Nidda is a town in the district

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, in

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. It is situated on the

Nidda river The Nidda is a right tributary of the river Main in Hesse. It springs from the Vogelsberg on the Taufstein mountain range near the town of Schotten, flows through the Niddastausee dam, and the towns of Nidda, Niddatal, Karben, and Bad Vilbel. ...

, approximately northeast of

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Division of the town

The municipality consists of the districts Unter-Widdersheim, Ober-Widdersheim, Borsdorf, Harb, Bad-Salzhausen, Geiß-Nidda, Ulfa, Stornfels, Eichelsdorf, Ober-Schmitten, Unter-Schmitten, Kohden, Nidda, Michelnau, Fauerbach, Wallernhausen, Schwickartshausen, Unter-Lais and Ober-Lais.

History

Invited through a manifesto issued by

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, several families from this region travelled to

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in the late 18th century to settle in the

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Region near

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who helped to establish local villages, including Yagodnaya Polyana. Nidda has a vibrant mix of people from many backgrounds, including Turkish, Russian and Pakistani. The

Ahmadiyya Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...

Muslim Jamaat opened its first purpose-built mosque in Nidda in 2011.

Mayors

*2022- Thorsten Eberhard *2010–2022 Hans-Peter Seum *1995–2009 Lucia Puttrich *1989–1995 Helmut Jung *1961–1989 Wilhelm Eckhardt *1949–1961 August Ludwig Böcher *1910–1924 Ludwig Erk *1899–1910 Hermann Roth *1898–1899 Wilhelm Erk

Born in Nidda

Ambrosius Pelargus Ambrosius Pelargus (c. 1493 – 5 July 1561) was a German Dominican theologian. He was skilled in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. His polemical efforts were directed principally against the Anabaptists, the Iconoclasts, and those who rejected the ...

(c. 1493 / 94-1561), theologian *

Johann Pistorius the Elder Johann Pistorius (January 1504, Nidda, Hesse – 25 January 1583, Nidda) was a German Protestant minister and Protestant reformer. From 1541 he was the Superintendent at the church in Nidda in Hesse. Along with Philipp Melanchthon and Martin B ...

(Niddanus) (1504-1583), reformer and superintendent *

Johann Pistorius Johann Pistorius (14 February 1546 – 19 June 1608), also anglicized as John Pistorius or distinguished as Johann Pistorius the Younger, was a German controversialist and historian. He is sometimes called Niddanus from the name of his birthp ...

(Niddanus) (1546-1608), physician, historian and theologian *

Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt Karl Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt (17 June 1693, Nidda - 17 May 1707, Gießen) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt. Life Charles William was the second son of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667–1739) from his marriage to Dorothea Ch ...

(1693-1707), Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, obrist *

Salome Kammer Salome Kammer (born 17 January 1959 in Nidda, Hesse, West Germany) is a German actress, singer and cellist. Professional career Kammer was the fourth of six children. Her father was a Protestant pastor. Although born in Nidda, she grew up in Ob ...

(born 1959), actress, vocalist, singer and cellist

External links

Official site
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References

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