Wixhausen is northernmost borough of the City of Darmstadt in southern Hesse , Germany . Covering an area of 23.247 km, in 2006 it had 5,772 inhabitants and 1,310 houses. It is noted for the GSI heavy-ion research laboratory located there.
15-647: The district of Darmstadt-Arheilgen is just South of Wixhausen. The city of Erzhausen is just to the North of Wixhausen. Wixhausen was already inhabited in the Bronze Age . The first signs of settlement in the Wixhausen district can be found around 1400 BC. 750/780 Wixhausen was then incorporated into the Frankish Empire . Wixhausen was first mentioned by name in 1172 as "Wickenhusen", which means something like "settlement by
30-422: A 9th-century gospel book of the monastery around the year 1000. The Thirty Years' War shook Arheilgen hard. As early as 1622, the troops of Count von Mansfeld robbed all the houses and the church. In January 1635, the village was almost completely burned down by French troops. Only a few houses remained. The surviving residents fled behind the supposedly safe walls of nearby Darmstadt, where many of them died of
45-601: Is Germany's longest Autobahn section with 8 lanes. The A5 runs parallel and just west of the Bundesstraße 3 for many kilometers, crossing the B3 near Rastatt. In the city of Karlsruhe, the A5 meets the A 8 . A 10 km (6.2 mi) section of A 5 south of Frankfurt were installed with overhead lines for hybrid trucks to use starting in May 2019. Siemens built the lines with Scania AB providing
60-800: Is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany. Its northern end is the Hattenbach triangle intersection (with the A ;7 ). The southern end is at the Swiss border near Basel . It runs through the German states of Hessen and Baden-Württemberg and connects on its southern ending to the Swiss A ;2 . The A5 passes by the Frankfurt Airport . Construction for the first section, between Frankfurt and Darmstadt
75-657: Is served by line S3 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn . Bus lines WX and 662 also serve Wixhausen. The main road through the town is the B3 . The Bundesautobahn 5 freeway is to the West of town. Darmstadt-Arheilgen Arheilgen is a district in the north of the city of Darmstadt in Hesse , Germany , incorporated in 1937. Arheilgen borders the Darmstadt district of Wixhausen to the North, to
90-541: Is still unclear. South of Arheilgen is the site of the world's oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company, Merck KGaA . The company is the largest employer in the region and supports both schools and clubs there. In agriculture, asparagus cultivation dominates. Darmstadt-Arheilgen station is on the Main-Neckar Railway and was opened in 1848. It is station number 1130 and is served by line S3 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn) of
105-726: The Rhine-Main S-Bahn . Lines 6 and 8 of the Darmstadt tram network link Arheilgen to the city center. The tram route opened in 1890 as a steam tram service and was electrified between 1924 and 1926. Bus lines WX and 662 also serve Arheilgen. The freeways A5 and 67 are to the west of town. The main roads through the town are B3 in north–south direction and B26 in west–east direction. Darmstadt has 9 official 'Stadtteile' ( boroughs ). These are, alphabetically: Bundesautobahn 5 Bundesautobahn 5 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 5 , short form Autobahn 5 , abbreviated as BAB 5 or A 5 )
120-505: The plague . At the end of the war in 1648, only about 12 families were left to rebuild the community. The coat of arms of the town developed from the court seal, the oldest surviving impression of which dates from 1636. The upper half shows the half figure of Saint Kilian, patron saint of the Franks, to whom the original Arheilgen church was dedicated. Beneath it are lying glasses, a Wolfsangel and two hexagonal stars. The origin of these symbols
135-504: The A 5 southern route Darmstadt, Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Rastatt , Baden-Baden , Freiburg , Weil am Rhein , ending at the Swiss border near Basel , at the Bundesautobahn 98 and B3. Near Frankfurt , the highway is one of the busiest in Germany with an average of 150,000 vehicles per day. The part between Frankfurt and Darmstadt with a length of about 25 km was the first and still
150-627: The Nazi propaganda proclaim that the Reichsautobahn Frankfurt-Darmstadt was the first ever built in Germany. In 1926, a private association proposed a highway from Ha mburg via Fra nkfurt to Ba sel ( HaFraBa ) - these plans were stopped in the Reichstag by a coalition of Communists and Nazis. Hitler still used these plans after he came to power in 1933. Work progressed slowly, however, because Hitler favored east–west routes. The HaFraBa
165-638: The West is the town of Weiterstadt , to the East is the Darmstadt district of Kranichstein and to the South is the city center of Darmstadt. The actual settlement probably began in the second half of the first millennium, when a number of Frankish settlements arose in the Rhine-Main-Neckar area. The place name in its old spelling "Araheiligon" is mentioned for the first time in an undated interest register of Seligenstadt Abbey , which an unknown scribe probably added to
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#1732869909512180-512: The municipality of Wixhausen was incorporated into Darmstadt in 1977. In gold a growing red, blue-tongued lion, with his right paw clasping the blue shaft of a flag squared with silver and red. Registered in the Hessian State Archives in 1962. Darmstadt has 9 official 'Stadtteile' ( boroughs ). These are, alphabetically: Wixhausen has a small rail station on the Main-Neckar Railway , between Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt . It
195-630: The pond", since in the Middle Ages the area was traversed by several spring streams with small ponds. The baroque evangelical church built between 1774 and 1776 is worth seeing. It has a daily manually wound chime from 1517 in the Romanesque tower from 1150 (the oldest surviving structure in Darmstadt) and special windows (“Physikfenster” by Thomas Duttenhoefer, 1997). As part of the local government reform in Hesse,
210-468: Was renamed "Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung der Reichsautobahnen", which translates "Company for the preparation of the Reich highways". After the war, plans to continue the A 5 to the north were abandoned for ecological reasons. Instead, an already completed section of the proposed A 48 near Gießen was used to connect the A 5 to the A 7 from Hamburg. The HaFraBa route was finally completed in 1962, which led to
225-657: Was started on 23 September 1933 by Adolf Hitler . Propaganda falsely celebrated the project as "the Führer's Autobahn" and "Germany's first Autobahn," but the AVUS race track in Berlin was opened in September 1921. The first public Autobahn was the Cologne - Bonn highway which was inaugurated August 1932 (later called A 555 ). It was downgraded to a state highway (German: Bundesstrasse) in order to let
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