Giessen
Seat of Landkreis Gießen and city in Hesse, Germany
Also known as Gießen
- Country
- Germany
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- , Nazi Germany(1933–1945)
- Germany
- Located in
- Population
- 88,544(December 31, 2025)
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- , 89,179(December 31, 2024)
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Sources- 1.Stated in register of German municipalities (2024)Retrieved 2026-06-29
- , 94,996(December 31, 2023)
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Sources- 1.Stated in register of German municipalities (2023)Retrieved 2024-11-16
- +6 more
- 88,544(December 31, 2025)
- Area
- 72.55 km²(December 31, 2017)
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Sources- 1.“Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)”destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/LaenderRegionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Administrativ/Archiv/GVAuszugQ/AuszugGV4QAktuell.htmlRetrieved 2019-03-10
- , 72.6M m²
- 72.55 km²(December 31, 2017)
- Elevation
- 155 m
- Head of government
- Frank-Tilo Becher(since 2021)
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Sources- 1.giessen.de/Rathaus/Politik-Gremien/Magistrat/Retrieved 2025-03-29
- , Dietlind Grabe(2009–2021)
- Frank-Tilo Becher(since 2021)
- Founded
- 1152
- Postal code
- 35390–35398
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
112 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
- Wenzhou(since 2011)
- Hradec Králové(since 1990)
- Gödöllő
- Netanya(since 1978)
- Ferrara
- San Juan del Sur
- Winchester
- Waterloo
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- Native label
- Gießen
- Official name
- Gießen
- Member of
- Climate Alliance(since 2007)
- Mayors for Peace(since 1988)
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Sources- 1.mayorsforpeace.org/english/membercity/map/europe.htmlRetrieved 2019-07-04
- Hessischer Städtetag
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- Local dialing code
- 06403
- 0641
- Replaced by
- Lahn(1977–1979)
- Hashtag
- Gießen
On other databases
46 identifiers linking Giessen across the web's reference databases
- Alvin IDalvin-place:1245
- ArchINFORM location ID7855
- BHCL UUID5d7e1f6a-e1a1-4aa2-adfa-c431e2c77b59
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDgiessen-40
- Early Modern Letters Online location IDecb57346-4a2d-4006-a5a8-e0a7058585a3
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Giessen-Germany
- Facebook location ID110305888999535
- FactGrid item IDQ10364
- FAST ID1312617
- Freebase ID/m/022xzn
- GeoNames ID6559130
- German municipality key06531005
- German regional key065310005005
- GND ID4020989-1
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) IDGIESENJO40IO
- Instagram location ID213706803
- Instagram usernamegiessen.de
- J9U entity ID987007261759405171
- Klimadashboard.de region ID68f4ea6b-1e19-4f71-832e-4086eac7f9e4
- KSW place ID77931
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID8116
- Lex IDGießen
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80083437
- Museum-digital place ID1741
- MusicBrainz area IDbdfef083-f06c-44fe-b2a6-1d4da9d15ae6
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/6DCA4650-3D7C-44E7-A132-8800CE1E1634
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000053107
- NL CR AUT IDge289025
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3905412
- OpenStreetMap node ID25438345
- OpenStreetMap relation ID418617
- OSM Name Suggestion Index IDstadtgiessen-127a2c
- Pinakes city ID213
- Provenio UUIDd36f6aec-2709-4418-8769-a4bb8172208b
- Quora topic IDGießen
- SBN place IDBVEL001238
- SNARC IDQ78639
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDgeografico/1202211
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ID4JELCY42ZNDLBISRS6O5RSH7JI
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044943
- UN/LOCODEDEGIE
- VIAF cluster ID163480438
- Who's on First ID101748589
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJcwyBrk7JhYjHMV4k8wG3
- Yale LUX IDplace/745baf55-16ab-479b-81c5-82894ab4d6b6
- YSO ID186110
