Rüsselsheim am Main

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Rüsselsheim am Main
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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 25 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
Circle : Gross-Gerau
Height : 88 m above sea level NHN
Area : 58.29 km 2
Residents: 65,881 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 65428
Area code : 06142
License plate : GG
Community key : 06 4 33 012
LOCODE : DE RUM
City structure: 4 districts

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 4
65428 Rüsselsheim am Main
Website : www.ruesselsheim.de
Lord Mayor : Udo Bausch ( independent )
Location of the city of Rüsselsheim am Main in the Groß-Gerau district
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Rüsselsheim from the air, left in the picture
Evangelical town church
Pedestrian zone

Rüsselsheim am Main (until July 30, 2015 Rüsselsheim ), with around 66,000 inhabitants, is the largest city in the Groß-Gerau district in Darmstadt Region within the Rhine-Main region , the tenth largest city in the state of Hesse and part of the city region of Frankfurt . It lies between Frankfurt am Main and Mainz . Rüsselsheim is one of seven special status cities in the state of Hesse and is located on the lower reaches of the Main , just a few kilometers from its confluence with the Rhine near Mainz-Kostheim (district of the state capital Wiesbaden ). Rüsselsheim gained international fame through the automobile manufacturer Opel . The southern part of Frankfurt Airport is partly in the area of ​​the city of Rüsselsheim.

On July 30, 2015, the city announced the official renaming of Rüsselsheim to Rüsselsheim am Main . The Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sport approved an application from the city of Rüsselsheim for this. The reason for the name addition is the positive occupation of the Main as a natural, leisure and economic factor. The use of the name extension “a. M. “can be historically proven. Rüsselsheim hosted the Hessentag in 2017 .

geography

Neighboring communities

Rüsselsheim borders in the north on the two neighboring cities of Hochheim and Flörsheim (both Main-Taunus-Kreis ), from which it is separated by the Main flowing past. In the northeast it borders on the independent city of Frankfurt am Main and the city of Raunheim , in the east on the city of Mörfelden-Walldorf , in the south on the communities of Nauheim and Trebur and in the west on the city of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg and the community of Bischofsheim . Rüsselsheim is centrally located in the Rhine-Main area between the four large cities of Mainz and Wiesbaden in the west and Frankfurt in the east and Darmstadt in the south-east, with which it also has very good transport links. None of the cities mentioned is more than 30 kilometers away from Rüsselsheim.

City structure

The urban area is made up of the districts

  • Rüsselsheim as the core city in the north
  • Haßloch east of it
  • Royal cities in the southeast
  • Bauschheim in the southwest as well
  • Rüsselsheimer Wald east of Haßloch

The urban area is subdivided into a number of urban districts of a statistical nature, the layout of which is not based on the district boundaries. It rather follows features of the infrastructure such as the course of important traffic routes. The following city districts are distinguished:

  1. City center : (021)
  2. Ramsee, Rübgrund, Colony, Eichgrund : Ramsee (022), Rübgrund and Colony (023), Eichgrund (025)
  3. Berlin Quarter : (026)
  4. Dicker Busch I and II : Dicker Busch I (036), Dicker Busch II (033)
  5. Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung, Hasengrund : Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung (024), Hasengrund (051)
  6. Böllensee settlement : (011)
  7. Alt-Haßloch, Haßloch Nord, Horlache : Horlache (031), Alt-Haßloch (032), Haßloch outside (034), Haßloch Nord (035)
  8. Old royal cities : royal cities (041), Hasengrund (052)
  9. Royal cities "Blauer See" : Blauer See I (042), Blauer See II (043), residential area Blauer See II (044)
  10. Alt-Bauscheim : Outside (061), town center (062)
  11. Bauschheim "Im Weinfass" : (063)
  12. Opel factory : (013)

The city districts of Königstädten "Blauer See" are the last major development project in the city of Rüsselsheim so far, where a business park has been created in addition to residential buildings. This was shown exclusively for office settlements and other types of companies that do not take up space, calculated for around 5,000 to 7,000 highly qualified jobs in the high-tech sector. Among other things, Hyundai / Kia with a development center and forwarding agents as well as the printing center of the Rhein Main publishing group have settled there .

history

Mesolithic to Roman times

Finds of late Paleolithic - Mesolithic tools and cuts at the Rüsselsheim site 122 indicate hunters in the Rüsselsheim area around 13,000 years ago.

In the literature there are information on finds from Roman times (coffins, urns and bricks), which suggest a paved Roman road along the Main.

Historical forms of names

In documents that have been received, Rüsselsheim was mentioned under the following names (in each case with the year of mention):

  • 764/5 Rucile (n) sheim
  • before 1130 Ruozcelenesheim
  • 1275 Ruozelsheim
  • 1336 Rubelnheim
  • 1640 Ruselsheim
  • 1840 Rüsselsheim

middle Ages

Grave finds from the 7th century prove the existence of a Frankish village Heim des Rucilin or Rucilen . Rüsselsheim emerged from a Franconian settlement in the first half of the 6th century. "Rucilesheim" (meaning: Home des Ruciles or Rucilin) ​​was first mentioned in a document in an inventory of royal rights of use, the Lorsch Imperial Urbar (around 840). A change in the situation can only be documented at the turn of the late Middle Ages. From then on, donations and leases caused the property to be fragmented. The history of Rüsselsheim since the second half of the 13th century has been shaped by frequent changes in property rights and powers. For the peasants living there, this meant that several rulership rights (land, body and court rulers) existed side by side and they were therefore subject to several masters. In an abbreviated representation, the following sovereign powers resulted:

  • 1275: People and property from Rüsselsheim went to Werner von Münzenberg
  • Transfer of rights to the Knights of Heusenstamm
  • 1323: Sale of the property to the knight Hartmut von Kronberg . From this contract it emerged that Rüsselsheim was already a fiefdom of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and these must be called the actual masters of the place.
  • 1355: Feudal lord, Count Wilhelm II von Katzenelnbogen, allowed Hartmann the younger von Kronberg to bequeath part of the income from Rüsselsheim to his wife.
  • At the beginning of the 15th century, a violent feud developed between the Counts of Katzenelnbogen and their Kronberg fiefdoms, in the course of which the property with all rights passed to the rule of the Katzenelnbog.

