Maintal is the second largest town of the
Main-Kinzig
Main-Kinzig-Kreis is a Kreis (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Wetteraukreis, Vogelsbergkreis, Fulda, Bad Kissingen, Main-Spessart, Aschaffenburg, Offenbach and the district-free cities of Offenbach and Frankfu ...
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. It is situated on the river
Main
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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
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, between
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 ...
and
Hanau
Hanau () is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its station is a major railway junction and it has a port on the ri ...
.
Geography
Neighbouring places
The neighbouring countries of Maintal are Niederdorfelden and Schöneck in the north, the city of Hanau in the East, Mühlheim am Main and Offenbach am Main on the other bank of the river Main as well as Frankfurt am Main in the west.
Division of the town
Maintal consists of the four districts
Dörnigheim,
Bischofsheim,
Hochstadt (seat of city-administration) and
Wachenbuchen.
History
The city was artificially created in 1974 in the course of the Hessian administration reform by merging the city of Dörnigheim (now Maintal's biggest district) with the nearby towns of Bischofsheim, Hochstadt and Wachenbuchen.
Economy
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Syngenta Agro GmbH
*
Altec Lansing
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Rasmussen GmbH
Transport
Maintal is connected with Hanau and Frankfurt by the so-called ''
nordmainische Eisenbahn'' (northern Main railway) and has two stations (Maintal-West in Bischofsheim near the Main river and
Maintal-East in Dörnigheim)
Two ferries cross the Main to the left, or south, bank. The
Rumpenheim Ferry links Bischofsheim with
Rumpenheim, whilst the
Maintal-Dörnigheim Ferry links Dörnigheim with
Mühlheim am Main.
Twin towns – sister cities
Maintal is
twinned with:
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Luisant, France (1973)
*
Moosburg
Moosburg an der Isar (Central Bavarian: ''Mooschbuag on da Isa'') is a town in the ''Landkreis'' Freising of Bavaria, Germany.
The oldest town between Regensburg and Italy, it lies on the river Isar at an altitude of 421 m (1381 ft). ...
, Austria (1976)
*
Ecséd, Hungary (1994)
*
Katerini
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, Greece (1995)
References
External links
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Towns in Hesse
Main-Kinzig-Kreis
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