South Hesse includes the area of the administrative district of Darmstadt.
Regions
- 1 Taunus
- 2 Rhine Main Area
. most of the Rhine-Main area is located in southern Hesse. - 3 Rheingau. north bank of the Rhine between Wiesbaden and Rudesheim am Rhein.
- 4 Hessian Ried. Part of the Upper Rhine Plain between the Rhine and Bergstrasse, as well as between Main and Lampertheim.
- 5 Mountain road. road already known to the Romans at the foot of the river facing the Rhine valley Odenwaldes.
- 6 Odenwald
- With several sub-regions, South Hesse has a share in the Upper Rhine Plain.
places
- 1 Bad Nauheim.
Well-known health resort with old salt extraction systems. - 2 bad Homburg.
noble suburb of Frankfurt with a beautiful spa park at Taunus edge. - 3 Darmstadt.
Science city. - 4 Frankfurt am Main. the "Mainhattan", banking metropolis.
- 5 Gelnhausen. Barbarossa city.
- 6 Hanau. Goldsmith City.
- 7 Heppenheim. Half-timbered old town on the Mountain road.
- 8 Offenbach am Main. Origin of many leather goods.
- 9 Rudesheim am Rhein. Wine place in Rheingau.
- 10 Wiesbaden. Capital of Hesse and spa town with 15 hot springs.
- 11 Messel. small place with the world-famous fossil site Messel Pit.
Other goals
- Aschaffenburg, Lower Franconia (Bavaria)
- Heidelberg, Electoral Palatinate (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
- Koblenz in the Middle Rhine Valley (Rhineland-Palatinate), Federal Garden Show 2011
- Limburg on the Lahn, Lahn valley
- Mainz and Worms, Rheinhessen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
background
In today's linguistic usage, South Hesse refers to the flat region of Hesse in the valley of the Rhine and Main south of the Taunus and Wetterau mountain ranges, which form the border to Central Hesse (the Hoch Taunus itself also belongs to South Hesse), and west of the Spessart, the South Hesse from East Hesse.
South Hesse is climatically favored and offers good conditions for agriculture, viticulture is also possible in the preferred locations on the Rheingau and in the Bergstrasse. Located at the junction of numerous supraregional traffic routes, the South Hesse region was able to prosper economically and today it largely forms the Rhine-Main area.
In southern Hesse, classic "city sightseeing" predominates: in addition to Frankfurt am Main, the tourist magnet par excellence, the former residential cities of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt also offer old towns that are well worth seeing. But the smaller cities can also be worth a detour. Nature lovers will get their money's worth in the Hochtaunus and the Hessian Odenwald.
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getting there
By plane
The Frankfurt am Main airport (FRA) is the second largest airport in continental Europe and the hub of the ones based here Lufthansa. From Frankfurt you can fly to every corner of the world. The airport is connected to the ICE / IC network via the Long-distance train station and the S-Bahn and the Regional Express lines over the Regional train station tied up. In addition to the train, there are also bus connections to southern Hesse.
By train
The arrival by long-distance train usually takes place via the Frankfurt main station, Mainz, Wiesbaden or Darmstadt as a transfer station to one of the many regional and suburban trains. All city and local transport lines are in southern Hesse Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund RMV The tariff association goes from Mainz to north of Marburg and the state borders with Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the street
South Hesse can be reached via the A3, A5, A63, A66 and A67 motorways.
mobility
In southern Hesse, including Mainz, the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund applies RMV. The central means of transport is the Rhein-Main S-Bahn network, with all S-Bahn trains reaching Frankfurt Hbf.
Excluded from the RMV is the Bergstrasse district, which is open to the VRN (Rhein-Neckar transport association) belongs. There are large-scale transitional tariffs around this district.
Tourist Attractions
- Frankfurt: Römer, Dom, Museums
- Darmstadt: Mathildenhöhe (center of Art Nouveau)
- Wiesbaden: Kurhaus, State Theater
- Half-timbered towns on the Mountain road: Zwingenberg, Bensheim, Heppenheim
- Odenwald
- Lorsch: Monastery with King's Hall
- Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue nature reserve with the Rhine island Kühkopf
activities
- Cycling is good in the flat Hessian Ried, but also on the Rhine (Rheingau) and on the Main, as well as on Bergstrasse.
- Hiking is good in the Rheingau, at the Mountain road, in the Odenwald and in Taunus.
- Bathing lakes, mainly former quarry ponds, are numerous in the lowlands, especially in the Hessian Ried.
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climate
Very mild with humid summer days and winters with little frost.
