Hattersheim am Main
town in Main-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany
Hattersheim am Main (German pronunciation: [ˈhatɐshaɪm ʔam ˈmaɪn], lit. 'Hattersheim on the Main') is a town in the Main-Taunus district, Hesse (Germany) and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area.
Geography
Neighbouring towns
Hattersheim borders the city of Frankfurt in the northeast, in the southeast with Kelsterbach, in the southwest with Raunheim (both are in the district of Groß-Gerau). The western neighboring towns are Flörsheim, Hofheim and Kriftel.
Town districts
In 1972 the villages of Okriftel und Eddersheim, both situated next to the river Main, were incorporated into Hattersheim. Since then the town has been called Hattersheim am Main. Hattersheim consists of three districts: Eddersheim, Hattersheim und Okriftel.
Eddersheim
4944 people lived here in 2004. There is a lock on the river Main near the village's center.
The engineer and inventor Anton Flettner was born in Eddersheim.
Okriftel
7561 people lived here in 2007.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hattersheim am Main” as town in Main-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Main-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q569626. VIAF identifies the subject as 141925144. The Library of Congress control number is n82235149. Authority coordinates are 50.072, 8.486. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2004 and 2007.
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