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Until two-thirds of the way through the nineteenth century it was a small market town, with a range of individual craftsmen that was normal for the time and the region. In the early 1870s, however, a time-bomb was placed in Ruesselsheim by Adam Opel.

Opel was a skilled mechanic who had worked in France, where he had become enthusiastic about the possibilities of the internal combustion engine. Returning to his native Germany, he established a small factory at Ruesselsheim and the rest is history.