Rödelheim

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Rödelheim
Stadtteil of Frankfurt am Main
Coat of arms
show Location of Rödelheim (red) and the Ortsbezirk Mitte-West (light red) within Frankfurt am Main
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Coordinates: 50°07′54″N 08°36′35″E / 50.13167°N 8.60972°E / 50.13167; 8.60972Coordinates: 50°07′54″N 08°36′35″E / 50.13167°N 8.60972°E / 50.13167; 8.60972
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Urban district
Town	Frankfurt am Main
Area
• Total	5.145 km2 (1.986 sq mi)
Population  (2007-12-31)
• Total	17,504
• Density	3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	60488, 60489
Dialling codes	069
Vehicle registration	F
Website	www.roedelheim.de

Rödelheim is a city district 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, 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.

In 2015 the skeletons of 200 French soldiers that had died in 1813 were discovered here.^[1]

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