page_title: Seligenstadt
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Seligenstadt / Geography
context_page_description: Seligenstadt is a town in the Offenbach Rural District in the state of Hesse, Germany. The town is by the river Main.
context_section_description: Seligenstadt is in the Rhine Main area. The town is about 30 km southeast of Frankfurt. The whole area of the town is 30,85 km² large and it is 109–118 m above sea level. It is a plain area with no hills.
  About 35 to 20 million years ago in the Age of Tertiary the whole region was lying under sea level. At that time it was covered by an ocean which was warm and not very deep. Lots of sediments sank to its bottom. Then the region rose again and the water left, leaving soil which is mostly sandy and poor.
  The city consists out of the town Seligenstadt and the 2 former independent villages Froschhausen and Klein-Welzheim, both now urban districts of Seligenstadt. On 1 January 1977 they were united.
  The neighbours of Seligenstadt are: 
  Hainburg (North)
  Karlstein (East) (Aschaffenburg Rural District)
  Mainhausen (Southeast)
  Babenhausen (South)
  Rodgau (West)
  Seligenstadt has 20,221 inhabitants (2008). The climate of the town is mild. There is less rain than in other parts of Germany.
  Some local people are speaking a regional type (dialect) of the German language with a certain tone and special words. It is a Hessian dialect (German: Hessisch). This language type is related to other dialects in the south of Germany. In former times mostly every place had its own special dialect, sometimes hard to understand for people of other parts of Germany. Today the dialect speakers are a minority and the majority of them do not speak the real dialect. They rather speak a kind of regular German with a certain pronunciation.
caption: Position of Rodgau within the Rhine Main area
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