Langen, Hesse
Langen, Hesse | |
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Location of Langen, Hesse within Offenbach district | |
Coordinates: 49°59′N 8°40′E / 49.983°N 8.667°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Hesse |
Admin. region | Darmstadt |
District | Offenbach |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–26) | Jan Werner[1] (Ind.) |
Area | |
• Total | 29.12 km2 (11.24 sq mi) |
Elevation | 143 m (469 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 39,217 |
• Density | 1,300/km2 (3,500/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 63225 |
Dialling codes | 06103 |
Vehicle registration | OF |
Website | www.langen.de |
Langen is a town of roughly 39,000 in the
Geography
Neighbouring communities
Langen borders in the north and northeast on the town of Dreieich, in the south on the community of Egelsbach and in the west on the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf (Groß-Gerau district).
Constituent communities
Langen is only subdivided internally. Its
- Altstadt ("Old Town") in the east. This lies within the former eastern town wall, parts of which may still be seen. There is an Altstadtordnung ("Old Town Order") in force for the Old Town, meant to preserve the many timber-frame houses’ character.
- Zentrum ("Centre") in the middle of Langen. This is surrounded by the other Stadtteile.
- Neurott, in the northwest. This is a great industrial-commercial area, in which businesses such as Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA, the German government agency for administering and utilizing government land). Furthermore, the question of whether it would be possible for there to be denser building is being examined.[3]
- Nordend ("North End"), a residential neighbourhood in which are found many dwelling blocks and highrises.
- Linden and Oberlinden in the west came into being as pure residential neighbourhoods and at the time they raised Langen's population considerably.
- Steinberg in the southeast. Here, since the late 1990s, there have been terraced houses for one, two or three families.
History
The earliest community here may have arisen about AD 500 or 600, settled by
When the Hagen-Münzenberg family died out in 1255, the place passed to the Lords of Falkenstein. In 1414, the village burnt down in the midst of a dispute between the city of Frankfurt and the then owners of Langen, the Archbishop of Trier, Werner von Falkenstein. When the Lords of Falkenstein, too, saw their male line come to an end in 1418, the County of Isenburg inherited the lordship over Langen. Surviving from the Middle Ages are, among other things remains of the fortifications with the spitzer Turm and the stumpfer Turm ("Sharp Tower" and "Blunt Tower") from Falkenstein times (1336), and from the Renaissance the Vierröhrenbrunnen ("Four-Pipe Spring") from 1553.
In 1600, Langen, along with the whole
In 1812, Langen was raised to market community. After the French period, in 1821, Langen was raised to seat of the Landratsbezirk, practically making Langen a district seat, although in 1832 it had to yield this function to Groß-Gerau and Offenbach. In 1834, Langen had 2,368 inhabitants. In 1846, the Main-Neckar Railway (88 km) was opened with a railway station in Langen. In 1862, the Offenbach district was formed. In 1883, the community was granted town rights by Grand Duke Ludwig IV.
After the
Politics
The town's mayor is Jan Werner (independent). The first councillor is Stefan Löbig (
At the direct election for mayor on 27 January 2008, none of the seven candidates could secure the needed majority, and so on 10 February 2008, a
Town council
The municipal election held on 6 March 2016 yielded the following results,[4] compared to previous elections:[5][6]
Parties and voter communities | % 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
% 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
% 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
% 2001 |
Seats 2001 | |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 28.1 | 13 | 27.5 | 13 | 35.5 | 16 | 37.9 | 17 |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 22.9 | 10 | 26.3 | 12 | 31.4 | 14 | 32.0 | 14 |
GREENS | Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
|
17.0 | 8 | 24.4 | 11 | 14.7 | 7 | 14.7 | 7 |
FWG-NEV | Freie Wähler-Gemeinschaft - Nichtparteigebundene Einwohner-Vertreter | 14.9 | 7 | 11.6 | 5 | 12.0 | 5 | 9.8 | 4 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | 7.8 | 3 | 4.2 | 2 | 6.4 | 3 | 5.5 | 3 |
LEFT | Die Linke | 4.4 | 2 | 3.0 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Freie Wähler/
UWFB |
Unabhängige Wählervereinigung zur Förderung der Bürgermeister- und Kommunalwahlen / | 4.9 | 2 | 3.0 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Total | 100.0 | 45 | 100.0 | 45 | 100.0 | 45 | 100.0 | 45 | |
Voter turnout in % | 41.2 | 39.9 | 37.3 | 46.2 |
Culture
Well known outside the town is above all the Langen Ebbelwoi-Fest, to which tens of thousands of visitors come each year on the last weekend in June. Moreover, the Langener Waldsee, a favourite outing destination among dwellers of the nearby Main agglomeration, is within town limits. Since 2002, the swimming competition Ironman Germany (so called even in German) has been held there.
The town museum is found at the Old Town Hall in the Old Town. However, it opens only for special exhibitions, such as the one between May 2008 and March 2009 for the show Blick(e) zurück ("Looking Back") for the 125-year jubilee of town rights.
On the town's outskirts is found the former hunting palace of Schloß Wolfsgarten, which is owned by the House of Hesse.
Quite a few orchestras and musical groups frame Langen's cultural makeup. Among the most important are the Langen Orchestra Club and the TV 1862 Langen's (sport club) wind orchestra. Both groups furnish accompaniment to many of Langen's public events.
