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35-506: Freigericht has an elevation of 140 to 371 m in a side valley of the Kinzig river. In the southern parts of the town several pre-historical cairns have been found. On 19 June 1930 a tooth of a 40,000-year-old mammoth was discovered during building works in Somborn. It was transferred to the county seat Gelnhausen . Since the opening of Freigericht's local museum several attempts have been made to get

70-711: A few metres towards the northwest where it unites with a longer headstream. From its source, the Kinzig runs northwest and forms the boundary between the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and the Hessian Spessart Nature Park as far as Schlüchtern . West of Schlüchtern the Kinzig flows in a southwesterly direction and separates the Vogelsberg hills to the north from the Spessart to the south. Between Steinau and Ahl

105-564: A higher share. Elections in 2016: This Hesse location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kinzig (Main) The Kinzig is a river , 87 kilometres long, in southern Hesse , Germany . It is a right tributary of the Main . Its source is in the Spessart hills at Sterbfritz, near Schlüchtern . The Kinzig flows into the Main in Hanau . The Main-Kinzig-Kreis (district)

140-639: A huge building project to completely redesign the inner city. These are the largest construction works in the town since the reconstruction after World War II. On 19 February 2020, eleven people—including the perpetrator— were killed in a spree shooting at two shisha bars and a flat in the town. The perpetrator, known as Tobias Rathjen, opened fire at Midnight Bar and Arena Bar in Hanau centre and Kesselstadt. Tobias then drove home, where he killed his mother, and shot himself. In September 2021, Hanau reached 100,000 inhabitants. At present, many inhabitants work for

175-466: A kiosk in Hanau , murdering nine people with roots outside Germany, before shooting his mother and himself. The historic core of Hanau is situated within a semicircle of the river Kinzig which flows into the river Main just west of the city. Today, after a substantial expansion during the 19th and 20th centuries it also extends to the river Main and after a restructuring of municipal borders within Hesse in

210-567: A leading role in the succession of Count Fredrik Casimir of Hanau Lichtenberg into the County of Hanau-Münzenberg of which the town of Hanau was the capital. During the Thirty Years' War Hanau was taken by the Swedes in 1631. In 1636 it was besieged by the imperial troops, but was relieved on the 13th of June by William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel , on account of which the day is still commemorated by

245-432: A noble family, calling themselves "of Hanau" from the 13th century. Starting from this castle a village developed and became a town in 1303. As a result of this history, the main church of Hanau stood outside its walls in the village of Kinzdorf . The villagers moved into the town, Kinzdorf became an abandoned village leaving only the church. Only in the 15th century was the status of the Hanau parish church transferred to

280-509: A surprise ambush. As a reward, the Kaiser granted them with "free jurisdiction", hence the name "Freigericht". The town council consists of 37 members, all of which are elected for a five-year term. The CDU has been the leading party in Freigericht, although it has suffered severe losses in the recent elections. Independent groups, which have been strong prior to the incorporation of Freigericht, get

315-545: Is a city 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 river Main , making it an important transport centre. The city is known for being the birthplace of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and Franciscus Sylvius . Since

350-456: Is divided into five villages, which have been independent villages until 1970. On 1 January 1970 the five villages voluntarily incorporated into a new municipality named Freigericht. The name Freigericht (lit. Free Court) had been unofficially used for the villages for several centuries. According to legend, it states that farmers from the areas between the rivers Main and Kinzig stood and defended their Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) , during

385-687: Is now the Netherlands, Belgium and the French Département Nord at the time of Spanish rule, the Spanish Netherlands. With the arrival of the Huguenots, Walloons and Dutch, Hanau's rise to become an important business location began. Until 1821, the new town had its own independent community, independent of the old town. The Reformed Walloon-Dutch community still exists today. Philipp Ludwig II also allowed Jews to settle in Hanau. From 1604 there

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420-527: Is the Kinzig Dam . In its lower reaches the Kinzig is used by canoeists. Shortly before Hanau the Kinzig flows through the so-called Bulau . This woodland area was formerly used by the US Army as an exercise area and is therefore still very natural. During high water, water flows rapidly through many ditches in the water meadows so that, in spring, extensive bear garlic meadows appear. After about 82 kilometres,

