Rodgau

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Rodgau
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 8 ° 53 ′  E

Basic data
State : Hesse
Administrative region : Darmstadt
County : Offenbach
Height : 127 m above sea level NHN
Area : 65.04 km 2
Residents: 45,719 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 703 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 63110
Area code : 06106
License plate : OF
Community key : 06 4 38 011
LOCODE : DE ROU
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Hintergasse 15
63110 Rodgau
Website : www.rodgau.de
Mayor : Jürgen Hoffmann ( SPD )
Location of the city of Rodgau in the Offenbach district
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Rodgau is the most populous city in the Offenbach district in Hesse and is located southeast of Offenbach am Main in the Rhine-Main area . It emerged in 1979 from the large community of Rodgau, which was formed in 1977 as part of the regional reform in Hesse through the merger of five previously independent communities. The history of today's districts goes back to the 8th century. The city administration is located in the centrally located district of Jügesheim .

geography

Geographical location

Location of the city of Rodgau in the Rhine-Main area
District boundary and development of the town of Rodgau and the surrounding area
View from the water tower over the Rhine-Main plain to Frankfurt

Rodgau is part of the Rhine-Main conurbation , one of the economically strongest areas in Germany . The 50th latitude passes exactly through the Puiseaux Square in Nieder-Roden. It lies in the Lower Main Plain , the northern branch of the Upper Rhine Plain . The flat direct catchment area of ​​Rodgau is complemented by the nearby low mountain range Spessart , Taunus , Vogelsberg and Odenwald as well as the Bergstrasse , all of which serve as local recreation areas for the population. The border to neighboring Bavaria is only a few kilometers away on the Main .

Around a third of the urban area consists of forest , another third consists of agricultural areas and water areas , the remaining third consists of residential, commercial and traffic development. The Rodau stream flows through the entire urban area over a length of 15 kilometers.

In terms of climate, the area is one of the mildest and less rainy areas in Germany (averaged annual values ​​from 1982 to 2004: 10.5 degrees Celsius, 639.1 millimeters).

Neighboring communities

Rodgau borders in the north on the towns of Heusenstamm and Obertshausen , in the east on the township of Hainburg and the town of Seligenstadt , in the south-east on the town of Babenhausen and the town of Eppertshausen (both in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district ), in the south-west on the town of Rödermark and in the west to the city of Dietzenbach .

City structure

Rodgau consists of the districts Weiskirchen , Hainhausen , Jügesheim , Dudenhofen and Nieder-Roden with the associated district Rollwald .

history

City foundation

On January 1, 1977, as part of the Hessian territorial reform, the large community of Rodgau was created from the communities listed below and was granted city rights on September 15, 1979 . The old trade name Rodgau , like Bachgau and Kinziggau belonging to the Maingau , gave the city its name. The original communities, however, have a history that goes back hundreds of years. The founding churches were:

  • Dudenhofen is the district of Rodgau, which, as a Lutheran village in an otherwise Roman Catholic environment, showed a development that deviated from its surroundings in the early modern period.
  • Hainhausen is the second oldest part of the city, probably mentioned in a document by the moated castle Hainhausen as early as 1108, but certainly in 1122. Today it is the smallest part of Rodgau (around 3800 inhabitants).
  • Jügesheim is the second largest district in the city of Rodgau.
  • Nieder-Roden is mentioned for the first time in 791 as Rotaha inferior in the Lorsch Codex , was the center of a center with its own center court and therefore even had a fortification. Before the municipal amalgamation in 1977, the Nieder-Roden community was the only one not part of the Offenbach district, but rather the Dieburg district .
  • Weiskirchen is another district of Rodgau.

On December 31, 2012, Rodgau had 44,994 inhabitants ( including 2,157 registered secondary residences ), of which 22,146 were male and 22,848 were female. 4,553 inhabitants are foreigners (10.9%) from 51 nations. 65.5% of the population has lived in Rodgau for more than ten years.

politics

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:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council
        
A total of 45 seats
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 29.3 13 28.8 13 47.7 22nd 46.2 21st
Social Democratic Party of Germany SPD 27.1 12 27.1 12 31.1 14th 35.5 16
Alliance 90 / The Greens GREEN 10.9 5 17.9 8th 9.9 4th 8.0 3
Together with citizens ZmB 10.4 5 16.3 7th - - - -
Alternative for Germany AfD 10.0 5 - - - - - -
Free Democratic Party FDP 5.7 3 3.6 2 3.9 2 4.0 2
Free voters Rodgau
until 2006 CITIZENS / FWG 		FWR 3.3 1 3.6 2 4.2 2 2.6 1
The left LEFT 3.3 1 2.7 1 - - - -
percentage of invalid votes 3.9 4.6 4.3 2.9
Total seats 45 45 45 b 45 b
voter turnout 47.8% 44.5% 44.0% 51.7%
a percentage of the valid votes cast
b The table does not include: 2006 German list with 3.2% and 1 seat and 2001 REP with 3.7% and 2 seats

45 city councilors were to be elected for the legislative period from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2021. Of 34,279 eligible voters, 16,382 voted. Thus, the voter turnout rose from 44.5% in 2011 to 47.8% in 2016. In the current legislative period, two city councilors and one member of the magistrate switched from the ZmB to the FDP.

magistrate

The city council elects eight members of the magistrate (one full-time member and seven honorary members) as the highest administrative body of the city. The mayor, who is directly elected by the citizens every six years, chairs the magistrate .

Since 2008 the parliamentary groups of the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, FDP and Free Voters have been cooperating in the Rodgau City Council. In the local elections on March 27, 2011, all four groups were able to collectively win 24 out of 45 seats and thus continue to have a majority. On April 29, 2011, the SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, FDP and Free Voters signed an agreement in which they agreed to continue their cooperation for the years 2011–2016 and to focus their political work.

The interests of the five Rodgau districts were taken care of by the local advisory councils appointed there until March 31, 2016 . However, they only had an advisory role in the city parliament; the members of the local councils were elected in the local elections in separate votes by the citizens of the respective district. In 2011, the city council decided to abolish all local councils by April 1, 2016 (i.e. the next local election).

The political bodies meet in the meeting rooms of the town hall in the Jügesheim district, which was completed in 1988 .

Mayor and City Councilors

Acting mayor is Jürgen Hoffmann (SPD). The full-time first city councilor is Michael Schüßler (FDP). Winfried Sahm (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) has been Head of Sports and Culture since June 2016 of the other honorary city councilors and members of the municipal administration. Wolfram Neumann (SPD) has been head of the newly created energy department since May 2017.

Former mayors of Rodgau were: January to May 1977 Wilhelm Albert (SPD) as "State Commissioner Mayor", May 1977 to 1980 Hans Elgner (CDU), 1980 to 1998 Paul Scherer (CDU), 1998 to 2004 Thomas Przibilla (SPD), 2004 to 2010 Alois Schwab (CDU).

badges and flags

Banner Rodgau.svg

coat of arms

DEU Rodgau COA.svg
 Blazon : “In blue and red a wavy silver slanting bar, topped with five stars, accompanied at the top right by a silver rose with silver sepals - this topped with a red heart on which a black cross rests (Luther rose) - at the bottom left by a six-spoke silver rose (Mainz) bike . "

The coat of arms was approved on November 14, 1978 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior. The corrugated sloping beam symbolizes the Rodau, which flows through the entire city area. In this bar there are five stars for the districts. In the upper right part (seen from the coat of arms) a stylized silver rose with a red heart and a black cross ( Luther rose ) can be seen on a blue background . This part is reminiscent of the Protestant enclave Dudenhofen in the middle of the neighboring Catholic communities. The left, lower part shows a six-spoke wheel against a red background, which is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Archbishops of Mainz. The wheel indicates that Kurmainz has exercised territorial rights in all parts of the city since 1425, succeeding the Lords of Eppstein. The Kurmainzer rule lasted in general until the secularization at the beginning of the 19th century, in Dudenhofen it was ended in the 17th century. As a result of the rule of the Counts of Hanau and, from 1736, the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt, Dudenhofen remained an Evangelical-Lutheran enclave within the remaining Catholic places Jügesheim, Nieder-Roden, Hainhausen and Weiskirchen. For this reason, the Luther rose appears as a counterpart to the Mainz wheel in the coat of arms of the city of Rodgau.

flag

The Rodgau flag was approved by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior on February 1, 1979.

Flag description: "The municipal coat of arms is placed on white flag cloth with red stripes in the upper third."

Town twinning

Rodgau and its districts maintain several city partnerships:

City of Rodgau Donja Stubica.svg Donja Stubica CroatiaCroatia Croatia since 2002
Dudenhofen Nieuwpoort (B) wapen.svg Nieuwpoort BelgiumBelgium Belgium since 1975
Nieder-Roden Blason ville for Puiseaux (Loiret) .svg Puiseaux FranceFrance France since 1974
AUT Hainburg an der Donau COA.jpg Hainburg on the Danube AustriaAustria Austria since 1974

Since 1974 there has been a partnership with Puiseaux in France and with the Austrian town of Hainburg an der Donau on the part of Nieder-Rodens. On May 25, 1974, the mayor Hans Elgner (Nieder-Roden) signed; Georges Bordry (Puiseaux) and Hubert Rein (Hainburg an der Donau) presented the partnership documents in the Nieder-Roden community center. In 1975 Nieuwpoort in Belgium was twinned with Dudenhofen. Another partnership between the city of Rodgau and the Croatian city ​​of Donja Stubica has existed since September 2002 .

Economic development

Asparagus field in Dudenhofen

While agriculture determined life in the formerly independent communities of Rodgau up to the beginning of the 19th century , this changed with increasing industrialization , especially in Offenbach . Most of the farmers took up work in the nearby towns of Offenbach and Frankfurt and only ran their farms as a sideline .

In the middle of the 20th century, numerous small and medium- sized companies in the leather processing industry settled in the communities of Rodgau, and they had their products - handbags , suitcases , belts , purses and wallets  - mainly manufactured at home . This led to the almost complete disappearance of part-time farming by 1975 . In 2004, eleven farms were still working full-time (mainly asparagus cultivation ) and four farms as a sideline.

In addition to the leather goods industry, metal processing in the Rodgau was also created as a supplier of belt buckles, suitcase handles and the like. There were larger companies in Weiskirchen, Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden. Today leather goods manufacture and metal processing only play a subordinate role.

In 1954, a new branch of industry in this region was established on the outskirts of Dudenhofen, the Dudenhofen sand-lime brickworks , which mined the fine dune sand there for the production of up to 73 million stones per year. In the 1990s, the company shifted its production focus to the manufacture of aerated concrete blocks, now known under the name Porit .

Aerial view of the Opel test center in Dudenhofen (coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 25 ″  E )
High-speed track in the Opel test center

In the early 1960s, Adam Opel AG chose Dudenhofen as the location for its test center (TCD), which went into operation in 1966. In the middle of a 4.8 km long high-speed circuit there is also a 6.7 km long endurance test track with all kinds of road types (Marterstraße) and, since 2009, an off-road track for testing off-road vehicles.

Beginning in the 1960s, Rodgau identified six larger industrial areas (total area 219  hectares ), in which mainly service companies such as the IBM goods distribution center (until 2005, from then Mann-Mobilia logistics center), the company Atlas Rhein Main, the FEGRO wholesale market , MEWA settled textile services , Geodis , Pepsi-Cola Germany , PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences and a post cargo center of DHL . A total of 3871 businesses were registered in Rodgau in mid-2005, including 23 supermarkets of the best-known chain stores and 16 hotels with a total of 795 beds.

The trend away from manufacturing and handicrafts to the service industry becomes clear in comparison to 1987 and 2003: 10 years after the founding of the large congregation, the service share was still 52 percent, in the following 15 years it rose to 73 percent of total industry.

Around 150 high-tech companies are based in Rodgau . The technology field of information and communication technology for the aerospace industry dominates , followed by sensors , measurement, control and analysis technology . Furthermore, the areas of production technology, automatic painting technology as well as micro- and optoelectronics are represented.

In 2005, Rodgau's commercial operations provided a total of 9,076 jobs subject to social insurance . In addition, there are around 3000 jobs for the self-employed, civil servants and marginally employed.

A large part of the working population of Rodgau has jobs in the major cities in the area: Offenbach am Main (15 kilometers), Hanau (15 kilometers), Darmstadt (20 kilometers), Aschaffenburg (20 kilometers) and Frankfurt am Main (25 kilometers).

traffic

Transport links to the city of Rodgau
The S1 S-Bahn that runs in Rodgau
B 45 in Rodgau-Jügesheim

Transportation

Since December 14, 2003, all Rodgau districts have been connected to the extensive network of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn by extending the S1 S-Bahn line from Wiesbaden to Ober-Roden . Until that time, Rodgau was the Rodgaubahn served.

The district bus lines to Babenhausen, Seligenstadt , Dietzenbach and Langen are connected to the Nieder-Roden and Jügesheim train stations with the S1 . In addition, two city bus routes connect all parts of the city with each other. Outside their schedule times, collective call taxis (AST) drive to the Rollwald district during the day. The city bus routes are operated by Stadtwerke Rodgau .

Cycle path network

The city of Rodgau increasingly has a well-developed network of cycle paths and cycle paths that connect the five districts with one another in cooperation with the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC). The signposted Rodgau circular route has led through fields and forests all around the city since 2005 . At 42.1 kilometers, it almost reaches the marathon distance. To the right and left of the S-Bahn line, a 14-kilometer-long asphalt bike path from Rollwald to Weiskirchen connects all parts of the city. There are special bicycle parking spaces with stands and lockable rental boxes at all S-Bahn stops.

Pedestrian zones

Designated pedestrian zones exist in Nieder-Roden between the S-Bahn station and Puiseauxplatz and in Jügesheim an der Rodgau-Passage. Traffic-calmed areas with corresponding street paving can be found in all parts of the city, mostly in the old town centers and in the new development areas. Walking paths through the partly park-like Rodau-Aue in Dudenhofen and Jügesheim are reserved for pedestrians. A dense network of signposted hiking trails runs through the forests and fields of the Rodgau district .

Private transport

In the north of Rodgau, the A 3 (Frankfurt - Würzburg ) runs through the city and crosses the motorway-like B 45 ( Hanau - Dieburg ), which runs in north-south direction and affects all of Rodgau's districts and is served by four junctions. The Weiskirchen gas station and rest area on the Rodgau district on federal motorway 3 can be accessed from both directions. A motel is attached to the northern rest area . When the A 3 was continued from Offenbach to Würzburg in the 1960s, both service stations were built for the first time in Germany as purely vending machines . This concept was deviated from in the early 1980s and converted into self-service restaurants .

The western living areas are accessed through the eleven-kilometer Rodgau-Ring-Straße, which continues in the north to Heusenstamm and Offenbach. The cross-district connection Dietzenbach- Rodgau- Seligenstadt connects Rodgau with the A 3. Weiskirchen is also connected to the A 3 through the Obertshausen junction.

Since 2001, six heavily frequented intersections in the urban area of ​​Rodgau have been replaced by roundabouts with raised and planted central islands. A further five mini-roundabouts were built to calm traffic in residential areas.

Park

At the bathing lake in Nieder-Roden there are around 2000 car parking spaces in the immediate vicinity of the beach entrance. A total of 400 park-and-ride spaces are available at all six S-Bahn stops . There is a parking garage at the train station in Nieder-Roden. Jügesheim has two underground car parks in the core area. There are larger parking spaces at the town houses in Dudenhofen, Weiskirchen and Nieder-Roden as well as at all sports halls. The five forest leisure facilities also offer plenty of parking space, as does the hiking car park in the eastern forest area on the Long Aisle.

air traffic

The close proximity to Frankfurt Airport  - and the problem-free journey there via the S-Bahn - also enables an economical international connection. The Frankfurt airport is about 20 km from Rodgau away and can be reached via the A3 motorway. Of course, holidaymakers also benefit from this proximity.

Between Offenbach and Darmstadt is located about 25 kilometers from Rodgau from the Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport , the busiest commercial airport in Germany. With around 77,000 flight movements per year, it relieves and complements Frankfurt Airport.

media

Newspapers

The national daily newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau and Offenbach-Post contain a Rodgau local section in their editions for the Offenbach district. In addition, the free Rodgau-Post from the Offenbach-Post publishing house and the Rodgau-Zeitung appear on Thursdays . The Dreieich-Spiegel also deals marginally with events in Rodgau. The city magazine mein rodgau reports ten times a year on people, sport, culture and lifestyle from and around Rodgau.

Cable network

The majority of households in the city of Rodgau have the option of receiving 32 television and 35 radio programs via the cable network operated by Unitymedia . The signals are fed in at the Rödermark node . Rodgau has also had a broadband network since 2005 , which enables digital television and radio programs to be supplied.

Radio

Due to its proximity to the economic metropolis of Frankfurt, Rodgau is in the catchment area of ​​the reporting of the following radio stations:

Infrastructure

development

Due to the originally village structure of the individual communities, their natural centers were each around the church. This remained so even after the merger to form the large community in 1977, except for Nieder-Roden. From 1950 onwards, the fivefold increase in the number of inhabitants required a strong expansion of residential developments to the north-west (“garden city”) and the creation of a new town center with a post office, shops, medical center, community and social center. Several compact residential complexes with up to twelve floors were built here at the end of the 1960s under the planning of Baugilde Süd . Striking in today's cityscape here is a popularly China wall called, about 300 meters long block of flats with duplex apartments. The extension planned at the time to a length of 900 meters was no longer implemented.

Despite the steadily growing size of Rodgau, there is no hospital in the city. The closest clinics are in Seligenstadt, Langen and Offenbach am Main.

A careful designation of new development areas since 1979 enabled the population to grow to today's size on the one hand, and the simultaneous creation of the necessary social infrastructure such as kindergartens, schools, sports and leisure facilities on the other. Although the city is slowly growing closer together as a result, no real city ​​center has developed so far . The individual districts maintain their own grown structures.

The Local Agenda 21 has been a guiding principle in urban design since 1998 . A committee made up of committed citizens developed a model for the community with the aim of sustainability as a “roof” for the economy, the environment, social affairs, culture, one world, etc. The committee was given an advisory function and the right to speak in the city parliament as a committee and worked out proposals among other things for renaturation and integration . The “ quality phase ” of the Local Agenda 21 has been running since 2002 , that is, the actual implementation of the proposals by 2017. The committee itself disbanded in 2003 after the “ growth phase ” was completed.

religion

Chapel Schoenstatt Center

Services are regularly held in four Protestant and six Catholic churches and community centers . The Aramean community, which belongs to the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch , celebrates its services in the Catholic Church in Dudenhofen. The Islamic religious communities gather in a small mosque in Nieder-Roden and in the Anwar Mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, built in Jügesheim in 2008 .

The conference and training center of the Catholic International Apostolic Schoenstatt Movement in the Diocese of Mainz has been located on the eastern edge of Rodgau-Weiskirchen since 1982 .

The first synagogue in Weiskirchen was set up in 1793 in the house of the protective Jew Gedalie. A new building took place in 1881 and 1882. In November 1938, after being sold by the religious community, the building was already used as a residential building and was not destroyed. The cult objects relocated to Offenbach am Main fell victim to the destruction there. After a renovation by the town of Rodgau, which is the owner, the synagogue has been used by the Weiskirchen local history and history association since 2010 .

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , in 2011 23.6% of the population were Protestant , 37.1% Roman Catholic and 39.2% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information.

Schools in Rodgau

In addition to 25 kindergartens, Rodgau now has a wide range of school types - also due to the fact that the municipalities were independent for a long time: for example, the upper level of the Claus-von-Stauffenberg-Schule in Dudenhofen with grades 11 to 13, as cooperative comprehensive schools the Georg -Büchner-Schule in Jügesheim and the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Hainhausen. An integrated comprehensive school (Heinrich-Böll-Schule) can be found in Nieder-Roden, primary schools with the Freiherr-vom-Stein primary school in Dudenhofen, the Carl Orff school in Jügesheim, the garden city school in Nieder-Roden, the primary school there are six at the community center in Nieder-Roden, the Münchhausen school in Hainhausen and the Wilhelm Busch school in Jügesheim. The Georg Büchner School, the Heinrich Böll School, the Geschwister Scholl School and a few other schools not located in Rodgau form a school association, within the framework of which an exchange of experiences and the planning of joint projects and class work take place. There is also the Friedrich von Bodelschwingh School as a special school with a focus on intellectual development in Weiskirchen. The city also maintains its own adult education center and supports the Rodgau Free Music School .

Sports and leisure facilities

Rodgau lido, the famous “St. Tropez am Baggersee "

In addition to the lido on the 26.3 hectare Rodgau bathing lake with up to 370,000 bathers annually, the urban area of ​​Rodgau also has several forest leisure facilities, barbecue areas and a mini golf course . Sports enthusiasts have three sports centers, five sports fields, five multi-field sports halls, four gyms, two fitness trails and several equestrian facilities at their disposal. Seven tennis facilities and a tennis hall are also part of the offer, as well as a beach volleyball facility with three places on the lido, a large skater facility and a model airfield. The sports operation is looked after by 55 Rodgau sports clubs.

The annual sporting highlights in Rodgau include the RLT Rodgau's 50 km ultra marathon in January, a triathlon in August and the 24-hour run in September. Participants and visitors from several federal states travel to the annual kite festival at the end of September.

natural reserve

NSG gravel and sand pit from Dudenhofen

The nature reserve gravel and sand pit of Dudenhofen (NSG identification 1438024) comprises around 17.32 hectares of forest and meadow, which is located in the urban area of ​​Dudenhofen.

The protection goal is the preservation and expansion of extensive shallow waters. It is the habitat of the moor frog and is home to a great diversity of species. A selection is the Little Grebe, Little Ringed Plover, Great Egret, Gray Heron, Canada Goose.

NSG Mooskiefernwald von Dudenhofen

The nature reserve Mooskiefernwald von Dudenhofen (NSG identification 1438030) comprises around 36.11 hectares of forest and meadows, which is located east of the Opel test site and east of the urban area of ​​Rodgau- Dudenhofen .

The nature reserve is located at the eastern end of the district of Dudenhofen. The area consists of large pine forests , which also birds like hawk , black and green woodpecker , redstart , nightjar and Wendehals a valuable biotope bilden.Zweck the NSG expulsion is to maintain this type of landscape large area in its special character and the valuable ground vegetation to put under protection.

NSG Rodauwiesen near Rollwald

The Rodauwiesen nature reserve near Rollwald (NSG identification 1438033) is located in the Untermainebene natural area and comprises around 32.74 hectares of meadows in the urban area of ​​Rollwald.

It encompasses parts of the Rodau lowlands, which are characterized by extensive grassland areas, and consists of still existing wet and wet meadows as well as a large area of ​​reeds. The purpose of the NSG designation is to protect extensive grassland areas with large reed beds as habitats for rare and endangered animal and plant species. The purpose of the protection is to secure it.

NSG Rotsohl and Thomassee von Dudenhofen

The nature reserve Rotsohl and Thomassee von Dudenhofen (NSG identification 1438032) comprises an approximately 51.88 hectare forest and meadow stock , which is located in the urban area of ​​Dudenhofen. The area consists of large pine forests, which also form a valuable biotope for bird species such as the hawk, black and green woodpecker, common redstart, goat milker and wryneck.

The purpose of the NSG designation is to preserve, secure and develop the wet meadows, poor grasslands, sedges, tall herbaceous meadows, small bodies of water and alder and willow trees as a habitat for a multitude of rare and endangered plant and animal species. The prerequisite is that the moist to flooded core areas are preserved as temporary bodies of water and swamps with marginal strips with little wood. This also includes the bodies of water popularly known as “Postteiche” and the Weissensee. The area is a migration area for large flocks of birds in early spring.

NSG stallions

The Hengster nature reserve (NSG identification 1438002) comprises around eight hectares of forest, most of which are located in the urban area of ​​Rodgau and a small part in the Obertshausen area.

It is considered to be one of the oldest nature reserves in Hesse and Germany. The stallion is a former moorland area that was known nationwide at the beginning of the 20th century due to its remarkable flora. The area was discovered as a "botanical treasure chest" as early as 1821. It attracted researchers from all over the world who found a moor landscape that reached into the so-called cross hole. Water-permeable drift and dune sands made the soil poor in nutrients. A number of raised bog plants were to be found, including numerous rarities, u. a. Orchids . Until 1995 the sundew , a carnivorous plant, could be detected in the area. Many other animal and plant species that are now extinct or threatened also flourished.

Around 1930 several trenches were dug for agriculture and the area drained . In the meantime, at the beginning of the 21st century, the stallion is largely a dry quarry forest with alder and birch trees, which is primarily of historical importance.

