Urban districts of Germany

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Urban districts of Germany

location of the seven largest cities in Germany, urban districts highlighted

This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany's sixteen states are further subdivided into 402 districts of which 107 are urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) – cities which constitute a district in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. Kreisfreie Städte are comparable to independent cities 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

¹ The town of Aachen will become incorporated into the Aachen Regional Federation on October 21, 2009.

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

  • Görlitz1 (merged with Löbau-Zittau and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis)
  • Hoyerswerda1 (merged with Kamenz (district) and Bautzen (district))
  • Plauen1 (merged with the Vogtlandkreis)
  • Zwickau1 (merged with the Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land)

1The urban districts of Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Plauen und Zwickau lost their status as „kreisfreie Stadt“ on 1 August 2008 in a reform of the Saxon districts.

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Translation of terms: European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), Annex 5
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