Neu Isenburg
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Location of Neu-Isenburg within Offenbach district
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| Coordinates: 50°03′N 8°42′E / 50.050°N 8.700°ECoordinates: 50°03′N 8°42′E / 50.050°N 8.700°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Hesse | |
| Admin. region | Darmstadt | |
| District | Offenbach | |
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| • Mayor | Herbert Hunkel | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 24.29 km2 (9.38 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 130 m (430 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 37,565 | |
| • Density | 1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 63263 | |
| Dialling codes | 06102,(Zeppelinheim:069) | |
| Vehicle registration | OF | |
| Website | www.neu-isenburg.de | |
Neu-Isenburg is a town in Germany, located in the Offenbach district of Hesse. It is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and has a population of 35,472 (2007). The town is known nowadays mainly for its regionally used shopping centre, the Isenburg-Zentrum (IZ), the Hugenottenhalle, the Hotel Kempinski Frankfurt, the Autokino Gravenbruch (the oldest drive-in cinema in Europe), the Sportpark, the Waldschwimmbad (swimming pool) and not least of all its central location near Frankfurt Airport.
Neu-Isenburg borders in the west and north on the district-free city of Frankfurt am Main, in the east on the district-free city of Offenbach and in the south on the towns of Dreieich, Langen and Mörfelden-Walldorf (Groß-Gerau district).
In 1959, building work began on the Wohnstadt im Grünen (“Living Town in the Green”), as it was marketed. This was Gravenbruch. Almost 7,000 people found a new home in this satellite town between the main town and Heusenstamm, lying in the woods. Owing to the great number of young families that moved there, this constituent community was known as the town with Europe’s densest population of children. It is also well known for the Kempinski-Hotel and the drive-in cinema.
With the amalgamation of the formerly self-administering community of Zeppelinheim in the course of municipal reform in 1977, Neu-Isenburg also stretched farther westwards. Here is found the Zeppelinmuseum.
Neu-Isenburg was founded on 24 July 1699 as a town of exiles by Huguenots, French Protestants who had had to flee their homeland after the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Their new landlord, Count Johann Philipp von Isenburg-Offenbach, guaranteed them safety, the free use of the French language and religious freedom.
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