A permanent exhibition is dedicated to the area in the Obertshausen local history museum. The history of the stallion from 1884 to 1969 was documented in two books.

Culture and sights

49 Rodgau associations maintain the city's cultural life with numerous choir and orchestral concerts, readings, theater performances, dance tournaments, art exhibitions and workshops. The city's culture agency (AKSE) offers an annual theater season (three subscription series) with well-known artists as well as the regionally recognized art exhibition in the Nieder-Roden community center. Two more town houses are located in the districts of Weiskirchen and Dudenhofen.

In the districts of Weiskirchen, Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden, local history associations look after museums whose collections deal with the history of the respective location. Until October 2014, Nieder-Rodens Friedensstraße was the only privately owned GDR museum in the region.

Four cinemas and seven public libraries complete the cultural offer.

Rodgau Monotones after receiving the Rodgau Citizen Medal

Rodgau became known nationwide through the hits of the band Rodgau Monotones , for example “St. Tropez am Baggersee ”(which is available in Nieder-Roden) or“ Have mercy on Hesse ”. The Rodgau Monotones received the Rodgau City Culture Prize in 1983 and the Gold Citizens' Medal in 2009 , the highest award the city can bestow.

In Rodgau, five amateur theater groups operate at club level, and their performances are an integral part of Rodgau's cultural life. The theater projects of the Nieder-Röder group Das Große Welttheater , for which they received the cultural award in 1996 and the cultural award in 2000, received national attention from several thousand spectators .

Since 1979, the Rodgau City Culture Prize, endowed with 2200 euros , has been awarded annually for outstanding achievements by Rodgau artists or projects, since 1992 alternating with the Culture Prize especially for young artists.

Culture Prize and Culture Promotion Prize of the City of Rodgau

  • 1979 (KP) Arendje Muurling, Hannelore Reinert-Jansen, Helma Schulz, Egon Kottek, Karl Müller
  • 1980 (KP) Dieter Jonas
  • 1982 (KP) Willi Grimm, Stephan Hohlweg
  • 1983 (KP) Rodgau Monotones , Rudolf Petzinger
  • 1984 (KP) Philipp Rupp, youth orchestra Musikverein Nieder-Roden, youth orchestra Musikverein Weiskirchen
  • 1985 (KP) Gisela Rathert, Thomas Sonnen
  • 1986 (KP) Helmut Trageser, Adam Geißler
  • 1987 (KP) Robert Keller, Kurt Reichenbach, Eckhard Rehringhaus
  • 1988 (KP) Rudolf Schüler, amateur play group Kolping family Jügesheim
  • 1989 (KP) Günther Hindel, brass ensemble Musikverein Dudenhofen
  • 1991 (KP) Anni Wolf, male choir Dudenhofen
  • 1992 (KP) Tobias Rausch
  • 1993 (KP) Klaus Möller, youth choir Catholic church choir Weiskirchen, group FOCUS
  • 1994 (KP) Timor Chadik, Volker Roth
  • 1995 (KP) Klemens Althapp, choir "Mixed Voices"
  • 1996 (KFP) Erik Schmekel, theater director
  • 1997 (KP) Jericho Group, Theresia Uglik
  • 1998 (KFP) Andreas Spahn
  • 1999 (KP) choir "Da Capo"
  • 2000 (KP) theater group "Great World Theater"
  • 2001 (KP) cabaret group "en haufe leut"
  • 2002 (KFP) Björn Bürger , music
  • 2003 (KP) Tanja Garlt (theater director), Jürgen K. and Angela Groh (both music)
  • 2005 (KP) amateur play group Nieder-Roden, Karl-Heinz Kalbhenn
  • 2006 (KFP) Big Band of the Georg Büchner School, TGS Jügesheim Jugendfastnacht
  • 2007 (KP) Gerd Steinle, visual arts
  • 2008 (KFP) Franziska Langer, Carmen Lang, both vocals
  • 2009 (KP) Jens Joneleit New Music
  • 2010 (KFP) band Marie Wonder , rock band
  • 2011 (KP) Singers' Association Sängerkranz Polyhymnia
  • 2012 (KFP) Maria Ließ, violin
  • 2013 (KP) Thomas Langer , Dudenhofen Music Association
  • 2014 (KFP) Jimi Joel Eyrich, classical guitar
  • 2015 (KP) Björn Bürger, baritone
  • 2016 (KFP) Jan Iser and Lucas Schrod, drums and percussion
  • 2017 (KP) Kulturinitiative Maximal , for outstanding cultural achievements
  • 2018 (KFP) Sarina Dadkah, visual arts

Mardi Gras (Carnival)

City hall storm on Shrove Saturday

Mardi Gras (Carnival, Fassenacht) is celebrated vigorously in Rodgau with over 50 gala, pomp and foreign sessions, masked balls and crepe coffees . The latter consist of a leisurely coffee session with the consumption of the carnival- typical crepe ( donut ) and a subsequent many-hour program of meetings. The Nieder-Röder Kreppelkaffees are organized exclusively by women for women and have well over 2000 visitors every year.

