Urban Districts of Germany

This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany's sixteen states are further subdivided into 402 districts of which 107 are urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) – cities which constitute a district in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. Kreisfreie Städte are comparable to independent cities or unitary authorities in the English-speaking world. The number comprises the city-states of Berlin and Hamburg, also constituent states of Germany, as well as Bremen and Bremerhaven forming the two-cities-state of Bremen.

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
  • 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

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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  • Rostock
  • Schwerin

North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Aachen ¹
  • 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

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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 ¹

  • Chemnitz
  • Dresden
  • Leipzig

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Saxony-Anhalt

  • Dessau-Roßlau
  • Halle (Saale)
  • Magdeburg

Schleswig-Holstein

  • Flensburg
  • Kiel
  • Lübeck
  • Neumünster

Thuringia

  • Eisenach
  • Erfurt
  • Gera
  • Jena
  • Suhl
  • Weimar

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