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Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Saxony's third-largest city, called Karl-Marx-Stadt 1953–1990, first documented 1143, a major German machine-tool and textile center, the 'Saxon Manchester', and European Capital of Culture 2025.
Coburg
Coburg, Upper Franconia town in Bavaria, Germany, former residence of the dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; dominated by the Veste Coburg fortress, joined Bavaria by 1920 referendum, ancestral town of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln), Germany's fourth-largest city with about 1.1 million residents, a Rhine metropolis founded as a Roman colony, home of the Cologne Cathedral, Kölsch beer and dialect, Carnival, and a media, trade-fair and insurance economy rivaled in NRW only by Düsseldorf.
Cottbus (city)
Cottbus, in Lower Sorbian Chóśebuz, is an independent city on the River Spree in southern Brandenburg, Germany, the second largest in the state and the largest city of Lusatia.
Dachau, Bavaria
Dachau, Bavaria (Große Kreisstadt Dachau): Upper Bavarian town northwest of Munich on the Amper, 48,361 residents (2023), first recorded 805, artists' colony town, site of the first Nazi concentration camp and its 1965 memorial.
Darmstadt
Darmstadt, a city in southern Hesse, Germany, in the Rhine-Main region; official City of Science since 1997. Known for TU Darmstadt, ESA/ESOC, EUMETSAT, the UNESCO Mathildenhöhe Artists' Colony, and the element darmstadtium.
Deggingen
Deggingen, municipality in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, in the upper Filstal. Merovingian settlement, Helfenstein and Wiesensteig rule, Württemberg from 1806; elephant arms, baroque Holy Cross church, Roman fortlet Schonterhöhe.
Dessau
Dessau, city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, now part of Dessau-Roßlau (since 2007); residence of Anhalt-Dessau, home of the UNESCO Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, the 1787 Erdmannsdorff municipal cemetery, Moses Mendelssohn's birthplace, and the Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte.
Diersheim
Diersheim (Rheinau-Diersheim, Ortenaukreis, Germany), village on the right bank of the Rhine about 20 km northeast of Strasbourg, site of two 1st-century AD cremation cemeteries of the Suebi 'Oberrheingermanen', excavated in the 1930s (Oberfeld) and 2015-2020 (Diersheim II).
Dortmund
Dortmund, a kreisfreie city in North Rhine-Westphalia's Ruhr region, had 612,165 residents in 2025 and ranks ninth among German cities. A former coal, steel, and beer center, it is now a technology hub, home of Borussia Dortmund and Germany's largest stadium.
Dresden
Dresden, capital of Saxony on the Elbe, had 571,510 residents at end-2025 after its first population decline since 2014; known for the rebuilt Frauenkirche, Baroque old town, Silicon Saxony microelectronics cluster, and major art collections.
Duisburg
Duisburg, German city in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Rhine-Ruhr confluence; Europe's leading steel location and home of Duisport, the world's largest inland port; about 506,500 residents, first mentioned in 883.
Duisburg-Rheinhausen
Duisburg-Rheinhausen, a left-bank borough of Duisburg, Germany; former Krupp steelworks town (town rights 1934, closed 1993 after the 1987 workers' protest), now the Logport logistics site, with the Roman fortlet Werthausen on the UNESCO Lower German Limes.
Düren (city)
Düren is a Kreisstadt in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the Rur; about 94,500 residents, first recorded 747, paper industry since 1576, center destroyed in the 1944 air raid and rebuilt.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf (Dusseldorp), city on the Rhine and state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946; chartered 1288, sixth largest German city, 659,312 residents in 2025, major trade-fair, fashion, and Japanese business hub.
East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the Soviet sector of divided Berlin and the capital of the GDR from 1949 to 1990, walled off from West Berlin in 1961, rebuilt around Alexanderplatz, and reunified with the West in 1990.
Ebingen
Ebingen, now a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis, Germany, is documented from 793 (Ebinga) and hosts a Roman earth-and-timber cohort fort of the Alblimes of about 80 AD, plus an excavated early medieval village.
Eichstätt
Eichstätt, Große Kreisstadt in Upper Bavaria on the Altmühl, seat of the Diocese of Eichstätt founded around 740 by Willibald and home to the only Catholic university in the German-speaking area; former prince-bishopric, about 14,000 inhabitants.
Eislingen
Eislingen/Fils, a town in the Göppingen district of Baden-Württemberg on the river Fils; first recorded as Isininga in 861, made a town in 1933, with a Roman fort, the 181-million-year-old Fischsaurierfriedhof fossil site, and textile-industry heritage.
Emerkingen
Emerkingen is a village in the Danube valley about 35 km southwest of Ulm, Germany, first recorded in 805 and known for its Roman fort.
Erfurt
Erfurt, capital of Thuringia, Germany, first recorded 742 as Erphesfurt; home of the 1379 University of Erfurt where Luther studied, ICE rail hub since 2017, and ranked Germany's happiest large city in 2026.
Erlangen
Erlangen: kreisfreie Stadt in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; Huguenot New Town founded 1686, university founded 1743, Siemens seat since 1945; about 120,800 residents, 25.5% foreign nationals.
Essen
Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the Ruhr area, with about 590,000 residents, nine boroughs, and the UNESCO Zollverein coal mine complex; fourth largest city in NRW.
Essingen
Essingen names two German villages: one in the Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, near the Rems source and a Roman Weiherwiesen fort, and one in Rhineland-Palatinate near Landau; Essing in Bavaria is separate.
Esslingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
Esslingen am Neckar, a Große Kreisstadt southeast of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; first mentioned 777, a free imperial city until 1802, industrial from 1830; about 95,000 residents, seat of Landkreis Esslingen.
Euskirchen-Kreuzweingarten
Euskirchen-Kreuzweingarten, formerly Weingarten (Wingarden, 893), a district of Euskirchen, Germany, renamed 1926/27 for its Holy Cross veneration; known for the Alter Burgberg Iron Age ringwall, the Roman Eifel aqueduct section, a Roman villa, and the Heilig Kreuz parish church.
Flensburg
Flensburg (Danish: Flensborg) is Germany's northernmost city, a kreisfreie Stadt in Schleswig-Holstein on the Flensburg Firth near Denmark; about 96,300 residents, a 1284 charter, a historic rum trade, and the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite.
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, German city on the Main river in Hesse; first recorded as Franconofurd in 794, a free imperial city until 1866, now Germany's financial center with the ECB, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Messe Frankfurt, and 781,337 residents (end 2025).
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder), a kreisfreie city in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border, founded 1253, forms a twin city with Słubice across the Oder; population fell from 86,131 (1990) to about 56,600 (2025); home to Europa-Universität Viadrina.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau, a city of about 234,000 in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany, near the French and Swiss borders; home of the 1457 university and Germany's best-known "Green City" with Vauban, Rieselfeld, and a strong cycling and solar culture.