Bundesland, Hessen
MINISTERPRSIDENT
Volker Bouffier
Portraitfoto Ministerprsident Volker Bouffier
Hessische Staatskanzlei
Geboren am
18. Dezember 1951
in
Gieen
Evangelisch
Verheiratet
drei Kinder
Districts in Hessen
District Abbreviation
Bergstrae
BR
Darmstadt
DR
Darmstadt-Dieburg
Frankfurt am Main
Fulda FL
Fulda
Gieen GE
Gieen
Gro-Gerau
GG
Capital Population
Area(km.)
Heppenheim 260,741
720
Darmstadt
143,499
122
DD
Darmstadt
282,601
659
FM
Frankfurt am Main
667,925
216,179
1,380
251,238
855
Gro-Gerau
251,049
453
248
Hesse is located in western-central Germany, bordering (from north-west, clockwise) the German
states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Wrttemberg and
Rhineland-Palatinate.
Official Name: Hessen
en: Hesse
Abbreviation: HE
Time zone: Central European Time (CET); Central European Summer Time (CEST)
(UTC+1/+2)
Capital City: Wiesbaden (pop. 273,000)
Other Cities: largest city: Frankfurt am Main (pop. 688,000), Darmstadt, Fulda, Gieen, Hanau,
Kassel, Limburg, Marburg, Offenbach, and Wetzlar.
Geography:
Location: central Germany north of Baden-Wrttemberg
Area: 21,114 km
People:
Population (2013): 6 million
Religions: 48% Protestants, 30% Roman Catholic.
Natural resources: Salt
Agriculture products: Grain (wheat, barley), sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, livestock farming.
Industries: Bank services, car industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industries,
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Official Sites of Hessen
Hessen
Official site of Bundesland Hessen - The state of Hesse.
Der Hessische Landtag
Hesse's parliament.
Statistics
Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt
Hesse's state office for statistics.
Maps
Google Earth Hessen
Searchable map/satellite view of Hesse.
Google Earth Wiesbaden
Searchable map and satellite view of Wiesbaden, Hesse's capital.
Google Earth Frankfurt am Main
Searchable map and satellite view of Hesse's largest city.
Political Map of Germany
Administrative Map of Germany
News
Hesse Newspapers Online (mostly in German)
Darmstdter Echo
Newspaper Darmstadt.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ
FAZ online (German-partly English).
Frankfurter Rundschau
Frankfurter Rundschau online, national and international news
Fuldaer Zeitung
News from Fulda.
Gieener Anzeiger
Newspaper Gieen.
Hessisch Niederschsiche Allgemeine
Current and regional news.
Rhein-Zeitung
Rhein-Zeitung Mainz/Wiesbaden.
Radio/TV
Hessischer Rundfunk
Hessian Broadcasting (HR) is the public broadcaster for Hesse.
Arts & Culture
Kulturportal Hessen
State culture portal with information about culture and culture events in Hesse. (in German)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at Project Gutenberg.
Goethe was born in Frankfurt (Main) at the 28. Aug. 1749.
Das Goethe-Haus in Frankfurt a.M.
The Frankfurt Goethe House, Goethe's birthplace is now a museum.
documenta
documenta
One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art in the world takes place every five years
in the city of Kassel.
Museums
Brder Grimm-Museum Kassel
The museum of the Brothers Grimm (in German).
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Official website of the Hesse state museum.
Museum fr Angewandte Kunst
Museum of applied arts, Frankfurt.
Museum der Weltkulturen
Ethnology museum of the cultures of the world, Frankfurt a. M..
Naturmuseum Senckenberg
Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
A guide to museums in Kassel (in German).
Museen in Hessen
A guide to museums in Hesse (in German).
Opera
Oper Frankfurt
The Frankfurt Opera House is an important European opera house, the home of Oper Frankfurt (the
Frankfurt Opera), a leading company in Germany.
Business & Economy
Deutsche Brse Group
Official website of the largest exchange organization worldwide.
Brse Frankfurt
Deutsche Brse's Website for Investors.
Banks
Commerzbank
Official website of the second-largest bank in Germany after:
Deutsche Bank
Official website of the German Bank, Frankfurt, one of the largest investment banks in the world.
Dresdner Bank
Dresdner Bank AG is one of Germany's largest banking corporations based in Frankfurt.
Deutsche Bundesbank
Official website of the German Central Bank.
