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Heusenstamm () is a town of over 18,000 people in the Offenbach district in the ''
Regierungsbezirk A ' () means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen ' ( states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts. Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...
'' 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 ...
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 ...
,
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.


Geography


Location

Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district. The town lies in the
Frankfurt Rhine Main Region The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: ''Rhein-Main-Gebiet'' or ''Frankfurt/Rhein-Main'', abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan re ...
south of
Frankfurt am Main 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 na ...
and
Offenbach am Main Offenbach am Main () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main (river), Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Aut ...
at an average elevation of 121 m above
sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...
. The town lies on the river
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. The lowest natural point is the Bieber's riverbed, and the highest is the ''Hoher Berg'' ("High Mountain").
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 ...
, the seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'', is located to the southwest. Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the ''
Mittelgebirge A ''Mittelgebirge'' (German: ''Mittel'', "middle/medium"; ''Gebirge'', "mountain range") is a type of relatively low mountain range or highland area typical of the geography of central Europe, especially central and southern Germany; it refers to ...
'' of the
Odenwald The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Location The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried'' (the northeastern section ...
and
Spessart Spessart is a ''Mittelgebirge'', a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. It is bordered by the Vogelsberg, Rhön and Odenwald. The highest elevation is the Geiersberg at 586 metres above sea level. Etymo ...
.


Neighbouring communities

Heusenstamm borders in the north on the district-free city of
Offenbach am Main Offenbach am Main () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main (river), Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Aut ...
, in the northeast on the town of
Obertshausen Obertshausen () is a town in the Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in the state of Hesse, Germany. It has around 24,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Obertshausen is one of 13 towns and municipalities in the Offenba ...
, in the southeast on the town of
Rodgau Rodgau is a town in the Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. It lies southeast of Frankfurt am Main in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and has the greatest population of any municipality in the Offenbach ...
, in the south on the town of
Dietzenbach Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the waterstream Bieber. Before the Second World War, the current town was ...
, and in the west on the town of
Dreieich Dreieich () is a town in the Offenbach district in the of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. The town is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and is located roughly south of downtown Frankfurt am Main. With a population of more than 40,000 ...
.


Constituent communities

Heusenstamm's '' Stadtteile'' are Heusenstamm, with 16,266 inhabitants and Rembrücken, with 2,116 inhabitants (each time at 31 December 2006). Also constituting ''Stadtteile'' of a kind are the residential neighbourhoods of Waldesruhe and Patershausen.


History

In 1211, Heusenstamm had its first documentary mention in an Eppstein fief book in which Gottfried of Eppstein documented that he held the castle and village of ''Huselstam'' in fief from the
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and that he had further bestowed these holdings upon Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm. The place was later called ''Husinstam'' and, beginning in the 15th century, ''Heussenstain''. About the middle of the 12th century, Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm had a moated castle built here. From the
Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
until 1819, Heusenstamm and Rembrücken belonged to the Biebermark, an area held in common with several other villages. After the
Lords of Eppstein The Lords of Eppstein () were a family of German nobility in the Middle Ages. From the 12th century they ruled extensive territories in the Rhine Main area from their castle in Eppstein, northwest of Frankfurt, Germany. History Between 1180 and 11 ...
died out, their position was filled by the new feudal lords, the Counts of Königstein, and later, beginning in 1581, by the
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. In 1545, Sebastian von Heusenstamm was chosen Archbishop-Elector of Mainz. In 1560 Eberhard von Heusenstamm gave leave to introduce
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, but
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was reintroduced in 1607. After the Lords of Heusenstamm died out in 1616, the castle and the lordship passed to the family's Austrian sideline, who then leased the place to the Frankfurt patrician Stephan von Cronstetten. During the
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, the village and the castle were almost utterly destroyed. In 1661, the lordship over Heusenstamm, to which also belonged the places of Obertshausen and Hausen, was sold to the Mainz ''Oberamtmann'' (chief local administrator) Philipp Erwein von Schönborn. When Emperor
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was living at Schloss Heusenstamm in 1764 on the occasion of his son's coronation (
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relates the event in his ''
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''), an ostentatious tower was built in his honour, which stands to this day. In 1806, the Schönborn ''
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'' of Heusenstamm with Obertshausen and Hausen was put under the Princes of
Isenburg-Birstein Isenburg-Birstein was the name of two German historical states centred on Birstein in southeastern Hesse, Germany. The first "Isenburg-Birstein" was a County and was created as a partition of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein in 1628. It was merged int ...
. The ''Amt'' of Heusenstamm then passed to the
Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (german: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse betwee ...
. In 1819, when the Biebermark was partitioned, Heusenstamm got its share of the forest. In 1896, the
railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
line from Offenbach by way of Heusenstamm to Dietzenbach, a branchline of the ''Rodgaubahn'' from Offenbach to Dieburg, was opened. On 26 May 1959, Heusenstamm was granted town rights, thereby sidestepping Offenbach's efforts to absorb the community. Instead, the new town itself expanded by absorbing one of its neighbours, Rembrücken, in 1977 in the course of municipal reform. In 1978, the town bought the estate of Patershausen, the Klosterwald and the Forst Patershausen (both wooded properties) as well as the Forst Heusenstamm (another wooded property) from Rudolf Graf von Schönborn (“Graf” being his noble title, “Count”). The castle the town likewise acquired in 1979 from the Counts of Schönborn, converting it in the year that followed into the Town Hall.


