FKK Oase Friedrichsdorf/Frankfurt (D)

Friedrichsdorf

Name origin

Franconofurd (Germanic/Latin, = settlement at the ford of the Franks) --> Frankfurt

First documented mention

794 AD

Population

764,000

Area

248.31 km²

Federal state

Hessen

Administrative region

Darmstadt

District

/

Vehicle registration

F

River

Nidda-->Main

The club FKK Oase near Frankfurt is located in Friedrichsdorf-Burgholzhausen.

Frankfurt am Main:

It's 420 km to Berlin, 390 km to Hamburg, 150 km to Köln and 200 km to München (each as the crow flies): Frankfurt am Main is an ancient trading city at the heart of Germany, with around 750,000 inhabitants smaller than the four German million-metropolises, yet in many respects a city of superlatives that far outshines all other German cities in significance.

This is true even in the literal sense: the impressive skyline of Frankfurt's skyscrapers is unique in Germany. The ten tallest buildings in Germany are, without exception, located in Frankfurt, including the Commerzbank Tower, the Messeturm, the Main Tower and the ECB building.

But Frankfurt is also one of the most important business centres in the entire world; many German or former German major corporations have or had their headquarters there, including the once-largest chemical company in the world, Hoechst, Metallgesellschaft, VDM, Cassella, Hartmann & Braun, Degussa, VDO or Deutsche Bahn, as well as of course numerous banks and financial institutions, first and foremost Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse AG. Frankfurt is home to the largest German financial exchange, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank. In keeping with the significance of the old trade routes, the Frankfurter Autobahnkreuz is the busiest traffic junction in Europe, Frankfurt Airport is one of the world's most important aviation hubs, and of course you'll also find here one of Germany's most important trade fair venues.

According to surveys, this lively trading metropolis is also among the big cities with the highest quality of life by international comparison, even if negative aspects such as a relatively high crime rate and rents somewhat tarnish the overall impression. In any case, Frankfurt is not just compulsory viewing for business travellers, but also lures with many attractions in a touristic sense. That starts with the historic old-town backdrop near the banks of the Main with the Kaiserdom, Römerberg, Goethe-Haus and Paulskirche, all the more so as the city has now, in a 200-million-euro project on an area of seven hectares, had an ensemble of a total of 15 houses around the historic Krönungsweg reconstructed and a further 20 built in a historic style. This was the route taken from 1562 onwards - after the shift of the site of election and coronation from Aachen to Frankfurt - up until the end of the Holy Roman Empire, by the Roman-German emperors on their way to the Kaiserdom. The Frankfurter Dom - built between 1250 and 1514 - is thus one of the most significant structures in German imperial history. In the not-far-distant Paulskirche, meanwhile, the German National Assembly convened from May 1848 to May 1849, attempting for the first time on German soil to install a democratic-parliamentary German nation state.

A hundred years later, the once Free Imperial City - first documented in 794 AD - very nearly became the capital of the young Federal Republic of Germany. Even though that never came to pass - the city has seen breakneck growth in recent decades and brought great prosperity to its citizens. In the city centre, the above-average purchasing power of the public is reflected in the temples of consumption on one of Germany's largest shopping streets: the Frankfurter Zeil with the adjoining Goethestraße. Meanwhile, whoever can afford it and wants to escape the big-city hustle seeks residence in the idyllically situated spa towns of the adjoining Hochtaunus: Königstein, Bad Homburg or Kronberg are home to numerous well-earning Frankfurters and are among the wealthiest municipalities in Germany.

For those who prefer to stay in the city, there's plenty on offer in terms of culture and leisure activities alone: for instance the Oper Frankfurt, the Theater am Turm or the long-established Gallus Theater, the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen side of the Main with houses such as the Städel, the Liebighaus or the Museum der Weltkulturen, as well as, beyond that, a pulsating nightlife. Frankfurt is not only home to the tradition-rich football club Eintracht Frankfurt, but also the seat of the most important German sports associations such as the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB), Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB), Deutscher Turner-Bund (DTB) or Deutscher Motor Sport Bund (DMSB).

Among Frankfurt's well-known sons and daughters are numerous members of the banking dynasties Rothschild and Oppenheim(er), Caspar & Maria Sibylla Merian as well as Theodor W. Adorno, Bettina von Arnim, Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrich Wöhler, Otto Emil Hahn, Arthur Schopenhauer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Hoffmann, Erich Fromm, Anne Frank, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Albert Mangelsdorff, Dieter Wedel, Wolfgang Spier, Marika Kilius, Jean Frankfurter, Michael Groß, Thor Kunkel, Hans Zimmer, Peter Kloeppel, Hannes Jaenicke, Birgit Prinz, Jessica Wahls, Namika, Sonya Kraus, Moses Pelham and Sabrina Setlur.

Friedrichsdorf-Burgholzhausen:

The topography of the villages "vor der Höhe" (= before the heights, i.e. before the Taunus) in the Vordertaunus is not easy to grasp at first glance. Burgholzhausen is an outlying district in the south-east of Friedrichsdorf in the Hochtaunuskreis. The club "FKK Oase" is located right on the boundary with the town of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, a few kilometres further south of Friedrichsdorf. About 10 km further east of Burgholzhausen, on the other hand, lies the town of Karben; a few kilometres north of Burgholzhausen are the town of Rosbach vor der Höhe with its associated neighbouring village Rodheim vor der Höhe, and finally the town of Friedberg. All the last-named villages belong to the Wetteraukreis. From Frankfurt, the S-Bahn 5 and the Regionalbahn RB15 run to Friedrichsdorf via Bad Homburg and Seulberg; Karben (Groß-Karben) and Friedberg can be reached directly from Frankfurt with the S-Bahn 6 and the regional trains RE30, RB34, RE 98 and RE99. Between Friedrichsdorf and Friedberg, finally, runs the Regionalbahn RB16, on which line lie the villages of Rosbach vor der Höhe and Rodheim vor der Höhe.

Burgholzhausen lies at an altitude of 190 m above sea level about 20 kilometres north of Frankfurt am Main and can be reached by car via the Autobahn A5/Friedberg exit. In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the Niddagau. Its oldest surviving documented mention as "castra Holzhusin" dates from 1222 and is found in a letter of protection from Archbishop Siegfried II of Eppstein. A particular feature of the then "Holzhausen" was that, from the Middle Ages until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the final dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the village was, as a Reichsdorf, about two-thirds owned by the Empire - in 1803 it was among the last five remaining free imperial villages in the Old Empire - and otherwise subject to a number of lords; initially the Lords of Eppstein, from 1578 the Count of Hanau-Münzenberg. By 1669 the Mainz chancellor Nikolaus Georg Reigersberg had acquired two-thirds of the village as a fief and one-third as freehold property; his descendants in turn sold their rights, at the latest by 1702, to the Freiherren von Ingelheim. After many disputes, these were forced to cede the village of Holzhausen to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel in 1765. After the withdrawal of Napoleonic troops in 1810, Holzhausen finally became part of the newly formed Großherzogtum Hessen-Darmstadt, within which its affiliation switched several times between the districts of Vilbel and Friedberg. In the course of the territorial reform in Hessen, on 1 August 1972 the town of Friedrichsdorf and the municipality of Seulberg, which belonged at that time to the Obertaunuskreis, as well as the previously independent municipalities of Köppern and Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe from the Landkreis Friedberg, were merged by law into the town of Friedrichsdorf in the new Hochtaunuskreis. The place name Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe was already determined in 1939 by the then Reichsstatthalter in Hessen. Until then the municipality bore the name Holzhausen.