Heusenstamm: Ontos.

Heusenstamm ’ s Stadtteile are Heusenstamm, with 16, 266 inhabitants and Rembrücken, with 2, 116 inhabitants ( each time at 31 December 2006 ).

** Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH in Heusenstamm, Germany, founded in 1993, acquired on 11 April 2007.

Obertshausen borders in the northwest on the district-free city of Offenbach am Main with its outlying centres of Bieber and Tempelsee, in the north on the town of Mühlheim ( centre of Lämmerspiel ), in the northeast on the town of Hanau ( Main-Kinzig-Kreis ) with its outlying centres of Steinheim and Klein-Auheim, in the east on the community of Hainburg, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau ( centre of Weiskirchen ) and in the southwest on the town of Heusenstamm.

Rodgau borders in the north on the towns of Heusenstamm and Obertshausen, in the east on the community of Hainburg and the town of Seligenstadt, in the southeast on the town of Babenhausen and the community of Eppertshausen ( both in Darmstadt-Dieburg ), in the southwest on the town of Rödermark and in the west on the town of Dietzenbach.

The western residential areas are linked by the 11 km-long Rodgau-Ring-Straße ( ringroad ), which in the north runs on to Heusenstamm and Offenbach.

Heusenstamm borders in the north on the district-free city of Offenbach am Main, in the northeast on the town of Obertshausen, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau, in the south on the town of Dietzenbach, and in the west on the town of Dreieich.

When Emperor Franz I was living at Schloss Heusenstamm in 1764 on the occasion of his son ’ s coronation ( Goethe relates the event in his Dichtung und Wahrheit ), an ostentatious tower was built in his honour, which stands to this day.

Dutch potters in northern ( and Protestant ) Germany established German centres of faience: the first manufactories in Germany were opened at Hanau ( 1661 ) and Heusenstamm ( 1662 ), soon moved to nearby Frankfurt-am-Main.

Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the low mountain ranges of the Odenwald and Spessart.

In 1211, Heusenstamm had its first documentary mention in an Eppstein fief book in which Gottfried of Eppstein documented that he held the castle and village of Huselstam in fief from the Empire and that he had further bestowed these holdings upon Eberhard Waro von Hagen-Heusenstamm.

In 1896, the railway line from Offenbach by way of Heusenstamm to Dietzenbach, a branchline of the Rodgaubahn from Offenbach to Dieburg, was opened.

In 1978, the town bought the estate of Patershausen, the Klosterwald and the Forst Patershausen ( both wooded properties ) as well as the Forst Heusenstamm ( another wooded property ) from Rudolf Graf von Schönborn (“ Graf ” being his noble title, “ Count ”).

The chief ( the red part at the top of the escutcheon ) with its dancetty ( zigzag ) edge is drawn from the arms once borne by the Lords of Heusenstamm.

The Princes of Isenburg-Birstein received the Schönborn Amt of Heusenstamm with Hausen and Obertshausen in 1806 Group.

Heusenstamm is a town of over 18, 000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.

Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district.

From the Middle Ages until 1819, Heusenstamm and Rembrücken belonged to the Biebermark, an area held in common with several other villages.

In 1545, Sebastian von Heusenstamm was chosen Archbishop-Elector of Mainz.

In 1560 Eberhard von Heusenstamm gave leave to introduce Protestantism, but Roman Catholicism was reintroduced in 1607.

After the Lords of Heusenstamm died out in 1616, the castle and the lordship passed to the family ’ s Austrian sideline, who then leased the place to the Frankfurt patrician Stephan von Cronstetten.

In 1661, the lordship over Heusenstamm, to which also belonged the places of Obertshausen and Hausen, was sold to the Mainz Oberamtmann ( chief local administrator ) Philipp Erwein von Schönborn.

In 1806, the Schönborn Amt of Heusenstamm with Obertshausen and Hausen was put under the Princes of Isenburg-Birstein.

The Amt of Heusenstamm then passed to the Hesse-Darmstadt.

In 1819, when the Biebermark was partitioned, Heusenstamm got its share of the forest.

On 26 May 1959, Heusenstamm was granted town rights, thereby sidestepping Offenbach ’ s efforts to absorb the community.

Frankfurt am Main: Ontos, 2008.

A Festschrift for Sprigge appeared on the very day he died, Consciousness, Reality and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge ( Ontos Verlag ).

The last major use was the M50 Ontos, which mounted six of the US 106 mm on a light ( 9 ton ) tracked chassis first developed for use by the US Army airborne troops in 1950.

M50 Ontos on display at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

There are Ontos on display at:

* The U. S. Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas in Jacksonville, North Carolina has an operational M50A1 Ontos which is not on public display.

* There is an M50A1 Ontos on outside display at the Navy Facility at China Lake, California.

* The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California has an M50A1 Ontos on outside display.

* Digger History page on the Ontos

The USMC used the Ontos which had an armored cabin and recoilless rifles, and was based on the running gear of the M56.

These included ITASCA ( Itasca Systems ), Jasmine ( Fujitsu, marketed by Computer Associates ), Matisse ( Matisse Software ), Objectivity / DB ( Objectivity, Inc .), ObjectStore ( Progress Software, acquired from eXcelon which was originally Object Design ), ONTOS ( Ontos, Inc., name changed from Ontologic ), O < sub > 2 </ sub >< ref > Bancilhon, Francois ; Delobel, Claude ; and Kanellakis, Paris.

Like the M50 Ontos anti-tank vehicle, the battle reports from the troops were sometimes glowing, while the reports higher up the chain of command were often negative.

A number of existing vehicles already mounted only ATGMs, or alternately recoilless rifles like the M50 Ontos, but these typically had limited utility in the infantry support role, or in the case of Ontos could not be reloaded from within the vehicle.

The crews continued to report that the Ontos was a very effective fighting vehicle in this role, but the military brass continued to argue for heavier designs, and in 1970 the Ontos was removed from service and most were broken up.

Produced in limited numbers and largely expended towards the end of the conflict, the Ontos was removed from service in 1969.