Rödelheim

Rödelheim
Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main

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Rödelheim

Coordinates: 50°07′54″N 08°36′35″E / 50.13167°N 8.60972°E / 50.13167; 8.60972Coordinates: 50°07′54″N 08°36′35″E / 50.13167°N 8.60972°E / 50.13167; 8.60972
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Darmstadt
District Urban district
Town Frankfurt am Main
Area
  Total 5.145 km2 (1.986 sq mi)
Population (2007-12-31)
  Total 17,504
  Density 3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 60488, 60489
Dialling codes 069
Vehicle registration F
Website www.roedelheim.de

Rödelheim is a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Mitte-West and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Rödelheim-Ost and Rödelheim-West.

There are a number of celebrities who have established their base in Rödelheim, including Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt, Mathias Barbosa and Sabrina Setlur.

For many centuries and until the Nazi era, it was a major center for the printing and export of Hebrew books. Wolf Heidenheim and Seligman Baer, two highly prominent Hebrew grammarians and masoretic scholars of the modern period, both published in Rödelheim.


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