Langen, Hesse

Langen, Hesse
Coat of arms
Langen, Hesse
Location of Langen, Hesse within Offenbach district
Coordinates: 49°59′N 8°40′E / 49.983°N 8.667°E / 49.983; 8.667Coordinates: 49°59′N 8°40′E / 49.983°N 8.667°E / 49.983; 8.667
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Offenbach
Government
• Mayor	Frieder Gebhard (SPD)
Area
• Total	29.12 km2 (11.24 sq mi)
Elevation	143 m (469 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	37,026
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	63225
Dialling codes	06103
Vehicle registration	OF
Website	www.langen.de

Not to be confused with Langenhessen, which is 2 km north of Werdau.

Langen is a town of roughly 36,000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. The town is located between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Langen is headquarters to Deutsche Flugsicherung (German air traffic control), and is also home to the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, a Federal serum- and vaccine-making institution.

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).

Langen is only subdivided internally. Its Stadtteile are:

The earliest community here may have arisen about AD 500 or 600, settled by Frankish migrants. Langen had its first documentary mention in 834 in a donation document from King Ludwig II to the Lorsch Abbey under the name Langungon. In 835, he had the extent of the Mark Langen (a communal area shared by a number of villages) delineated with Drieichlahha, today’s Dreieich, as a neighbouring community to the north. To the Dreieich Royal Hunting Forest (Wildbann Dreieich), which in the king’s name was governed by the Lords of Hagen (later of Münzenberg) as Vögte, also belonged in the Middle Ages the woodlands around Langen. Two of the Royal Hunting Forest’s 30 Wildhuben (farming estates whose owners were charged with guarding the king’s hunting rights) lay in Langen. Since the Lorsch Abbey hardly worried very much about their landholdings, the Lords of Hagen-Münzenberg came over the course of time to be the land’s effective owners.