Lahn-Dill-Kreis

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Lahn-Dill-Kreis

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State:	Hesse
Capital:	Wetzlar } } |- | Area:||1,066.51 km² |- | Inhabitants:||263,054 (2002) |- | pop. density:||247 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||LDK (before 1991 L) |- | Homepage:||http://www.lahn-dill-kreis.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Lahn-Dill is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Siegen-Wittgenstein, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen, Wetteraukreis, Hochtaunuskreis, Limburg-Weilburg, Westerwaldkreis. Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5 External links History In 1977 the district Gießen was merged with the districts Wetzlar and Dillkreis to the new Lahn-Dill-Kreis. However this big district wasn't popular, so in 1979 Giessen was split from it. Geography The main rivers of the district are the Lahn and the Dill (river), which also gave it the name. It is mountain landscape with the Westerwald in the west, the Taunus in the east and the Rothaargebirge of the Sauerland in the north. The highest elevation with 671 m is near Rittershausen (part of Dietzhölztal), the lowest with 135 is in the Lahn valley in Biskirchen (part of the city Leun). Coat of arms The coat of arms shows the imperial eagle in the top, a sign for the imperial city Wetzlar. The bottom part - taken from the arms of the previous Dillkreis - shows the lion of Nassau and the horn of the princes of Orange-Nassau, which later became the Dutch royal family. Dillenburg was the capital of the county of Nassau and later of Nassau-Orange. Towns and municipalities Towns Municipalities Aßlar Braunfels Dillenburg Haiger Herborn Leun Solms Wetzlar Bischoffen Breitscheid Dietzhölztal Driedorf Ehringshausen Eschenburg Greifenstein Hohenahr Hüttenberg Lahnau Mittenaar Schöffengrund Siegbach Sinn Waldsolms External links [Official website] (German) 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: