Heddernheim is a quarter of

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

, Germany. It is part of the ''

Ortsbezirk A ''Stadtbezirk'' (also called ''Ortsbezirk'' in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate) is an administrative division in Germany, which is part of a larger city. It is translated as "borough". In Germany, ''Stadtbezirke'' usually only exist in a metr ...

Nord-West'' and is subdivided into the ''Stadtbezirke'' Heddernheim-Ost and Heddernheim-West.

History

Antiquity

The Roman town of Nida (Roman town) was situated in the south-western part of Heddernheim. There have been three

Mithraea A Mithraeum , sometimes spelled Mithreum and Mithraion ( grc, Μιθραίον), is a Mithraic temple, erected in classical antiquity by the worshippers of Mithras. Most Mithraea can be dated between 100 BC and 300 AD, mostly in the Roman Emp ...

(temples to

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) discovered at Heddernheim. A hoard of silver votive plaques was discovered in the Roman settlement of Nida near Heddernheim in the nineteenth century, some of which are in the

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.British Museum Collection
/ref> The offerings appear to have been deposited in a shrine dedicated to the Roman God of

Jupiter Dolichenus Jupiter Dolichenus was a Roman god whose mystery cult was widespread in the Roman Empire from the early-2nd to mid-3rd centuries AD. Like several other figures of the mystery cults, Jupiter Dolichenus was one of the so-called 'oriental' gods; tha ...

Middle Ages

Heddernheim was first mentioned in documents in 801 AD as ''Phetterenheim''.

Modern history

In Heddernheim there has been plants for

metalworking Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale ...

from the midth 19th century to the 1970s, including a huge plant of Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke. Meanwhile a big housing estate was built, named ''Nordweststadt'', including a

shopping center A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre ( Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known colle ...

called ''Nordwestzentrum'', and ''Mertonviertel''. During World War II, in 1942, a

forced labour Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of e ...

camp was established in the district by the Nazis. Due to American advance, in 1945, it was dissolved and its prisoners were deported to the

Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald (; literally ' beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or su ...

Subway stations

In Heddernheim there are six stations of the

Frankfurt U-Bahn The Frankfurt U-Bahn is a Stadtbahn system serving Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Together with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and the Frankfurt Straßenbahn, it forms the backbone of the public transport system in Frankfurt. Its name derives from the Germ ...

: Heddernheim, Zeilweg, Sandelmühle, Heddernheimer Landstraße, Nordwestzentrum and Römerstadt. They are serving five lines: U1, U2, U3, U8 and U9.

References

Districts of Frankfurt {{Hesse-geo-stub