Nauheim

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Nauheim

Location of Nauheim within Groß-Gerau district

Coordinates: 49°57′02″N 08°27′47″E / 49.95056°N 8.46306°ECoordinates: 49°57′02″N 08°27′47″E / 49.95056°N 8.46306°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Jan Fischer (CDU)

Area

• Total

13.77 km² (5.32 sq mi)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

10,510

• Density

760/km² (2,000/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

64569

06152

Website

Nauheim is a community in Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany.

Nauheim lies 3 km northwest of the district seat of Groß-Gerau 16 km northwest of Darmstadt and 6 km southeast of Rüsselsheim. After the Second World War, many instrument makers from the Sudetenland such as W. Schreiber + Söhne found a new home in this community in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region, and helped give the place the epithet Musikgemeinde – "Music Community". It is also well known for its "Nauheimer Musiktage" ("Nauheim Music Days"), held since 1970.

Nauheim borders in the north on Königstädten, a constituent community of the town of Rüsselsheim, in the east on the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf, in the south on the town of Groß-Gerau and in the west on the community of Trebur.

Schreiber & Keilwerth Musikinstrumente GmbH, a firm manufacturing saxophones are based in Nauheim as of 2010.

Additionally, another saxophone manufacturer called Dörfler & Jörka was located in Nauheim c. 1949 to 1968. D&J made extensive use of Keilwerth-manufactured saxophone bodies and Keilwerth designs, but added their own slightly modified key mechanisms. Not surprisingly, Dörfler & Jörka saxophones have similar tonal characteristics to Keilwerth-manufactured saxophones of the same era e.g. the New King and Tone King models. As a result, D&J instruments have "smoky" and "tangy" characteristics when compared to the often "brighter" tone colours of Yamaha saxophones. D&J manufactured saxophones under their own brand name, though the majority were given various "stencilled" labels including:-

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