Riedstadt

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Riedstadt
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Riedstadt within Groß-Gerau district
Riedstadt Show map of Germany Riedstadt Show map of Hesse
Coordinates: 49°50′14″N 08°30′16″E / 49.83722°N 8.50444°E / 49.83722; 8.50444
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Groß-Gerau
Government
• Mayor (2022–28)	Marcus Kretschmann[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	73.76 km2 (28.48 sq mi)
Elevation	88 m (289 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	24,209
• Density	330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	64560
Dialling codes	06158
Vehicle registration	GG
Website	www.riedstadt.de

Riedstadt, with its municipal area of 73.76 km² is Groß-Gerau district's biggest town by land area. It lies in Hesse, Germany, about 12 km southwest of Darmstadt.

Geography

Location

Riedstadt is shaped not only by its preserved rural structure, but also by being near several cities, namely

Goddelau was first mentioned in a donation document when Count Gundram donated his property "in Terminis Gotalohono" to Fulda Abbey. Over the centuries, the village was shaped by its dwellers' agricultural and handicraft activities. In 1588 there were roughly 180 inhabitants in Goddelau. The house in which writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner would later be born was built in 1665, and still stands today.

Leeheim

Leeheim was first mentioned in the

In earlier times, Leeheim developed itself from a farming village into a workers' residential village with recreational lands on the Riedsee, a nearby lake, and a golf course.

Wolfskehlen

Wolfskehlen is Riedstadt's northernmost constituent community. It was first mentioned in the document Historia Episcopatus Wormatiensis in 1002 in which Emperor

Population development

Each time at 31 December

• 1998 – 20,050
• 1999 – 20,393
• 2000 – 20,576
• 2001 – 20,805
• 2002 – 20,984
• 2003 – 21,167
• 2004 – 21,362
• 2005 – 21,707
• 2006 – 21.728
• 2011 – 21.597
• 2014 – 22.530
• 2015 – 23.289

Mayors

The mayor was since 1993 Gerald Kummer, SPD. He was reelected in 2005. In January 2011, Werner Amend (independent) was voted as the new mayor. In November 2016 Marcus Kretschmann (CDU) was elected, who will come into office in April 2017.

Politics

Municipal council

Municipal council consists of 37 seats. At the last election on 6 March 2016, the seats were apportioned thus:

• CDU 11 seats
• SPD 14 seats
• Linke 2 seats
• GLR 4 seats
• FW 6 seats

Town partnerships

Riedstadt maintains partnership links with the following places:

• Brienne-le-Château, France, since 1979
• Sortino, Italy
• Tauragė, Lithuania

Notable people

• Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German writer and revolutionary
• Peter Reuter (born 1955), PhD in clinical biochemistry, MD, author of multiple medical dictionaries
• Guenther Roth (born 1931), sociologist, journalist, book author, leading American scholar on Max Weber

Sundry

In August 1984, the remains of an ice age mammal were unearthed at a gravel pit near Crumstadt. At first thought to be a mammoth, it later turned out on further analysis, specifically of the teeth, to be a young forest elephant. The bones are now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.

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