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27-590: Nauheim lies 3 km northwest of the district seat of Groß-Gerau 16 km northwest of Darmstadt and 6 km southeast of Rüsselsheim . After the Second World War , many instrument makers from the Sudetenland such as W. Schreiber + Söhne found a new home in this community in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region , and helped give the place the epithet Musikgemeinde – "Music Community". It

54-530: A musical instrument department with nearly 200 instruments from various periods. Gro%C3%9F-Gerau Groß-Gerau ( German: [ɡʁoːsˈɡeːʁaʊ] ) is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse , Germany , and serving as a hub for the surrounding area. In 1994, the town hosted the 34th Hessentag state festival. Groß-Gerau lies in

81-688: A firm manufacturing saxophones are based in Nauheim as of 2010. Additionally, another saxophone manufacturer called Dörfler & Jörka was located in Nauheim between 1949 and 1968. D&J had a close and complicated relationship with Keilwerth. D&J were originally employed as subcontractors for Keilwerth, making saxophone bodies and other component parts, then sending them back to the nearby Keilwerth factory for final assembly. Eventually, D&J started to manufacture their own complete saxophones (without any Keilwerth involvement) before supplying them directly to German musical instrument retailers as well as

108-517: A lion rampant striped per fess three times argent three times gules, armed, langued and crowned Or (or langued gules, depending on source), below, in Or a cross pattée gules and between the arms above dexter an onion with shoots vert, sinister a cabbage vert, below dexter a cabbage vert, sinister an onion with shoots vert, both onions per bend sinister. The crest: a crenellated wall with three crenellated towers Or. Groß-Gerau's oldest known town seal dates from

135-458: A result, the tonal characteristics of Dörfler & Jörka saxophones are very similar to Keilwerth instruments and share the distinctive Keilwerth sound i.e. have the same "dark", "smoky", "punchy" and "woody" Keilwerth tone colours , compared to the "brighter" and more neutral sound of, say, Yamaha saxophones. Not surprisingly, it can be very difficult to distinguish the sound of D&J instruments from Keilwerth-manufactured saxophones dating from

162-463: Is a citizens' coalition. The executive of the district town of Groß-Gerau consists of the directly elected mayor, the honorary first town councillor, a full-time town councillor and a further five honorary town councillors. The current mayor Erhard Walther of the CDU was elected on 4 February 2018. Groß-Gerau's civic coat of arms might heraldically be described thus: The shield: Party per fess, above,

189-433: Is also seen on a municipal limit marker from 1596, but without the produce. The arms were granted in 1901, and also include the lion of Hesse in the chief. The arms shown in this article and on the town's official website include the crest consisting of a crenellated castle wall with three crenellated towers. This crest does not appear in some earlier versions. Groß-Gerau is very advantageously placed for transportation. It

216-512: Is also well known for its "Nauheimer Musiktage" ("Nauheim Music Days"), held since 1970. Nauheim borders in the north on Königstädten, a constituent community of the town of Rüsselsheim , in the east on the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf , in the south on the town of Groß-Gerau and in the west on the community of Trebur . Nauheim had its first documentary mention in 830–850 in the Lorsch codex . Schreiber & Keilwerth Musikinstrumente GmbH ,

243-669: Is on Federal Highways ( Bundesstraßen ) B42/L3482 and B44. Groß-Gerau-Dornberg station is on the Mannheim–Frankfurt railway and Groß Gerau station is on the Wiesbaden–Darmstadt–Aschaffenburg line . The north and south Autobahn interchanges on the A 67 provide connections in all directions. Frankfurt International Airport is 15 minutes away by Autobahn. Even major cities are right nearby ( Darmstadt 11 km, Wiesbaden 23 km, Mainz 18 km and Frankfurt am Main 28 km). The only daily newspaper

270-644: Is the Groß-Gerauer Echo , belonging to the Darmstädter Echo newspaper family. Groß-Gerau is twinned with: Gro%C3%9F-Gerau (district) Groß-Gerau is a Kreis ( district ) in the south of Hesse ( Hessen in German), Germany . Neighboring districts are Main-Taunus , district-free Frankfurt , Darmstadt-Dieburg , Bergstraße , Alzey-Worms , Mainz-Bingen , and the district-free cities Mainz and Wiesbaden . The historic roots of

297-716: The Cheshire county ( UK ). Other partnerships are with the district Weimarer Land in Thuringia , Germany , the municipality Masatepe in Nicaragua , and the Polish district Klodzko . The district is located in the upper Rhine valley. The river Main forms the northern boundary of the district, the river Rhine the western border. In the east the Odenwald mountains rise at the district boundary. The highest elevation of

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324-410: The 16th century. There are none surviving from the time when town rights were first granted in 1398. The seal in question shows a cabbage and an onion , perhaps symbolizing horticulture's importance in the area. The cross first appeared about 1600 in combination with the vegetables, and this new symbol was used in town seals and on buildings. It is unknown why the cross came to be in the town's seal. It

351-772: The Counts of Katzenelnbogen as their successors. The new overlords managed to procure town rights for Groß-Gerau in 1398. In 1479, Count Philip the Elder died without a male heir and the county passed to Hesse. In 1578, building work on the Town Hall was begun. This was where the Schöffengericht ("Jurymen's Court") and the Schultheißen (roughly " sheriffs ") appointed by the Landgraves sat. Groß-Gerau's town church

378-548: The Keilwerth company sued D&J and won their case. Dörfler & Jörka were subsequently absorbed into the Keilwerth company and production of all D&J saxophones ended by 1968. Municipal council is made up of 31 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 6 March 2016: Note: FLN is a citizens' coalition. The local history museum ( Heimatmuseum ) shows farming traditions, handicraft history, an Ore Mountains Parlour and

405-535: The centres of Berkach, Dornberg, Dornheim, Auf Esch, Groß-Gerau and Wallerstädten. Already by Roman times, the area forming today's town of Groß-Gerau had great importance. A fort in the area of the constituent community of Auf Esch ensured a bridgehead for the Roman provincial capital of Moguntiacum (Mainz), even before the Limes was established and southern Hesse became Roman. Federal Highway ( Bundesstraße ) B44 from

432-663: The connection to the Hessische Ludwigsbahn ( railway ) with the Darmstadt - Mainz stretch in 1858 and the Frankfurt am Main - Mannheim stretch in 1879 (the Riedbahn ), a multifaceted industrial life sprang up. The town became headquarters to metalworking businesses (FAGRO), canneries (Helvetia), cheesemakers (Groß-Gerau is where "Mainz" cheese is made) and the sugar industry. From 1869 to 1871, Groß-Gerau

459-528: The district is 145 m above sea level, located near Mörfelden on a former garbage deposit, the lowest is 83.2 m high and situated at the mouth of the Main into the Rhine. The district coat of arms might be described thus: Per pale barry of ten gules and argent and barry of five argent and sable, at the fess point an inescutcheon azure with three lozenges argent. The dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side of

486-537: The district is the Gerauer Mark , which was first mentioned in 910. Starting in 1066 the counts of Katzenelnbogen became the rulers of the area, until in 1479 it came to Hesse . The district was formed in 1832. The eastern part was moved to the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in 1874, and Gernsheim was included, which gave the district its current size. In 1979, the district started a partnership with

513-555: The district level) by the government presidium in Darmstadt have led to this. The name Groß-Gerau means "Great Gerau", and the town shares its name with the village of Klein-Gerau – "Small Gerau" – a constituent community of Büttelborn. ( Each time as at 31 December ) Groß-Gerau's council is made up of 33 councillors, with seats apportioned thus, in accordance with municipal elections held on 6 March 2016: (in parentheses changes from municipal elections held in March 2011): Note: KOMBI

540-465: The export market. Saxophones manufactured by Dörfler & Jörka for distribution direct to retailers featured their own key mechanisms which were very closely modelled on Keilwerth designs, though not completely identical. It is important to note that D&J saxophones are not Keilwerth "stencils", but rather are nearly identical copies of Keilwerths from the same era e.g. they have rolled tone holes and are high quality, professional-grade instruments. As

567-412: The following:- Due to issues of intellectual property infringement , brand recognition and consequential loss of revenue, the Keilwerth company became increasingly aggrieved that Dörfler & Jörka were successfully copying their saxophones, which was amplified by the fact that both companies were based in the same town and had previously enjoyed a mutually beneficial business relationship. Around 1965

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594-544: The north of the Hessisches Ried , the northeastern section of the Rhine rift . Groß-Gerau borders in the north on the community of Nauheim , in the northeast on the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf , in the east on the community of Büttelborn , in the southeast on the town of Griesheim ( Darmstadt-Dieburg ), in the south on the community of Riedstadt and in the west on the community of Trebur . Groß-Gerau consists of

621-456: The same time period e.g. the Keilwerth 'New King' and 'Tone King' models. D&J manufactured alto and tenor saxophones exclusively. There is no evidence of soprano or baritone saxophones ever being produced by them. Unusually for a saxophone manufacturer, Dörfler & Jörka rarely had their own name engraved on their instruments. The majority of D&J saxophones were engraved with numerous different labels including (but not limited to)

648-584: The southern tip of the old pheasantry (at Auf Esch) to Dornheim corresponds exactly with the old Roman road from Mainz through Groß-Gerau to Ladenburg . It led to the fort's south gate. With the founding of the Civitas Auderiensium (Dieburg), the fort was forsaken. The camp ( vicus ) remained and became a market village. The fact that this vicus and the later mentioned Wasserburg Dornberg (moat-ringed castle) corresponded very closely in location would be no accident. The Gerauer Mark (Gerau March,

675-665: The woods between Wallerstädten and Messel) had its first documentary mention in one of Mainz Archbishop Hatto I 's donation documents in 910. In the time that followed, the Lords of Dornberg , held sway in the region, likely doing so as the Hohenstaufen emperors' vassals in the Frankfurt Palatinate (in 1160, a moat-ringed castle is mentioned in what is now the Dornberg area). After the Lords of Dornberg died out came

702-607: Was burnt down in 1634 by Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War . Landgrave Ludwig VI of Hesse-Darmstadt renewed Groß-Gerau's town rights in 1663 for a payment of 24000 Gulden . These rights included the abolition of compulsory labour, market stall levies, representation in the Landtag and the right to drive Jews out of the town. In the 19th century, industrialization began in Groß-Gerau, too, as elsewhere. Given

729-431: Was the epicentre of a series of mostly weak earthquakes . A plan to connect two local railway stations and the surrounding communities together with a tramway in the late 19th century fell through, and there are still no trams in the town even now. Recently, the town's, and more particularly the district's economic situation has worsened. Relatively high debt loads and strict controls of public institutions (especially at

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