The Counts of Katzenelnbogen consolidated their position in this region by acquiring the villages of Seilfurt (the village of Seilfurt, right next to Haßloch, bordered on Rüsselsheim in the 16th century, but burned down as a result of lightning in 1534. The residents joined the neighboring Rüsselsheim Before Haßloch, Seilfurt had its own church and was its own parish). and Raunheim (1425) and the Vogtei Trebur . Rüsselsheim took a privileged position compared to the surrounding villages in the early 15th century, as it was designated as the official residence of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen. A Rüsselsheim cellar invoice from 1435 is the oldest known evidence of the Riesling grape variety . In 1437, the Counts were given the grace of Emperor Sigismund to complete a castle on the Main, which they had begun decades ago. In this contract, Rüsselsheim received further rights, as they were common for other “little towns” at the time. Since the great time of the founding of cities was long over, Rüsselsheim shared the lot with many late medieval minor towns , in which the rural population dominated and which could hardly show any specialized handicrafts.

fortress

In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, the historical development of the Rüsselsheim Fortress is certainly more significant than that of the town itself. It developed from a castle on the Main and was intended to serve several purposes: the expansionist striving of the Archbishop of Mainz and the threat from the Taunus knighthood that counteract Secure connecting routes between the non-contiguous parts of the Upper and Lower Counties of Katzenelnbogen and bring lucrative customs revenues through the control of the river and the road. The latter was probably the reason that the cities of Mainz and Frankfurt am Main objected to King Wenceslas in 1399 against the castle. In the edict of 1437 the further construction of the castle was approved, but the establishment of a customs post was expressly prohibited. After the counts of Katzenelnbogen died out with Philip I in 1479, the castle was inherited by the Landgraves of Hesse. For the builder of Rüsselsheim there are some sources in the literature that refer to Wilhelm III. around the year 1492.

Modern times

Rüsselsheim - Excerpt from the Topographia Germaniae by Matthäus Merian 1655

In the course of arming for the Schmalkaldic War , Philip the Magnanimous had the castle (probably 1530–1540) expanded into a square fortress. Because of the defeat in the Schmalkaldic War, the fortress of Rüsselsheim was razed again in 1547 by order of Emperor Charles V, but was rebuilt around 1560. During the Thirty Years' War , the fortress was considered militarily impregnable, but it changed hands several times due to contractual arrangements. The Palatinate War of Succession sealed the fate of the fortress as a military complex: in 1688 it was captured by French troops and when they withdrew one year later it was finally blown up. After various uses of the remaining facilities, it has housed the city's historical museum since 1976. In addition, the city archive and the local heritage association are currently housed in the fortress.

Rüsselsheim got into an unfavorable peripheral location due to the transfer of rule to the Landgraviate of Hesse, so that the place developed little. Characteristic of the poverty was the fact that wood had to be requested from the city of Frankfurt am Main for the construction of the first parish church in 1514 . As part of the Reformation , Rüsselsheim became Protestant due to its membership in Hesse. At the end of the 16th century there were some signs of economic improvement. In 1580 a school was built. The Thirty Years War destroyed most of the positive approaches. Rüsselsheim was attacked several times and in 1635 a plague epidemic took the majority of the residents away. Due to the dire financial condition of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , plans to develop Rüsselsheim into a trading town failed. Rüsselsheim nevertheless retained its function as a regional administrative and market center. In its history, Rüsselsheim received market rights several times , the first time in 1437 in connection with the receipt of city ​​rights by Emperor Sigismund. The market rights were renewed a second time in 1686 by the Hessian Landgrave Elisabeth Dorothea, as this right had been lost again due to the chaos of war. In 1756 the market rights had to be granted again by Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hessen-Darmstadt.

In 1793, at the time of the siege of Mainz by French troops, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentioned a ship bridge near Rüsselsheim, which he crossed.

industrialization

In the period of early industrialization , in 1785 the first company called a so-called rabbit hair tailor. In addition to other companies, a coconut mat company was established in 1861. From this the Stöckische Teppichfabrik developed, which existed until after the Second World War . A very old and most important industrial company after Opel was the chicory factory founded in 1819 . The company made coffee substitute from the roots of chicory . The company worked until 1925. Otherwise, fruit and grain cultivation (wheat) and cattle breeding continued to prevail in the early days of industrialization . Viticulture in Rüsselsheim is also mentioned in the literature , although it has been in decline since 1790. Of 60  acres of vineyards in 1790, only 4 acres remained in 1825. In 1856 the port of Rüsselsheim was mentioned in connection with the Rhine Shipping Assecuranzgesellschaft .

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Rüsselsheim in 1829:

"Rüsselsheim (L. Bez. Dornberg) market town; is located on Main 2 1 / 4 St. Dornberg, 2 pcs of Mainz, is built regularly, and has 184 houses and 1,422 inhabitants., up to 19 Kath., 7 reform., and 83 Jews are Lutheran. There is 1 church, built in 1790, 2 schoolhouses, 1 synagogue, 1 chicory factory, 1 fur factory, 1 brick factory and a second-class border customs office. 2 markets are held annually. Anton Wolf von Todtenwart (son of Leonhard Wolf von Todtenwart, who died in 1606 as a judicial judge, was born here) on June 5, 1592, who was subsequently raised to the rank of governor in Umstadt and Otzberg, and in 1637, and on April 7, 1641 Frankfurt am Main died privately. - Rüsselsheim is mentioned in 1211; it came from the lords of Munzenberg to the lords of Heusenstamm, who took it as a fief from the counts of Katzenellenbogen. In 1323 the town was bought by the Lords of Cronberg; but after Johann von Cronberg had announced the fiefdom of Count Eberhard V. von Katzenellenbogen, he withdrew the fief, and in 1422 the Lords of Cronberg renounced their claims to this village. Emperor Sigismund granted Rüsselsheim city justice in 1438, and the year before that, Count Johann III. von Katzenellenbogen allowed the construction of the castle to be completed and the village to be fortified with walls and moats. These works were not completed until 1486, because Mainz tried to prevent their construction. Landgrave Philip the Generous increased the fortifications in 1560. In 1631 the castle and hill were given to the Swedes, and in 1689 both were blown up by the French murderers through a laid mine and the largest building was thrown into the ashes. The village of Seilfurt was very close to Rüsselsheim and was burned down by lightning in 1534, after which the residents moved to Rüsselsheim. The mother church stood in Seilfurt and a second church stood in front of the castle. Both churches burned down, whereupon the church was moved to Rüsselsheim. The St. Albanstift in Mainz was the patron of the church. "

The story of Opel began in 1862 with a sewing machine workshop in a former cowshed. The steady rise of the company brought decisive changes for the place. The village, which until then had been more of a handicraft and agricultural area, made the transition to an industrial rural community and finally to a workers' town in the 20th century.

20th century

In the First World War and in the period afterwards, hardship and misery ruled the population. According to the Versailles Treaty , the Rhineland and neighboring areas, which also included Rüsselsheim, were occupied by French troops (→ Allied occupation of the Rhineland ). In these circumstances, separatist currents spread, which propagated the connection to a Rhenish republic to be founded . Only after overcoming inflation and the resulting flourishing car production did the situation of the population improve. In 1928, Opel produced 43,000 cars by 9,400 employees. That was four times as many workers as four years earlier.

The global economic crisis and the collapse of the Weimar Republic also led Rüsselsheim into the darkest part of its history. After the so-called takeover of power in 1933, the National Socialists established a regime that killed many people in Rüsselsheim as well. Opponents of the Nazi government were persecuted and transported to concentration camps ; 300 Opel workers striking against wage cuts were arrested in 1937. The fate of the fellow citizens of the Jewish faith who had lived here since the 17th century was particularly horrific. In 1933, 47 Jews lived in Rüsselsheim; after the defeat in 1945 there was only one Jewish woman left who survived because she lived in a so-called privileged mixed marriage. The others were ruthlessly persecuted, forced to emigrate, driven to suicide or deported and murdered.

