This article refers to a state in Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. For other uses of the term, see Hesse (disambiguation).

Hessen Hesse
Flag	Coat of arms
Details
Location
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Administration
Country	Germany
NUTS Region	DE7
Capital	Wiesbaden
Largest city	Frankfurt
Minister-President	Roland Koch (Acting) (CDU)
Votes in Bundesrat	5 (of 69)
Basic statistics
Area	21,100 km² (8,147 sq mi)
Population	6,073,000 (09/2007)[1]
- Density	288 /km² (745 /sq mi)
Other information
GDP/ Nominal	€ 198 billion (2005)
Website	www.hessen.de

Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. This article is about the Coat of arms of the German state of Hesse. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, ( NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a Geocode Wiesbaden, a city in southwest Germany, is the capital of the state of Hesse. A minister-president (Ministerpräsident is the Head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments who presides over the council of ministers The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest Political party in Germany. The Bundesrat ("federal council" or "upper house of German parliament" is the representation of the 16 Federal States ( Bundesländer) of Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The state capital is Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden, a city in southwest Germany, is the capital of the state of Hesse. Hesse's largest city is nearby Frankfurt am Main. Hesse contributes the largest share to the Rhine Main Area.

Geography

Situated in western-central Germany, Hesse borders on the German states (starting from the north-west and proceeding clockwise) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen usually shortened to NRW, official short form NW is the westernmost and - in terms of population and economic output - the Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ch is pronounced before an s --> lies in north-western Germany and is second The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany. Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states ( Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz is one of the 16 federal states (German Bundesländer) of Germany.

The principal cities of Hesse include Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Hanau, Gießen, Wetzlar and Limburg in the greater Rhine Main Area, Fulda in the east, and Kassel and Marburg an der Lahn in the north. Wiesbaden, a city in southwest Germany, is the capital of the state of Hesse. Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany located on southside of the river Main. Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main. Gießen (ˈgiːsən is a town in the German federal state ( Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative Wetzlar is a town in the German federal state ( Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district Limburg an der Lahn (officially Limburg a d Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Fulda (ˈfʊlda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district ( Kreis Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district The Lahn is a River in Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine.

The most important rivers in Hesse are the Fulda and Eder rivers in the north, the Lahn in the central part of Hesse, and the Main and Rhine in the south. The Fulda (ˈfʊlda is a river in Hesse, Germany. It is one of two headstreams of the Weser (the other one being the Werra) The Eder is a 177 km long River in Germany, left tributary of the Fulda River. The Lahn is a River in Germany, a right tributary of the Rhine. The Main (maɪn is a River in Germany, 524 km (329 miles long (including White Main 574 km (357 mi and it is one of the more significant tributaries The Rhine (Rhein Rijn Rhin Reno Rain Rhenus is one of the longest and most important Rivers in Europe at 1320 kilometres (820 mi with an average discharge It is a hilly countryside with numerous mountain ranges, like the Rhön, the Westerwald, the Taunus, the Vogelsberg, the Knüll or the Spessart. The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains in central Germany, located in the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia. The Westerwald (ˈvɛstɐvalt is a low Mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate The Taunus is a low mountain range in Hesse, Germany that composes part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The Vogelsberg Mountains are a group of low mountains in central Germany, located in the middle of the state of Hesse. Knüll or Knüllgebirge is a small mountain range in Hesse, Germany. The Spessart is a low mountain range in northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse, Germany.

Most of the population of Hesse is in the southern part of Hesse in the Rhine Main Area. The Rhine borders Hesse on the southwest without running through the state, only one old arm -- the so-called Alt-Rhein -- runs through Hesse. The mountain range between the Main and the Neckar river is called the Odenwald. The Odenwald (ˈoːd(ənvalt is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The plain in between the rivers Main, Rhine and Neckar, and the Odenwald mountains is called the Ried.

See also List of places in Hesse. This is a list of geographical features in the state of Hesse, Germany.

Hessen is divided into 21 counties and 5 independent cities:

Districts (here with numbers) Independent cities (with their acronymes on license plates)

