Hainburg, Germany

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Hainburg is a town with approximately 16,100 inhabitants in Kreis Offenbach in the southern part of the German state of Hessen.

1 Geographical Location
2 History
3 Twin Towns
4 External links

[edit] Geographical Location

Hainburg is one of thirteen municipalities in the Offenbach district of Hessen. It lies near the eastern edge of Frankfurt Rhine Main Area along the shores of the Main River. The town of about 16 km² is composed of two parts: Hainstadt, which has about 9,000 residents, and the smaller Klein-Krotzenburg, which has about 7,000.

[edit] History

Though there is evidence of thin settlement in the Hainstadt area during the Roman period, the current period of settlement began in the 12th century. The first mention of "Crutzenburch", the old name for Klein Krotzenburg, appears in 1175.

From 1425 to 1803 the towns were part of the Archbishopric of Mainz. During the Thirty Years' War, the region suffered terribly, with Klein-Krotzenburg losing nearly 90% of its population to the plague.

As part of the secularizations that accompanied the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, Hainstadt and Klein-Krotzenburg were awarded to Hesse-Darmstadt, and remained part of the grand duchy and, post-1918, province until the reorganization of the region into the Land of Hesse after World War II.

In 1977, as part of state-level reforms, the communities of Hainstadt and Klein-Krotzenburg were merged to form the new municipality of Hainburg.

[edit] Twin Towns

Hainburg has four towns with which it is twinned. These are Vernouillet in France, and the towns of Alberndorf im Pulkkautal, Retz, and Trumau in Austria.