Urban districts of Germany

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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

Baden-Baden Freiburg im Breisgau Heidelberg

Heilbronn Karlsruhe Mannheim

Pforzheim Stuttgart Ulm

Bavaria

Amberg Ansbach Aschaffenburg Augsburg Bamberg Bayreuth Coburg Erlangen Fürth

Hof Ingolstadt Kaufbeuren Kempten (Allgäu) Landshut Memmingen Munich Nuremberg

Passau Regensburg Rosenheim Schwabach Schweinfurt Straubing Weiden in der Oberpfalz Würzburg

Berlin

Berlin

Brandenburg

Brandenburg Cottbus

Frankfurt (Oder) Potsdam

Bremen

Bremen

Bremerhaven

Hamburg

Hamburg

Hesse

Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main Kassel

Offenbach am Main Wiesbaden

Lower Saxony

Braunschweig Delmenhorst Emden Göttingen ¹ Hannover ²

Oldenburg Osnabrück Salzgitter Wilhelmshaven Wolfsburg

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

Greifswald Neubrandenburg Rostock

Schwerin Stralsund Wismar

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bottrop Dortmund Düsseldorf Duisburg

Essen Gelsenkirchen Hagen Hamm Herne Cologne Krefeld Leverkusen

Mönchengladbach Mülheim an der Ruhr Münster Oberhausen Remscheid Solingen Wuppertal

Rhineland-Palatinate

Frankenthal Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau

Ludwigshafen Mainz Neustadt an der Weinstraße Pirmasens

Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken

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

Chemnitz Dresden Leipzig

Görlitz (will be merged with Löbau-Zittau and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis1) Hoyerswerda (will be merged with Kamenz (district) and Bautzen (district)1) Plauen (will be merged with the Vogtlandkreis1) Zwickau (will be merged with the Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land1)

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

Dessau-Roßlau Halle (Saale) Magdeburg

Schleswig-Holstein

Flensburg Kiel

Lübeck Neumünster

Thuringia

Eisenach Erfurt Gera

Jena Suhl Weimar

[edit] See also

• Districts of Germany
• List of German rural districtsca:Llista de districtes urbans alemanys

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