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Hattersheim am Main () is a town in the Main-Taunus district,
Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Da ...
(
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) and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area.


Geography


Neighbouring towns

Hattersheim borders the city of
Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...
in the northeast, in the southeast with
Kelsterbach Kelsterbach () is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It is located on Frankfurt's southwestern outskirts at a bend on the left bank of the river Main, right where a small brook, cal ...
, in the southwest with
Raunheim Raunheim is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany and a part of the Frankfurt Urban Region as well as the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region. Geography Location Raunheim lies in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region between Frankfurt am Main ...
(both are in the district of Groß-Gerau). The western neighboring towns are Flörsheim, Hofheim and Kriftel.


Town districts

In 1972 the villages of Okriftel und Eddersheim, both situated next to the river
Main Main may refer to: Geography *Main River (disambiguation) **Most commonly the Main (river) in Germany * Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province *"Spanish Main", the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries * ...
, were incorporated into Hattersheim. Since then the town has been called Hattersheim am Main. Hattersheim consists of three districts: Eddersheim, Hattersheim und Okriftel.


Eddersheim

4944 people lived here in 2004. There is a lock on the river Main near the village's center. The engineer and inventor Anton Flettner was born in Eddersheim.


Okriftel

7561 people lived here in 2007. You can cross the river Main by ferry. The town on the other side of the river is
Kelsterbach Kelsterbach () is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It is located on Frankfurt's southwestern outskirts at a bend on the left bank of the river Main, right where a small brook, cal ...
. The ferry boat operates in summer time on Sundays.


History

A former industrial chocolate production of Sarotti chocolate and the Sarotti- Moor ''(Mohr)'' took place in Hattersheim am Main. With the change of the majority stockholding, in 1929, the factory merged to Nestlé. The factory in Hattersheim was in the 1960s one of the biggest companies in Hattersheim and Main-Taunus district with a workforce up to 2,000 workers. The factory was closed down in 1994 and currently it was designated a historic site in Hesse.


Population

(as of 31 December) *1998 – 24,687 *1999 – 24,756 *2000 – 24,752 *2001 – 24,858 *2002 – 25,093 *2003 – 25,059 *2004 – 25,161 *2019 – 27,674


Twin towns – sister cities

Hattersheim am Main is
twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ...
with: *
Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a populatio ...
, Hungary * Santa Catarina, Cape Verde *
Sarcelles Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles. In the south of the comm ...
, France


Notable people

* Anton Flettner (1885–1961), inventor


References


External links

* (de/en/fr/hu) {{Authority control Towns in Hesse Main-Taunus-Kreis Populated places on the Main basin Populated riverside places in Germany