Talk:List of cities and towns in Germany

message: I think you may be a little confused. There are german states, and then there are free city-states (Hanserstadt Frei). To my knowledge, there have only been 3 free city-states: Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin. The cities you have listed as district free may so be, however they are subordinate to a state. Here's an example:
Osterholz-Scharmbeck is a city (stadt) it is subordinate to 
Kreis Osterholz (a county) which is subordinate to Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), a state (Laender). 
Bremen and Hamburg although located in the state of Lower Saxony, are not subordinate to Lower Saxony because they are free city-states. Bremerhaven, which you have listed under Bremen, is a city-district and although it is not subordinate to a Kries (County) it is subordinate to the State of Lower Saxony.
:???? I don't see your point. You tell me nothing new. Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Bremen and Hamburg are exactly listed the way you are describing them. As for Bremerhaven, you are simply wrong. See Bremen (state) for more information - it is not subordinate to Lower Saxony. -- Cordyph 11:47, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bremerhaven 

message: I think we should transfer over the page from the de-wiki with its division and forget this attempt to divide up the page. It's not complete and nobody has edited it for years. Tfine80 06:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We should transfer over the other list of larger cities separately. Tfine80 06:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  DE Article 

message: What happened to the old list of cities in Germany, listing only cities with more than 100.000 inhabitants? I thought that was pretty useful! Markussep 14:56, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We should transfer that to a new article... This one should have a list of all of the official cities as in the DE-Wiki. Tfine80 17:45, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Are we now calling all towns cities?  I have always thought that a city in Germany is a town with more than 100 000 inhabitants.  Different countries have different rules as to what constitutes a city. 84.143.48.87 08:32, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In German, there is Stadt (a place with city rights/town privileges) and Großstadt (a place with more than 100.000 inhabitants). The current article lists all places with city rights. You could call them "town" as well, the definition is not so strict. There are many "cities" in the US with less than 1000 inhabitants (see e.g. Tolna, North Dakota). Markussep 10:38, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you differentiate between city rights and town rights?  In England, a city is a town which has been granted a charter to be known as a city.  This usually conincides with the presence of a cathedrale.  The size of the population does not affect whether a town is known as a city.  I do not know what makes a town a city in the USA, but thought that in Germany, towns and cities are differentiated only by population size.  Please correct me if I am wrong. 84.143.48.87 10:51, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

text: German :de:Stadt links to Town and vice versa, City links to :de:Großstadt. See also Town#Germany and Town privileges. If you want to be consistent, this list should be "List of towns in Germany". But it's an old and difficult discussion, with repercussions on several other countries. Markussep 15:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The old list of cities / Großstädte

message: I can see that it is easier with German names, but for example München, Hannover and Köln should not be in English Wikipedia. --Audiovideo 00:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, here are my two cents:  We wikipedians aim to help others find the information and knowledge they are looking for.  And since users will look for the information using all correct spellings they know of, the redirects that are in place and that take them to the correctly (for the English wikipedia) named pages is a good and helpful solution.  If the pages themselves were named incorrectly, I'd agree with you.  But they are correctly titled Munich, Hanover, and Cologne.  I changed it on the list.  --Mmounties 06:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: English names

message: How about it? By population and area. It would be most interesting. —☆ CieloEstrellado 01:31, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of largest German cities?

message: In this list, North Rhine-Westphalia has 271 cities and towns. However, Municipalities of Germany has only 236 municipalities in the state. Can it be true, because it would be the only state with more cities and towns than municipalities? That list tells also there are 23 cities in NRW, so it would mean that the other 213 municipalities would include 248 towns.
de:Liste der Städte und Gemeinden in Nordrhein-Westfalen has this: 396 politisch selbstständigen Städten und Gemeinden (Stand: 23. August 2012)., which probably means "396 politically self-governing cities and municipalities (as of 23 August 2012)".
And that 396 seems to include 271 cities/towns and 125 municipalities. 212.50.203.198 (talk) 04:56, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Rhine-Westphalia 

message: Looking at this article, I would think that a town is a municipality with town privileges, and a city such a thing with more than 100.000 inhabitants. This is obviously wrong, look at Weimar. Could the lead clarify that, please, and explain why some places are called city although they have fewer than 100.000 inhabitants? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As there is no clear definition of "city" in Germany, any arguably important town that is not a Großstadt can still be described as "city" as well, without clear reason. --androl (talk) 12:35, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town vs. city 

message: Isn't Stadtrecht no longer in use? ZFT (talk) 03:34, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stadtrecht