In August 1944, six US Air Force prisoners of war were chased and killed by angry citizens while they were being transported through Rüsselsheim east of the train station. Four soldiers were shot dead by the NSDAP local group leader and two others were killed by citizens. Two prisoners escaped lynching by pretending to be dead. In 2004, a memorial was erected for the victims in Grabenstrasse, not far from the train station. (→ air killings )

The Nazi rule and the Second World War it sparked brought endless suffering to the city. 1211 soldiers from Rüsselsheim were killed or went missing. The Allied air raids killed 428 people, including 189 prisoners of war, most of whom perished in camps near Opel. Of the 3,120 house plots, 473 were totally destroyed in the war, 455 were badly damaged, 1042 were moderately and 1150 were slightly damaged. Only 2000 houses were still considered habitable after the war.

Despite the severe damage caused by the war in the city and at the Opel works, construction progressed rapidly and in 1978 Rüsselsheim had its highest population of 63,000. With the reconstruction and later a generous infrastructure was planned, at peak times for up to 120,000 inhabitants. Since then, even after the job cuts that began at Opel, this has to be maintained with around 60,000 residents under far less favorable conditions than during the economic boom .

At the beginning of the 1990s, the city experienced another temporary economic upswing: after the new federal states were added and Opel vehicles found large sales there, high tax revenues could be recorded until 1993/94 (1991 the record income of 254 million DM was achieved there be booked), which became visible through many construction sites in the city. For example, the indoor and outdoor pool “An der Lache” was expanded into an adventure pool at a cost of millions, and the town hall was expanded to include various wings and plenary hall. However, in the mid-1990s, the city failed to adjust spending, which had risen by leaps and bounds, as well as the sudden record income from trade tax with the then sharply falling income. The result was a sharp rise in debt and, as a result, the obligation to have the annual budget approved by the Darmstadt Regional Council as part of the “ municipal protective umbrella ” of the State of Hesse.

Early attempts to break away from the dependency of the monostructure of the automotive industry with the designation of the industrial park “Im Hasengrund” (EDS, Delphi, invenio , GMAC-Bank etc.) in the late 1970s did not work.

Special events

  • 1990 - 17 people were killed and 145 seriously injured in the railway accident in Rüsselsheim .
  • 2015 - Rüsselsheim officially receives the name "Rüsselsheim am Main"

Administration and jurisdiction

Administratively belongs Rüsselsheim to 1820 for Office Rüsselsheim , which from 1816 to the province of Starkenburg the Grand Duchy of Hesse belonged. In 1821 district districts were introduced in the Grand Duchy and Rüsselsheim was assigned to the district of Dornberg . In 1832 the units were enlarged one more time and circles were created. This brings Rüsselsheim into the Groß-Gerau district. The provinces, the counties and the administrative districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by administrative districts, but this was reversed on May 12, 1852. As a result, Rüsselsheim belongs to the Darmstadt administrative district between 1848 and 1852 before the Groß-Gerau district is again responsible for the higher-level administration. The city remains there through all further administrative reforms to this day. On January 1, 1980, Rüsselsheim became a special status town with its own school sponsorship.

In 1515 the competent jurisdiction lay with a joint central court for Rüsselsheim and Seilfurt. In 1571 the Landgrave of Hesse is the court lord. With the establishment of regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the regional court Großgerau was responsible for Rüsselsheim from 1821 to 1879 and from 1879 the resulting district court Groß-Gerau . Since 1956, Rüsselsheim has had its own district court district, which is responsible for Raunheim as well as Rüsselsheim. The District Court of Rüsselsheim initially acted as a branch of the District Court of Groß-Gerau , but was converted into a full court on June 1, 1976 and expanded to include the town of Kelsterbach, which until then belonged to the District Court of Frankfurt am Main .

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Rüsselsheim was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Incorporations

  • April 1, 1951: Haßloch (then 737 inhabitants, today approx.7,700 inhabitants)
  • July 1, 1956: royal cities (then 2,537 inhabitants, today approx. 10,100 inhabitants)
  • May 1, 1970: Bauschheim (then 2,874 inhabitants, today approx. 6,100 inhabitants)

For the districts of Bauschheim and Königstädten, local districts with a local advisory board and mayor were set up in accordance with the Hessian municipal code.

population

Population structure

According to the 2011 census , there were 58,765 residents in Rüsselsheim on May 9, 2011. These included 12,390 (21.1%) foreigners of whom 4190 came from outside the EU , 5616 from other European countries and 2584 from other countries. Of the German residents, 20.2% had a migration background . The inhabitants lived in 27,010 households. Of these, 10,371 were single households , 6,858 couples with children and 6,873 couples without children, as well as 2,212 single parents and 696 shared apartments .

Population development

  • In 1629 there were 76 “ house seats ”
  • 1791: 850 inhabitants
  • 1800: 1010 inhabitants
  • 1806: 1074 inhabitants in 152 houses
  • 1829: 1,422 inhabitants in 184 houses
  • In 1867 there were 2,098 inhabitants in 299 houses.
  • In the period from 1875 to 1914, the population doubled from around 3,500 to over 8,000.
  • In 1936 there were 16,000 inhabitants in Rüsselsheim. The number decreased sharply due to the effects of World War II.
  • In April 1945 only 9,500 inhabitants were counted.
  • In 1961 the population consisted of 23,219 Protestant (= 58.77%) and 13,390 Catholic (= 33.89%) inhabitants
  • Due to the rapid reconstruction of the city, the Opel factory and the integration of many expellees from the former German eastern regions (14% population share in 1955), the city recorded a steady upward trend, which reached a temporary high in 1978 with 63,000 inhabitants.
  • With an acute labor shortage in the 1960s, a brisk influx of guest workers began , mainly from Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy and Morocco.
  • In the local elections in 1977, as of June 1976, 62,801 inhabitants were taken as the basis.
  • The Hessian State Statistical Office reported 59,902 inhabitants for June 30, 2010.
  • Rüsselsheim am Main had 28.3 percent of foreigners in 2016. The proportion of German citizens with foreign roots ( migration background ) is around 50%.
Rüsselsheim: Population from 1791 to 2015
year     Residents
1791
  
 850
1800
  
 1.010
1806
  
 1,074
1829
  
 1,422
1834
  
 2,476
1840
  
 2,602
1846
  
 2,884
1852
  
 2,990
1858
  
 3,068
1864
  
 3,028
1871
  
 3,307
1875
  
 3,485
1885
  
 4,079
1895
  
 4,605
1905
  
 5,901
1910
  
 7,553
1925
  
 10,059
1939
  
 17,797
1946
  
 18,995
1950
  
 22,456
1956
  
 29,998
1961
  
 39.507
1967
  
 51,180
1970
  
 59,861
1972
  
 61,439
1976
  
 62,801
1984
  
 58,360
1992
  
 60.118
2000
  
 59,400
2005
  
 59,457
2010
  
 59.902
2011
  
 58,765
2015
  
 62,239
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; 1972 :; 1976 :; 1984 :; 1992 :; 2005 :; 2010 :; 2011 census; 2015:

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , in 2011 23.3% of the population were Protestant , 20.1% Roman Catholic and 56.6% belonged to another or no religious community or did not provide any information. Currently (as of December 31, 2018) of the 67,706 inhabitants, 11,379 (16.8%) are Protestant, 11,276 (16.7%) Roman Catholic and 45,051 (66.6%) are other (non-denominational or belong to another religious community ). The statistics of the city of Rüsselsheim only show the three categories relevant to church tax: “Roman Catholic”, “Protestant” and “other”. With more than 60 percent, the others are now a clear majority. Many people come to Rüsselsheim, including Muslims from Turkey, but also from countries such as Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Iran and Syria. The high number of Kurdish Alevis from the Turkish province of Tunceli is particularly striking .

Gainful employment

The municipality in comparison with the district, administrative district Darmstadt and Hesse:

  year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Employees subject to social security contributions 2017 34,373 98,042 1,695,567 2,524,156
Change to 2000 −12.5% + 5.4% + 16.1% + 16.0%
of which full-time 2017 80.7% 75.9% 72.8% 71.8%
of which part-time 2017 19.3% 24.1% 27.2% 28.2%
Only marginally paid employees 2017 2,959 13,048 224.267 372.991
Change to 2000 +1.3% −9.6% + 9.0% + 8.8%
Branch year local community district Administrative district Hesse
Manufacturing 2000 *)% 43.8% 27.0% 30.6%
2017 *)% 33.2% 20.4% 24.3%
Commerce, hospitality and transport 2000 10.0% 27.6% 26.4% 25.1%
2017 11.1% 27.9% 24.7% 23.8%
Business services 2000 14.0% 14.0% 25.1% 20.2%
2017 17.6% 19.9% 31.6% 26.1%
other services 2000 10.5% 13.7% 20.1% 22.5%
2017 17.5% 18.6% 23.0% 25.4%
Other (or without assignment) 2000 65.5% 1.0% 1.4% 1.5%
2017 53.8% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4%

*) anonymized

politics

town hall

Lord Mayor

Until 1979 Rüsselsheim had a mayor . In 1980, Rüsselsheim became a town with a special status and its mayor .

mayor

City Council

The city council is the highest body of the city. Its political composition is determined every five years in local elections by the city's electorate. Whoever has reached the age of 18 and is a German citizen within the meaning of the Basic Law or a citizen of one of the other member states of the European Union may vote. Everyone has to have been registered in the city for at least three months.

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Parties and constituencies b 2016 2011 2006 2001
Share a Seats Share a Seats Share a Seats Share a Seats
Christian Democratic Union of Germany CDU 28.5 13 34.2 15th 32.9 15th 33.4 15th
Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD 27.2 12 33.4 15th 42.0 19th 44.2 20th
We are Rüsselsheim WsR 12.9 6th - - - - - -
Alliance 90 / The Greens GREEN 11.0 5 19.0 9 8.8 4th 7.8 4th
Die Linke / List Solidarity left 8.6 4th 6.0 3 5.6 2 2.6 1
Free Democratic Party FDP 4.8 2 2.6 1 4.8 2 5.4 2
Free voters Rüsselsheim FWR 2.5 1 - - - - - -
ALFA ALFA 1.8 1 - - - - - -
Forum new Rüsselsheim FnR 1.1 1 2.0 1 - - - -
List 2016 L2016 1.1 0 - - - - - -
Achim Weidner Weidner 0.4 0 - - - - - -
List proboscis PROBLEMS - - - - 5.8 3 6.6 3
percentage of invalid votes 5.9 5.2 3.9 3.4
Total seats 45 45 b 45 b 45
voter turnout 38.5% 39.2% 38.4% 48.1%
a percentage of the valid votes cast
b The table does not include: 2011 WiR with 2.8% and 1 seat; 2006 BLM with 0.1%.

45 city councilors and the city's local councils had to be elected for the legislative period from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2021. Of 44,262 eligible voters, 17,031 voted. As a result, the turnout fell from 39.2% in 2011 to 38.5% in 2016.

Diagram showing the election results and the distribution of seats
Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
         
A total of 45 seats
Distribution of votes 2016
 %
30th
20th
10
0
28.5
27.2
12.9
11.0
8.6
4.8
2.5
1.8
1.1
1.1
0.4
WsR
FWR
FnR
L2016
Weitner

magistrate

full-time:

  • Department I: Lord Mayor Udo Bausch (independent)
  • Department II: Mayor Dennis Grieser (Greens)
  • Department III: City Councilor Nils Kraft (SPD)

unsalaried:

  • Renate Meixner-Römer (SPD)
  • Gerhard Bergemann (SPD)
  • Horst Trapp (CDU), local advisory board Bauschheim
  • Borislav Fistric (CDU)
  • Anja Eckhardt (WsR)
  • Marianne Flörsheimer (Die Linke / Solidarity List)

Districts

The following local districts with local advisory board and local councilor according to the Hessian municipal code exist in the city area:

  • Königstädten district (areas of the former Königstädten municipality ). The local advisory board consists of 9 members.
  • Local district Bauschheim (areas of the former municipality of Bauschheim ). The local advisory board consists of 9 members.

coat of arms

Drawing of the coat of arms by Georg Massoth

In today's city coat of arms, a silver double hook and two silver stars can be seen on a blue background. The double hook is also known as the wolf tang . It is not certain whether it was actually used to kill wolves. Some also see the double hook as a grappling hook (Main Shipping) or an iron component that had to connect solid parts of the wall (defense towers, etc.). The two stars indicate that Rüsselsheim used to belong to the County of Katzenelnbogen , which also had these stars in its coat of arms.

In the literature of the 19th century there is also a reference to another coat of arms: The coat of arms of Rüsselsheim has a crowned lion turned to the left with 4 equal horizontal stripes and a double-knotted tail .

Town twinning

Since 1961 Rüsselsheim has been involved in international town twinning . A regular cultural and sports exchange is maintained with the four partner cities from all over Europe. Among other things, comparative competitions between the three cities take place regularly.

  • Évreux (Eure department, France), since 1961
  • Rugby (English county of Warwickshire), since 1977
  • Varkaus (Finland), since 1979
  • Kecskemét (Hungary), since 1991

The attempt to enter into a partnership with Bodrum (Turkey) has failed. Larger streets in Rüsselsheim are named after the first three twin cities mentioned, Évreux, Rugby and Varkaus. Since 2009 the main street in the new residential area "Blauer See II" has been called Kecskemet-Allee .

