Offenbach am Main Totally Explained

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Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, located on southside of the river Main. In 2006 it had a population of 116,923. The city is part of the Rhein-Main metropolitan area.
Offenbach was a center of the leather industry, which has however declined in the last decades. It is still the seat of the Deutsches Leder Museum (German Leather Museum), and also of the international leather fair. It is also the seat of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service). It is also home to the soccer club "Kickers Offenbach" and their stadium "Bieberer Berg".
Offenbach is part of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main-System with six S-Bahn stations: Offenbach-Kaiserlei, Offenbach-Ledermuseum, Offenbach-Marktplatz, Offenbach-Ost, Offenbach-Bieber, Bieber-Waldhof.

History

With the new district Lauterborn the city was expanded to south in the 1960ies.

Incorporations

There following municipalities were incorporated into Offenbach:

Year	Town	Area
1908	Bürgel	-
April 1 1938	Bieber	-
April 4 1942	Rumpenheim	-

Economy

Until the early 1970s Offenbach was dominated by the machine-building and leather industries. The city hosts the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies until today.
   Offenbach was also the European center of typography, with Gebr. Klingspor and Linotype (inventors of Optima or Palatino typeface) moving to nearby Eschborn in the 1970s and MAN Roland printing machines still a major employer today. Typography and design still remain importants with a cluster of graphic design and industrial design companies, as well as the universitary level HfG Offenbach design school and the Klingspor Museum.
   In recent years Offenbach has become a popular location for a wide array of services, especially from the transport sectors. Offenbach host to the European headquarters of Honda, Hyundai Motors and Kumho.

Main sights

Edifices

Isenburg Palace, typical Renaissance building from 1576, now used by the Offenbach Design University
Büsingpalais.
Rumpenheim Castle.
French Protestant Church and French Protestant Community.
Westend Quarter (19th century).
Several art deco apartment houses.
Former Synagogue "Capitol" (now a concert hall).
Buildings by early 20th century architect Hugo Eberhardt: "Heyne" Factory, main building of the Design University, AOK Insurance building.
Prefabricated houses by Egon Eiermann in Lauterborn
Soccer-stadium "Stadion Bieberer Berg".

Museums

German Leather Museum

Klingspor Museum, museum of typography and calligraphy

Haus der Stadtgeschichte, municipal historical museum

Population history

Year	opulation
1540	480
1680	around 600
1790	around 6,000
1834	9,433
1871	22,699
1890	35,064
1900	50,508
1910	75,583
June 16, 1925	79,362
June 16, 1933	81,329
May 17, 1939 ¹	87,052
September 13 1950 ¹	89,019
August 18 1954	100,000
June 6 1961 ¹	116,200
May 27 1970 ¹	117,306
June 30 1975	116,400
June 30 1980	111,200
June 20 1985	107,200
May 27 1987 ¹	111,386
June 30 1997	116,600

Offenbach has the highest percentage of foreign people throughout Germany.

Mayors of Offenbach from 1824

1824–1826: Peter Georg d'Orville

1826–1834: Heinrich Philipp Schwaner

1834–1837: Peter Georg d'Orville

1837–1849: Jonas Budden

1849–1859: Friedrich August Schäfer

1859–1867: Johann Heinrich Dick

1867–1874: Johann Martin Hirschmann

1874–1882: Hermann Stölting

1883–1907: Wilhelm Brink

1907–1919: Andreas Dullo

1919–1933: Max Granzin

1947–1949: ohannes Rebholz

1950–1957: Hans Klüber

1957–1974: Georg Dietrich

1974–1980: Walter Buckpesch

1980–1986: Walter Suermann

1986–1994: Wolfgang Reuter

1994–2006: Gerhard Grandtke

2006–: Horst Schneider

People

Rabbi Abraham Bing

Gottfried Böhm

Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach

Heinrich von Brentano

Ray Bumatai, born here

Thea Dorn

Jacob Frank

Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel

Karlgeorg Hoefer

Hans Hotter

Regina Jonas, first female Rabbi, ordained in Offenbach

Heinrich Kaminski, worked here

Rudolf Koch, worked and taught here

Fritz Kredel, studied here

Philipp Mainländer, died here

Helene Mayer, born here

Jacques Offenbach

Götz Otto, born here

Anthony Rother Electronic musician

Snap!, German dance group

Jan Trubecki

Berthold Wolpe

Twinned cities

Puteaux, France, since 1955

Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, since 1956

Mödling, Austria, since 1956

Sint Gillis/Saint-Gilles-les-Bruxelles, Brussels, since 1956

Yangzhou, People's Republic of China, since 1997

Zemun, Serbia, since 1956

Velletri, Italy, since 1957

Kawagoe, Japan, since 1973

Rivas, Nicaragua, since 1986

Köszeg, Hungary, since 1995

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