Demographics


Population growth

In the late 16th century, Heusenstamm had roughly 250 inhabitants. Almost all of them, however, fell victim to the
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and the
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. Since then, the population has been rising almost continuously and only in recent times has a slight decrease been noted. * This was the year when town rights were granted.


Religion

There is a
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majority among Heusenstamm's population. The parishes of ''St.Cäcilia'' and ''Maria Himmelskron'' belong, like the Parish of ''Mariä Opferung'' in Rembrücken, to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz The Diocese of Mainz, historically known in English as ''Mentz'' as well as by its French name ''Mayence'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was founded in 304, promoted in 780 to Metrop ...
. The state church Evangelical parish is part of the
Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (german: Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of i ...
whose seat is in Darmstadt. Moreover, since 1975 there has been the Free Evangelical parish (FeG), which belongs to the Association of Free Evangelical Parishes.


Economy

Heusenstamm benefits from its proximity to the Frankfurt am Main economic centre and the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, as well as from the very good transport connections.


Established businesses

Most established firms and businesses in Heusenstamm have organized themselves into the ''Gewerbeverein Heusenstamm e.V.'' (business association). The biggest employer in the town of Heusenstamm is
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with several hundred positions. The subsidiary
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Business Services GmbH and the landline division maintain large real estate holdings in the town of Heusenstamm. Besides the many small and midsize businesses, Konica Minolta Business Solutions has its German representation here. Furthermore, BKK Mobil Oil, through its merger in 2008 with the former ''Krankenkasse Eintracht Heusenstamm'' (both the old and merged companies are institutions for sponsoring
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), has a seat here.


Sports

Besides the nationally known ''Sportzentrum Martinsee'' lying on the town's outskirts, there are in Heusenstamm also the gymnastic and sport clubs’ smaller sport complexes across from the railway station, a sport hall, which together with the ''Im Forst'' all-weather swimming pool forms a single building, and the ''Alte Linde'' football pitch on Isenburger Straße. Important sport clubs in Heusenstamm are: *
RK Heusenstamm The RK Heusenstamm is a German rugby union club from Heusenstamm, currently playing in the Rugby-Bundesliga. History The club was formed in 1979, much later than most other current Bundesliga clubs, in Heusenstamm, Hesse. After relegation from t ...
(rugby) (
Rugby-Bundesliga The Rugby-Bundesliga is the highest level of the league system for rugby union in Germany, organised by the German Rugby Federation. The league is predominantly amateur, with only one club in the league being officially a professional outfit, t ...
; German sevens champions 2006, several national players) * TSV 1873 Heusenstamm (roughly 2300 members: artistic gymnastics, athletics, jiujitsu, judo, football and many more) * TTC Heusenstamm (table tennis) (former Bundesligist, vicechampions, cowinners of the cup) * TV Rembrücken (football, table tennis, riding and others)


Government


Town council

The municipal election held on 26 March 2006 yielded the following results:


Mayors


Grand Duchy of Hesse

* Wilhelm (1839 - ?)


