Griesheim () is a town in the
Darmstadt-Dieburg
Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Offenbach, Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg, Odenwaldkreis, Bergstraße, Groß-Gerau, and the district-free city of Darmstadt, which it surrounds.
Histor ...
district in
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated west of
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
.
History
The area of Griesheim has been inhabited since around 4500 BCE yet it was first mentioned in 1165 CE.
Wine was an important source of income in Griesheim in earlier times.
The
Thirty Year War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle ...
hit Griesheim hard. The surviving inhabitants fled behind the walls of the Darmstadt, where many of them died of the
plague
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Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
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. By the end of the war in 1648 only about 370 were left, who set out to rebuild the community.
The late 18th, early 19th Century a major industry was the production and trade of fir tree seeds. The city also became a center of woodwork-craft.
The Protestant Reformation was introduced to the town in 1529. In 1874 in the southwest part of Griesheim an artillery range opened. In 1908
August Euler opened one of the first
airfield
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s in Germany. Griesheim was occupied by France from 1918 to 1930. During
World War II
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, 65% of its buildings were destroyed, and after the war it housed some 4000 refugees. After successful reconstruction, Griesheim on 12 September 1965 was granted township rights by the Hessian state government. Farming is still an important part of the city. Griesheim has a city museum to remember its past and its connection to St. Stephen. The Griesheim museum has archaeological finds.
Griesheim city museum
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Since 1977 the "Griesheim Week" festival is held in onion market in Griesheim. The festival takes place in Griesheim city center between Wagenhalle and Hans-Karl-place on the last or next to last weekend of September.
The area of Griesheim has belonged to the following in the past:
*1806 to 1820: Office Pfungstadt, which belonged to the province Starkenburgring the Grand Duchy of Hesse
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.
*1821-1832: District Dörnberg in the province Starkenburgring.
*1832-1848: Gross-Gerau district, with the beginning of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...
.
*1848 to 1852: Region of Darmstadt, while the division of the province Stark castle in administrative districts.
*1852-1938: Darmstadt circle with the reintroduction of the province Starkenburgring.
*1938-1977: County Darmstadt. As part of local government reform in 1938, the three Hessian provinces Starkenburgring, Rheinhessen
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and Oberhessen
The term Upper Hesse (german: Provinz Oberhessen) originally referred to the southern possessions of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which were initially geographically separated from the more northerly Lower Hesse by the .
Later, it became the name of ...
.
*1977: Darmstadt-Dieburg, in the district of Darmstadt from municipal reform in Hesse.
Trams
Tram Lines 9 and 4 run between Griesheim and Darmstadt. The central nodal point of the Darmstadt tramway network is the Luisenplatz in the city center of Darmstadt. Bus lines 45 and 46 go from Griesheim to Riedstadt
Riedstadt, with its municipal area of 73.76 km² is Groß-Gerau district's biggest town by land area. It lies in Hesse, Germany, about 12 km southwest of Darmstadt.
Geography
Location
Riedstadt is shaped not only by its preserved rur ...
, Groß-Gerau
Groß-Gerau () is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving as a hub for the surrounding area. In 1994, the town hosted the 34th Hessentag state festival.
Geogra ...
and Trebur
Trebur is a municipality in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany. It is 13 km southeast of Mainz, and 8 km south of Rüsselsheim.
Geography Location
Trebur is located in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region. The cities of Mainz, Wiesbade ...
.
Roads
The main road passing west-east is the Bundesstraße 26, or B26.
Griesheim is situated just west of the Bundesautobahn 5
is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany. Its northern end is the Hattenbach triangle intersection (with the A 7. The southern end is at the Swiss border near Basel. It runs through the German states of Hessen and Baden-WÃ ...
and Bundesautobahn 67
is an autobahn in Germany
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west of the Autobahn
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-interchange Darmstädter Kreuz (Darmstadt Cross).
Twin towns – sister cities
Griesheim is twinned with:
* Bar-le-Duc
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The lower, more moder ...
, France (1975)
* Gyönk
Gyönk (german: Jink) is a village in Tolna County, Hungary.
History
Gyönk was mentioned for the first time in 1280, but the neighborhood (and Gyönk) was already a populated area by then. The village was inhabited by Turks for some time, and by ...
, Hungary (1990)
* Pontassieve
Pontassieve is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence, nearby Fiesole, at the confluence of the Arno and Sieve rivers.
History
The first rulers of the are ...
, Italy (2008)
Since 1990, Griesheim also has a town friendship with Wilkau-Haßlau in Germany.[
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Gallery
Griesheim-Lutherkirche.jpg, Evangelical Lutheran church
Griesheim-St.-Stephan.jpg, Catholic Church St. Stephan
Griesheim-Rathaus.jpg, Town hall
Griesheim(Hessen)-Museum.jpg, Museum
Ehemaliges Offizierskasino, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Str 217.jpg, Former officers mess
Griesheim-Wagenhalle.jpg, Former tram depot
See also
*Trams in Darmstadt
The Darmstadt tram network is a light rail system and the backbone of public transport within Darmstadt, a city in the federal state of Hesse, Germany. As of 2014, nine lines on four main routes () serve 162 stops, including 92 low-floor stops. ...
References
External links
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Weatherstats of Griesheim
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