This article is about the german town Griesheim in Hessen, for more see: Griesheim (Begriffsklärung). Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ...

Griesheim is a town in Hessen close to Darmstadt. Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ... Map of Germany showing Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. ...

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Demographics

Residents (Juli 2003): without auxiliary domiciles 25.111, with auxiliary domiciles 27.014

History

• since 4000 v. Chr. colonisation of boundary
• 14. June 1165 First documentary mention
• 1529 Introdution of the reformation
• 1618 - 1648 Decline during the 30 years war
• 1681 Building of the Lutheran church (Lutherkirche)
• 1868 Direct rail connections to Darmstadt and Worms
• 1874 Artillery range
• 1886 Vapour railway to Darmstadt, from 1926 electrified
• 1895 Artificial watering of the fields
• 1900 Gas works and central gas supply
• 1908 First rain water canalisation, first airfield in town
• 1918 - 1930 french allocation
• 1925 - 1927 central power and water supply
• 1939 - 1945 in the 2nd World War damaged to 60%
• after 1945 Around 4000 refugees arriving in Griesheim. Rebuilding of the city and infrastructural development
• 12. September 1965 Conferring of the city right in appreciation of the rebuilding efforts
• 1975 Town partnership with Bar-le-Duc
• 1977 Incorporation of the residential area St. Stephan
• 1990 Town partnership with Gyönk (Hungary) Town friendship with Wilkau-Haßlau (Sachsen, Germany)
• 2000 ca. 24500 residents, modern public and commercial infrastructure, good transport connection, popular residential town, traffic calming, attractive shopping city, agricultural specialised cultivation [1] (in German)
• 2004 Tram route to Darmstadt-Kranichstein opened

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External links

• Homepage of the Town Griesheim (in German)