What is Rödermark?
{{Infobox German Location |Name = Rödermark |German_name = |Art = City |image_photo = |imagesize = |image_caption = |Wappen = Wappen Roedermark.png |coordinates = {{coord|49|58|0|N|8|49|0|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |Lageplan = Rödermark_in_OF.svg |Lageplanbeschreibung = |Bundesland = Hesse |Regierungsbezirk = Darmstadt |Landkreis = Offenbach|Kreis = |Amt = |Gemeindeverwaltungsverband = |Samtgemeinde = |Verbandsgemeinde = |Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = |Verwaltungsverband = |Höhe = 142 |Fläche = 29.99 |area_metro = |Einwohner = 27858 |pop_metro = |Stand = 31.12.2008 |pop_ref = |PLZ = 63322 |Vorwahl = 06074 |Kfz = OF |Gemeindeschlüssel= 06438012 |Gliederung = |Website = {{url|https://www.roedermark.de/}} |Bürgermeister = Roland Kern |Bürgermeistertitel = |Partei = [[Alliance '90/The Greens]] |ruling_party1 = CDU|ruling_party2 = FDP|ruling_party3 = |year = 1979 |_noautocat = }} '''Rödermark''' is a city in the [[Offenbach Rural District]] in the state of [[Hesse]], [[Germany]]. == Geography == Rödermark is in the ''Rhine Main area'' {{convert|35|km|abbr=off}} southeast of [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]]. The whole area of the town is {{convert|29.99|km2|abbr=off}} large and it is {{convert|142|m|abbr=off}} above sea level.<ref>[https://www.roedermark.de/ Homepage of the city of Rödermark]. Retrieved 17 January 2010. {{in lang|de}}</ref> It is a plain area with nearly no hills. About 20 to 35 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 [[sediment]]s sank to its bottom. Then the region rose again and the water left, leaving soil which is mostly sandy and poor. The town consists out of the 2 former independent villages ''Ober-Roden'' and ''Ur