Giessen
Giessen is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the middle of the state. It was created on 1 January 1981 from the districts of Giessen, Lahn-Dill and Limburg-Weilburg and the Vogelsbergkreis, all formerly belonging to Darmstadt, and Marburg-Biedenkopf, formerly belonging to Kassel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Regierungsbezirk with 1,040,000 residents
- Description: administrative subdivision and region of Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “Gießen”, “Giessen (region)”, “Giessen Government Region”, and “Regierungsbezirk Giessen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Toten Berg and Burg Ellhaus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wolfshausen and Londorf.
Londorf
Village
Photo: Gerold Rosenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Londorf is a village, which is situated 7 km east of Giessen.
Holzhausen (Fronhausen)
Village
Photo: Gerold Rosenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holzhausen (Fronhausen) is a village, which is situated 6 km west of Giessen.
Giessen
- Location: Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Giessen” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Գիսսեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Gissen inzibati rayonu”
- Basque: “Gießen”
- Belarusian: “адміністрацыйная акруга Гісен”
- Belarusian: “Гісен (адміністрацыйная акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Гісен”
- Catalan: “Regió de Gießen”
- Cebuano: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Chinese: “吉森行政区”
- Czech: “Vládní obvod Gießen”
- Danish: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Dutch: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Esperanto: “Distriktaro Gießen”
- Estonian: “Gießeni ringkond”
- Finnish: “Gießenin hallintopiiri”
- French: “district de Giessen”
- French: “District de Gießen”
- French: “Giessen”
- Galician: “Rexión de Giessen”
- Galician: “Rexión de Gießen”
- German: “Gießen”
- German: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Greek: “Γκίσεν”
- Italian: “Distretto governativo di Gießen”
- Japanese: “ギーセン県”
- Japanese: “ギーセン行政管区”
- Korean: “기센현”
- Latin: “Provincia Giessa”
- Latin: “Provincia Giessensis”
- Lombard: “Gießen”
- Low German: “Regerungsbezirk Gießen”
- Luxembourgish: “Regierungsbezierk Gießen”
- Macedonian: “Гисен”
- Northern Frisian: “Gießen (Regiiringsdistrikt)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gießen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Gießen”
- Norwegian: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Persian: “گیسن”
- Polish: “Rejencja Gießen”
- Portuguese: “Gießen”
- Romanian: “Gießen”
- Russian: “административный округ Гиссен”
- Russian: “Гисен”
- Russian: “Гиссен”
- Slovak: “Gießen”
- Slovenian: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Slovenian: “Vladni okraj Gießen”
- Spanish: “Región de Gießen”
- Swedish: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Tajik: “Гиссен”
- Turkish: “Regierungsbezirk Gießen”
- Ukrainian: “Гіссен”
- Venetian: “Gießen”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rote Mark and Hassen-Berg.
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