Kriftel

Kriftel is a municipality inside the Main Taunus district, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 16 km west of Frankfurt. It has approximately 11,000 populations. Kriftel is also generally called Fruit Orchard of the Anterior Taunus because of the fields round it which might be specifically used for generating strawberries. 9 July AD 754, the track which carried the lifeless Saint Boniface rested within the village over night time. To the honor of the saint, the Bonifatiuskapelle became built. Kriftel changed into first referred to documentary in 790. The Thirty Years' War broke Kriftel which includes the chapel, which was no longer rebuilt till 1755.

It took goodbye due to the fact a huge hearth destroyed almost the whole village 34 homes out of 38 in 1661. From 1945 up until the oil disaster in 1973, Kriftel skilled a populace explosion due to huge immigration from city sprawl and people of the Hoechst AG, who had been offered reasonably priced land to build their housing units. In 1959, the chapel had to be relocated because of community growth.