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Kelsterbach (Hesse)
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Kelsterbach is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany. It lies on Frankfurt's southwestern outskirts at a bend on the left bank of the river Main, right where a small brook, called the Kelster empties into the river. After the Frankfurt Mainz railway line was built, this formerly mostly agricultural village was transformed by the great number of large factories that located here, bringing along with them a great upswing in the town's population.
The population of the city Kelsterbach was 15,089 in June 2005 with an area of 15.38 square kilometers and its population density was 981 per square kilometers. The Kelsterbach lies on the south side of the Main and west of the Frankfurt City Forest. The original village centre, commonly known as the Lower Village, Unterdorf borders sharply on the considerably bigger housing developments commonly known as the Upper Village, Oberdorf, which arose only after the railway and industrialization came early in the 20th century over the 17 meters high Kelsterbach Terrace, which stretches 8 kilometers west from the Frankfurt City Forest.
Until a short time ago, Kelsterbach was deemed to be the place where Europe's earliest anatomically modern humans had been found. A Cro Magnon skull that became known as the Lady from Kelsterbach, reputedly dated to 32,000 years ago, vanished without a trace amid the scandal over the anthropologist Reiner Protsch, and was likely a fake. From the Middle Stone Age, in the area of the Kelsterbach Terrace, microliths have been found. Kelsterbach can also be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination that enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.
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