Everything about Heppenheim totally explained
Heppenheim is a
city in
Hesse,
Germany. It is situated at the edge of the
Odenwald mountains and is the capital of the
Bergstraße district. Its
population is 25,400. It is accessed by routes
B3 and
B460 and
autobahns
A5 and
A67.
The city was founded about
755 in the vicinity of the then powerful monastery of
Lorsch. The young town was ruled by the
abbots of Lorsch during the early
Middle Ages. In
1065 the
Starkenburg was built, a castle above the city. Its purpose was to protect the town and the monastery from invaders; in
1066 it successfully resisted a siege by the
bishop of Bremen. In the
13th century Lorsch and Heppenheim were acquired by the
archbishopric of Mainz; it pawned Heppenheim to the count of the
Palatinate in
1461 and redeemed the pledge
1623/
1650.
A fire in
1369 destroyed the whole city except 4 houses.
Heppenheim severely suffered in the
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648); it was conquered by
Spanish troops in
1621, and by the
Swedes in
1630; the
plague decimated the population in
1635, and in
1645 the town was sacked by the
French. After the end of the war French troops continued to devastate the region, due to their king's claim to the Palatinate. A fire in
1693, caused by the French troops, destroyed the city almost completely.
Rebuilding started in the beginning of the
18th century when the city acquired much of its present look. In
1803 the clerical states of Germany were abolished, and Heppenheim fell to
Hesse-Darmstadt. The new province was called "
Starkenburg", and this name is sometimes even today applied to the entire region.
The largest buildings of the city were built around
1900, among them the
cathedral of Saint Peter (
1904), the
Protestant church (
1888) and the
synagogue (1900, destroyed in the
pogrom night of
1938) and the electrical power plant in neo-gothic style providing electricity using steam engines (
1899).
During
World War II, a subcamp of the
Dachau concentration camp was located here. It provided
slave labour for the
Deutsche Versuchsanstalt (German Research Institute).
The
Free Democratic Party of Germany was founded in Heppenheim (
1949).
Every year, Heppenheim exchanges students with
West Bend, Wisconsin, who send their German language students to Heppenheim and vice versa.
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