Economy and Infrastructure

Land use

The municipality covers a total area of ​​5830 hectares, of which in hectares are:

Type of use 2011 2015
Building and open space 1092 1128
from that Living 574 598
Business 244 258
Operating area 22nd 25th
from that Mining land 2 2
Recreation area 118 145
from that Green area 75 101
traffic area 708 725
Agricultural area 1203 1132
from that moor 0 0
pagan 0 0
Forest area 2510 2497
Water surface 128 127
Other use 49 49

traffic

railroad

The Rüsselsheim train station
The Rüsselsheim Opelwerk station

The two train stations Rüsselsheim and Rüsselsheim-Opelwerk are on the Mainbahn . The S8 and S9 S-Bahn lines that run on it offer direct connections to Wiesbaden , Mainz , Hanau , Offenbach and Frankfurt as well as Frankfurt Airport . The S-Bahn trains largely run at 15-minute intervals in each direction, with one S-Bahn running every hour in each direction at night. Two Regional Express lines from Frankfurt to Koblenz and Saarbrücken , which only stop at Rüsselsheim train station , complement the connection to Rüsselsheim.

Road traffic

The federal highway 43 runs through Rüsselsheim from Mainz to Frankfurt and connects the towns on the southern bank of the Main. Since August 26, 1928, the Opel Bridge has provided a road connection to Flörsheim on the other bank of the Main. This bridge was demolished in 1979 and replaced a little further up the Main by a new bridge with a four-lane carriageway and junctions free of intersections. This bridge is part of the federal highway 519 , which, coming from the federal highway 60 in the south, runs through the city and connects Rüsselsheim with the Main-Taunus-Kreis in the north. From Rüsselsheim to the east, the federal highway 486 leads in the direction of Langen and Dieburg .

With the long-distance network of the federal motorways, Rüsselsheim is initially connected in the south by the A 60 with the Rüsselsheim-Mitte and Rüsselsheim-Königstädten junctions. The A 60 leaves the Mainzer Autobahnring at the Mainspitz-Dreieck and joins the Bundesautobahn 67 at the Rüsselsheimer Dreieck . This in turn touches the east of the city coming from the Mönchhof triangle , leads to Darmstadt and is linked to the B 486. There is a connection to the federal motorway 671 to Wiesbaden via the Mainspitz triangle or the B 43 . Furthermore, the B 43 connects Rüsselsheim with the federal highway 3 and thus with the cities of Cologne and Frankfurt as well as with Frankfurt Airport .

Transportation

Rüsselsheim is in the area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). The urban bus service is maintained by the Rüsselsheim municipal utility . They operate nine bus routes, and two AST routes are offered in the evening . There are also regional bus routes operated by the local public transport company in the Groß-Gerau district (LNVG GG). On their behalf, buses run by Regionalverkehr Kurhessen GmbH (RKH).

Bicycle traffic

In Rüsselsheim, due to the favorable topography, cycling is more frequent than in other regions of Hesse. In the ADFC - Bicycle Climate Test 2016, Rüsselsheim came first among cities with a population of 50,000 - 100,000 in Hesse, albeit only with a 3.49 (roughly equivalent to school grades ). In a nationwide comparison, this corresponded to 18th place out of 98 cities of this size with a sufficient number of respondents. Here Bocholt was the winner with a grade of 2.29.

The comparatively good rating is due to the mostly only short distances due to the dense settlement, the large employer Opel with its extensive factory premises, the above-average range of cycle paths and other cycle traffic facilities , almost all of the designated 30 km / h zones away from the main roads as well as numerous bicycle parking facilities at key destinations. The local bike rental system , which was initially operated by Call a Bike and now operated by Nextbike , is stimulated, largely financed and also heavily used by students at the university .

Business location

The automobile manufacturer Opel and the favorable traffic situation within the greater Frankfurt area are factors why many global companies have settled here. The “Automotive Cluster Rhein-Main-Neckar” in particular shapes the city's economy. In order to improve the city, whose structural problems can hardly be solved independently, in 2006 the city council commissioned the economic study Rüsselsheim 2020 . Under the leadership of Professors Bert Rürup and Reinhard Hujer, guidelines for the economic development of the city up to 2020 were developed in cooperation with Hessen Agentur GmbH. The study has been available since 2006 and is being implemented under the direction of the city's economic development agency. After four years now, however, little successes in implementation are visible. a. because some of the proposed measures, such as the construction of a golf course, were not wanted at the political level.

The inner-city bus traffic, the supply of gas and water as well as the operation of the power grid and street lighting are provided by the Rüsselsheim municipal utility .

Awards

The city of Rüsselsheim awards the “Sofie” to corporate structures that promote the compatibility of family and work as well as equal opportunities in the company. As part of the competition “women and family friendly company”, companies can present their concepts and compete with one another. In 2007 the “Sofie” was awarded for the first time by the city of Rüsselsheim. In 2012 the competition was expanded to a regional level.

The patrons and patrons come from Groß-Gerau, Bischofsheim, Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, Kelsterbach, Raunheim and Rüsselsheim.

So far excellent establishments

  • 2007: the service engineering company invenio AG
  • 2009: GPR Health and Care Center Rüsselsheim gGmbH and Enza - your hairdresser at the town hall

Business representatives

In Rüsselsheim the economy is u. a. by the trade association Rüsselsheim e. V. and by the company Rüsselsheim e. V. represented. The city's economy sends six representatives to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar.

Business promotion

The city of Rüsselsheim attaches particular importance to promoting the local economy. The Rüsselsheim business service, a joint service provided by the city's economic development agency and the urban development company, offers a wide range of support and advice to companies that are already based in Rüsselsheim or want to open a branch in Rüsselsheim. Nevertheless, there have been enormous difficulties in practical implementation for about eight years. Up until almost a year ago there were no overarching overall concepts, which were then purchased from external economics professors from the universities of Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main (Rürup study) . A decisive impulse came in the summer of 2007 from a well-known project development company; this opened their plans for the commercial development of the so-called Opel Altareal. The majority of city councilors and urban development experts see the Opel Altareal project as the great - and probably last - chance for a better future in the old industrial city of Rüsselsheim, which is battered by transformation problems. As a further component of the overall concept, Rüsselsheim is a co-founder of the "Automotive Cluster Rhein Main Neckar".

Adam Opel AG

Opel main portal
Opel mausoleum

Rüsselsheim became known primarily through the automobile manufacturer Opel . The founder Adam Opel began as a locksmith's apprentice and finally returned to Rüsselsheim after several years of training and founded a sewing machine manufacture in his uncle's stable in 1862. He had acquired this knowledge from a well-known sewing machine manufacturer in Paris, among others. Later, when his sons introduced this product, bicycles were also manufactured from 1886 onwards. At times, Opel was the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. Not least because of Adam Opel's five sons , all of whom were successful cyclists, Opel bicycles gained an excellent reputation.

After Adam Opel died in 1895 as a result of a typhus infection caught on a business trip, his wife Sophie and sons took over the company. The first cars were built in 1898. At that time, Adam Opel dismissed cars as “stinking carriages” and had a similar aversion to bicycles as at first (here his sons still prevailed during his lifetime).