The district Jügesheim (dialect: Giesem ) is considered the stronghold of the Rodgau Carnival . The opening of the campaign takes place here in front of the town hall on November 11th and the town hall tower on Shrove Tuesday, the symbolic handover of city power to the fools . On Shrove Tuesday , the Giesem carnival procession winds through the streets of Jügesheim. (Battle cry: Giesem- Helau ! ).

The representatives of the Giesemer Fassenacht , prince couple and child prince couple, no longer come exclusively from Jügesheim. Other parts of the city can also submit applicants.

Attractions

Due to the history of its origins, Rodgau cannot boast a historic town center. A lack of awareness of the value of old buildings led, especially in the post-war years, to the destruction of entire half-timbered ensembles in the old towns. It was not until the early 1970s that existing historical buildings were systematically recorded and classified according to monument protection criteria.

In 2010, the Rodgauer Geschichtspfade emerged from the cooperation of all seven Rodgau local history and history associations, local politics and the city administration . 42 uniformly designed information boards on buildings or areas mark historically significant objects throughout the city.

The five earlier village churches from the 13th to 19th centuries still mark the old town centers. They were renovated in the 1990s with the support of the parishes, the municipality and many volunteers and also returned to their original state. The Gothic tower of Matthias Church in Nieder-Roden, built around 1300, is the oldest preserved building in Rodgau. In the churches themselves there are art-historically significant objects from different epochs. The late Gothic St. Mary's altar from around 1520 in the Catholic parish church of St. Matthias in Nieder-Roden, which is attributed to the Riemenschneider workshop , should be emphasized here.

Individual half-timbered houses from the 16th to 19th centuries, distributed throughout the city, have been restored and now adorn the old town center. Some buildings like the Backes (Backhaus) in Dudenhofen were rebuilt according to old plans.

The water tower in Jügesheim , which opened in 1938 and operated until 1979, is an industrial monument due to its architectural uniqueness and bold static construction . It shows clear echoes of the expressionist formal language of the 1920s.

Three of the four station buildings of the former Rodgau Railway opened in 1896 are considered worthy of preservation. Two of them are still waiting for renovation and new use. Another historical building is an old syringe house that houses the Weiskirchen local history museum.

The Rodgau attractions also include eleven artistically designed fountains as well as numerous sculptures and facade paintings.

Many committed citizens contribute with donations, street parties and also technical support to the further improvement of the cityscape and to the development and expansion of a civic culture.

  • St. Matthias in Nieder-Roden, tower from 1298

  • Half-timbered house in Jügesheim

  • Old syringe house in Weiskirchen

  • Motif fountain on Nieder-Rodens Puiseauxplatz

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Willy Purm (1918–1991), head of the city council from 1972 to 1989
  • Paul Scherer (* 1935), mayor from 1980 to 1998

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who worked in Rodgau

literature

language

  • Hermann Bonifer: Giesemer Platt - a robust, coarse dialect in the Offenbach district . Jügesheim 1993.
  • Ilse Eberhardt u. a .: Every village has its own word (Nieder-Röder dictionary), Nieder-Roden 1989, publisher: Arbeitskreis für Heimatkunde Nieder-Roden e. V.

history

  • Hermann Bonifer: Old field names tell from Jügesheim's story . Rodgau 1995.
  • Hermann Bonifer: Jügesheim and St. Nikolaus - Village and Parish in History . Rodgau 2004.
  • Heidi Fogel: The Rollwald camp . Rodgau 2004, ISBN 3-00-013586-3 .
  • Hainhausen History and Culture Association: 900 years of Hainhausen . Hainhausen 2008.
  • Michael Hofmann: The railroad in Offenbach and in Rodgau . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2004, ISBN 3-937189-08-4 .
  • Michael Jäger: Rodgau 1945 . Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-9803619-0-X .
  • Kämmerer, Albert: Ortschronik Dudenhofen 1278–2011 , Dudenhofen 2011.
  • Alfred Kurt: On the Main, in Rodgau and in the Dreieich. Offenbach a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-87079-009-1 .
  • Josef Lach: Five villages - one city . Lokay eK Reinheim, Rodgau 2011.
  • Karl Pohl: Here !? was the Carolingian monastery of Rotaha . Nieder-Roden 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94679-7 .
  • Karl Pohl: The end of the Carolingian monastery Rotaha . Nieder-Roden 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-21187-6 .
  • Karl Pohl: The field names in the Nieder-Roden district . Ed .: Working group for local history Nieder-Roden e. V., 2009.
  • Karl Pohl: Nieder-Roden in 1622 (30 years war) . Nieder-Roden 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-47656-5 .
  • Karl Pohl: From Vogtshof to Nieder-Roden Regional Court - The "Niwenhof" at the former Carolingian monastery Rotaha , Nieder-Roden 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-68562-2 .
  • Karl Pohl: The abbesses Aba and Hiltisnot and their Carolingian Rotaha , Nieder-Roden 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-83469-3 .
  • Karl Pohl: Beneficiary exchange and worship in the medieval Rodgau Nieder-Roden 2012, ISBN 978-3-656-09586-6 .
  • Karl Pohl: The Carolingian monastery Rotaha in the light of the field names Nieder-Roden , 2012, ISBN 978-3-656-28157-3 .
  • Karl Pohl: The Nivenhof - a Merovingian royal court? , 2014, ISBN 978-3-656-83498-4 .
  • Gisela Rathert u. a .: Nieder-Roden - 786–1986 . Nieder-Roden 1986.
  • Manfred Resch u. a .: Our church our home - 450 years of evangelical faith in Dudenhofen . Gudensberg equals.
  • Helmut Simon: Chronicle of the parish of St. Matthias Nieder-Roden . Lower Roden 1996.
  • Helmut Simon: Nieder-Röder Memorial Book, Fallen and Missing Persons 1554–1946 . Working group for local history (publisher), Nieder-Roden 2005.
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: History and antiquities of Rodgau in old Maingau. Heyer, Darmstadt 1833.
  • Werner Stolzenburg: Rollwald - from the forest to the settlement . Frankfurt 1992.
  • Werner Stolzenburg u. a .: 100 years of the Rodgau Railway 1896–1996 . Rodgau 1996.
  • Helmut Trageser: Christians, do you want to honor Rochus, 300 years Rochus Vow Weiskirchen . Weiskirchen 2002.
  • Margarete Zilch and Arnold Haag: Mills on the middle Rodau . Weiskirchen 2008.

