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Friesenheim
Friesenheim, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, site of a Roman road station (mansio) at Bannstude on the Augst–Mainz road, discovered from a train in 1970, excavated 1973–1977, with a Diana Abnoba temple.
Frittlingen
Frittlingen is a municipality of 2,127 residents in the Tuttlingen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, first documented in 797 and known for its surgical instrument industry.
Fulda
Fulda, a baroque town in eastern Hesse, Germany, on the river Fulda; founded around a Benedictine monastery (744) and town charter (774). About 71,000 residents, Fulda Cathedral with St Boniface's tomb, St Michael's Church, and Hochschule Fulda distinguish it.
Fürth, Bavaria
Fürth (Bavaria): kreisfreie city in Middle Franconia, Nuremberg–Erlangen triangle, Kleeblattstadt. First mentioned 1007; Adler railway 1835; Quelle and Grundig; ~132,600 residents (2025); climate-neutral by 2040.
Garching
Garching bei München is a town in the Munich district of Upper Bavaria, north of Munich, first recorded around 1020 (or 915) as Gouvirihhinga. It hosts the TUM research campus with over 7,500 staff and 20,300 students, the 1957 Atom-Ei reactor, and three U6 stations.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavarian market town at the foot of the Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany's highest mountain, about 90 km from Munich. Formed by merging Garmisch and Partenkirchen in January 1935; hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics; major ski and tourism resort with housing pressure.
Geislingen
Geislingen an der Steige, a town of about 26,800 in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; founded by the Counts of Helfenstein, first named 1108, Ulm 1396-1802, industrialized via WMF.
Gelnhausen
Gelnhausen (Barbarossastadt) is a Hessian town founded in 1170 by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa; site of the 1180 Gelnhausen Document against Henry the Lion, the Kaiserpfalz, and Grimmelshausen's birthplace.
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen, a Ruhr city in North Rhine-Westphalia with about 265,000 residents, chartered in 1875, once called the City of a Thousand Fires for its coal and steel industry, now focused on urban renewal.
Gera
Gera, kreisfreie city in eastern Thuringia, Germany, on the Weiße Elster; third largest Thuringian city, first documented 995, former Reuss residence city, Otto Dix's birthplace, about 95,000 residents.
Gerlachsheim
Gerlachsheim, a village in the Tauber valley, now a district of Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg; first recorded 1209 as Gerlagesheim, seat of an Alemannic noble family, and home of a Premonstratensian priory with a Baroque church of 1723-1730.
Gernsheim
Gernsheim (Schöfferstadt), town in Kreis Groß-Gerau, Hesse, Germany, on the Rhine; first recorded 852, town rights 1356, birthplace of Peter Schöffer, and site of a Roman cohort fort (70/80–110/120 AD) and vicus.
Gießen
Gießen, university city in central Hesse on the Lahn, about 92,000 residents, youngest city in Hesse (average age 38), Germany's top student city with roughly 37,000 students; university founded 1607, Justus Liebig professor there 1824–1852.
Göllheim
Göllheim is a North Palatinate village in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, first recorded as Gylnheim in 819; site of the 1298 Battle of Hasenbühl where King Adolf of Nassau fell, marked by the Königskreuz.
Gomadingen
Gomadingen, also Gemeinde Gomadingen, is a municipality in the Reutlingen district, Baden-Württemberg, in the Große Lauter valley on the Swabian Alb, with seven Ortsteile including Grafeneck, site of the Aktion T4 memorial, and the Marbach state stud.
Görlitz
Görlitz (Zhorjelc, Zgorzelec) is Germany's easternmost city, in Saxony on the Lusatian Neisse, with 55,065 residents, over 4,000 listed buildings, the twin city Zgorzelec, and the film nickname Görliwood.
Gotha
Gotha, Thuringian city in central Germany west of Erfurt, first mentioned 775 as villa gotaha; ducal capital of Saxe-Gotha 1640-1918; 45,832 residents (2022 census); Friedenstein Palace and Gotha Research Library.
Göttingen
Göttingen, Lower Saxony university city on the Leine, home of Georg-August-Universität (founded 1737) with 45 Nobel laureates, five Max Planck Institutes, and the Gänseliesel landmark.
Greifswald
Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald) is a Baltic Sea university and Hanseatic city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: founded near Eldena Abbey in 1199, Hanseatic from 1278, university since 1456, Swedish 1648–1815, birthplace of Caspar David Friedrich.
Guben
Guben is a town in Brandenburg's Spree-Neiße district on the Lusatian Neisse, twin town of Polish Gubin. Chartered 1235, famed for Wilke's weatherproof felt hats and GDR chemical fibres; about 16,000 residents.
Gütersloh
Gütersloh, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and Kreisstadt since 1973; first recorded 1184, town since 1825, home of Bertelsmann and Miele, over 100,000 inhabitants since 2016.
Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hagen (Stadt der FernUniversität) is an independent city of about 190,000 in Arnsberg district, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the southern edge of the Ruhr; a former steel city with the FernUniversität, 42% green space, and the Hagen-Pakt housing program.
Hagenow
Hagenow is a town in Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, about 30 km southwest of Schwerin; seat of Amt Hagenow-Land. First recorded 1194, 11,855 residents (2022), known for shoemaking, Roman Iron Age graves, and the Alte Synagoge.
Halle (Saale)
Halle (Saale) is Saxony-Anhalt's second-largest city, 226,186 inhabitants in 2025, on the Saale river. First mentioned in 806, birthplace of Handel (1685), seat of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (founded 1694), and 2024's fastest-growing district economy in the state.
Hamburg
Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg), Germany's second-largest city and a city-state of 1.87 million on the lower Elbe; Hanseatic trading port, seven districts, 5.45-million metropolitan region, major port economy.
Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia
Hamm (Westfalen) is a district-free city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded 1226 by Count Adolf von der Mark; about 179,000 inhabitants, railway and wire-industry hub of the northeastern Ruhr with collieries de Wendel, Maximilian, Radbod, and Sachsen.
Hanau
Hanau, a city in Hesse, Germany, in the FrankfurtRheinMain region and birthplace of the Brothers Grimm; a kreisfreie Stadt since 1 January 2026 after leaving the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, with about 98,000-107,000 residents.
Hanover
Hanover (Hannover), capital of Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Leine River; about 558,000 residents, host of the world's largest trade fair grounds, in personal union with Britain 1714–1837.
Heftrich
Heftrich is a village in the eastern Hintertaunus in Germany, first recorded in 1234 and granted town rights by Emperor Charles IV in 1367; its population was 1,578 in 2021.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg, a city of about 160,000 in Baden-Württemberg on the Neckar river, home of Germany's oldest university (1386), roughly 39,000 students, major research institutes, and about 13.9 million annual visitors.