German Empire and Weimar Republic

* Heinrich Augenthaler (1876 - 1885) * Franz Winter (1885 - 1899) * Adam Kraus (1899 - 1902) * Joseph Kämmerer (1904-1933 - eventually SPD)


National Socialist times

* Heinrich Fickel (1933-1934 -
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) * Gustav Korn (1934-1936 - NSDAP) * Hans Kuntsche (1936-1937 - NSDAP) * Fritz Bosche (1937-1938 - NSDAP) * Franz Wessiepe (1939-1945 - NSDAP)


United States military occupation

* Karl-L. Fauerbach (1946-1948) – democratically elected


Federal Republic of Germany

* Franz-Josef Amerschläger (1948-1956 - CDU) * Johann Anton Hemberger (1956-1977 - independent) * Adolf Kessler (1977-1987 - CDU) * Josef Eckstein (1987-2003 - CDU) * Peter Jakoby (2003–2015 - CDU) * Halil Öztaş (2015–2021 - SPD) * Steffen Ball (since 2021 - CDU)


Town twinning

* Saint-Savin (also called Saint-Savin sur Gartempe),
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since 1969 *
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since 1984 *
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since 1991 *
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since 2001


Coat of arms

The town's
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might be described thus: Argent an oak tree eradicated sprouting six leaves vert with three acorns Or, and a chief dancetty gules. The chief (the red part at the top of the escutcheon) with its dancetty (zigzag) edge is drawn from the arms once borne by the Lords of Heusenstamm. The oak with the six leaves and three acorns symbolizes the affiliation with Dreieich (literally 'three oak').


Arts and culture


Regular events

Among the yearly events are not only the ''Kultursommer'', which since 1987 has been held around the ''Hinteres Schlösschen'' (“Little Schloss in the back”) and the ''Bannturm'' (tower) and with its many events draws visitors not only from Heusenstamm, but also the ''Nikolausmarkt'' (market), which stretches from the gateway arch through Schlossstraße and the palace garden all the way to the ''Bannturm'', and the ''Weinfest'', which has been held since 1996 at the ''Bannturm''. The ''Kelterfest'' in autumn, staged by the Konkordia singing club, has established itself as a regular event in Heusenstamm. Since 2006, the ''Bahnhofsfest'' (“Railway Station Festival”) has also been a regular event in Heusenstamm.


Museums

The local museum (''Heimatmuseum'', featuring local lore and history) has as its main point the town's history and development. It is housed in a gatehouse and a side building, the ''Winterhaus'', and among other things, is also a stop on the guided town tours that take visitors through the Old Town.


Attractions

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Nature conservation areas

Heusenstamm is also known as the ''Stadt im Grünen'' ('Town in the Green'). That reflects on the one hand the above-average proportion of woodland within its municipal area, and on the other hand the presence of two large nature conservation areas, ''See am Goldberg'' and ''Nachtweide von Patershausen''. Both are popular outing destinations for citizens, school classes and those who are interested owing to populations of rare animal and plant species. From some raised lookout points, rare bird species in particular may be observed.


Churches

The
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Saint Cecilia's Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia'') was built in 1739 by well-known
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architect
Johann Balthasar Neumann Johann Balthasar Neumann (; 27 January 1687 (?) – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Ita ...
by appointment from Countess Maria Theresia von Schönborn, and it was given its ceiling frescoes in 1741 by
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. The sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera created the high altar. The Electoral Mainz court carpenter Franz Anton Herrmann made the pulpit, the choir stalls, the Communion bench, sacristy table and tabernacle table. The likewise Catholic Parish Church ''Maria Himmelskron'' was built in 1956. The
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''Gustav Adolf Kirche'' with its
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and steep roof was completed in 1923 with
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and American support. Owing to the hyperinflation of the day, the project's total cost amounted to 73,004,221,367,662
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and 17 Pfennigs.


