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Gießen

Gießen is a city in . The city has about 88,000 inhabitants including 44,000 students, so its infrastructure, shopping and cultural offerings are pretty well adapted to students.
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  • Type: Town with 74,400 residents
  • Description: seat of Landkreis Gießen and city in Hesse, Germany
  • Also known as: “Giessen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mathematikum and Gießen station.

Museum
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a science museum, located in Gießen, , which offers a huge variety of mathematical hands-on exhibits. It was founded by Albrecht Beutelspacher, a German mathematician.

Railway station
Photo: Randy43, Public domain.
Gießen railway station is the main railway station in Gießen, , . The station is a Category 2 station is used by 20,000 passengers daily. The station was opened on 25 August 1850 and is located on the Main-Weser Railway and Dill railway.

Theater building
Photo: Stefan2901, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , official name Stadttheater Gießen, is a theatre in Gießen, Germany, a cultural center for the university city and the region. The main building was designed in Neo-classical style with influences of Jugendstil by architects Fellner & Helmer and completed in 1906.

Gießen

Latitude
50.5862° or 50° 35′ 10″ north
Longitude
8.6742° or 8° 40′ 27″ east
Population
74,400
Elevation
162 metres (531 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE GIE
Open location code
9F2CHMPF+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25438345
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2920512
Wiki­data ID
Q3874
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gießen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gießen”
  • Albanian: “Gieseni”
  • Arabic: “غيسن”
  • Aragonese: “Gießen”
  • Armenian: “Գիսեն”
  • Arpitan: “Gießen”
  • Asturian: “Giessen”
  • Asturian: “Gießen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gissen”
  • Basque: “Gießen”
  • Bavarian: “Gießen”
  • Belarusian: “Гісен”
  • Belarusian: “Гісэн”
  • Breton: “Gießen”
  • Bulgarian: “Гисен”
  • Catalan: “Giessen”
  • Catalan: “Gießen”
  • Cebuano: “Gießen”
  • Chechen: “Гисен”
  • Chinese: “吉布拉恩”
  • Chinese: “吉森”
  • Chinese: “基森”
  • Corsican: “Gießen”
  • Croatian: “Gießen”
  • Czech: “Giessen”
  • Czech: “Gießen”
  • Danish: “Gießen”
  • Dutch: “Giessen”
  • Dutch: “Gießen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيسن”
  • Esperanto: “Gießen”
  • Estonian: “Gießen”
  • Finnish: “Gießen”
  • French: “Giessen”
  • French: “Gießen”
  • Friulian: “Gießen”
  • Galician: “Gießen”
  • Georgian: “გისენი”
  • German: “Gießen an der Lahn”
  • German: “Gießen”
  • Greek: “Γκίσεν”
  • Hebrew: “גיסן”
  • Hungarian: “Gießen”
  • Icelandic: “Gießen”
  • Ido: “Gießen”
  • Indonesian: “Giessen”
  • Interlingua: “Gießen”
  • Interlingue: “Gießen”
  • Irish: “Gießen”
  • Italian: “Giessen”
  • Italian: “Gießen”
  • Japanese: “ギーセン”
  • Japanese: “ギーゼン”
  • Kazakh: “Гиссен”
  • Kongo: “Gießen”
  • Korean: “기센”
  • Kurdish: “Giessen”
  • Ladin: “Giessen”
  • Ladin: “Gießen”
  • Latin: “Giessa”
  • Latvian: “Gīsena”
  • Latvian: “Gīsene”
  • Ligurian: “Gießen”
  • Limburgan: “Gießen”
  • Lithuanian: “Gysenas”
  • Low German: “Gießen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gießen”
  • Macedonian: “Гисен”
  • Malagasy: “Gießen”
  • Malay: “Giessen”
  • Minangkabau: “Gießen”
  • Narom: “Gießen”
  • Neapolitan: “Gießen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gießen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gießen”
  • Norwegian: “Gießen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Giessen”
  • Persian: “گیسن”
  • Picard: “Gießen”
  • Piemontese: “Gießen”
  • Polish: “Gießen”
  • Portuguese: “Gießen”
  • Romanian: “Gießen”
  • Romansh: “Gießen”
  • Russian: “Гисен”
  • Russian: “Гиссен”
  • Sardinian: “Gießen”
  • Scots: “Gießen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gießen”
  • Serbian: “Gießen”
  • Serbian: “Гисен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gießen”
  • Sicilian: “Gießen”
  • Silesian: “Gießen”
  • Slovak: “Gießen”
  • Slovenian: “Gießen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیسن”
  • Spanish: “Giessen”
  • Spanish: “Gießen”
  • Swahili: “Gießen”
  • Swedish: “Giessen”
  • Swedish: “Gießen”
  • Swiss German: “Gießen”
  • Tatar: “Гисен”
  • Thai: “กีเซิน”
  • Thai: “กีสเซิน”
  • Tumbuka: “Giessen”
  • Turkish: “Gießen an der Lahn”
  • Turkish: “Giessen”
  • Turkish: “Gießen”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіссен”
  • Venetian: “Gießen”
  • Vietnamese: “Gießen”
  • Vlaams: “Gießen”
  • Volapük: “Gießen”
  • Walloon: “Gießen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gießen”
  • Welsh: “Gießen”
  • Western Frisian: “Gießen”
  • Wolof: “Gießen”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉森”
  • Zulu: “Gießen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gießen”. Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.