RODGAU

'Rodgau' is a town with 45,415 inhabitants in Hesse, Germany, 18 km south east of Frankfurt. It belongs to the district of Offenbach. It came into being on January 1, 1977 and consists of Weiskirchen, Hainhausen, Jügesheim, Dudenhofen and Nieder-Roden.

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Geography

Geography

Rodgau is part of the conurbation of the Rhein-Main-Area, one of the most economical important area in Germany. The 50th degree of latitude goes through the Puiseaux place (''Puiseaux-Platz'') in Nieder-Roden. The flat area Rodgaus extension is supplemented by the close low mountain ranges Spessart, Taunus, Vogelsberg and Odenwald, as well as the Bergstraße. The border to the neighbor federal state Bavaria is only a few kilometers away, at the Main.
About one third consists of forest, one third agricultural area and water, and one third is cropped. The stream Rodau runs through the whole city with a length of 15 kilometers.
Climatical consists the area to the mildest and dryest areas of Germany (average 1982-2004: 10.5 degrees / 639,1 Millimeters).
Home of the rock group 'The Rodgau Monotones' http://www.rodgau-monotones.de/
In Weiskirchen there is a high power transmission facility for medium wave, the transmitter Weiskirchen.