As early as the 1920s, what was then Adam Opel AG was sold to the US automobile group General Motors . GM was the sole owner from 1931 to 2017; Opel has been part of Groupe PSA since August 2017 .

Even thanks to Opel, Rüsselsheim was a rich city well into the 1970s. In 1978 there were 42,000 Opel workers among the 50,000 jobs subject to social security contributions. The city's trade tax revenues came almost exclusively from the automobile company. As a result of the oil crisis and the later decision by General Motors to restrict the originally global sales market for Opel vehicles to Europe, demand and production shrank with simultaneous excess capacities. In 2009, due to the poor financial situation, the separation of the Opel subsidiary from the General Motors Group and the takeover of shares by other investors were up for discussion. In 2016, Opel still offered 14,000 jobs at the Rüsselsheim location, including around 7,400 in the International Technical Development Center (ITEZ).

Most of the residents of Rüsselsheim work outside the automotive group, many of them at Frankfurt am Main Airport . Opel has not played a role as a business tax payer for many years. As a result, the city ran into major problems with ever-increasing debt.

Other resident companies

EDS - Electronic Data Systems

The German headquarters of the American IT service provider and outsourcing company EDS was located in Rüsselsheim and was bought by Hewlett-Packard in March 2008 . In January 2013, around 1,200 people worked there. Hewlett-Packard closed the Rüsselsheim site at the end of January 2014.

Hyundai / KIA

The Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH of the Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai / KIA has been located in the Blauer See industrial park since 2003 . She deals with the development of European vehicle technology for the Hyundai and KIA brands . The development focus is on diesel units, chassis and brakes, plastic parts and active safety systems in motor vehicles. The European design center for the Hyundai brand has also been located in Rüsselsheim since 2008.

Mitsubishi Motors Germany

The German importer of Mitsubishi vehicles has been back in Rüsselsheim since April 2011, this time with around 120 employees in the Hasengrund industrial area. For Mitsubishi Motors Germany, moving to Rüsselsheim meant a way back to the roots of the company's history in Germany. Not far from the current location, delivery of the first vehicles began in 1977 in Rüsselsheim. The move to Friedberg took place at the end of 2017. This affected 90 employees in Rüsselsheim

Chevrolet Germany

The German importer of Chevrolet vehicles has been based in the Hasengrund industrial area in Rüsselsheim since July 2007. The move from Bremen to Rüsselsheim meant further synergies for Chevrolet Germany within the multi-brand strategy of the General Motors Group, thanks to the proximity to Opel.

media

There are two daily newspapers: Das Rüsselsheimer Echo and the Main-Spitze . Both are headers that have been owned by larger foreign newspaper publishers for years and only maintain small local editorial offices in Rüsselsheim. The Rüsselsheimer Echo belongs to the Medienhaus Südhessen group, the Main-Spitze to the Rhein-Main publishing group. The groundbreaking ceremony for the publishers' new, shared printing center took place in May 2009. It was created in the Blauer See industrial park.

In addition, the two advertising papers “Rüsselsheimer Wochenblatt” and “SÜWO” appear once a week.

There is also a municipal radio, Radio Rüsselsheim , which can be received in the city under VHF 90.9.

Hospitals and fire departments

The GPR Health and Care Center Rüsselsheim is a non-profit GmbH founded on January 1st, 2004 with the aim of a comprehensive and cross-sector care. The most important areas of society are:

  • GPR Clinic . The former city hospital is an academic teaching hospital of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a clinical center for specialized care with 577 fully inpatient beds and seven semi-inpatient hemodialysis places (as of January 2020) in twelve bed management departments as well as an operative day clinic (OTK). Around 26,580 inpatients were treated in 2014. In 2015, ward C was inaugurated, which houses 160 beds (4 bed wards on levels 3–6) and a further 26 beds in the interdisciplinary intensive care unit (level 2). In addition, with the new building, the central operating room was restructured and received a seventh operating room and a new central sterilization facility. The inflow and outflow of the patients to be operated on was also optimized by a new holding company. The diagnostic units of Medical Clinics I (cardiology with cardiac catheter laboratory) and II (gastroenterology) are centrally located in attractive rooms at the foot of the building. The area of ​​the emergency room was almost doubled as a result of the extension. Fifteen medical clinics and two institutes, a clinic pharmacy and various outpatient departments offer help with health problems. The GPR Klinikum also has an operative day clinic (OTK).

Clinics and institutes in the GPR Clinic

  • Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery
  • Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
  • Clinic for Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery
  • I. Medical Clinic (Gastroenterology)
  • II. Medical clinic (cardiology) with the internal intensive care unit
  • Geriatric Clinic
  • Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
  • Women's Clinic
  • Clinic for pulmonary and bronchial medicine
  • Clinic for Urology, Pediatric Urology and Oncological Urology
  • Clinic for ENT medicine, head, neck and facial plastic surgery
  • Orthopedic clinic
  • Clinic for anesthesiology, anesthesiological intensive medicine and perioperative pain therapy with the operative intensive care unit
  • Institute for Laboratory Medicine
  • Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
  • GPR senior citizens' residence "Haus am Ostpark" . The senior citizens' residence offers 185 home and care places as well as 42 newly built apartments in the area of ​​“assisted living”.
  • GPR outpatient care team . The outpatient care team ensures short-term or permanent home care in Rüsselsheim and in neighboring communities.

The Rüsselsheim volunteer fire brigade has almost 300 volunteer members and is divided into four departments based in Rüsselsheim-Stadt, Rüsselsheim-Königstädten, Rüsselsheim-Haßloch and Rüsselsheim-Bauschheim. The volunteer fire brigade is supported by a good 30 full-time employees to ensure the daily alarm capability and compliance with the deadline. In 2010, a new fire station was built in Bauschheim for a projected two million euros. The design comes from the Mainz architect Julian Andreas Schoyerer. The Ausrückebereiche the volunteer fire brigade Ruesselsheim broken down into the town itself, the federal highway, the Federal waterway Main, the traffic facilities German Bahn AG (railways Mainz - Frankfurt and Mainz - Darmstadt) and at the request of the range of fire brigades Adam Opel AG and Frankfurt Airport.

Educational and care institutions

Daycare centers

The day care center of the city of Rüsselsheim offers care for children and young people. There are 20 municipal day-care centers for the youngest. The parents can choose whether they want to have their child looked after only in the morning, in the morning with lunch or all day. Six denominational or free daycare centers complete the offer in Rüsselsheim.

Assisted living

The SPV (Abbreviation for Sozialpsychiatrischer Verein Kreis Groß-Gerau e.V. ) offers extensive assistance on practical life planning not only for children, but also for adults with physical and / or psychological problems . These range from simple offers to talk about possible leisure activities to specific tips on housekeeping. This also includes taking on simple jobs (e.g. cooking and various cleaning jobs).

