17 Facts About Heppenheim

Heppenheim is the seat of Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Bergstraße on the edge of the Odenwald.

Besides the main town, Heppenheim has the outlying centres of Unter-Hambach, Ober-Hambach, Kirschhausen, Erbach, Sonderbach, Wald-Erlenbach, Mittershausen-Scheuerberg, and Ober-Laudenbach, which were in the course of municipal reform in Hesse amalgamated with Heppenheim with effect from 1 January 1972.

The Imperial Abbey held the rank of principality, and Heppenheim developed over time into the territory's administrative and economic hub, although it lost its importance with the Abbey's downfall in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Heppenheim has had town rights since at least 1318, and market rights, it is believed, already by the early 9th century.

From 1265 until 1803, Heppenheim was the seat of the Electoral Mainz Amt of Starkenburg.

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Heppenheim was thereafter first the seat of a Amt, and then, as of 1821 the seat of the Heppenheim Administrative Region.

Since then, it was between 1848 and 1852 the seat of the Regierungsbezirk of Heppenheim, and has been since 1938 the seat of the Bergstraße district, to which were assigned not only the old Heppenheim district, but great parts of the likewise abolished Bensheim district, with the parts of the Worms district on the Rhine's right bank being added after the Second World War.

Heppenheim suffered severely in the Thirty Years' War ; the Starkenburg was overwhelmed by Spanish troops in 1621, and by the Swedes in 1630.

Heppenheim Conference, a meeting of leading liberals on 10 October 1847 in the Halber Mond Hotel, was a prelude to the German Revolution in 1848 and 1849.

The psychiatric institution in Heppenheim took part in the Nazi “euthanasia” crimes, and was a “collection facility, ” where Jewish psychiatric patients were sent on the way to the gas chamber.

The prisoners in Heppenheim were put to work in the SS institution Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fur Ernahrung und Verpflegung.

Heppenheim's duties were performed by deputy Franz Keil during his absence.

Heppenheim has 408 cultural monuments that are under monumental protection.

Heppenheim is part of the economically strong Rhine Neckar Area and together with various neighbouring towns and communities is identified as a middle centre in the South Hesse Regional Plan.

Heppenheim is linked by several buslines to Jugenheim, Grasellenbach and Morlenbach.

Heppenheim station is found in the town centre, and the two-track Main-Neckar Railway links the town to Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main.

Heppenheim is a winegrowing town belonging to the Hessische Bergstraße wine region.