Worfelden is a village in the municipality of
Büttelborn
Büttelborn is a municipality in Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Büttelborn lies on the edge of the northern Hessisches Ried, the northeastern section of the Rhine rift, and even today is still partly rural. Its proxim ...
, which is located in the triangle formed by the cities 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 na ...
,
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
and
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 ...
, within the
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 ...
.
Geography
Location
The parish of Worfeld lies entirely within the so-called Hegbach-Apfelbach Bottom (''Hegbach-Apfelbach-Grund'') in the western Lower Main Plain.
[Otto Klausing]
''Die Naturräume Hessens.''
Hessische Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Wiesbaden, 1988, In this respect it differs from Lage Büttelborn, whose southwestern corner lies within 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 ...
.
In the north Worfelden borders on
Mörfelden, in the east on Schneppenhausen (
Darmstadt-Dieburg
Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis (Districts of Germany, district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Offenbach (district), Offenbach, Aschaffenburg (district), Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg (district), Miltenberg, Odenwaldkreis, Berg ...
), in the southeast on Braunshardt (Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the southwest on Büttelborn and in the west on Klein-Gerau.
Literature
* Emil Hieke: ''Die Geschichte Worfeldens''. Published by the municipal council (''Gemeindeverwaltung''), 1959
* Otto Klausing: ''Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 151 Darmstadt''. Bad Godesberg, 1967
* Festschrift ''750 Jahre Worfelden'', 1975
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References
External links
''Geschichte der Ortsteile.''In: Webauftritt der Gemeinde Büttelborn.
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Former municipalities in Hesse