Municipalities of Germany

Heilbronn

Heilbronn, a county-free city on the Neckar in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, had 133,360 residents at end-2025. Known for its imperial-city history, the 1944 air raid, wine, and top German purchasing power.

Hemmoor

Hemmoor, a town in Landkreis Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, on the Oste river; namesake of the Miocene Hemmoorium stage, home of the Roman Hemmoor buckets, the Kreidesee diving lake, and the Osten-Hemmoor transporter bridge.

Heppenheim

Heppenheim, a Hessian district town on the Bergstrasse with about 28,000 residents, first mentioned in 755, known for Starkenburg castle (1065), St. Peter's "Dom der Bergstraße", and wine-growing.

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia: kreisfreie Stadt in the central Ruhr area, 156,266 inhabitants on 51.42 km², fourth-densest German city; former coal town (Shamrock, Mont-Cenis), chartered 1897, now logistics and health economy.

Herzogenaurach

Herzogenaurach, Bavarian town in district Erlangen-Höchstadt near Nuremberg, home of Adidas and Puma headquarters founded by the rival Dassler brothers; also Schaeffler/INA precision engineering.

Hof, Bavaria

Hof (Bavaria) is a county-level town in Upper Franconia on the Saale, near the Saxon and Czech borders. About 46,400 residents; medieval charter of 1319, textile heritage, Iron Curtain border town, 1989 refugee gateway.

Hofheim

Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany: district town 18 km from Frankfurt, with Palaeolithic finds, the Michelsberg Kapellenberg hilltop settlement, Roman Erdlager and Steinkastell forts, first mentioned 1254, town charter 1352.

Hohberg

Hohberg is a municipality in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed from Diersburg, Hofweier, and Niederschopfheim; known for its excavated Roman road station near Niederschopfheim, built about 50 AD on the Basel–Mainz road. Distinct from Hohberg (Oberzent) in Hesse and Am Hohberg in Saxony.

Hürth

Hürth, Germany: town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, near Cologne; formed 1930 from six municipalities, town rights 1978; about 61,700 residents; former lignite mining and briquette industry, now a Cologne commuter and TV production center.

Igel

Igel is a Moselle village in Rhineland-Palatinate near Trier, first documented 929 as Villa Agullia, home of the 23-meter Roman Igeler Säule tomb of the Secundinii cloth merchants, UNESCO-listed since 1986, and the Grutenhäuschen burial temple.

Imsbach

Imsbach, a village of about 1,000 people on the southern slope of the Donnersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; former mining village (Bergmannsdorf) with iron mining from Roman times, copper, silver, and cobalt from the 15th century, mining ended in the 1920s, now a mining heritage site with visitor mines Weiße Grube and Grube Maria.

Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is a city in Bavaria, Germany, on the Danube north of Munich, historically a ducal residence and fortress and today the home of Audi.

Iserlohn

Iserlohn is a town of about 91,300 people in the Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; granted town rights around 1250 by the Counts of the Mark, historically a metalworking center, also called Waldstadt (forest city).

Jagsthausen

Jagsthausen, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg's Heilbronn district on the Jagst river, site of the Götzenburg where Götz von Berlichingen was born in 1480 and of a Roman cohort fort (Cohors I Germanorum) on the UNESCO Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.

Jena

Jena, Thuringia's second-largest city on the Saale, is a university and optics center (Lichtstadt). Founded around 1230, home of the 1558 university, Zeiss, Schott, and Abbe; about 109,000 residents.

Jülich

Jülich, town in Kreis Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rur; about 35,000 residents, 90.39 km². Roman Juliacum, Pasqualini's Renaissance citadel, and Forschungszentrum Jülich research center.

Kaiserslautern

Kaiserslautern, a city of about 100,000 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, named after the Lauter river; imperial palace under Barbarossa, Speyer town rights 1276, former Palatinate industrial center, university city since 1970.

Kall

Kall, Eifel municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for a Roman Buntsandstein quarry (2nd/3rd century AD), over 2,000 medieval iron-ore pits (Pingen), the Roman Eifel water pipeline, and the Frankish Kall-Sistig cemetery.

Karben

Karben, a town in the Wetteraukreis, Hesse, Germany, formed 1970-1972 from seven villages; name Carben first documented in an 827 Lorsch donation charter; Roman fort at Okarben.

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe, the Fächerstadt, is a southwest German city founded 17 June 1715 by Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach around a 32-avenue fan plan; seat of Germany's federal courts since 1950/51, home of KIT, and a UNESCO City of Media Arts.

Kassel

Kassel is a district-free city in northern Hesse, Germany, first recorded as Chassalla in 913. Known as the documenta city and Brothers Grimm city, it has about 197,000 residents and ranked Germany's happiest large city in 2025.

Kiel

Kiel, historically Kilonia, is the state capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, lying on the Baltic Sea with about 251,000 inhabitants, a major port, and four universities.

Kippenheim

Kippenheim, a municipality in Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg (5,534 residents, 20.85 km²), first recorded 762/763 as Chippinheim, known for its restored former synagogue memorial, Schmieheim castle, and a Roman mansio.

Koblenz

Koblenz is a kreisfreie city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the Rhine-Moselle confluence (Deutsches Eck). About 113,000 residents; Roman origin as Confluentes; service and administration hub with UNESCO Upper Middle Rhine Valley tourism.

Köln-Marienburg

Köln-Marienburg, a Cologne district in borough Rodenkirchen, hosts the Roman Alteburg, main base of the classis Germanica fleet (7.36 ha, UNESCO Lower Germanic Limes), plus a villa colony and Prussian Zwischenwerk VIIIb fortress museum.

Konstanz

Konstanz (Constance), a university city of about 87,000 in Baden-Württemberg on Lake Constance's southern shore, bordering Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; largest city on the lake, seat of the Council of Constance 1414–1418.

Korschenbroich-Liedberg

Korschenbroich-Liedberg, a district of Korschenbroich in Rhein-Kreis Neuss, Germany, sits on the Liedberg, a ~30 m quartzite hill with a nature reserve, Schloss Liedberg, and a historic half-timbered village core, first recorded in 1166.

Kottenheim

Kottenheim, an Ortsgemeinde in the Verbandsgemeinde Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; first mentioned 1008; basalt quarrying from the Bellerberg volcano since the Neolithic; Mühlsteinrevier UNESCO bid rejected 2023.

Kruft

Kruft is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the Laacher See, with two millennia of volcanic tuff mining, first recorded in 1093.