[2] A hoard of silver votive plaques was discovered in the Roman settlement of Nida near Heddernheim in the nineteenth century, some of which are in the British Museum.

[3] The offerings appear to have been deposited in a shrine dedicated to the Roman God of Jupiter Dolichenus.

Meanwhile a big housing estate was built, named Nordweststadt, including a shopping center called Nordwestzentrum, and Mertonviertel.

During World War II, in 1942, a forced labour camp was established in the district by the Nazis.

[4] Due to American advance, in 1945, it was dissolved and its prisoners were deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp.