Altenstadt, Hesse
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Altenstadt is a municipality in Hesse, Germany, located some 27km north-east of Frankfurt am Main in the Nidder valley. It is part of the district Wetteraukreis. The Limes, the former border of the Roman Empire, passes through the town. According to excavations, Altenstadt was a Roman garrison in the first half of the second century,. The first documented mention of Altenstadt took place only in the year 767, which makes Altenstadt the oldest municipality of Upper Hessen.
The municipality compromises Altenstadt, Heegheim, Höchst an der Nidder, Lindheim [1], Enzheim [2], Oberau, Rodenbach and Waldsiedlung.
One of the inhabitants of Altenstadt was the justice inspector Friedrich Kellner, who alternated his work-week between Laubach and Altenstadt during WWII. Kellner recorded the misdeeds of the Nazis in a ten-volume diary which was on display in 2005 at the George Bush Presidential Library. A Canadian documentary, My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner, was produced in 2006.
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