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Neuss
Neuss, Germany: Rhine-side city in North Rhine-Westphalia opposite Düsseldorf, Roman Novaesium (from 16 BC), 161,224 residents (2026), county seat of Rhein-Kreis Neuss, third-largest inland port.
Newel-Butzweiler
Butzweiler is a village in the municipality of Newel, Trier-Saarburg, Germany, known for the Roman Pützlöcher quarry and copper mine, a reconstructed Langmauer section, and the Römerpfad hiking trail.
Niemberg
Niemberg is a village of about 1,470 people in the Saalekreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, part of the town of Landsberg since 2010 and known for a Migration Period burial ground.
Norderstedt
Norderstedt, city in Kreis Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, on Hamburg's northern border; founded 1 January 1970 from Friedrichsgabe, Garstedt, Glashütte, and Harksheide; fourth-largest city in the state with about 83,000 inhabitants.
Nördlingen
Nördlingen, Bavarian town (Große Kreisstadt, Donau-Ries, ~20,400 residents) inside the 25 km Nördlinger Ries impact crater; former Free Imperial City with preserved town wall, Daniel tower, and suevite buildings.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria's second-largest city with about 547,000 residents, is the economic and cultural center of northern Bavaria, a former Free Imperial City, site of the Nazi party rallies, Nuremberg trials, and Germany's first railway.
Nussloch
Nussloch (Nußloch), a municipality of about 10,700 in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg, first documented 766 in the Lorscher Codex; lead-zinc-silver mining from Roman times to 1954 and limestone quarries shaped its history.
Oberdorla
Oberdorla is a village in the Thuringian Basin near Mühlhausen, Germany, lying at the geographic center of the country and known for its ancient sacrificial bog.
Obernburg
Obernburg am Main, a Bavarian town of about 8,800 in Miltenberg district, stands on a Roman Main Limes cohort fort (Nemaninga, Cohors IIII Aquitanorum) with a beneficiarius station; a town since 1313 under Mainz, UNESCO Limes World Heritage since 2005.
Offenbach (city)
Offenbach am Main is an independent city in Hesse, Germany, first documented in 977. It developed from a major leather goods center to a modern design-oriented city.
Oldenburg
Oldenburg (Oldb) is an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Hunte river; first recorded as Aldenburg in 1108, a former ducal residence, now about 177,000 residents and a university city.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a German city in Lower Saxony on the River Hase, founded by Charlemagne in 780, a former Hanseatic town and site of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, with about 165,000 inhabitants.
Paderborn
Paderborn, a city of 157,317 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, first recorded in 777. Known for its 1,200-year cathedral history, Germany's densest IT cluster in NRW, and the Pader springs feeding Germany's shortest river.
Passau
Passau (Dreiflüssestadt, "Venice of Bavaria") is an independent city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, at the Danube–Inn–Ilz confluence; 53,373 residents (2026), University of Passau, baroque old town, St. Stephen's Cathedral with the world's largest cathedral organ.
Pelm
Pelm is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Kyll river near Gerolstein, known for the Gallo-Roman Juddekirchhof temple sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Caiva in AD 124, plus the Kasselburg castle and a Roman villa rustica.
Potsdam
Potsdam, capital of Brandenburg, Germany, southwest of Berlin; first documented 993 as Poztupimi. Prussian residence city with UNESCO-listed Sanssouci palaces and parks, site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, about 188,000 residents on the Havel lakes.
Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Ottonian royal palatinate and capital, site of the 936 women's convent founded by Queen Mathilde, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town with over 1,300 timber-framed houses.
Rammersweier
Rammersweier, a wine-growing district of Offenburg, Germany, incorporated 1971, first recorded 1242 as Romeswilre; site of a small Flavian Roman fort and 11.5 x 4.3 m fort bath on the Kinzigtal road, discovered 1993.
Rastatt
Rastatt is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the seat of the district of Rastatt, known for its Baroque Residential Palace and the 1714 Treaty of Rastatt.
Ratingen
Ratingen, town in Kreis Mettmann, North Rhine-Westphalia, northeast of Düsseldorf; chartered 1276 by Count Adolf von Berg, site of the 1783/84 Cromford mill, first mechanical cotton spinning factory on the European continent; about 89,000 residents.
Ravensburg
Ravensburg is a Große Kreisstadt of about 50,500 people in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, between Lake Constance and the Allgäu. A former free imperial city (1276) and home of the Great Ravensburg Trading Company, it is known as the city of towers and gates and for Ravensburger games.
Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen, a city of about 120,000 in North Rhine-Westphalia at the Münsterland-Ruhr border, seat of Kreis Recklinghausen; first mentioned 1017, town since 1236, home of the Ruhrfestspiele since 1947.
Regensburg
Regensburg (Ratisbon) is a district-free Bavarian city at the Danube's northernmost point, founded as the Roman fortress Castra Regina in AD 179, seat of the Perpetual Imperial Diet 1663–1806, and a UNESCO World Heritage old town since 2006.
Remscheid
Remscheid, German city in North Rhine-Westphalia's Bergisches Land, about 40 km from Düsseldorf; smallest independent city in NRW with ~110,000 residents. Industrial toolmaking center, birthplace of Röntgen and the Mannesmann brothers, first mentioned 1132, city since 1808.
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a large district town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near the Swabian Alb, a former Free Imperial City with about 117,000 inhabitants, an industrial and university city, and home of the world's narrowest street.
Rheinberg
Rheinberg, a town in Kreis Wesel on the left Lower Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; former Electorate of Cologne toll and fortress town, first documented 1003, town rights 1232, Altes Rathaus 1449, Fossa Eugeniana endpoint.
Rostock
Rostock (Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock) is a Hanseatic city and kreisfreie Stadt on the Warnow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded 1218, largest city in the state, home of the 1419 University of Rostock and Germany's largest Baltic universal port.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber: medieval walled town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria; free imperial city from 1274, annexed to Bavaria 1802, 40–45% destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt; about 11,400 residents and over 2.5 million visitors a year.
Rüsselsheim
Rüsselsheim am Main, a Hessian town between Frankfurt and Mainz, site of the 1399 Katzenelnbogen fortress, the 1435 first Riesling record, and Adam Opel's 1862 factory that made it a carmaking center.
Saalfeld
Saalfeld/Saale is a Thuringian town of about 28,500 in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, first mentioned in 899, seat of the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld dukes, and known for the Feengrotten show mine.