Langen's most successful sport team are the TV 1862 Langen's basketball players, who are represented in Pro A, Germany's second highest playing class. Home games are played at the Georg-Sehring-Halle.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Langen has good connections with all transport providers.
Langen station is on the Rhine-Main S-Bahn network running on the Main-Neckar line and is served by S-Bahn lines and . The travel time to downtown Frankfurt is roughly 20 minutes with trains running every 15 minutes. Moreover, regional trains on the Frankfurt-Mannheim RE 60 and Frankfurt-Heidelberg RB 68 runs stop here.
Furthermore, Langen is linked to the north–south Autobahnen A 5 (Langen/Mörfelden interchange in the town's west) and A 661 (Langen interchange in the east). Both interchanges are linked by the east–west Bundesstraße 486, which at the same time also forms the Langen north bypass. This new link also connects the industrial area in the northwest, in which are found, among other things, Federal authorities. Along Bundesstraße 486 towards the west, after about 15 km, drivers reach the Rüsselsheimer Dreieck ("Rüsselsheim Triangle"), where the A 60 towards Mainz branches off the A 67 (Darmstadt-Mönchhof).
Running across the municipal area is also the former Bundesstraße 3 from
Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, Germany's busiest general airport, lies in the neighbouring community of Egelsbach some 3 km away, while Europe's third biggest airport, Frankfurt Airport, is found about 10 km from Langen.
Authorities
In Langen, three Federal authorities are represented. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut has its headquarters in the town, which since 1993 has also been the German Federal Office for Sera and Vaccines.
An outlying location of the Federal Office for Civil Aviation of Germany (Luftfahrtbundesamt) is connected to the headquarters of German Air Traffic Control. Likewise represented here are the Office for Bundeswehr Air Traffic Control (Amt für Flugsicherung der Bundeswehr) and the Air Traffic Control Academy (Flugsicherungsakademie) for training air traffic controllers. Also housed in the Air Traffic Control Academy's building is the Wetterdienstschule ("Weather Service School"), which was formerly in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
Furthermore, an outlying location of the Umweltbundesamt ("Federal Environment Office") is found in the town, which grew out of the former Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene (Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene, or WaBoLu).
Plans in 2004 to close this by 2008 have since been revised. Henceforth the plans call for moving the institute in two stages to Berlin by 2018.
Established businesses
- Asklepios Kliniken
- Sun Microsystems
- Deutsche Post subsidiary DHL has built a postal centre in Langen for sending letters to the surrounding area.
- Borland
- Panasonic
- Nikon
- Vivendi Universal Publishing
- Bull Computer
- Fujitsu
- MISCO Germany
- THALES
- SAG
- Liferay
- The Bristol Group Deutschland GmbH manufacturer of independent IT security providers and service providers.
- Henry Schein
Education
Primary schools
- Albert-Schweitzer-Schule
- Geschwister-Scholl-Schule
- Ludwig-Erk-Schule
- Sonnenblumenschule
- Wallschule
Gymnasium
- Dreieichschule
Comprehensive schools
- Albert-Einstein-Schule (integrated comprehensive school)
- Adolf-Reichwein-Schule (coöperative comprehensive school)
Special schools
- Erich-Kästner-Schule – school for pupils with physical handicaps
- Janusz-Korczak-Schule - school for trainable pupils with mental handicaps
Colleges
- DFS-Flugsicherungsakademie
Media
The daily newspaper with the highest circulation is the Langener Zeitung, a local edition of the Offenbach-Post.
Twin towns – sister cities
- Aranda de Duero, Spain
- Long Eaton, England, United Kingdom
- Romorantin-Lanthenay, France
- Tarsus, Turkey
Notable people
- Willi Leininger (1907–1971), composer, music writer and journalist
- Friedrich Zängerle (1911–1996), trade unionist
- Rudi Sehring (born 1930), jazz drummer
- Henning Boëtius (born 1939), writer
- Tanja Börzel (born 1970), political scientist and university lecturer
- Jan Costin Wagner (born 1972), writer
- Meike Babel (born 1974), tennis player
- Carsten Nulle (born 1975), footballer
- Janine Wissler (born 1981), politician (Die Linke), member of the Hesse Landtag
- Ralf Schneider (born 1986), footballer
- Germany's Next Top Model
Leisure
- Leisure and family pool with adjoining rollerskating park
- Indoor swimming pool with warm bathing days
- Langener Waldsee (lake) with a naturism area and an angling area
- Youth centre with concerts and other activities
- Paddling pond with playground and much more
References
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. 5 September 2022.
- Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt. June 2023.
- ^ Pressemitteilung der Stadt Langen Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kommunalwahlen 2016 in Hessen". www.statistik-hessen.de. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Kommunalwahlen 2011 in Hessen". www.statistik-hessen.de. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Kommunalwahlen 2006 in Hessen". 2016-06-27. Archived from the original on 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
- ^ "Partnerstädte". langen.de (in German). Langen (Hessen). Retrieved 2021-02-18.
External links
- Langen travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Official website (in German)
- Langen Science Prize (Langener Wissenschaftspreis) (in German)
- Langen at Curlie(in German)