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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''.
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History

Incorporations

Economy

Main sights

Edifices

Museums

Population history

Mayors of Offenbach from 1824

People

Twinned cities

External links

History

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. Offenbach was also the European center of typography, with Linotype (inventors of Optima or Palatino typeface) moving to nearby Eschborn in the 1970s and MAN Roland printing machines still a major employer today. In recent years Offenbach has become a popular location for a wide array of services, especially from the advertising, design and transport sectors. Offenbach is also host to the European headquarters of Hyundai Motors.

Main sights

Edifices

★ ''Isenburg Castle'', 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	Population
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

External links

★ Offenbach website