ECB: European Central Bank
The ECB, located in Frankfurt a. M., is the central bank for Europe's currency, the Euro.
Trade Fairs Frankfurt
Ambiente
Largest consumer goods trade show in the world.
Frankfurter Buchmesse
Frankfurt Book Fair.
Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA)
International Automobile Exhibition
Important Companies
Merck
Opel
Software AG
Wella
Transportation
Frankfurt Airport FRA
Rhein-Main-Flughafen, largest airport in Germany.
Destination Hessen - Travel and Tour Guides
Discover Hessen: Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Kassel
Find accommodation, hotels, attractions, festivals, events, tourist boards, tours and much more by
following the links below.
Hessen Touristik Service
Tourist Guide Hesse, the Official Site. (in German)
State Capital:
Wiesbaden
Official website of the states' capital.
Major Cities:
Frankfurt
The City of Frankfurt am Main, largest city in Hesse.
Kassel
Once the seat of noblemen and prince electors, this city on the Fulda River has more to offer to
visitors than it is immediately apparent.
Other principal cities are Darmstadt, Fulda, Hanau, Gieen, Limburg, Marburg, Offenbach, and
Wetzlar.
Education
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt
Frankfurt
Justus-Liebig-Universitt
Gieen
Uni GH Kassel
Kassel
Philipps-Universitt
Marburg
Environment & Nature
Natur Parks in Hesse
Naturpark Bergstrae-Odenwald
The largest part of the nature park Odenwald and the Bergstrae lies in Hesse, but it ranges also the
states of Baden-Wrttemberg and Bavaria (in German).
Naturpark Habichtswald
The nature park is located in North-Hesse, it ranges from the Weser highland to the Waldecker Land,
a foothill of the Sauerland.
Naturpark Hessische Rhn
In the portal to the Rhn you will find information about the nature park located in the east of Fulda
near the Thuringian-Bavarian Border.
Naturpark Hessischer Spessart
Large oak and beech-tree forests characterises the low mountain range landscape of the Spessart,
located near the Hesse-Bavarian border.
Naturpark Hochtaunus
Hesses' second largest nature park.
Naturpark Kellerwald-Edersee
The nature park is located in the middle of Germany in North-Hesse (in German).
Naturparke Deutschland
A guide to nature and national parks in Germany.
History
After World War II the Hessian territory left of the Rhine was again occupied by France, whereas the
rest of the country was part of the US occupation zone. The French separated their part of Hesse
from the rest of the country and incorporated it into the newly founded state of RhinelandPalatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). The United States, on the other side, proclaimed the state of Greater
Hesse (Gro-Hessen) on 19 September 1945, out of Hesse-Darmstadt and most of the former
Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. On 4 December 1946 Gro-Hessen was officially renamed
Hessen.
Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv
Hesse's main state archive (in German).
History of Hesse
Wikipedia entry about Hesse's history.
Hesse-Nassau
Wikipedia entry about the Province of Hesse-Nassau (German: Provinz Hessen-Nassau) a province of
the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868-1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.
Peoples' State of Hesse
Wikipedia entry about the Peoples' State of Hesse (German: Volksstaat Hessen) was the name of the
German state of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1918 until 1945.
Additional Information about Hessen
Open Directory Project: Hessen
Wikipedia: Hessen
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hochtaunuskreis
Kassel KL
Kassel
Kassel KA
Kassel
Lahn-Dill-Kreis LD
Limburg-Weilburg
Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Main-Taunus-Kreis
Marburg-Biedenkopf
Odenwaldkreis OE
Offenbach
OF
Offenbach am Main
Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis
Vogelsbergkreis VG
Waldeck-Frankenberg
Werra-Meiner-Kreis
Wetteraukreis WT
HR
Bad Hersfeld 120,694
1,097
HC
Bad Homburg vor der Hhe
226,130
234,933
1,293
190,765
107
Wetzlar 253,441
1,067
LW
Limburg an der Lahn 170,696
738
MK
Gelnhausen
400,862
1,398
MT
Hofheim am Taunus
224,059
229
MB
Marburg
241,226
1,263
Erbach 96,613 624
Dietzenbach 332,328
356
OM
Offenbach am Main
113,443
45
RT
Bad Schwalbach
180,226
811
SE
Homberg (Efze) 181,850
1,539
Lauterbach (Hessen) 108,510
1,459
WF
Korbach
158,990
1,849
WM
Eschwege
102,124
1,025
Friedberg (Hessen)
292,573
1,101
482
