elector of Mainz. In 1560 Eberhard von Heusenstamm gave leave to introduce Protestantism
Protestantism
Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
, but Roman Catholicism was reintroduced in 1607.
After the Lords of Heusenstamm died out in 1616, the castle and the lordship passed to the family’s Austrian sideline, who then leased the place to the Frankfurt patrician Stephan von Cronstetten. During the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
, the village and the castle were almost utterly destroyed. In 1661, the lordship over Heusenstamm, to which also belonged the places of Obertshausen and Hausen, was sold to the Mainz Oberamtmann (chief local administrator) Philipp Erwein von Schönborn.
When Emperor Franz I
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
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was living at Schloss Heusenstamm in 1764 on the occasion of his son’s coronation (Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
relates the event in his Dichtung und Wahrheit
Dichtung und Wahrheit
Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar....
), an ostentatious tower was built in his honour, which stands to this day. In 1806, the Schönborn Amt of Heusenstamm with Obertshausen and Hausen was put under the Princes of Isenburg
Isenburg
Isenburg was a region of Germany located in southern present-day Hesse, located in territories north and south of Frankfurt. The states of Isenburg emerged from the Niederlahngau , which partitioned in 1137 into Isenburg-Isenburg and Isenburg-Limburg-Covern...
-Birstein. The Amt of Heusenstamm then passed to the Hesse-Darmstadt
Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine , or, between 1806 and 1816, Grand Duchy of Hesse —as it was also known after 1816—was a member state of the German Confederation from 1806, when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to a Grand Duchy, until 1918, when all the German...
. In 1819, when the Biebermark was partitioned, Heusenstamm got its share of the forest. In 1896, the railway line from Offenbach by way of Heusenstamm to Dietzenbach, a branchline of the Rodgaubahn from Offenbach to Dieburg, was opened.
Coat of arms
The town’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Argent an oaktree eradicated sprouting six leaves vert with three acorns Or, and a chief dancetty gules.
The chief (the red part at the top of the escutcheon) with its dancetty (zigzag) edge is drawn from the arms once borne by the Lords of Heusenstamm. The oak with the six leaves and three acorns symbolizes the affiliation with the Dreieich (which literally means “Three Oak”).
Town council
The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:| Parties and voter communities | % 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
|
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 50.1 | 19 | 47.3 | 17 |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
20.6 | 7 | 23.2 | 9 |
| GREENS | Bündnis 90/Die Grünen | 11.9 | 4 | 10.6 | 4 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... |
7.2 | 3 | 5.9 | 2 |
| FWH | Freie Wähler Heusenstamm | 10.2 | 4 | – | – |
| Bürgerblock | Bürgerblock | – | – | 12.9 | 5 |
| Total | 100.0 | 37 | 100.0 | 37 | |
| Voter turnout in % | 46.0 | 51.3 | |||
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- Heinrich Augenthaler (1876 - 1885)
- Franz Winter (1885 - 1899)
- Adam Kraus (1899 - 1902)
- Joseph Kämmerer (1904-1933 - eventually SPD)
National Socialist times
- Heinrich Fickel (1933-1934 - NSDAP)
- Gustav Korn (1934-1936 - NSDAP)
- Hans Kuntsche (1936-1937 - NSDAP)
- Fritz Bosche (1937-1938 - NSDAP)
- Franz Wessiepe (1939-1945 - NSDAP)
Federal Republic of Germany
- Franz-Josef Amerschläger (1948-1956 - CDU)
- Johann Anton Hemberger (1956-1977 - independent)
- Adolf Kessler (1977-1987 - CDU)
- Josef Eckstein (1987-2003 - CDU)
- Peter Jakoby (since 2003 - CDU)
Town partnerships
Saint-Savin (also called Saint-Savin sur Gartempe), VienneVienne
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, France
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since 1969 Tonbridge
Tonbridge
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, Kent
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, England
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, United Kingdom
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since 1984 Malle
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, Antwerp
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, Belgium
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since 1991 Ladispoli
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, Lazio, Italy
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since 2001
Population development
In the late 16th century, Heusenstamm had roughly 250 inhabitants. Almost all of them, however, fell victim to the Thirty Years' WarThirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
and the Plague. Since then, the population has been rising almost continuously and only in the latest times has a slight decrease been noted.
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 3,451 |
| 1950 | 4,459 |
| 1959* | 5,500 |
| 1965 | 8,370 |
| 1975 | 14,314 |
| 2004 | 18,936 |
| 2005 | 18,600 |
| 2006 | 18,344 |
- This was the year when town rights were granted.