Stories

  • Hans F. Busch: Small stories from the Rodgau. Nidderau 1992. ISBN 3-924490-44-9 .
  • Adam Geißler: Dudenhofen between yesterday and tomorrow . Frankfurt 1971.
  • Ljubica Perkman et al. a .: Rodgau - city in the heart . 2002.
  • Karl Pohl: I, Aba von Rotaha, the consecrated . Nieder-Roden 2016.
  • Philipp Rupp: Stories from Alt-Nieder-Roden . Nieder-Roden 1985.
  • Helmut Simon: The sick cow and other stories from the earlier times of Nieder-Roden , Nieder-Roden 2009.
  • Helmut Trageser u. a .: History and stories, 700 years of Weiskirchen . Weiskirchen 1986.

Illustrated books

  • District savings bank Seligenstadt (Ed.): Am Main and in Rodgau. Steinheim, Main 1965.
  • Bärbel Armknecht: Rodgau - Impressions of a city along the Rodau . Rodgau 1998.
  • Max Herchenröder : The art monuments of the district of Dieburg . Darmstadt 1940 (concerning Nieder-Roden only).
  • Manfred Resch: Dudenhofen - as it used to be , Gudensberg-Gleichen 1992.
  • Dagmar Söder: Cultural monuments in Hessen, Offenbach district . Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1987.
  • Helmut Trageser: Weiskirchen in old views , Weiskirchen 1984.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ German weather service Offenbach
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  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 375 .
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  12. ^ About the person: Winno Sahm, Head of Cultural Affairs . In: Offenbach-Post . May 25, 2016, p. 9 .
  13. ↑ New department head needs a lot of energy . In: Offenbach-Post . April 29, 2017, p. 11 .
  14. ^ Approval of a coat of arms of the Rodgau community, Offenbach district from December 4, 1978 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1978 No. 49 , p. 2390 , item 1425 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 9,0 MB ]).
  15. ^ Approval of a flag of the Rodgau community, Offenbach district from February 19, 1979 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1979 No. 8 , p. 370 , point 207 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 5.1 MB ]).
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  17. ^ A b City of Rodgau economic development
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  20. ^ City of Rodgau Religion , 2011 census
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  22. ↑ cf. Municipal and field boundaries in BürgerGIS of the Offenbach
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  26. ↑ cf. Municipal and field boundaries in BürgerGIS of the Offenbach
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  30. ↑ cf. HGON: Rotsohl and Thomassee von Dudenhofen. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  31. ↑ a b botany. In: nabu-obertshausen.de. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  32. ↑ cf. Offenbach Post: Stallion used to be moorland. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
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  36. ↑ Culture Prize for Polyhymnia Choirs. Report in Offenbach-Post from November 25, 2011.
  37. ↑ Concentrated Koennerin Offenbach-Post from February 22, 2013.
  38. ^ Rodgau: Culture Prize to Thomas Langer and Musikverein Dudenhofen. ( Memento from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from January 15, 2014.
  39. ↑ Kulturförderpreis 2014 - Awarded to Jimi Joel Eyrich. Offenbach Post report from March 27, 2015.
  40. ^ Ekkehard Wolf: From Rodgau to the European stages. op-online.de, February 26, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  41. ↑ Kulturförderpreis awarded to two percussionists. Offenbach-Post report of July 31, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2018.
  42. ↑ Culture Prize to Initiative Maximal. Offenbach-Post report dated December 6, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2018.
  43. ↑ Art as a bridge to freedom - for the first time the cultural sponsorship award goes to a painter: Sarina Dadkah report of the Offenbach-Post dated April 5, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2019.
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