Worfelden

Ortsteil of Büttelborn in Hesse, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Worfelden

49°55′44″N 08°32′55″E / 49.92889°N 8.54861°E / 49.92889; 8.54861CountryGermanyStateHesseDistrictGroß-Gerau MunicipalityBüttelborn Area

• Total9.6 km² (3.7 sq mi)Elevation

96 m (315 ft)Population

(2011-12-31)^[1]

• Total4,536 • Density470/km² (1,200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

64572

Dialling codes06152

Worfelden is a village in the municipality of Büttelborn, which is located in the triangle formed by the cities of Frankfurt, Mainz and Darmstadt, within the Rhine-Main region.

Geography

Location

The parish of Worfeld lies entirely within the so-called Hegbach-Apfelbach Bottom (Hegbach-Apfelbach-Grund) in the western Lower Main Plain.^[2] In this respect it differs from Lage Büttelborn, whose southwestern corner lies within the Hessian Ried.

In the north Worfelden borders on Mörfelden, in the east on Schneppenhausen (Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the southeast on Braunshardt (Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the southwest on Büttelborn and in the west on Klein-Gerau.

Literature

Emil Hieke: Die Geschichte Worfeldens. Published by the municipal council (Gemeindeverwaltung), 1959
Otto Klausing: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 151 Darmstadt. Bad Godesberg, 1967
Festschrift 750 Jahre Worfelden, 1975
There is literature about Worfelden in the Hessian Bibliography

References

^ "Gemeinde Büttelborn, Zahlen und Fakten". buettelborn.de. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
^ Otto Klausing: Die Naturräume Hessens. Hessische Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Wiesbaden, 1988, ISBN 3-89026-066-7

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Worfelden.

Geschichte der Ortsteile. In: Webauftritt der Gemeinde Büttelborn.
"Geschichte Worfeldens". www.worfelden.org. Heimat- & Geschichtsverein Worfelden. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Worfelden, Landkreis Groß-Gerau. Historisches Ortslexikon für Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).