Type: | Gemeinde |
Hirzenhain | |
Image Coa: | Wappen Hirzenhain.png |
Coordinates: | 50.3903°N 9.1361°W |
Image Plan: | Hirzenhain in FB.svg |
State: | Hessen |
Region: | Darmstadt |
District: | Wetteraukreis |
Elevation: | 260 |
Area: | 16.11 |
Postal Code: | 63697 |
Area Code: | 06045 |
Licence: | FB |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 06 4 40 011 |
Divisions: | 3 districts |
Website: | www.hirzenhain.de |
Mayor: | Timo Tichai[1] |
Leader Term: | 2023 - 29 |
Hirzenhain is a municipality in the Wetteraukreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approximately 45 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main. It has a population of around 2,800.
From 1943 to 1945 the area was the site of , a camp for forced labour by convicted criminals and prisoners of war, run by the Gestapo. On 25 March 1945, shortly before the end of the war, a troop of SS killed 87 inmates of the camp. There is a memorial to the victims in the municipality. The dead were reinterred at Arnsburg Abbey in 1960.[2]