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| Neu-Isenburg | ||
| federal state | Hesse | |
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| Residents | 37.668 (2019) | |
| height | 130 m | |
| Tourist info | 49 (0)6102-241-100 (Citizen office) http://www.neu-isenburg.de/de | |
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Neu-Isenburg is a city in Hesse, immediately south of Frankfurt am Main located.
background
Neu-Isenburg consists of three districts:
- The core city was originally a Huguenot settlement founded in 1699.
- Zeppelinheim was founded in the 1930s as a settlement for the Zeppelin crews who were working at Frankfurt Airport. The district was independent until 1976 and was then incorporated.
- Gravenbruch is a satellite town built since 1959.
Orientation towards is typical for Neu-Isenburg Frankfurtwhere people often go to work and shop. The city is therefore well connected to Frankfurt by public transport. The rent level is also traditionally oriented more towards the larger neighboring city than towards it Offenbach or at the other towns in the Offenbach district.
Based on the Huguenot tradition, Neu-Isenburg is a tolerant and cosmopolitan city. Nowadays, the proximity to Frankfurt airport which is both a motor for economic development and a burden from the constant aircraft noise against which many citizens are increasingly rebelling.
The city benefits from the convenient location in many ways. The core city includes extensive commercial settlements with several industrial areas. There are “better” parts of the city, especially in the west, but no social hot spots worth mentioning.
The most important trend in urban development in the last few decades was the establishment of the Isenburg-Zentrum as a shopping center with supraregional importance, which had led to a shift in the focus of urban life from the Frankfurt-facing side to the south. The connection to the Rhein-Main S-Bahn was another important step. It is currently planned to use another S-Bahn line than Regional bypass West to the city center to the Isenburg center and beyond to the eastern new development area Birkengewann, where a park-and-ride area is to be set up. Another trend was the dismantling of the chemical industry, which had led to the loss of many jobs. The old industrial area becomes the City quarter south remodeled. The Birkengewann building area in the east of the city has been redesignated. Next project is the Urban redevelopment the historic old town and the old main street, Frankfurter Straße.
getting there
By plane
The airport Frankfurt is located west of Neu-Isenburg. There is a direct bus connection from the bus station in front of Terminal 1 to Neu-Isenburg with the lines X17 / X19 (called 651 on older maps). Taking the S-Bahn from this direction is rather cumbersome and therefore less recommendable. The S-Bahn S8 / S9 goes to Frankfurt Airport via the Flughafen Regionalbahnhof stop. To get to Neu-Isenburg, you have to change to the S3 / S4 or tram line 17 in Frankfurt am Main, ideally at Frankfurt Central Station.
By train
The 1 Neu Isenburg station is located on the western outskirts of the city, for historical reasons it is located a bit outside. S-Bahns currently stop here, namely lines S3 and S4 of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn, as well as the Dreieichbahn of the RB61 line. During the day, the S-Bahns run alternately every 15 minutes. In the late evening and all day on Sunday, Neu-Isenburg is only served by the S3 every 30 minutes.
Since the timetable change in September 2016, the Dreieichbahn trains have started and ended outside of the rush hour at Neu Isenburg station. Although this is not very interesting for the journey, it can be useful for a further journey in the direction of Dreieich / Rödermark / Dieburg.
The loading station for the DB Autozug was abandoned in October 2014. Since 2017, a counter service has been available again in the station building, which is operated by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) as a DB agency. The video counter in a booth to the right of the train station has not been available since then. There are two turquoise-green RMV ticket machines on the platforms, where you can pay with cash or girocard. The purchase of long-distance tickets is very laborious because - as with all RMV machines - the complete software of Deutsche Bahn has to be imported via mobile phone connection. Since the process often does not succeed, it is advisable to buy long-distance tickets for Deutsche Bahn at the counter.
The Zeppelinheim district is connected to the S-Bahn network and Frankfurt Central Station via the S7 line.
In the north is Neu-Isenburg via the tram stop 2 Neu-Isenburg city limits connected to the Frankfurt tram network. The stop is on Frankfurter Boden, which is why the journey from Frankfurt here or in the opposite direction with the RMV is a little cheaper than to Neu-Isenburg train station (Frankfurt city tariff 50; the advantage does not apply if you continue beyond the city limits within Neu-Isenburg the bus routes). Tram line 17 runs to the city limits, which comes from Frankfurt Central Station and is an alternative to the S-Bahn on this route. 
The tram stop has been completely barrier-free since 2014. Neu-Isenburg can also be reached by tram from Frankfurt Südbahnhof; At Frankfurt Louisa change from line 14 to line 17 to continue. Since the S-Bahn S3 / S4 also stop in Louisa, there is also a connection from there to the tram. From Neu-Isenburg city limits, bus routes are available for onward travel into the city.
The Zeppelinheim district has its own train station: the 3 Zeppelinheim station is served by the S-Bahn line S7.
By bus
Line 653 runs from Frankfurt Südbahnhof to Neu-Isenburg (and then on to Dreieich). If you travel by long-distance train that stops in Frankfurt Süd, this is the fastest way to get to Neu-Isenburg. The bus also stops several times on Frankfurter Strasse, including at the “Isenburg Zentrum” shopping center.
In the street
Neu-Isenburg is centrally located and easy to reach from the highways. Arriving by car depends on where you are coming from:
- You leave it from the north or west
at the exit 
51 Frankfurt-South. From there you can go over the developed 
Turn right after Neu-Isenburg. - You leave it from the south
at the exit 23 Zeppelinheim and drives from there on country roads to Neu-Isenburg in a few minutes - From the east you change to the Offenbacher Kreuz
, there is a separate exit 18 Neu-Isenburg. - Country roads run in an east-west direction towards Neu-Isenburg. The north-south connection is mainly via the
Frankfurter Strasse from the direction Dreieich or Frankfurt am Main.
mobility
The city of Neu-Isenburg operates four city bus routes. The route network was completely redesigned in summer 2019. With the lines OF-51 and the two lines 662/663 of the Offenbach roundabout company, there are three connections that take the east-west direction from the train station centrally via the Isenburg center and then on to Gravenbruch or the surrounding area in the direction of Langen and Darmstadt or Mörfelden. Lines OF-52 / OF-54 go from the train station or from Zeppelinheim via Friedensallee in the north to the tram stop on the northern city limits, where you can change to line 17 and on to Isenburg-Zentrum. Fast express bus routes X17 / X19 were set up by RMV directly to Frankfurt Airport. You open up the surrounding area of Frankfurt without driving directly into Frankfurt. Bus traffic is now operated with modern vehicles and is designed very quickly. You no longer need a car within the city; you can travel much faster and more directly by bus, bike or on foot. The walk from the train station to the Isenburg center on Frankfurter Straße takes about half an hour, and the bus takes about ten minutes. There is also a direct OF-50 connection between Gravenbruch and Frankfurt Südbahnhof.
There are taxi stands at the train station and on Frankfurter Strasse in front of the shopping center.
The cycle path network is patchy, but it is being improved, including cycle superhighways to Darmstadt and Offenbach, which are currently being planned. In the Frankfurt city forest, you can already find good signage for long-distance routes. Maps for cyclists are available for a small fee or even free of charge in the town hall of the district office in Dietzenbach or in the mobility centers of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund RMV (also in Dietzenbach next to the district building), possibly also in the citizens' office of the city of Neu-Isenburg.
There is a residential parking zone in the vicinity of the shopping center. Anyone who does not have a parking permit issued by the city administration upon application is therefore dependent on parking their car in one of the shopping center's two car parks. Parking there is free from 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. There is also an underground car park under the Huguenot Hall. When public events take place there, you can park your car in the parking garage of the Isenburg-Zentrum in the evening for a flat rate.
Most of the crossroads in the city center have now been lowered and are therefore barrier-free for prams, wheelchairs and walkers.
Tourist Attractions
Monuments
- 1 Old French school, Pfarrgasse 29. The historic school building was built in 1704/05 in Neu-Isenburg's old town and renovated from 2008-2010.
Museums
- 1 City Museum "Haus zum Löwen", Löwengasse 24. Tel.: 49 6102 5609194. The exhibition on the city's history was redesigned in 2011.Open: Fri 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Price: Free entry, a donation is requested.
- 2 Zeppelin Museum, Kapitän-Lehmann-Strasse 2 (in the Zeppelinheim district). Tel.: 49 69 694390. Exhibition on the history of zeppelin shipping at Frankfurt Airport. The museum building was built as an extension to the community center and its shape corresponds to a quarter of the diameter of the Zeppelin LZ-10.Open: Fri 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Price: Free entry, a donation is requested.
- 3 Bertha Pappenheim house, Zeppelinstrasse 10. Tel.: 49 6102 800094. Former Jewish children's home "Heim Isenburg", partially destroyed in the pogrom night in 1938, which was run by Berta Pappenheim until it was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1942. An important place for Jewish social work at this time. Today a seminar and memorial site.Open: Wed 3: 00-6: 00 pm, otherwise by appointment.Price: not specified.
Parks
- 4 Forest and play park. A playground in the middle of the forest. Water features in summer. Popular meeting place for families from all over the region.
activities
- 1 Indoor and forest pools, Alicestrasse 118 (in the sports park). Tel.: 49 6102 246271. Indoor swimming pool and forest swimming pool are right next to each other and can be viewed as a coherent facility. There is also a sauna and massages on request.Open: outdoor pool daily 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., indoor pool daily 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.Price: € 3.50.
- 5 Sports park. Several sports fields with running tracks. Playground.
Regular concerts and theater events take place in the “Huguenot Hall” town hall.
Since the city is located in the middle of the Frankfurt city forest, there is an extensive network of forest trails within which it is easy to walk and cycle. It is also possible to do sports here. Larger lakes with old trees and beautiful fauna are to the north (Jacobiweiher) and northeast of Neu-Isenburg (Kesselbruchweiher). The ponds were originally created as a catch basin for draining the A3 motorway.
shop
Although Neu-Isenburger regularly and happily go to Frankfurt to go shopping, Neu-Isenburg has retained a partially dedicated retail business.
In the city center at the junction between Frankfurter Strasse and Friedhofstrasse is the Isenburg-Zentrum, a larger shopping center. There you can find supermarket and drugstore chains as well as a number of specialist retailers.
There are also many different shops on Frankfurter Strasse north of Friedhofstrasse and on Bahnhofstrasse, which runs from Frankfurter Strasse to Neu-Isenburger Bahnhof and which is partially a pedestrian zone. A weekly market takes place there every Saturday morning.
kitchen
A typical Neu-Isenburg dish is Ribs with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Carnival becomes traditional lentil soup eaten. Frankfurters, often served with mustard with potato salad and bread or rolls, are served by two butchers exclusively in Neu-Isenburg and Dreieich produced. Due to the proximity to Frankfurt, apple wine is sometimes drunk in Neu-Isenburg as well.
The local gastronomy, however, is predominantly characterized by pizzerias and other, partly Italian or ex-Yugoslavian restaurants as well as pubs. In addition, a few home-style restaurants. In the Bahnhofstrasse, not far from the pedestrian zone, there is the music bar Treffpunkt (“Hit”), which also serves a garden bar in summer. System catering and fast food chains can also be found in the Isenburg center. There are cafés in Bahnhofstrasse and in Isenburg-Zentrum, while the more expensive Café Wessinger is located on the northern edge of the forest.
- 1 Frankfurt House, Darmstädter Landstrasse 741, Frankfurter Str. 2, 63263 Neu-Isenburg. Tel.: 49 6102 31466. Inn from 1702 with wooden interior and large beer garden, Hessian cuisine.Open: daily 12 noon - 11 p.m., warm meals until 9 p.m.Price: main courses from € 11.90, Hand cheese with music with farmer's bread € 4.90.
nightlife
- 2 Gravenbruch drive-in cinema. Tel.: 49 8151 90340. The Gravenbruch drive-in cinema is the oldest drive-in cinema in Germany and one of the few of its kind on the European continent. The sound of the film is conveniently transmitted into the car via VHF radio so that there is a certain amount of privacy in the car.
accommodation
Due to Neu-Isenburg's proximity to Frankfurt Airport, there are a large number of airport hotels that primarily target business travelers, including an airport transfer to arrival and departure. For this reason, Neu-Isenburg is one of the cities with the most overnight stays in Hesse - 1.2% of all hotel overnight stays in 2008 were made in Neu-Isenburg. As in many cities and communities around Frankfurt, the hotels in Neu-Isenburg are usually completely booked out during the trade fair.
Cheap
- 1 Ida's guest house, Wilhelm-Leuschner-Strasse 55. Tel.: 49 6102 432844. Bed & Breakfast in a quiet location, four rooms.Price: from 25 € p. P.
medium
- 2 Hotel ALFA, Frankfurter Strasse 123. Tel.: 49 6102 358980. Price: single 40 €, double 50 €.
- 3 Hotel Haus Isenburg, Ludwigstrasse 8. Tel.: 49 6102 22561. Price: single 45-55 €, double 60-70 €.
- 4 Isenburg Court, Frankfurter Strasse 40. Tel.: 49 6102 35320. Prices without breakfast, breakfast costs 6 € extra.Price: single 56 €, double 64 €.
- 5 Casa Hotel, Hermannstrasse 2. Tel.: 49 6102 22359. Price: single 63 €, double 89 €.
- 6 Hotel Sauer Garni ***, Offenbacher Strasse 83. Tel.: 49 6102 30750. Price: single € 77, double € 88.
Upscale
- 7 Kempinski Hotel Frankfurt, Graf-zu-Ysenburg-und-Büdingen-Platz 1. Tel.: 49 69 389880. Numerous well-known people have already spent their night in this luxury hotel at the gates of Frankfurt, including Bill Clinton, Michail Gorbatschow and Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are three restaurants on site, including the Asian-European Sra Bua, which has been awarded one star in the Michelin Guide.
