Riedstadt

Ried city is measured by its area, the largest town in the Groß -Gerau in Hesse. The administrative headquarters is located in the central district Goddelau.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Town twinning

Geography

Geographical location

Ried city is characterized by a preserved rural structure, but also the proximity to the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mainz and Mannheim. It is, as the name suggests, in the Hessian Ried, and is adjacent to the urban area directly to the Rhine. The city operates structural settlements of environmentally friendly businesses.

As recreation areas are located within the city limits, large parts of the nature reserve Kühkopf - Knoblochsaue and Riedsee at Leeheim. In another environment, the mountain road, the Odenwald and the Taunus are.

Neighboring communities

Ried city is bordered to the north by the municipality Trebur and the city of Groß-Gerau, on the east by the cities of Griesheim and Pfungstadt ( both in Darmstadt -Dieburg ) in the south to the city of Gernsheim and the communities Biebesheim and stick city, and to the west by the municipalities Ludwig height and Dienheim, and the city of Oppenheim ( all three in the Mainz-Bingen district ).

Boroughs

Ried city consists of the central district Goddelau as well as the districts Crumstadt in the south, Erfelden in the West, Leeheim in the northwest and Wolfskehlen in the north. Local districts were formed. Spatially separated between Goddelau and Crumstadt and of the development of the two parts of the city lies the sprawling campus of the psychiatric clinic Philip Hospital, which has already established itself as one of the first hospitals of this kind in 1535.

History

Incorporations

Ahead of municipal reform in Hesse, the community Goddelau - Wolfskehlen was newly formed by the merger of the municipalities Goddelau and Wolfskehlen on 1 July 1973. Through the merger legally possessed this community with the communities Erfelden, Crumstadt and Leeheim established on 1 January 1977, the new church Ried city.

On 17 January 2007, the Hessian Ministry of the Interior to Ried city awarded as the last church of Hesse with more than 20,000 inhabitants, the city rights.

Population Development

December 31 each ( population 2006 as of 30 June 2006)

  • 2000-20576
  • 2005-21707
  • 2001-20805
  • 2006-21728
  • 2002-20984
  • 2011-21597

Policy

Mayor of Ried city had since 1993 Gerald grief, SPD. In the direct election in 2005 he was re-elected on the second ballot. After his resignation from the office was temporarily unoccupied. As the new mayor of the non-party Amend Werner was elected in a runoff election on 23 January 2011.

City Council

The municipal election held 27 March 2011 yielded the following results:

(* According to each outlet of a city council from the WE / FW Group )

From the local elections of 2011, the SPD went again emerged as the strongest force in front of the CDU. The big winner was the Green List Ried city that could more than double its earnings. The left first acquired the collection in Ried townspeople Parliament. After the Green List Ried city has announced that it will not form a coalition with the SPD again in this election period, working in Riedstadt future with changing majorities. The CDU and the FDP MPs declared after the election that they want to occur in the current parliamentary term as a common fraction. However, this fraction reduced to as a CDU parliamentarian resigned after allegations of involvement in the scene right from the party. The Group of WE narrowed down in 2012 also after a Group Member from the Association and the Group exited. Shortly after this, however, the club and the group joined again, while another elected the club and the fraction which had changed its name to CDU left. Over the term of the resigned from the CDU / FDP city councilors resigned, bringing the CDU came to eleven elected again.

Twinning

The city of Ried city cultivates following twinning:

  • France France, Brienne- le -Château, Aube department (since 1979)
  • Italy Italy, Sortino, Sicily
  • Lithuania Lithuania, Tauroggen

Traffic

The city has with the city - Ried Goddelau Station is a train station at kilometer 45.7 of Riedbahn opened in 1869. At the train station category 4 station stop only regional and suburban trains. In addition, the city has with the station Ried City Wolfskehlen (formerly Leeheim - Wolfskehlen ) a second station. On the route also opened in 1869 Goddelau - Erfelden -Darmstadt Hbf was the breakpoint Wolfskehlen, which was decommissioned in 1975 with the total distance.

Personalities

  • Georg Büchner (1813-1837), writer, scientist and revolutionary
  • William Seipel (1898-1968), Gauarbeitsamtspräsident and Hessian politician ( FDP)
  • Willi Blodt ( born 1929 ), former Member of Parliament and 22 years District Administrator of the Gross-Gerau (SPD )
  • Ruth Wagner ( born 1940 ), former Hessian Minister of State (FDP)
  • Wolfgang wooden houses ( born 1950 ), former CEO of Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH
  • Heiko and Roman Lochmann ( The Lochis ), twins, (* 1999 in Mainz ) German comedy duo and music producer
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