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3 unusual facts about Große Kreisstadt


Große Kreisstadt

In Hesse, seven towns with a population of more than 50,000 obtained the status of a Sonderstatusstadt: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fulda, Giessen, Hanau, Marburg, Rüsselsheim and Wetzlar.

In some German states other terms are used, for example Große selbständige Stadt in Lower Saxony, conclusively assigned by law to the towns of Celle, Cuxhaven, Goslar, Hameln, Hildesheim, Lingen and Lüneburg in the course of the 1970s administrative reform.

In some federal states the term is used as a special legal status for a district–affiliated town—as distinct from an independent city—with additional competences in comparison with other municipalities of the district.



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