Heusenstamm
town in Landkreis Offenbach in Hesse, Germany
Heusenstamm (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʏzn̩ˌʃtam] ) is a town of over 19,000 people in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district. The town lies in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region south of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main at an average elevation of 121 m above sea level. The town lies on the river Bieber. The lowest natural point is the Bieber's riverbed, and the highest is the Hoher Berg ("High Mountain"). Darmstadt, the seat of the Regierungsbezirk, is located to the southwest. Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the Mittelgebirge of the Odenwald and Spessart.
Neighbouring communities
Heusenstamm borders in the north on the district-free city of Offenbach am Main, in the northeast on the town of Obertshausen, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau, in the south on the town of Dietzenbach, and in the west on the town of Dreieich.
Constituent communities
Heusenstamm's Stadtteile are Heusenstamm, with 16,266 inhabitants and Rembrücken, with 2,116 inhabitants (each time at 31 December 2006).
Also constituting Stadtteile of a kind are the residential neighbourhoods of Waldesruhe and Patershausen.
“Heusenstamm” enters the record as town in Landkreis Offenbach in Hesse, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heusenstamm, town and Landkreis can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Heusenstamm” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heusenstamm, town and Landkreis provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q569659. VIAF identifies the subject as 150434472. The Library of Congress control number is no2002065500. Authority coordinates are 50.060, 8.807. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.
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