455-522: The Rhine in Kehl-Auenheim The source of the Kinzig ( Kinzigquelle ) is located at a height of about 400 m above  sea level (NN) , in the vicinity of an Aussiedlerhof , a recently established farmstead outside a village, south of Sterbfritz in the municipality of Sinntal . It is a small spring, enclosed in sandstone , that has an outflow pipe. The headstream that rises here flows for

490-570: The 16th century it was a centre of precious metal working with many goldsmiths. It is home to Heraeus , one of the largest family-owned companies in Germany. Hanau, once the seat of the Counts of Hanau, lost much of its architectural heritage in World War II , such as its City Palace . A British air raid in 1945 created a firestorm, killing one sixth of the remaining population and destroying 98 percent of

525-402: The 1970s a couple of nearby villages and towns were incorporated. After this change, Hanau for the first time, also extended to the south bank of the Main river. On the 0 °C isotherm, Hanau has a humid continental climate as Eastern Germany with warm summer, classified by Köppen as Dfb . In the -3 °C isotherm has oceanic climate ( Cfb ) with some interior characteristics. Using

560-517: The church of Mary Magdalene within the town walls. Shortly after the first town walls were built at the beginning of the 14th century, the town outgrew this limit. Outside the wall, along the road to Frankfurt am Main a settlement developed (the Vorstadt ) which was properly included in the fortifications of Hanau only when Hanau received completely new fortifications in Renaissance-style during

595-653: The design of the church, especially the decalogues (boards displaying the Ten Commandments ). Each congregation was led by the Consistoire , elected by congregation members for life, which is roughly comparable to today's church council. The descendants of the French Reformed religious refugees have assimilated in Hanau over time. In contrast to the Huguenots, the Walloon and Dutch Calvinist refugees came from an area of what

630-426: The first definition used is the city most west of the continent below 200 m at sea level with this category. The name is derived from Hagenowe , which is a composition of Haag ('wood') and Aue ('open land by the side of a river'). As a place of settlement Hanau was first mentioned in 1143. Formerly it was the site of a castle which used the waters of the river Kinzig as a defense. The castle belonged to

665-401: The first half of the 16th century. These new fortifications enclosed three elements: The medieval castle, the medieval town of Hanau and the Vorstadt . In 1597 Count Philipp Ludwig II attracted French Protestant ( Huguenots ) refugees, who had been admitted to Frankfurt but had only very limited accommodation, to found their own settlement south of Hanau. This happened under the direction of

700-607: The first workshop to produce faïence (tin-glazed pottery) within Germany . These new citizens were granted privileges and they formed their own community, church and administration for the "new town of Hanau" ( Neustadt Hanau ) wholly separate from the existing community. A stark contrast to the Catholic Church, but also to the Lutheran Church of the time, was the participation of lay people in church-governing functions, as well as

735-635: The inhabitants. In 1736 Johann Reinhard III of Hanau-Lichtenberg , the last of the Counts of Hanau, died. Those parts of his county belonging to the County of Hanau-Münzenberg, which included Hanau, were inherited by the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel . Due to dynastic troubles within this family the County of Hesse-Hanau was created a separate state from the Landgraviate until 1786. So Hanau stayed capital for another 50 years. Even after that it became – after Kassel –

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770-573: The last Jews being deported in May 1942. The inner city of Hanau was for the most part destroyed by British airstrikes in March 1945 a few days before it was taken by the U.S. Army. Around 87% of the town was destroyed. Of 15,000 inhabitants who remained in the city at the time, 2,500 died in the attack. The town housed one of the largest garrisons of the U.S. Army in Europe . Being an important strategic location in

805-485: The late 19th century Hanau became a major garrison town. Due to its interchange of railway lines a large detachment of military railway-engineers as well as other military units were stationed here. As a free-trade city, Hanau developed a silver manufacturing industry using fantasy hallmarks. Hanau silver was produced from the mid 19th to the early 20th Century. During World War II , the Jewish population were persecuted with

840-404: The old city and 80 percent of the city overall. The outer parts of the city have old timbered towns like Hanau-Steinheim  [ de ] and castles like Schloss Philippsruhe  [ de ] . In 1963, the city hosted the third Hessentag state festival. Until 2005, Hanau was the administrative centre of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis . On 19 February 2020, a gunman attacked two bars and

875-451: The river empties into the Main in Hanau at a height of about 100 m above  sea level (NN) . Here, there are balcony-like views of the castle of Philippsruhe or the Main river port. The observation platform comprises two interleaved terraces linked by a steel wall. (in downstream order) The Kinzig catchment covers an area of 1,058 square kilometres. Hanau Hanau ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːnaʊ̯] )

910-515: The so called Fulda Gap , the military community had a population of 45,000 military members, U.S. civilians and family members at its peak during the Cold War . The extensive U.S. facilities included Hanau Army Airfield , also known as Fliegerhorst Langendiebach . The garrison was closed in April 2018. Most of the former military areas have been converted to civil use in the meantime. In 2010, Hanau started

945-578: The technological group Heraeus , or commute to Frankfurt. Frankfurt International Airport is 30 km away. Nuclear energy company Nukem was headquartered in Hanau, with a nuclear fuel plant in the Wolfgang district of Hanau until January 1988. The earliest documentary evidence for the presence of Jews in Hanau dates from 1313. In the 17th and 18th centuries Hanau developed into an important center of Hebrew printing. The community numbered 540 persons 1805, 80 families in 1830, 447 persons in 1871, and 657 at

980-407: The then guardian of the Hanau count, Johann VI von Nassau-Dillenburg, who hoped for significant economic and cultural advances from the settlement of the ‘Réfugiés’ from south-west France. In return for the assurance of free exercise of their religion, the refugees undertook to become economically active in Hanau. Out of this tradition, goldsmiths are still trained in Hanau. Hanau also was the site of

1015-456: The tooth back, none of which was successful. Freigericht borders the municipalities of Hasselroth to the north, Linsengericht to the east and Rodenbach to the west. South of Freigericht (already belonging to the Bavarian district of Aschaffenburg are the town of Alzenau , the municipalities of Mömbris and Geiselbach , as well as the unincorporated area of Geiselbach Forest. Freigericht

1050-722: The town second in importance within Hesse-Kassel. During the Napoleonic Wars the Emperor himself ordered the fortifications of Hanau to be destroyed. This created a chance for both parts of the town to expand across their traditional limits. In 1813, the Battle of Hanau took place near the city between French troops and Austro-Bavarian forces; the former won. During the 1820s the administrations of both towns of Hanau were merged. The first common Mayor , who became Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister)

1085-549: The turn of the century. In 1925 there were 568 Jews in Hanau. Hanau is twinned with: Hanau also has friendly relations with: Hanau is a transportation hub in Germany, with its main station serving the following lines: Besides the main station, the town is also served by Hanau West and Hanau-Wilhelmsbad on the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway, Großauheim on the Main-Spessart-Bahn, Wolfgang an der Kinzigtalbahn,

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1120-619: Was Bernhard Eberhard  [ de ] , later to become prime minister and minister of the interior of the Electorate of Hesse after the Revolution of 1848 . With its pre-industrial workshops Hanau became a nucleus of a heavy industrialisation during the 19th century: From within the city (e.g.: Heraeus ) as well as from outside (e.g. Degussa , Dunlop ). This was heavily supported by its development as an important railway interchange of six railway lines, most of them main lines: 1848 Hanau

1155-485: Was a Jewish community again. It took more than 200 years to amalgamate both. The new town – larger than the old one – was protected by a then very modern fortification in Baroque -style which proved a big asset only a few years later in the Thirty Years' War . The town survived a siege in 1637 with only minor damage. The new citizens formed the major economic and political power within the County of Hanau and in 1642 played

1190-652: Was a centre of the German democratic movement and contributed significantly both in 1830 and in the Revolution of 1848 . As part of this movement the German Gymnastic League ( Deutscher Turnerbund ) was founded here in 1848. Hanau was finally annexed to Prussia like all of Hesse-Kassel in 1866 after its Prince-elector took the Austrian side in the Austro-Prussian War . It remained part of Prussia until 1945. In

1225-529: Was named after the river. The towns along the Kinzig are Schlüchtern, Steinau an der Straße , Bad Soden-Salmünster , Gelnhausen , and Hanau. The Kinzig is first recorded in 815 A.D. as Chinzicha . This river played a part in the Battle of Hanau in October 1813, as Napoleon retreated back to the Rhine, after his defeat at the Battle of Leipzig . There are several German rivers called Kinzig. Another Kinzig flows into

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