Urban districts of Germany

In Germany an Urban District ( is a large town or city that is responsible for its own local government. Germany is divided into 429 districts. 313 are rural districts (Landkreise, see List of German rural districts) and 116 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) which are listed below.

It is not part of a rural district, or county ().

In some states, there is another level of government, the Regierungsbezirk or governmental district.  Several urban and rural districts are joined together to make a regierungsbezirk, which does some of their jobs, especially things in land-use planning which can affect several districts.

They are the equivalent of an independent city in the United States or unitary authority in the United Kingdom.

 List by state 

 Baden-Württemberg 
 Baden-Baden
 Freiburg im Breisgau
 Heidelberg Heilbronn
 Karlsruhe
 Mannheim Pforzheim
 Stuttgart
 Ulm

 Bavaria 
 Amberg
 Ansbach
 Aschaffenburg
 Augsburg
 Bamberg
 Bayreuth
 Coburg
 Erlangen
 Fürth Hof
 Ingolstadt
 Kaufbeuren
 Kempten (Allgäu)
 Landshut
 Memmingen
 Munich
 Nuremberg Passau
 Regensburg
 Rosenheim
 Schwabach
 Schweinfurt
 Straubing
 Weiden in der Oberpfalz
 Würzburg

 Berlin 
 Berlin

 Brandenburg 
 Brandenburg an der Havel
 Cottbus Frankfurt (Oder)
 Potsdam

 Bremen 
 Bremen Bremerhaven

 Hamburg 
 Hamburg

 Hesse 
 Darmstadt
 Frankfurt am Main
 Kassel Offenbach am Main
 Wiesbaden

 Lower Saxony 
 Braunschweig
 Delmenhorst
 Emden
 Göttingen ¹
 Hannover ² Oldenburg
 Osnabrück
 Salzgitter
 Wilhelmshaven
 Wolfsburg

¹ following the "Göttingen Law" of January 1 1964, the town of Göttingen is incorporated into the district (Landkreis) of Göttingen, but the rules on urban districts still apply, as long as no other rules exist.
² following the "Law on the region of Hannover", Hannover counts since November 1 2001 as an urban district as long as no other rules apply.

 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 
 Rostock Schwerin

 North Rhine-Westphalia 
 Aachen
 Bielefeld
 Bochum
 Bonn
 Bottrop
 Dortmund
 Düsseldorf
 Duisburg Essen
 Gelsenkirchen
 Hagen
 Hamm
 Herne
 Cologne
 Krefeld
 Leverkusen Mönchengladbach
 Mülheim an der Ruhr
 Münster
 Oberhausen
 Remscheid
 Solingen
 Wuppertal

 Rhineland-Palatinate 
 Frankenthal
 Kaiserslautern
 Koblenz
 Landau Ludwigshafen
 Mainz
 Neustadt an der Weinstraße
 Pirmasens Speyer
 Trier
 Worms
 Zweibrücken

 Saarland 
There are no longer any urban districts. The town of Saarbrücken used to be an urban district but became incorporated into the Saarbrücken Town Federation on January 1 1974.

 Saxony 
 Chemnitz
 Dresden
 Leipzig Görlitz (was merged with Löbau-Zittau and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis1)
 Hoyerswerda (was merged with Kamenz Rural District and Bautzen Rural District1)
 Plauen (was merged with the Vogtlandkreis1)
 Zwickau (was merged with the Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land1)

1The urban districts of Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Plauen und Zwickau lost their status as „Kreisfreie Stadt“ on 1st July 2008 in a reform of Saxony's districts.

 Saxony-Anhalt 
 Dessau-Roßlau
 Halle
 Magdeburg

 Schleswig-Holstein 
 Flensburg
 Kiel Lübeck
 Neumünster

 Thuringia 
 Eisenach
 Erfurt
 Gera Jena
 Suhl
 Weimar

Related pages
Districts of Germany
List of German districts
Local government of Germany
Rural districts of Germany

 References 

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