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This time, rather than being divided in two, Hesse was divided into four: Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Rheinfels, Hesse-Marburg and Hesse-Darmstadt. On the eve of the French Revolution (1789), most of historic Upper Hesse lay within northern Hesse-Darmstadt, except for the area around Marburg, which was part of Hesse-Kassel.
Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.
The Palatinate (/ p ə ˈ l æ t ɪ n ɪ t /; German: Pfalz; Palatine German: Palz), or the Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz), is a historical region of Germany.The Palatinate occupies most of the southern quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), covering an area of 2,105 square miles (5,450 km 2) with about 1.4 million inhabitants.
Hesse [a] or Hessen [b] (German: Hessen ⓘ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square ...
1 Bergstraße 2 Darmstadt-Dieburg 3 Groß-Gerau 4 Hochtaunuskreis 5 Main-Kinzig-Kreis 6 Main-Taunus-Kreis 7 Odenwaldkreis 8 Offenbach 9 Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis 10 Wetteraukreis 11 Gießen 12 Lahn-Dill-Kreis
The Grand Duchy changed its name to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine in 1816. In 1867, the northern half of the Grand Duchy (Upper Hesse) became a part of the North German Confederation, while the half of the Grand Duchy south of the Main (Starkenburg and Rhenish Hesse) remained outside. In 1871, it became a constituent state of the German ...
Under the German system of Naturräume, Stadtallendorf lies in the West Hesse Depression zone (westhessische Senkenzone) which is divided into basins and ridges.With respect to these, the town lies on the Upper Hesse Ridge which separates the Amöneburg Basin in the west from the Schwalmbecken (another basin) in the east.
Dautphetal is a municipality in Hesse, Germany, ... km east of Siegen and about 15 km west of Marburg in the upper Lahn ... Europe's third-biggest manufacturer of ...