Care schools

The city of Rüsselsheim is responsible for the school. At all primary schools in Rüsselsheim there is the possibility of looking after children before or after class.

schools

For the education of children and young people, 19 schools with all school qualifications and various forms of care are available in Rüsselsheim. The city itself is the sponsor of 17 schools, two more local schools are sponsored by the Groß-Gerau district. The school offer also includes three grammar schools, the Immanuel Kant school , the Max Planck school and the new grammar school. However, this is operated by the Groß-Gerau district as a carrier. The Werner-Heisenberg-Schule combines vocational training, professional development, technical college (college entrance) and vocational grammar school under one roof.

In order to offer the students the best possible opportunities for their future, the city of Rüsselsheim is involved in the pilot project “Improving schools together” with the state of Hesse, the Groß-Gerau district school authority and the city of Kelsterbach . The aims of the project, which was started in 2002, are to increase the quality of school performance and to strengthen the schools' own responsibility.

In addition, Rüsselsheim joined the “Schule @ Zukunft” media initiative as early as 2001 and, with the “School opening up” project, establishes contacts between schools and non-school cooperation partners.

RheinMain University of Applied Sciences

RheinMain University, Rüsselsheim location

The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (formerly Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences) has one of two locations in Rüsselsheim. The "Campus Am Brückweg" with the engineering department is located here. A total of 3,707 students are currently studying here (as of November 2016) in the following fields of study:

Leisure and sports facilities

The Main meadows
  • Large sports hall (up to 4500 spectators)
  • Leisure pool on the Lache (previously without an outdoor pool)
  • Forest swimming pool (with the possibility of ice skating if the ice is thick enough in winter)
  • Stadium on the Sommerdamm with grass pitch including grandstand and hockey - artificial grass pitch
  • Boathouse of the Rüsselsheim Rowing Club 08 (RRK) on the Main
  • Trampoline and skateboard track (in front of the former Opel-Bad on Sommerdamm)
  • Equestrian sports club with schools, Darmstädter Straße / corner of Kurt-Schumacher-Ring
  • Verna Park Rüsselsheim

Culture and sights

In 1980 the then mayor Dr. Storsberg inaugurated a memorial vineyard on Frankfurter Strasse. It serves to commemorate the first mention of the Riesling grape variety in 1435 in a vineyard south of the castle with a new plantation by the Rheingau Viticulture Association. A member of the Rüsselsheim winegrowing friends, the Künstler winery, still cultivates Rüsselsheimer Riesling there today . The historical entry can be found in the regesta of the Counts von Katzenelnbogen , a collection of more than 6000 documents by the Wiesbaden state archivist Karl E. Demandt, who translated and organized them over a period of 20 years.

City Theater Rüsselsheim
City Theater Rüsselsheim

The Stadttheater Rüsselsheim offers 865 seats on the stalls and on the floor in the large hall. The theater's program includes drama , concert , opera , operetta , musical , ballet and dance . As a theater without its own ensemble, it is purely a guest theater. Architecturally, it is striking because of its two ellipses that intersect in the upper third. It is a striking building with a great impact on the cityscape. To the left of the city theater is the Rüsselsheim city library. Every year in June, the Rüsselsheim Film Festival takes place in the theater. It is the only German film festival that is dedicated to the genre of satirical short films.

The City and Industry Museum Rüsselsheim was awarded the Museum Prize of the Council of Europe as a model museum in 1979 due to the exhibition concept, which for the first time combined technical, industrial and social history and was described as "currently one of the most important and influential museums in Europe" . The exhibition in the Rüsselsheim Fortress provides information on the development of working techniques and working conditions from prehistory to the present .

Another cultural place of activity is the Rüsselsheim cultural center Das Rind . In addition to the gastronomic part, there are parties (Abschuss or Loveland) and concert events, such as the well-known jazz café series as part of the Rüsselsheim jazz factory.

Opel villas (2008)
Opel villas: modern architecture

The restored Opel villas of the company founders on the banks of the Main, a combination of monument protection and modern architecture, offer space for exhibitions (especially painting and photography) and events. Today the Opelvillen Foundation is located here. The declared aim of the foundation is to present contemporary art, which should be the focus of the exhibition. The board of directors and curator is the Frankfurt art historian Dr. Beate Kemfert, under whose leadership the Opel villas have developed into an established exhibition center in the region. The Opel villas are also supported by the citizens of Rüsselsheim. The Circle of Friends now has over 160 members.

The City of Rüsselsheim has been awarding the City of Rüsselsheim's Culture Prize every two years since 1986, which, at the suggestion of a jury, honors “outstanding achievements and significant cultural initiatives, particularly in the fields of homeland maintenance, literature, music or the fine arts” become. In addition, one is prize awarded one scholarship funding for young artists in the form.

societies

Sports
  • The Rüsselsheim soccer club SV Dersim was founded in 1989. In 2018 a community of players was founded with the traditional club VFR Rüsselsheim. SV Dersim played for several years in the Darmstadt group league, currently (2019) it leads the table in the Darmstadt / Groß-Gerau district upper league.
  • The TG 1862 Rüsselsheim has about 4,000 members, the biggest club Rüsselsheim. 30 sports are offered in 12 departments. The volleyball and dancing teams are represented in the respective national leagues.
  • The TV 1890 Ruesselsheim Hassloch with 1,800 members of the second largest sports provider in Rüsselsheim and offers aerobics, golf, football, Koronarsport, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, sailing and skiing a wide range of sports. The club is particularly known for its tennis Hessenliga teams and the tennis performance center.
  • TV 1888 Königstädten e. V. , with approx. 1300 members, is the largest association in the district and one of the largest in the city. In nine departments, handball, volleyball, gymnastics, dancing, tennis, table tennis, athletics, marching band and recreational sports, sports and socializing are offered for the whole family.
  • The SC Opel Rüsselsheim is the fifth largest club with 520 members and played from 1965 to 1972 in the then second-rate Regionalliga Süd.
  • The JC Rüsselsheim offers judo and other martial arts. Some German champions and also world champions come from the club
  • The Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 e. V. (RRK) with around 630 members, the fourth largest club in Rüsselsheim, is not only known for rowing, but today primarily for hockey. During its more than 100-year history, the RRK has won 28 German rowing championships in various classes. In hockey there have been 51 German championships to date, 24 of them in the women's and men's class. 18 European Cup wins of the RRK women’s team between 1991 and 2006 are unlikely to be repeated.
  • The Rüsselsheim Swimming Club (RSC) was founded in 1954 and today has around 330 members. Swimming as a competitive and popular sport for all age groups, water polo and water aerobics are offered.
  • The R ad- u. M otor s port C lub (RMSC) Rüsselsheim is a traditional club that has dedicated itself to cycling, RC cars and youth work. The 6-man teams of the RMSC Rüsselsheim have already been three times German champions in 6-man lawn bike ball. In the RC car sector, too, there are drivers who are in the top ranks of the top German drivers and also participants in world championships.
  • The OPEL 1888 Rüsselsheim e. V. was founded in March 1888, primarily on the initiative of Adam Opel. Adam Opel's two eldest sons were among the founding members. Adam Opel's five sons - Wilhelm, Carl, Heinrich, Fritz and Ludwig - were enthusiastic cyclists with numerous sporting successes. The Opel 1888 Rüsselsheim e. V. today has more than 120 members and offers activities in the fields of cycling (RTF), cycling and historical bicycles with high and low bikes . Once a year in June, the RV Opel 1888 organizes its Radtourenfahrt (RTF) as part of the popular sports calendar of the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR). There are routes of 42, 79, 111 and 153 km. Another event highlight is the annual meeting of old-timers, which takes place in June at the Opel villas as part of the Opel Classics. This is where bicycle lovers meet who have lovingly restored and cared for their Opel bicycles, which were built in Rüsselsheim until 1937.
  • The 1. SC Breakers Rüsselsheim is the largest snooker club in all of Hesse with around 60 members. The club was represented by one team in the 1st Bundesliga from 1999 to 2016 and was German team champion in the 1999/2000 and 2006/07 seasons. Numerous Hessen champions in the individual and in the team, German cup winners and winners of the GOSR tournament series belong to this club.
  • SKG Bauschheim. The name SKG is the abbreviation for Sport- und Kulturgemeinde Bauschheim 1887/1946 e. V. The association, which has existed since May 12, 1946, emerged from the merger of several Bauschheim associations. This merger was the condition of the then military government for its approval. For the same reason, many associations with the abbreviations SKG, SKV, SG etc. were established in the area of ​​the American-occupied zone during this time. The two years in the club name mark the founding year of the oldest of the united clubs, namely the Bauschheimer Gymnastics Club from 1887, with 1887 and the year of the merger by the Allies in 1946. Today the SKG consists of following departments football, handball, singing, table tennis, music train, cycling, gymnastics (fitness and health) and hiking.
  • The Rüsselsheim Razorbacks were a sports club for American football , which stopped the game in 2010.
  • FV Hellas Rüsselsheim offers football, basketball and women's handball.
  • The target finder e. V. is one of the largest disc golf clubs in Germany and has around 100 members (as of July 2015). In the northern part of the Ostpark, the members set up a course with 21 baskets. They also play in the forest swimming pool outside of the bathing season and organize up to five tournaments a year. In 2014, the German disco golf championship took place on the first weekend in October with 144 participants.
  • The sailing club Rüsselsheim 03 e. V. is a cruising sailing club founded in 2003 from the sailing department of TV 1890 Rüsselsheim-Haßloch. With around 100 members he sails in a wide variety of sailing areas. He has been taking part in the Hessen regatta on the Baltic Sea since it was founded and won the Hessencup in 2016 and 2017.
  • The Friends of Nature Germany, local group Rüsselsheim founded in Vienna in 1895 and in Rüsselsheim in 1925, have their own house behind the forest swimming pool. It is a popular meeting place especially for families with children. A sensory path with a large playground and a boules court are also available. The Naturfreundehaus is open on Sundays and Wednesdays from 2pm to 6pm, and also on Saturdays in summer.
Culture
  • The Friends of Reading and Reading e. V. has been organizing the Rüsselsheim Reading Weeks as a non-profit association since 1997 with around 60–70 author readings and writing workshops in school classes in Rüsselsheim and other towns in the Groß-Gerau district. This reading promotion project has been carried out successfully since 1985 with the help of schools, the Rüsselsheim city library and numerous supporters and sponsors.
  • The Rüsselsheim Carneval Association 1936 e. V. is one of the largest cultural associations in Rüsselsheim with around 200 members. The association is dedicated to the maintenance of the customs of the Rhenish and Alemannic carnivals, operates a guard dance department and is the home association of the Guggemusik Bembeljeescher. The RCV is the organizer of the International Guard Day. The event, consisting of a torchlight parade, concert, carnival parade and maneuver ball takes place annually on the second weekend before Shrove Monday and attracts around 25,000 spectators to the carnival parade on the Rüsselsheimer streets.
  • Shanty Choir Rüsselsheim: seafaring romance on the Main! The men's choir, founded in 1993, emerged from the sailing department of TV 1890 Rüsselsheim-Haßloch . The association, which only has around 40 members, is very active locally, regionally and nationally, with an average of 30 appearances per year. It has set itself the goal of preserving and caring for the traditional songs of seafarers, the shanty . You not only sing in German, but also in Plattdütsch, French and English.
leisure
  • The German Alpine Association offers almost 1,300 members in Rüsselsheim a field of activity. In addition to hiking and mountain tours, there is also the option of climbing the climbing tower in Rüsselsheim-Bauschheim. Since November 2006 the DAV has also been looking after the newly created climbing wall in the large sports hall (formerly Walter-Köbel-Halle).
  • The city ​​association of Rüsselsheim of the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH) in the Lvb. Hessen e. V. offers its members and interested hikers monthly hikes in the surrounding low mountain ranges by bus.
  • The Disaster-Dancers Rüsselsheim e. V. were founded in 2007 with 15 members. The association operates Modern American Square Dance, which is danced worldwide. Today the association has more than 40 members and since it was founded has welcomed well over 1000 guests from many countries to its weekly club evenings on Fridays.
  • CompUser Club Mainspitze e. V. helps all residents of Rüsselsheim and the surrounding areas to use modern electronic means of communication (e.g. various computers, cell phones or operating systems).
  • The chess club Rüsselsheim 1929 e. V. organizes its evening play every Thursday in a building next to the city theater.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Ludwig Dörfler (1887–1957), former mayor of Rüsselsheim
  • Roland Plaisance (* 1925), former mayor of Rüsselsheim's twin town Évreux

sons and daughters of the town

Adam Opel Monument in the city center

Artist

Politician

athlete

Economy and science

Journalists

Personalities who work or have worked in Rüsselsheim

Artist

Politician

athlete

Theologians

scientist

literature

  • Peter Rottländer, Karl P. Michels: Rüsselsheim in old pictures. Verlag Gronenberg, Rüsselsheim 1980, ISBN 3-88265-065-6 .
  • Gudrun Senska (Ed.): Rüsselsheim is growing together. 1945 to 1970. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-067-0 .
  • Peter Schirmbeck (Ed.): You will come to America tomorrow. Memories of working at Opel 1917–1987. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8012-0128-7 .
  • For literature on the districts, see literature on royal cities

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessian State Statistical Office: Population status on December 31, 2019 (districts and urban districts as well as municipalities, population figures based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ↑ a b c Addition of a distinguishing feature according to § 12 sentence 3 of the Hessian municipality code for the municipality name of the city of Rüsselsheim, district of Groß-Gerau from August 18, 2015 . In: Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sport (Ed.): State gazette for the state of Hesse. 2015 No. 33 , p. 831 , point 612 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Statistical Report 2018. (PDF; 6.1 MB) In: www.ruesselsheim.de. City of Rüsselsheim am Main, Department of Finance, p. 35 , accessed on November 29, 2018 .
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