What is Urban Districts Of Germany?

Information about Urban Districts Of Germany

This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany is divided into 429 districts (not to be confused with the larger Regierungsbezirk); these consist of 313 rural districts (Landkreise, see List of German rural districts) and 116 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. The concept is comparable to the independent city in the English-speaking world.

Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hesse
Lower Saxony
¹ following the "Göttingen Law" of January 1 1964, the town of Göttingen is incorporated into the district (Landkreis) of Göttingen, but the rules on urban districts still apply, as long as no other rules exist.
² following the "Law on the region of Hannover", Hannover counts since November 1 2001 as an urban district as long as no other rules apply.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
There are no longer any urban districts. The town of Saarbrücken used to be an urban district but became incorporated into the Saarbrücken Town Federation on January 1 1974.

Saxony
1The urban districts of Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Plauen und Zwickau will lose their state as „kreisfreie Stadt“ probably on 1st July 2008 in a reform of the saxon districts.

Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia

See also

Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Germany

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Politics of Germany

  • Constitution
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A Regierungsbezirk is a government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). Regierungsbezirke are themselves further divided into districts (Kreise), either Landkreise
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Germany is divided into 429 administrative districts; these consist of 313 counties' (Landkreise), listed fully here, and 116 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte /
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A Statutory city (Statutarstadt in Austria, or Statutární město in Czech Republic) is a city with its own municipal law or city statute.

Austria

In Austria, a city can request this status if it has more than 20,000 inhabitants.
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Anthem
Land der Berge, Land am Strome   (German)
Land of Mountains, Land on the River
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An independent city is a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity.

Independent cities should not be confused with city-states (such as Singapore), which are fully sovereign cities that are not part of any other nation-state.
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Baden-Baden
View of Baden-Baden.
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Fribourg/Freiburg im Üechtland. For other uses see Freiburg (disambiguation)

Freiburg

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Heidelberg
Castle and "Old Bridge"
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Heilbronn
View of the Heilbronn centre of town toward the Wartberg
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Karlsruhe
The town centre of the city of Karlsruhe (Germany) photographed from an aeroplane. It is easy to recognize the historic layout of the town: The streets head away from the castle like the rays of the sun.
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Mannheim

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Pforzheim

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Stuttgart
Stuttgart Schlossplatz (Castle square)
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Ulm

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Amberg

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Ansbach

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Aschaffenburg

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Augsburg
The Town Hall of Augsburg
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Bamberg
Alte Hofhaltung in Bamberg.
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Bayreuth

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Coburg

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Erlangen

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Fuerth.
For a smaller town in Hesse see Fürth, Hesse.

Fürth
South part of the city, seen from the "Alte Veste" (Zirndorf)
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Hof, Germany

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Ingolstadt

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Kaufbeuren

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Kempten (Allgaeu).

Kempten

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Landshut

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