Nauheim is a municipality in
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.
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district in
Hesse
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,
Germany
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.
Nauheim is located southwest of Frankfurt am Main and is part of the metropolitan region of Frankfurt. It lies in the
Hessian Ried
The Hessian Ried (german: Hessische Ried) is a low-lying, agricultural region that forms part of the northeastern area of the Upper Rhine Plain. It is situated in South Hesse in west central Germany.
Location and description
The Hessian Ried lie ...
.
Geography
Location
Nauheim lies 3 km northwest of the district seat of
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.
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16 km northwest 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 ...
and 6 km southeast of
Rüsselsheim. After the
Second World War
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, many instrument makers from the
Sudetenland
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such as W. Schreiber + Söhne found a new home in this community in the southern
Frankfurt Rhein-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 ...
, and helped give the place the epithet ''Musikgemeinde'' – "Music Community". It is also well known for its ''"Nauheimer Musiktage"'' ("Nauheim Music Days"), held since 1970.
Neighbouring communities
Nauheim borders in the north on Königstädten, a constituent community of the town of
Rüsselsheim, in the east on the town of
Mörfelden-Walldorf
Mörfelden-Walldorf is a town in the Groß-Gerau district, situated in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region in the federal state (Bundesland) Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Mörfelden-Walldorf is situated within a triangle formed by the South He ...
, in the south on the town of
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.
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and in the west on the community of
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 ...
.
History
* Nauheim had its first documentary mention in 830-850 in the
Lorsch codex
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.
Manufacture of Saxophones
Schreiber & Keilwerth Musikinstrumente GmbH, a firm manufacturing
saxophone
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s are based in Nauheim as of 2010.
Additionally, another saxophone manufacturer called Dörfler & Jörka was located in Nauheim between 1949 to 1968. D&J had a close and complicated relationship with Keilwerth. D&J were originally employed as subcontractors for Keilwerth, making saxophone bodies and other component parts, then sending them back to the nearby Keilwerth factory for final assembly. Eventually, D&J started to manufacture their own complete saxophones (without any Keilwerth involvement) before supplying them directly to German musical instrument retailers as well as the export market. Saxophones manufactured by Dörfler & Jörka for distribution direct to retailers featured their own key mechanisms which were very closely modelled on Keilwerth designs, though not completely identical. It is important to note that D&J saxophones are not Keilwerth "stencils", but rather are nearly identical copies of Keilwerths from the same era e.g. they have
rolled tone holes and are high quality, professional-grade instruments. As a result the tonal characteristics of Dörfler & Jörka saxophones are very similar to Keilwerth instruments and share the distinctive Keilwerth sound i.e. have the same "dark", "smoky", "punchy" and "woody" Keilwerth
tone colours, compared to the "brighter" and more neutral sound of, say,
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saxophones. Not surprisingly, it can be very difficult to distinguish the sound of D&J instruments from Keilwerth-manufactured saxophones dating from the same time period e.g. the Keilwerth 'New King' and 'Tone King' models.
![CarlSchillerTenor Saxophone](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/CarlSchillerTenor_Saxophone.jpg)
D&J manufactured
alto
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and
tenor
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saxophones exclusively. There is no evidence of
soprano
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or
baritone
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saxophones ever being produced by them. Unusually for a saxophone manufacturer, Dörfler & Jörka rarely had their own name engraved on their instruments. The majority of D&J saxophones were engraved with numerous different labels
[http://bassic-sax.ca/blog/?tag=dorfler-jorka] including (but not limited to) the following:-
*Artist #300
*Boucet
*Carl Ludwig, Carl Schiller, Clinton, Condor, Convair
*De Villiers, De Villier, Diamond
*Gebr. Alexander Mainz
*Henri Bouchet, H.Genet
*Impala
*Jubilee
*Key Tone, King Tempo
*La Sete Professional
*Marcel-Doriot
*National
*Original Hopf Classic
*Paragon, Pierre Maure Artiste
*Ravoy, Rene Dumont, Rodgers, Roxy
*Senator, Startone, Skymaster, Skytone, Symphonic
*The National, Toneline Artist
*US Bandmaster
*Velvetone, Vitacoustic, Voss
*Warner Concerto
Due to issues of
intellectual property infringement
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,
brand recognition
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and consequential loss of revenue, the Keilwerth company became increasingly aggrieved that Dörfler & Jörka were successfully copying their saxophones, which was amplified by the fact that both companies were based in the same town and had previously enjoyed a mutually beneficial business relationship. Around 1965 the Keilwerth company sued D&J and won their case. Dörfler & Jörka were subsequently absorbed into the Keilwerth company and production of all D&J saxophones ended by 1968.
Politics
Municipal council
Municipal council is made up of 31 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 6 March 2016:
*
CDU 9 seats
*
SPD
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Saskia Esken has been t ...
10 seats
*
Greens 5 seats
*
FDP 3 seats
*FLN 4 seats
Note: FLN is a citizens' coalition.
Partnerships
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Netherlands
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, since 1972
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Charvieu-Chavagneux
Charvieu-Chavagneux () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.
The Bourbre forms most of the commune's eastern border.
Population
Personalities
* Jean Djorkaeff, professional football player
* Roger Girerd, mass murde ...
,
France
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, since 1978
Culture and sightseeing
The local history museum (''Heimatmuseum'') shows
farming
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traditions,
handicraft
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history, an
Erzgebirge Parlour and a
musical instrument
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department with nearly 200 instruments from various periods.
Personalities
*
Karl Christian von Langsdorf
Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (18 May 1757 in Bad Nauheim, Nauheim – 10 June 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer.
Life
Langsdorf was the son of ...
(1757–1834), mathematician
*
Ottmar Hörl (1950- ), artist, who above all has become known for his variegated
sculpture
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s whose theme is everyday life
Clubs and associations
Free religious Community of NauheimNauheim volunteer fire brigadeNauheim youth fire brigadeMusikverein 1950 e.V. NauheimNaumer KerweborschNauheim church fair organizers
Vereinsring NauheimJunge Musiker - SKV Nauheim
References
External links
NauheimNauheim local history museum (''Heimatmuseum'')*
Nauheim - innovative Art
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