Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
In Saarland, the towns of Sankt Ingbert and Völklingen hold the comparable status of a district-affiliated "Mittelstadt". 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.