Learn
- 2 Neu-Isenburg City Library, Frankfurter Strasse 152. Tel.: 49 6102 747400. The library is in the Library network Rhine-Main included. The public libraries in Frankfurt and Offenbach can be used at no extra cost if you are registered with the Neu-Isenburg City Library, and vice versa. The library has an up-to-date collection of books, audiovisual and online media, events are held regularly; In several studies it has been ranked among the best public libraries in Germany.Open: Tue, Thu 11: 00-19: 00; Wed, Fri 11: 00-18: 00; Sa 10: 00-13: 00.
- 3 Westend branch of the city library, Alicestrasse 107. Tel.: 49 6102 723123. Open: Tue 10: 00-14: 00, Wed-Fri 10: 00-18: 00.
- 4 Gravenbruch branch of the city library, Dreiherrnsteinplatz 3. Tel.: 49 6102 8107646. Open: Tue, Wed 14: 00-18: 00, Thu 10: 00-14: 00.
- 5 Zeppelinheim branch of the city library, Kapitän-Lehmann-Strasse 2. Tel.: 49 69 692341. Open: Tue 3: 00-6: 00 pm, closed during school holidays.
Work
Neu-Isenburg has an average unemployment rate in the Rhine-Main area. The dismantling of the photochemical industry has led to significant restructuring and the loss of many good jobs. The largest business taxpayers nowadays are the administrations of large industrial groups and motor vehicle credit banks.
security
- 6 Neu-Isenburg police station, Huguenot Avenue 53. Tel.: 49 6102 29020.
health
The nearest hospitals are in Offenbach am Main as in Long. In justified cases, hospitals in Frankfurt also accept patients from Neu-Isenburg. In an emergency, there has been no medical emergency service in Neu-Isenburg for a long time. The “medical center” was closed at the end of 2014. Since then, the medical on-call service for Neu-Isenburg has been available on 116117.
Practical advice
There is no official central point for tourist information. However, you will certainly get help with orientation from the city administration, i.e. in the town hall in Hugenottenallee 53 or in the citizens' office in Schulgasse 1. There are also free resources.
Public toilets can be found in the Isenburg-Zentrum. The deposit that has to be paid when entering the toilet facility can be offset against the purchase price at some retailers in the shopping center via a coupon that is received at the entrance. At the train station, the toilets of the restaurant could previously be used due to an agreement with the city. This possibility has disappeared since the restaurant was closed.
Newspapers that report on Neu-Isenburg are: Die Frankfurter Rundschau, the Offenbach Post, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as the Frankfurter Neue Presse as subscription newspapers in the order of the extent of the coverage. The Dreieich newspaper and the City post office Neu-Isenburg (an offshoot of Offenbach-Post) are advertising leaflets with an editorial cover that are distributed free of charge to households and publicly displayed in shops and in the city library.
A branch of the Postbank with the agency of the Deutsche Post can be found in Carl-Ulrich-Straße diagonally across from the shopping center. There is also a post office in the Huguenot avenue opposite the town hall in the historically preserved post office building. There are also other postal agencies in small shops, also from other providers. The postal code of Neu-Isenburg is 63263. The telephone code within Germany is 06102; Zeppelinheim is connected to the Frankfurt local network and therefore has the Frankfurt area code 069.
There is public WiFi in the city library at Frankfurter Straße 152 and at other locations in the city, e.g. in the Isenburg center. There are telephone shops on Frankfurter Strasse for international calls that also offer Internet access. The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund offers WLAN for passengers in the express bus routes X17 / X19 and around the ticket machines at the train station.
trips
The city is centrally located and well connected to public transport, so that excursions into the entire Rhine-Main area are ideal. All attractive destinations can be reached by public transport. The quickest way to get there Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main. To the north are the Taunus, to the south Darmstadt and the Odenwald or the Mountain road, to the west Wiesbaden and Mainz, eastward Hanau, continue the Bavarian Aschaffenburg the next goals.
literature
- Magistrate of the City of Neu-Isenburg (ed.): Neu-Isenburg between adaptation and resistance. Documents on living conditions and political behavior 1933–1945. Edited and introduced by Dieter Rebentisch, Angelika Raab. Neu-Isenburg. 1978.
- Magistrate of the City of Neu-Isenburg (ed.): Heidi Fogel. Neu-Isenburg on the way from village to city at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. On the 100th anniversary of Neu-Isenburg's town elevation on August 21, 1894. 1994.
- Werner Bremser, Alfred Harder: The discovery of an idyll: Zeppelinheim. edition momos, Neu-Isenburg.
- Peter Holle, Jutta Storck: Truly a hospitable place - the Neu-Isenburg gastronomy, history and stories. Edition Momos. Neu-Isenburg. 2010.
Web links
- https://neu-isenburg.de - Official website of Neu-Isenburg
