Darmstadt-Dieburg

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Darmstadt-Dieburg

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State:	Hesse
Capital:	Darmstadt } } |- | Area:||658.51 km² |- | Inhabitants:||289,273 (2002) |- | pop. density:||439 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||DA |- | Homepage:||http://www.ladadi.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Offenbach, Aschaffenburg, Miltenberg, Odenwaldkreis, Bergstraße, Groß-Gerau, and the district-free city Darmstadt. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History The district was created in 1975 by merging the previous districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg. In 1964 partnership with the district North East Derbyshire (Britain) was started, in 1990 with the district Zwickauer Land in Saxony, Germany, and in 1995 with the Mladá Boleslav region in the Czech Republic. Geography The district is located in the Odenwald mountains. Most famous in the district is the Messel Pit, where many fossils in the oil shale of a Tertiary lake were found. The site is listed in the UNESCO world heritage list since 1995. Coat of arms The coat of arms show a lion in the top part, taken from the coat of arms of the counts of Katzenelnbogen. The lion holds a wheel, the symbol of state of Mainz. Both owned big parts of the districts area in the past. The 23 stars in the bottom represent the municipalities of the district. Towns and municipalities Towns Municipalities Babenhausen Dieburg Griesheim Groß-Bieberau Groß-Umstadt Ober-Ramstadt Reinheim Pfungstadt Weiterstadt Alsbach-Hähnlein Bickenbach Eppertshausen Erzhausen Fischbachtal Groß-Zimmern Messel Modautal Mühltal Münster Otzberg Roßdorf Schaafheim Seeheim-Jugenheim External links [Official website] Cities and rural districts in the Federal State of Hesse in Germany Cities Darmstadt | Frankfurt (Main) | Kassel | Offenbach | Wiesbaden Rural districts Bergstraße | Darmstadt-Dieburg | Fulda | Gießen | Groß-Gerau | Hersfeld-Rotenburg | Hochtaunuskreis | Kassel | Lahn-Dill-Kreis Limburg-Weilburg | Main-Kinzig-Kreis | Main-Taunus-Kreis | Marburg-Biedenkopf | Odenwaldkreis | Offenbach Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis | Schwalm-Eder-Kreis | Vogelsbergkreis | Waldeck-Frankenberg | Werra-Meißner-Kreis | Wetteraukreis   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: