Darmstadt-Arheilgen

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Arheilgen
Stadtteil of Darmstadt
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Location of Arheilgen within Darmstadt
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Arheilgen
Coordinates: 49°54′39″N8°39′26″E / 49.91083°N 8.65722°E / 49.91083; 8.65722 Coordinates: 49°54′39″N8°39′26″E / 49.91083°N 8.65722°E / 49.91083; 8.65722
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Darmstadt
District Urban district
City Darmstadt
Area
 • Total11.27 km2 (4.35 sq mi)
Elevation
129 m (423 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31) [1]
 • Total17,927
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
64291
Dialling codes 06151
Website www.darmstadt.de

Arheilgen is a district in the north of the city of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, incorporated in 1937. Arheilgen borders the Darmstadt district of Wixhausen to the North, to the West is the city Weiterstadt, to the East is the Darmstadt district Kranichstein, to the South is the city center of Darmstadt. [2]

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History

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Historical houses in Arheilgen

The actual settlement probably began in the second half of the first millennium, when a number of Frankish settlements arose in the Rhine-Main-Neckar area. The place name in its old spelling "Araheiligon" is mentioned for the first time in an undated interest register of Seligenstadt Abbey, which an unknown scribe probably added to a 9th-century gospel book of the monastery around the year 1000.

The Thirty Years' War shook Arheilgen hard. As early as 1622, the troops of Count von Mansfeld robbed all the houses and the church. In January 1635, the village was almost completely burned down by French troops. Only a few houses remained. The surviving residents fled behind the supposedly safe walls of nearby Darmstadt, where many of them died of the plague. At the end of the war in 1648, only about 12 families were left to rebuild the community.

The chemical element Darmstadtium (atomic number 110) is named after Darmstadt, having been synthetisized in the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt-Arheilgen. [3] [4]

Seal and coat of arms

The coat of arms of the town developed from the court seal, the oldest surviving impression of which dates from 1636. The upper half shows the half figure of Saint Kilian, patron saint of the Franks, to whom the original Arheilgen church was dedicated. Beneath it are lying glasses, a Wolfsangel and two hexagonal stars. The origin of these symbols is still unclear.

Economy

South of Arheilgen is the site of the world's oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company, Merck KGaA. The company is the largest employer in the region and supports both schools and clubs there. In agriculture, asparagus cultivation dominates.

Station Darmstadt-Arheilgen

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Railway platform station in Darmstadt-Arheilgen

Darmstadt-Arheilgen has a Railway platform station. The Station is part of the Main-Neckar Railway and was opened in 1848. The Darmstadt-Arheilgen is station number 1130 and is part of the S3 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn) system. [5]

Trams and buses

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Tram map of Darmstadt

Darmstadt started in 1886 with a steam tram system, that later evolved (with a short period of also including trolleybuses from 1944 to 1963) into a 36.2 km network by 2001. [6] From 1890 a steam tram service between Darmstadt and Arheilgen was continually working. Darmstadt had not scrapped this comparatively extensive network after World War II as many other cities did, though some links were decommissioned in the 1960s and 1970s and replaced by bus lines [6] of which the city also has an extensive network.

Tram lines 6,7 and 8 service Darmstadt-Arheilgen. The central nodal point of the Darmstadt tramway network is the Luisenplatz in the city center of Darmstadt. Buses: Bus WX and 662 also serve Arheilgen. The freeways A5 and 67 are to the west of town. The main roads through the town are B3 in north–south direction and B26 in west–east direction.

Boroughs of Darmstadt

Darmstadt has 9 official 'Stadtteile' (boroughs). These are, alphabetically: [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Entwicklung der Bevölkerung im Jahr 2019 nach statistischen Bezirken und Stadtteilen" (PDF). Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Google maps Darmstadt-Arheilgen
  3. ↑ Live like a German web site, Darmstadt
  4. ↑ GSI Helmholtz Centre web site [ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ Facebook page for Darmstadt-Arheilgen Railway station
  6. 1 2 Darmstadt: A mature tramway grows again Archived 2012-02-16 at the Wayback Machine – Tramways & Urban Transit , September 2001 issue, pp. 334–336. Accessed 7 December 2010.
  7. ↑ Statistischer Ueberblick Archived 2007-06-16 at the Wayback Machine ('Statistical overview', from the official city website, in German)
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