Museums
The Heimatmuseum (“Homeland Museum”, featuring local lore and history) has as its main point the town’s history and development. It is housed in a gatehouse and a side building, the so-called Winterhaus, and among other things, is also a stop on the guided town tours that take visitors through the Old Town.Sightseeing
- Schloss Heusenstamm (also Schloss Schönborn)
- Schlossmühle (mill)
- Hinteres Schlösschen (“Little Schloss in the back”) and Bannturm
- Torbau (18th-century gatehouse building looking somewhat like a triumphal arch)
- Patershäuser Weg/Patershausen Estate
- Kapelle zum heiligen Kreuz (“Chapel to the Holy Cross”)
- Stone cross on Patershäuser Weg
- Old Town Hall
- Old Town
- “Düne am Galgen” (“Dune at the Gibbet”)
- Old Jewish graveyard in the woods
Nature conservation areas
Heusenstamm is also known as the Stadt im Grünen (“Town in the Green”). That has to do on the one hand with the above-average proportion of woodland within its municipal area, and on the other hand with the two great nature conservation areas, See am Goldberg and Nachtweide von Patershausen. Both are popular outing destinations for citizens, school classes and those who are interested owing to populations of rare animal and plant species. From some raised lookout points, rare bird species in particular may be observed.Churches
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 |
 |
| St. Cäcilia | ... from the graveyard | Gustav Adolf |
Among the sights worth seeing in Heusenstamm are the three churches. The Catholic Saint Cecilia’s Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia) was built in 1739 by Johann Balthasar Neumann by appointment from Countess Maria Theresia von Schönborn, and it was given its famous ceiling frescoes in 1741 from Christoph Thomas Scheffler
Christoph Thomas Scheffler
Christoph Thomas Schaffler was a German painter of the rococo period. He is best known for his frescoes....
. The sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera created the high altar. The Electoral Mainz court carpenter Franz Anton Herrmann made the pulpit, the choir stalls, the Communion bench, sacristy table and tabernacle table.
The likewise Catholic Parish Church Maria Himmelskron was built in 1956. One special gem is the Evangelical
Evangelical Church in Germany
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Gustav Adolf Kirche. It was completed in 1923 with its striking onion dome
Onion dome
An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles the onion, after which they are named. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they are set, and their height usually exceeds their width...
and steep roof with Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and American support. Owing to the hyperinflation of the day
Inflation in the Weimar Republic
The hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic was a three year period of hyperinflation in Germany between June 1921 and July 1924.- Analysis :...
, the project’s total cost amounted to 73,004,221,367,662 Marks
German papiermark
The name Papiermark is applied to the German currency from the 4th August 1914 when the link between the Mark and gold was abandoned, due to the outbreak of World War I...
and 17 Pfennigs.
Religion
There is a Roman Catholic majority among Heusenstamm’s population. The parishes of St.Cäcilia and Maria Himmelskron belong, like the Mariä Opferung parish in Rembrücken, to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz. The state church Evangelical parish is part of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau whose seat is in Darmstadt. Moreover, since 1975 there has been the Free Evangelical parish (FeG), which belongs to the Association of Free Evangelical Parishes.Sport
Besides the nationally known Sportzentrum Martinsee lying on the town’s outskirts, there are in Heusenstamm also the gymnastic and sport clubs’ smaller sport complexes across from the railway station, a sport hall, which together with the Im Forst all-weather swimming pool forms a single building, and the Alte Linde football pitch on Isenburger Straße.Important sport clubs in Heusenstamm are:
- RK HeusenstammRK HeusenstammThe RK Heusenstamm is a German rugby union club from Heusenstamm, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga.-History:The club was formed in 1979, much later then most other current Bundesliga clubs, in Heusenstamm, Hesse....
(rugby) (Rugby-BundesligaRugby-BundesligaThe Rugby-Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany's rugby union league system, organised by the German Rugby Federation.The league is predominantly amateur, with only two of the ten clubs in the league being professional outfits,the SC 1880 Frankfurt and Heidelberger RK.-History:The German rugby...