Infrastructure


Transport

Heusenstamm lies on the A 3, which is to be reached through the
Obertshausen Obertshausen () is a town in the Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in the state of Hesse, Germany. It has around 24,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Obertshausen is one of 13 towns and municipalities in the Offenba ...
interchange, putting
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, by way of the
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only a short drive away. Not far away is also the A 661 with its
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interchange.
Heusenstamm station Heusenstamm station is the station of Heusenstamm in the German state of Hesse. It is served by line S2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. History Heusenstamm station was opened on 1 December 1898 as a single-track ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) along with the O ...
, lying on the
Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway The Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway branches in Offenbach-Bieber station from the Rodgau Railway (german: Rodgaubahn) and runs via Heusenstamm to Dietzenbach in the German state of Hesse. The line is integrated into the Frankfurt S-Bahn ne ...
, a branch of the ''Rodgaubahn'' ( Rodgau Railway), has since late 2003 been linked by line S2 (
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-
Dietzenbach Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the waterstream Bieber. Before the Second World War, the current town was ...
) to the
Rhine-Main S-Bahn The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter train system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt. The network compris ...
network. The building work around the railway station (bus station, inn at the old station, railway station square) was completed in 2006. The S-Bahn runs to Offenbach's and Frankfurt's city centres and the Frankfurt Main Railway Station. On weekdays trains are half-hourly (quarter-hourly during rush-hours), and have since late 2006 been run with modern
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rolling stock. In the town itself and into neighbouring places run various buslines, among others route OF-30 to the outlying centre of Rembrücken. At night and on the weekends from Saturday afternoon, a
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takes over public transport within town, including Rembrücken.


Education


Kindergartens

In Heusenstamm there are four church (3
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) kindergartens and three further ones in municipal sponsorship. Moreover, there are two daycare associations.


Schools

Heusenstamm is an important school location in Offenbach district. Currently there are three
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s, the Adalbert-Stifter-Schule, the Otto-Hahn-Schule and the Matthias-Claudius-Schule. Secondary schools are the Adolf-Reichwein-Schule (
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and
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, ARS for short) and the Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium (ARG). In 2004, the Schule am Goldberg was opened, a special school for pupils with intellectual handicaps but who are trainable, with a section for those who also have physical handicaps. Adult education is handled by the
Volkshochschule Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...
Heusenstamm.


Media

The ''Offenbach-Post'', whose publishing house has its seat in Offenbach am Main, reports regularly in its regional section about Heusenstamm. From the same publishing house also comes the ''Stadt-Post Heusenstamm''.


Notable people

* , (1799 - 1878), philosophy and Catholic theologian * Willi Jaschek, repeat German champion in artistic gymnastics and Olympian (1964, 1968 "Hero of Mexico") * , composer and specialized book author


Honorary citizens

* 1961: Wilhelm Anoul, government president * 1966: Franz Rau, clergyman * 1971: Rudolf Braas, entrepreneur * 1976: Hans Eckstein * 1977: Hans Hemberger, mayor * 1984: Franz Rebell, first town councillor * 1984: Johann Subtil, mayor of Rembrücken * 1986: Richard Hofmeister, clergyman * 1987: Günter Wilkens, clergyman * 2002: Helmut Kilian, 50 years on town council * 2003: Josef Eckstein, mayor * 2007: Prof. Thomas Engel, entrepreneur


Further reading

* H. Margraf, R. Spohn: ''Heusenstamm - Schätze aus Familienalben'' in der Reihe Archivbilder. 2005, * Heimatverein Heusenstamm: ''Heusenstamm - Lebendige Stadt im Bild (trilingual)''. 1971 * R. Wimmer: ''Heusenstammer Kalender'', publisher: Stadt Heusenstamm. 1979 * ''Heusenstammer Hefte'' (publisher: Magistrat der Stadt Heusenstamm in cooperation with the Heimatverein): ** A. Dittrich: ''Von der Hochgraeflich Schönbornzunft in Heusenstamm zum Ortsgewerbeverein Heusenstamm (1747 - 1909)''. 1989 ** A. Dittrich: ''Aus der Geschichte der jüdischen Kultusgemeinde in Heusenstamm''. 1989 ** A. Dittrich: ''350 Jahre Schule in Heusenstamm''. 1990 * F. Stein: ''Katholische Priester aus Heusenstamm''. Heusenstamm : Pfarrei Maria Himmelskron, 2006


References


External links


Town’s official webpage
* {{Authority control Offenbach (district)