Offenbach is a city in Hessen, Germany, located on the river Main. Its geographical location is ; its population is 119.233 (2002). The city is part of the Rhein-Main metropolitan area. Offenbach was a center of the leather industry, which has however declined in the last decades. It is still the seat of the Deutsches Leder Museum (German Leather Museum), and also of the international leather fair. It is also the seat of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service). It is also home to the soccer club "Kickers Offenbach" and their stadium "Bieberer Berg".

Offenbach is part of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main-System with six S-Bahn stations: Offenbach-Kaiserlei, Offenbach-Ledermuseum, Offenbach-Marktplatz, Offenbach-Ost, Offenbach-Bieber, Bieber-Waldhof.

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Incorporations

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There are municipalities that were incorporated into Offenbach:

- bgcolor="#efefef"	Year	Town	Area	-	1908	Bürgel	-	-	April 1 1938	Bieber	-	-	April 4 1942	Rumpenheim	-

Museums

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• German Leather Museum
• Klingspor Museum, museum of typography and calligraphy
• Haus der Stadtgeschichte, municipal historical museum

Architecture

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• Isenburg Castle, typical renaissance building from 1576
• Büsingpalais
• Rumpenheim Castle
• French Protestant Church and French Protestant Community
• Westend Quarter from 19.century
• a few art deco apartment houses
• buildings by early 20. century architect Hugo Eberhardt: The Heyne-factory, the academy of art and design, and the AOK insurance building.
• prefabricated houses by Egon Eiermann in Lauterborn
• soccer-stadium "Stadion Bieberer Berg".

Population history

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Year	Population	-	1540	480	-	1680	around 600	-	1790	around 6,000	-	1834	9,433	-	1871	22,699	-	1890	35,064	-	1900	50,508	-	1910	75,583	-	June 16, 1925	79,362	-	June 16, 1933	81,329	-	May 17, 1939 ¹	87,052	-	September 13 1950 ¹	89,019	-	August 18 1954	100,000	-	June 6 1961 ¹	116,200	-	May 27 1970 ¹	117,306	-	June 30 1975	116,400	-	June 30 1980	111,200	-	June 20 1985	107,200	-	May 27 1987 ¹	111,386	-	June 30 1997	116,600

Mayors of Offenbach from 1824

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• 1824–1826: Peter Georg d'Orville
• 1826–1834: Heinrich Philipp Schwaner
• 1834–1837: Peter Georg d'Orville
• 1837–1849: Jonas Budden
• 1849–1859: Friedrich August Schäfer
• 1859–1867: Johann Heinrich Dick
• 1867–1874: Johann Martin Hirschmann
• 1874–1882: Hermann Stölting
• 1883–1907: Wilhelm Brink
• 1907–1919: Dr. Andreas Dullo
• 1919–1933: Dr. Max Granzin
• 1947–1949: Johannes Rebholz
• 1950–1957: Dr. Hans Klüber
• 1957–1974: Georg Dietrich
• 1974–1980: Walter Buckpesch
• 1980–1986: Dr. Walter Suermann
• 1986–1994: Wolfgang Reuter
• 1994–2006: Gerhard Grandtke
• 2006–: Horst Schneider

People

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• Rabbi Abraham Bing
• Gottfried Böhm
• Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach
• Wolf Breidenbach, born here
• Heinrich von Brentano
• Ray Bumatai, born here
• Derenburg pedigree
• Thea Dorn
• Jacob Frank
• Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel
• Karlgeorg Hoefer
• Hans Hotter
• Regina Jonas
• Heinrich Kaminski, worked here
• Fritz Kredel, studied here
• Philipp Mainländer, died here
• Offenbach pedigree
  • Jacques Offenbach
• Götz Otto, born here
• Jan Trubecki
• Berthold Wolpe

Twinned cities

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• - Puteaux, France, since 1955
• - Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, since 1956
• - Mödling, Austria, since 1956
• - Sint Gillis/Saint-Gilles-les-Bruxelles, Brussels, since 1956
• - Tower Hamlets, London, England, since 1956

• - Zemun, Greater Belgrade, Serbia, since 1956
• - Velletri, Italy, since 1957
• - Kawagoe, Japan, since 1973
• - Rivas, Nicaragua, since 1986
• - Köszeg, Hungary, since 1995

External links

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• Offenbach website (in German)

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