| Rödelheim | |
| Stadtteil of Frankfurt | |
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Rödelheim
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Location of Rödelheim within Frankfurt
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| Coordinates | |
| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Hesse |
| Admin. region | Darmstadt |
| District | Urban district |
| Town | Frankfurt |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 5.145 km2 (1.986 sq mi) |
| Population | 17,504 (31 December 2007) |
| - Density | 3,402 /km2 (8,811 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | F |
| Postal codes | 60488, 60489 |
| Area code | 069 |
| Website | www.roedelheim.com |
Rödelheim is a district or Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Mitte-West, and is subdivided into the Stadtbezirke Rödelheim-Ost and Rödelheim-West. There are a number of celebrities who have established their base in Rödelheim, including Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt, Mathias Barbosa and Sabrina Setlur.
For many centuries and until the Nazi era, it was a major center for the printing and export of Hebrew books. Wolf Heidenheim and Seligman Baer, two highly prominent Hebrew grammarians and masoretic scholars of the modern period, both published in Rödelheim.