| Rödelheim | |
| Type: | Quarter |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Image Coa: | Wappen_Roedelheim.png |
| Coordinates: | 50.1317°N 8.6097°W |
| Image Plan: | Frankfurt Stadtteil Rödelheim.svg |
| Plantext: | Location of Rödelheim (red) and the Ortsbezirk Mitte-West (light red) within Frankfurt am Main |
| State: | Hesse |
| Region: | Darmstadt |
| District: | urban |
| Area: | 5.145 |
| Population: | 19253 |
| Population As Of: | 2020-12-31 |
| Pop Ref: | [1] |
| Postal Code: | 60488, 60489 |
| Area Code: | 069 |
| Licence: | F |
| Website: | www.roedelheim.de |
Rödelheim is a quarter 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, Mathias Barbosa and Sabrina Setlur.
In 2015 the skeletons of 200 French soldiers that had died in 1813 were discovered here.[2]
From the 17th century, Rödelheim developed into a centre of Yiddish Kabbalistic folklore. An edition of the Ma'assebuch was published here in 1753 by Jona ben Josche Gamburg and printed by Karl Reich.[3]
In 1799, the publisher and scholar Benjamin Wolf Heidenheim founded a printing press that published Jewish prayer books and theological works. Heidenheim then lived in Rödelheim until his death in 1832. Seligman Baer, a masoretic scholar and Hebrew grammarian of the modern period, also published in Rödelheim. Rödelheim had become a major center for the printing and export of Hebrew books, many of which can be found in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland’s collection. Between 1680 and 1700, the Jewish community assembled in a barn. The first synagogue was established in 1730 at Schulstraße No. 9 (today's Inselgäßchen). At this time the Jewish community consisted of about 80 people. The Jewish community of Rödelheim was subject to the rabbinate of Gießen.
With the growth of the community, a new synagogue was built and consecrated on 29 June 1838. Ludwig Thudichum, the pastor of the Protestant Cyriakusgemeinde, gave an inauguration speech. The synagogue was built in an “oriental” style of architecture. It was damaged on the night of the 9/10 November 1938 ("Reichspogromnach