; German sevens champions 2006, several national players) - TSV 1873 Heusenstamm (roughly 2300 members: artistic gymnastics, athletics, jiujitsu, judo, football and many more)
- TTC Heusenstamm (table tennis) (former Bundesligist, vicechampions, cowinners of the cup)
- TV Rembrücken (football, table tennis, riding and others)
Regular events
Among the yearly events are not only the so-called Kultursommer, which since 1987 has been held around the Hinteres Schlösschen (“Little Schloss in the back”) and the Bannturm (tower) and with its many events draws visitors not only from Heusenstamm, but also the Nikolausmarkt (market), which stretches from the gateway arch through Schlossstraße and the palace garden all the way to the Bannturm, and the Weinfest, which has been held since 1996 at the Bannturm. The Kelterfest in autumn, staged by the Konkordia singing club, has established itself as a regular event in Heusenstamm. Since 2006, the Bahnhofsfest (“Railway Station Festival”) has also been a regular event in Heusenstamm.Economy and infrastructure
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Transport
Heusenstamm lies on the A 3, which is to be reached through the ObertshausenObertshausen
Obertshausen is a town in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:-Location:Obertshausen is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district...
interchange
Interchange (road)
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
, putting Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport may refer to:Airports of Frankfurt, Germany:*Frankfurt Airport , the largest airport in Germany*Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation airport*Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , a converted U.S...
, by way of the Frankfurter Kreuz
Frankfurter Kreuz
The Frankfurter Kreuz is an Autobahn interchange in the city of Frankfurt in Hessen, Germany where the autobahns A3 and A5 meet. The interchange was originally to be built from 1931 to 1933, but due to World War II construction was not finished until 1957....
only a short drive away. Not far away is also the A 661
Bundesautobahn 661
- also called Osttangente Frankfurt or Taunusschnellweg - is a 40 km long Autobahn in Germany. It starts in Oberursel and goes along Bad Homburg, Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main and Neu-Isenburg until it is ending in Egelsbach.The today's A 661 were opened with section Bad Homburg ...
with its Neu-Isenburg
Neu-Isenburg
The “Huguenot Town” of Neu-Isenburg with its outlying centres of Gravenbruch and Zeppelinheim is found in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, right near Frankfurt am Main...
interchange.
The town, lying on a branch of the Rodgaubahn (railway), has since late 2003 been linked by Line S2 (Niedernhausen
Niedernhausen
Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants.-Location:...
-Dietzenbach
Dietzenbach
Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the river Bieber. Before the Second World War, the current town was a farming village with not quite 4,000 inhabitants...
) to the Rhine-Main S-Bahn
Rhine-Main S-Bahn
The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter transport system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt...
network. The building work around the railway station (bus station
Bus station
A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...
, inn at the old station, railway station square) was completed in 2006. The S-Bahn runs to Offenbach’s and Frankfurt’s
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
city centres and the Frankfurt Main Railway Station
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
is the central station for Frankfurt am Main. In terms of railway traffic, it is the busiest railway station in Germany. With about 350,000 passengers per day the station is the second most frequented railway station in Germany and one of the most frequented in Europe.- Proto-history :In the late...
. On weekdays trains are half-hourly, and have since late 2006 been run with modern DBAG Class 423
DBAG Class 423
The Class 423 EMU is a light-weight articulated electric railcar for S-Bahn commuter networks in Germany. The train has similar dimensions to its predecessor, the Class 420 EMU, but is significantly lighter and has one large passenger compartment, while that of the 420 is divided into three parts...
rolling stock. Booster trains in the rush hours do not go through the Frankfurt City-Tunnel, but rather to Offenbach Main Railway Station.
Heusenstamm benefits from its proximity to the Frankfurt am Main economic centre and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, as well as from the very good transport connections.
In the town itself and into neighbouring places run various buslines, among others route OF-30 to the outlying centre of Rembrücken. At night and on the weekends from Saturday afternoon, a share taxi
Share taxi
A share taxi is a mode of transport that falls between taxis and conventional buses. These informal vehicles for hire are found throughout the world. They are smaller than buses, and usually take passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, usually leaving when all seats are filled...
takes over public transport within town, including Rembrücken.
Established businesses
ALDI
ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG, doing business as ', short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany...
and toom on Werner-von-Siemens-Straße in the industrial zone.
The biggest employer in the town of Heusenstamm is Deutsche Telekom AG
Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe....
with several hundred positions. The daughter business T-Systems
T-Systems
T-Systems is a worldwide operating ICT provider founded in October 2000. It belongs to Deutsche Telekom AG and its central office is located in Bonn, Germany. Within Deutsche Telekom AG it is responsible for multinational corporations and public-sector institutions. It operates in more than 20...
Business Services GmbH and the landline division maintain great real estate holdings in the town of Heusenstamm. Besides the many small and midsize businesses, the three great international firms Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business...
, Kenwood Electronics and Konica Minolta Business Solutions
Konica Minolta
is a Japanese manufacturer of office equipment, medical imaging, graphic imaging, optical devices, and measuring instruments. It is headquartered in the Marunouchi Center Building in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, with a Kansai office in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture...
have their German representation here. Furthermore, BKK Mobil Oil, through its merger in 2008 with the former Krankenkasse Eintracht Heusenstamm (both the old and merged companies are institutions for sponsoring health insurance
Health insurance
Health insurance is insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses among individuals. By estimating the overall risk of health care expenses among a targeted group, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll tax, to ensure that money is...
), has a seat here.
Media
The Offenbach-Post, whose publishing house has its seat in Offenbach am Main, reports regularly in its regional section about Heusenstamm. From the same publishing house also comes the Stadt-Post Heusenstamm.Kindergartens
In Heusenstamm there are four church (3 Catholic, 1 EvangelicalEvangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
) kindergartens and three further ones in municipal sponsorship. Moreover, there are two daycare associations.
Schools
Heusenstamm is an important school location in Offenbach district. Currently there are three primary schools, the Adalbert-StifterAdalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers.-Life:Born in Oberplan in Bohemia , he...
-Schule, the Otto-Hahn
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...
-Schule and the Matthias-Claudius
Matthias Claudius
Matthias Claudius was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”.-Life:Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena...
-Schule. Secondary schools are the Adolf-Reichwein
Adolf Reichwein
Adolf Reichwein was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistance fighter in Nazi Germany.-Biography:...
-Schule (Hauptschule
Hauptschule
A Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
and Realschule
Realschule
The Realschule is a type of secondary school in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia , Denmark , Sweden , Hungary and in the Russian Empire .-History:The Realschule was an outgrowth of the rationalism and empiricism of the seventeenth and...
, ARS for short) and the Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium
Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium
The Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium is a coeducational gymnasium in Heusenstamm, Germany, established in 1966. It has about 1150 pupils from age 10 to 18.-History:...
(ARG). In 2004, the Schule am Goldberg was opened, a special school for pupils with intellectual handicaps but who are trainable, with a section for those who also have physical handicaps. Adult education is handled by the Volkshochschule
Folk high school
Folk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...
Heusenstamm.
Famous people
- Prof. Dr. Jakob Sengler, (1799 - 1878), philosophy and Catholic theologian
- Willi Jaschek, repeat German champion in artistic gymnastics and Olympian (1964, 1968 “Hero of Mexico”)
- Daniel Winkler, Olympian in 1984 and 1988, gymnast in the Olympic duodecathlon, several times German champion in this discipline, participated 4 times in world championships and 3 times in European championships
- Markus Walger, captain of the seventh national rugby team
- Rene Frank, composer and specialized book author
Honorary citizens
- 1961: Wilhelm Anoul, government president
- 1966: Franz Rau, clergyman
- 1971: Rudolf Braas, entrepreneur
- 1976: Hans Eckstein
- 1977: Hans Hemberger, mayor
- 1984: Franz Rebell, first town councillor
- 1984: Johann Subtil, mayor of Rembrücken
- 1986: Richard Hofmeister, clergyman
- 1987: Günter Wilkens, clergyman
- 2002: Helmut Kilian, 50 years on town council
- 2003: Josef Eckstein, mayor
- 2007: Prof. Thomas Engel, entrepreneur
Further reading
- H. Margraf, R. Spohn: Heusenstamm - Schätze aus Familienalben in der Reihe Archivbilder. 2005, ISBN 3-89702-871-9
- Heimatverein Heusenstamm (Hrsg.): Heusenstamm - Lebendige Stadt im Bild (trilingual). 1971
- R. Wimmer: Heusenstammer Kalender, publisher Stadt Heusenstamm. 1979
- Heusenstammer Hefte (Hrsg. Magistrat der Stadt Heusenstamm in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Heimatverein)
- A. Dittrich: Von der Hochgraeflich Schönbornzunft in Heusenstamm zum Ortsgewerbeverein Heusenstamm (1747 - 1909). 1989
- A. Dittrich: Aus der Geschichte der jüdischen Kultusgemeinde in Heusenstamm. 1989
- A. Dittrich: "350 Jahre Schule in Heusenstamm. 1990
- F. Stein: Katholische Priester aus Heusenstamm. Heusenstamm : Pfarrei Maria Himmelskron, 2006