Giessen
Giessen is a Kreis in the middle of Hessen, Germany. Neighboring districts are Marburg-Biedenkopf, Vogelsbergkreis, Wetteraukreis, and Lahn-Dill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 268,000 residents
- Description: district in Hesse, Germany
- Also known as: “Gießen”, “Giessen (district)”, and “Landkreis Gießen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reiskirchen station and Evangelische Kirche (Burkhardsfelden).
Reiskirchen station
Railway station
Reiskirchen is a railway station in Reiskirchen, Hesse, Germany.
Evangelische Kirche (Burkhardsfelden)
Church
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Evangelische Kirche (Burkhardsfelden) is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Annerod and Wirberg.
Annerod
Village
Photo: Cherubino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Annerod is a small village, part of the municipality Fernwald, in Germany between Gießen and Großen-Buseck approximately 70 km north of Frankfurt. Annerod has a population of about 3189 people. Annerod is situated 4½ km west of Giessen.
Wirberg
Hamlet
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Wirberg is a former monastery complex in the district of Giessen. It is located on the eastern edge of the municipality of Reiskirchen between Saasen and Göbelnrod, and about eight miles north-west of Grünberg. Wirberg is situated 7 km east of Giessen.
Giessen
- Category: rural district of Hesse
- Location: Giessen, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Panjabi—“Giessen” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Districto de Gießen”
- Armenian: “Գիսեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Gissen”
- Bavarian: “Landkroas Gießen”
- Belarusian: “Гісен (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Гісен”
- Belarusian: “раён Гісен”
- Belarusian: “Раён Гісен”
- Catalan: “Gießen”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Central Kurdish: “گیسن”
- Chinese: “吉森县”
- Croatian: “Gießen (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Gießen”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Gießen”
- Danish: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Gießen”
- Finnish: “Gießenin piirikunta”
- French: “arrondissement de Giessen”
- French: “Arrondissement de Giessen”
- French: “Arrondissement de Gießen”
- Georgian: “გისენის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα του Γκίσεν”
- Indonesian: “Giessen”
- Interlingue: “Subdistrict Gießen”
- Italian: “circondario di Gießen”
- Italian: “Circondario di Gießen”
- Japanese: “ギーセン郡”
- Kazakh: “Гисен”
- Kurdish: “Giessen”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Low German: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Macedonian: “Гисен”
- Malay: “Gießen”
- Northern Frisian: “Gießen (Lönjkris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gießen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Norwegian: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Persian: “گیسن (ناحیه)”
- Persian: “گیسن”
- Polish: “Powiat Gießen”
- Portuguese: “Gießen”
- Romanian: “Districtul Gießen”
- Russian: “Гисен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Gießen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gießen”
- Spanish: “Giessen”
- Spanish: “Gießen”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Giessen”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Gießen”
- Ukrainian: “Гіссен”
- Uzbek: “Gießen”
- Vietnamese: “Gießen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gießen”
- Western Panjabi: “گائیزن”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Nonnen Köpfen and Dautenberg.
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