Rödelheim is one of the district of Frankfurt. The area of this district is around about 5.145 Km2. The population that this state has 17,504 and density of this district is 3,402 /Km2. The postal codes are 60488, 60489 and are code is 069. There are no of celebrities who have established their base in Rödelheim, Including Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt, Mathias Barbosa and Sabrina Setlur. For many centuries and until the Nazi era, it was a major center for the printing and export of Hebrew books.
History
On 21 September 788 Rödelheim was as Radilenheim in the Lorsch codex first mentioned. Establishing Rödel story home there is the story of the farmers Radilo that there rodete allegedly first made arable and forest land. One of the main streets Rödel shelter is named after him, the Radilostraße. In the 12th Century Rödelheimer water castle was built from the later castle emerged. The 14th Century is the construction of Cyriakuskirche. In 1461 Rödelheim fell by marriage into the possession of the Counts of Solms, who were at this time there Rödelheimer built the castle. Builder was Frank von Cronberg. In July 1552 in Rödelheim after the Smalcald War of Passau signed. Between 1792 and 1800 occurred in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars in Rödelheim to bloody clashes. The county of Solms-Rödelheim ended 1806, Rödelheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1800, the first Rödelheimer castle was demolished and the construction of a second lock started, which was only completed in the 1860th. In 1805 the first school house was built. Between 1808 and 1823 George Brentano bought a country house in Rödelheim around it and put on the Brentanopark to which the house belongs Petri preserved today. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim held regularly at this time to visit there. The development Rödel home was funded by the strategic location. Here crossed the Antsanvia, an old trade route from Frankfurt to Cologne, the river Nidda before the fortress Königstein overcame the Taunus ridge. The Rödelheimer Nidda bridge was the penultimate of the mouth, which was the last bridge at Mainzer Landstrasse in Nied. In the regulation of Nidda were discovered in 1928 near the mouth of West Erbach a Roman pile dam, the Roman road leading to the bridge over the Main, near Frankfurt-Schwanheim dry on the constantly moist area.
The Nidda bridge in Rödelheim, which is important for the entire region between Frankfurt and the Taunus was destroyed in many wars, especially in the Napoleonic Wars from 1792 to 1815, many times, but always rebuilt. From the 17th Century Rödelheim became a source of Kabbalistic Yiddish folklore. An output of Ma'assebuchs was here in 1753 issued by Jonah ben Josche Gamburg and printed by Charles Reich. Own first synagogue was established in 1730 in the School Street (island streets) No. 9 after the first Jewish community could gather from 1680 to 1700 in a stately barn. In that time, the Jewish community of about 80 people. The Jewish community Rödel home subordinate to the rabbinate of casting. In 1799 founded the publisher and scholar Benjamin Wolf Heidenheim a printing company who published Jewish prayer books and theological works. Heidenheim then lived until his death in 1832 in Rödelheim. The result of the growth of the community has become necessary Rödelheimer new synagogue was opened on 29 June 1838 consecrated. An inauguration speech was also the pastor of the Protestant church Cyriac Ludwig Thudichum. Architecturally distinguished itself from the synagogue by a wayward oriental influenced style. They were destroyed from the 9th/10th. November 1938 ("Kristallnacht"). First, in this case only the interior was destroyed by fire. The last residents had the building on 3 November 1939 leave. Then the building was used as a storage room of a garage until it on 22 March 1944 was completely destroyed by Allied bombs. The Torah shield the Rödelheimer synagogue is now in the Jewish Museum in New York City. In 1833 the first regular postal service to Frankfurt was set up in 1845 was followed by the first post.
On 25 August 1859, the volunteer fire department was established Rödelheim. After going through an official decree forbade the local gymnastics club, they wanted to replace the gymnastic exercises by such devices to fire simultaneously and thus replace the existing duty firefighters, their tasks was not entirely fair. In 1866 Rödelheim was the peace treaty of 3 September 1866 by the Prussian state incorporated. Around the mid-19th Century took off the traffic-meaning Rödel home as the traffic between Frankfurt and Cologne on the newly built road Königsteiner was relocated and ascended to the highest traffic intersection west of Frankfurt. Compensation for the lost distance traffic on the road, the opening of the railway in 1861 was Homburger, the connection between Frankfurt and Homburg and Oberursel had only regional importance. In 1874 the station was Rödelheimer a small transportation hub. Which opened this year Kronberger train chained there on the track and drove over Homburg Eschborn to Kronberg. Moreover, in the years 1889 to 1895, the Frankfurt tramway was extended down to the Rödelheimer Nidda bridge. From 1904, it was replaced by an electric tram. In 1881, the apple wine press Possmann was founded in Rödelheim. In 1896, the citizens Rödelheimer Peter and Henry Weil founded in Alexander Road, the bicycle factory Peter Weil & Co, later torpedo-Werke AG (Weil's works), which subsequently also produced office machines and mopeds. In 1885, the city Rödelheim for 25 years became a town. On 1 April 1910, the city was incorporated into the nearby city of Frankfurt am Main. The Radiloschule was built in the years 1904 to 1910. It was followed in 1914 the school Arndt. In 1928 the Brentanobad was built. It was completely renovated in 1965 and 2006. In 1933 the second Rödelheimer castle was bought by the City of Frankfurt and restored. It was destroyed by the bombs of World War II. Was the founding of the first young firefighters in Rödelheim along with the dedication of the new fire station of the 16th June 1982. Since 9 December 2003, the German air traffic control is established in Rödelheim in modern aeronautical center of Europe.
Attractions
- The Catholic Church of St. Anthony, built in 1892 in neo-Gothic style. The Grade II listed church contains murals in Nazarenerstil.
- The Brentanopark emerged out of a garden with a country house by the wealthy businessman George Brentano had bought in 1808. The city of Frankfurt acquired the park in 1926 and built in the eastern part of the largest park pools in Europe, the Brentanobad.
- The historic home of Peter, built in 1720 and renovated in 1820 in contemporary style, is located directly opposite the Brentano park on the other side of the Nidda. There met regularly before a literary circle, whose members were out of the Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Adele Schopenhauer and Marianne von Willemer. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said to have spent the night in the house of Peter. The building is the oldest ginkgo tree from Germany, probably even of the whole of Europe (260 years). In 2003, the building was reconstructed and restored.
- The Solms Park on the Rödelheimer Nidda island emerged from a classical landscape park, which was created in 1879 by the former castle of the Count of Solms-Rödelheim. The castle was badly damaged in World War II and later completely removed.
- A landmark is the home Rödel Rödelheimer water tower, which was built from 1898 to 1899. It is 51 meters high and has a diameter of 9.50 meters, he served with 380 cubic meters capacity and a constant water pressure of 3 bar for a long time as a drinking water reservoir for the surrounding residential areas. With the incorporation of the borough was home Rödel 1910 is also connected to the water system of the city of Frankfurt and the tower was no longer needed, but today it is a listed building. After renovating the tower today use some company as an office building.
- The Star Bridge Rödelheim is a built in 1807, listed road bridge. The baroque arch bridge carries the road over a Rödelheimer former Flutmulde the Nidda.
- The synagogue was destroyed in 1938, a monument of the Bad Homburg sculptor Christof Krause.
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