The most important rivers, mountains, and cities of Hesse

History

An early Celtic presence in what is now Hesse is indicated by a mid 5th century BC La Tène style burial uncovered at Glauberg. Kreis Bergstraße ("Mountain Road" is a Kreis ( district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Heppenheim (Bergstraße is the seat of Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Bergstraße on the edge of the Odenwald Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland Groß-Gerau is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Hesse ( Hessen in German Germany. Groß-Gerau is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving The Hochtaunuskreis is a Kreis ( District) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Also see Homburg. Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (official Bad Homburg v Main-Kinzig is a Kreis ( District) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Gelnhausen is a town and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Main-Taunus is a Kreis ( District) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Hofheim (officially known as Hofheim am Taunus) is a Frankfurt suburb and the administrive center of the Main-Taunus district in the south of the state The Odenwaldkreis is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Erbach is the district seat of the Odenwaldkreis (district in Hesse, Germany. Offenbach is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Hesse, Germany. Dietzenbach is a town in Hesse, Germany, capital of the district of Offenbach. Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis ( District) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927 is the capital of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. The Wetteraukreis is a Kreis ( District) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Friedberg ( Friedberg in der Wetterau) is a town and the capital of the Wetteraukreis district in Hesse, Germany. Gießen (ˈgiːsən is a Kreis ( District) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Gießen (ˈgiːsən is a town in the German federal state ( Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative Lahn-Dill is a Kreis ( District) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Wetzlar is a town in the German federal state ( Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis ( District) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Limburg an der Lahn (officially Limburg a d Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Marburg-Biedenkopf is a Kreis ( District) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district The Vogelsbergkreis is a Kreis ( District) in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Lauterbach is a town in the Vogelsbergkreis district of the federal state of Hesse in central Germany. Fulda (ˈfʊlda is a Kreis ( District) in the north-east of Hesse, Germany. Fulda (ˈfʊlda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district ( Kreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a Kreis ( District) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Bad Hersfeld is a Spa town and the capital of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in the north-eastern region of Hesse, Germany. Kassel is a Kreis ( District) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the Schwalm-Eder is a Kreis ( District) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Homberg is a small town in northern Hesse with about 15000 inhabitants and it is the seat of the Schwalm-Eder district Werra-Meißner is a Kreis ( District) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Eschwege (ˈɛʃveːgə is a town in the state of Hesse, Germany, situated on the river Werra. Waldeck-Frankenberg is a Kreis ( District) in the north of Hesse, Germany. Korbach, an over one thousand-year-old former Hanseatic town is the district seat of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse Germany Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany located on southside of the river Main. Wiesbaden, a city in southwest Germany, is the capital of the state of Hesse. Celts (ˈkɛlts or /ˈsɛlts/, see Names of the Celts The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site The Glauberg is a Celtic Oppidum in Hesse, Germany consisting of a fortified settlement and several burial mounds The region was later settled by the Germanic Chatti tribe in ca. The Germanic peoples are a historical group of Indo-European -speaking peoples originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Germanic The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland was near the upper Weser. the 1st century BC, and the name Hesse is a continuation of that tribal name. In the early Middle Ages, a Frankish gau comprising an area around Fritzlar and Kassel and a Saxon one further north were known as Hessengau. Fritzlar is a small German town (pop 15000 in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, 160 km (100 miles north of Frankfurt Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River in northern Hessen, Germany, one of the two sources of the In the 9th century the Saxon Hessengau also came under the rule of the Franconians. In the 12th century it was passed to Thuringia. The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen is located in central Germany.

In the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247-64), Hesse gained its independence and became a Landgraviate within the Holy Roman Empire. Landgrave ( Dutch landgraaf, German Landgraf; French landgrave; Latin comes magnus, comes patriae The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in It shortly rose to primary importance under Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous, who was one of the leaders of German Protestantism. Philip I of Hesse, ( 13 November 1504 - 31 March 1567) nicknamed der Großmütige (the " Magnanimous " was a leading Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. After Philip's death in 1567, the territory was divided up among his four sons from his first marriage (Philip was a bigamist) into four lines: Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Rheinfels and the also previously existing Hesse-Marburg. The term polygamy (a Greek word meaning "the practice of multiple marriage" is used in related ways in Social anthropology, Sociobiology, and The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. Philip II of Hesse-Rheinfels, also called Philip the Younger, (1541-1583 was the first and only Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent Principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 As the latter two lines died out quite soon (1583 and 1605, respectively), Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt were the two core states within the Hessian lands. Several collateral lines split off during the centuries, such as in 1622, when Hesse-Homburg split off from Hesse-Darmstadt. Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt to be ruled by his son although it did not become independent In the late 16th century, Kassel adopted Calvinism, while Darmstadt remained Lutheran and subsequently the two lines often found themselves on different sides of a conflict, most notably in the disputes over Hesse-Marburg and in the Thirty Years' War, when Darmstadt fought on the side of the Emperor, while Kassel sided with Sweden and France. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther The Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent Principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 For the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War see Char Bouba war. For the band see The 30 Years War. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired mercenaries from Hesse, commonly known as Hessians, to fight the rebels in America. In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the rank of an Electorate in 1803, but this remained without effect as the Holy Roman Empire was disbanded in 1806. The Holy Roman Empire ( HRE; German Heiliges Römisches Reich (HRR, Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium (SRI was a union of territories in The territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1806, but restored to the Elector in 1813. Westphalia (Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster While other Electors had gained other titles, becoming either Kings or Grand-dukes, the Elector of Hesse-Kassel alone retained the anachronistic dignity. The name survived in the term Kurhessen, denoting the region around Kassel. In 1866 it was annexed by Prussia, together with the Free City of Frankfurt, Hesse-Homburg and the duchy of Nassau, which established the province of Hesse-Nassau. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state For almost five centuries the German city of Frankfurt am Main was a city-state within two major Germanic states The Holy Roman Empire as the Free Nassau was a German state within the Holy Roman Empire and later in the German Confederation. The Province of Hesse-Nassau (Provinz Hessen-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868-1918 then a province of the Free State of Prussia

Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to the rank of a Grand Duchy in 1806. In the War of 1866, it fought on the side of Austria against Prussia, but retained its autonomy in defeat, because a greater part of the country was situated south of the Main river and Prussia did not dare to expand beyond the Main line as this might have provoked France. The Austro-Prussian Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state But the parts of Hesse-Darmstadt north of the Main river (the region around the town of Gießen, commonly called Oberhessen) were incorporated in the Norddeutscher Bund, a tight federation of German states, established by Prussia in 1867. Gießen (ˈgiːsən is a town in the German federal state ( Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative The North German Confederation (Norddeutscher Bund came into existence in August 1866 as a military alliance of 22 states of northern Germany with the Kingdom of In 1871 the rest of the Grand Duchy joined the German Empire. The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from 1871 to 1918 when it was a semi- Constitutional monarchy: beginning with the Unification Around the turn of the century, Darmstadt was one of the centres of the Jugendstil. Art Nouveau ( nu vo anglicised /ˈɑːt nuːvəu/ ( French for 'new art' also known as Jugendstil ( German for 'youth style' is an international

Until 1907, the Grand Duchy of Hesse used only the Hessian red and white lion as its coat-of-arms

The revolution of 1918 transformed Hesse-Darmstadt from a monarchy to a republic, which officially renamed itself to "Volksstaat Hessen" (People's State of Hesse). The People's State of Hesse (Volksstaat Hessen was the name of the German state of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1918 until 1945 The parts of Hesse-Darmstadt on the western banks of the Rhine (province Rheinhessen) were occupied by French troops until 1930 under the terms of the Versailles peace treaty that officially ended WWI in 1919.

After World War II the Hessian territory left of the Rhine was again occupied by France, whereas the rest of the country was part of the US occupation zone. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The French separated their part of Hesse from the rest of the country and incorporated it into the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). The United States, on the other side, proclaimed the state of Greater Hesse (Groß-Hessen) on 19 September 1945, out of Hesse-Darmstadt and most of the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. Greater Hesse (Groß-Hessen was the provisional name given for a section of German territory created by the US military administration in at the end of World War II. The Province of Hesse-Nassau (Provinz Hessen-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868-1918 then a province of the Free State of Prussia On December 4, 1946 Groß-Hessen was officially renamed Hessen. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[2] See also Rulers of Hesse. Hesse (Hessen in German is a region of west-central Germany. Originally the western part of the Landgraviate of Thuringia, in the mid 13th century it was

Name

The state is called Hessen in German and Hesse in English; the English name for the state was taken from French. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people An inhabitant of the state is a Hesse (masculine) or Hessin (feminine) in German and a Hessian in English (see Hessian troops). Occasionally the German term Hessen is also used in English. Hessia is another variant, although rarely used. Hessia is an old anglicizing of the German word "Hessen", still found in mentions of the Hessian troops fighting as mercenaries on the side of George III Hesse refers to the Germanic tribe of the Chatti, who settled in the region in the first centuries B. The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland was near the upper Weser. C.

Politics

Main article: Politics of Hesse

The Politics of Hesse takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Hesse. The Politics of Hesse takes place within a framework of a Federal parliamentary Representative democratic Republic, where the Federal Government of The state has a multi-party system where the two main parties are the rightist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

In the Hesse state election of 2008, the outgoing Prime Minister, Roland Koch (CDU), lost his majority in the state diet (Landtag of Hesse). State elections for the Landtag of Hesse were held in Hesse on 27 January 2008. Roland Koch (born March 24 1958 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German Politician and acting Minister-President of Elections Beratender Landesausschuss After World War II, the state of Hesse was restored by the US military administration under the name of Greater

State Anthem

The official state song of Hesse is called "Hessenlied" (Song of Hesse), but is widely unknown. It was written by Carl Preser

"Ich kenne ein Land, so reich und so schön, voll goldener Ähren die Felder, dort grünen im Tal bis zu sonnigen Höh`n viel dunkele, duftige Wälder. Dort hab ich als Kind an der Mutter Hand in Blüten und Blumen gesessen. Ich grüß’ Dich, du Heimat, du herrliches Land, Herz Deutschlands, mein blühendes Hessenland.

Vom Main bis zur Weser, Werra und Lahn ein Land voller blühender Auen, dort glänzen die Städte, die wir alle sahn, sind herrlich im Lichte zu schauen. Dort hab ich als Kind an der Mutter Hand in Blüten und Blumen gesessen. Ich grüß’ Dich, du Heimat, du herrliches Land, Herz Deutschlands, mein blühendes Hessenland. "

(1828-1910, text) and Albrecht Brede (1834-1920, melody). [1]

TV & radio stations

Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) is the main ARD broadcaster in Hesse, providing a third TV programme as well as its local radio stations ( HR 1, HR 2, HR 3, HR 4, you fm and HR info ). Karte Mitgliedsrundfunkstationen des ARDsvg|right|thumb|Map of the nine regional broadcasting members of Germany's ARD radio/TV network ARD ( Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland &ndash "Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of Other than HR, ZDF and other privately run TV stations flourish. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ("Second German Television" ZDF, is a public service German Television channel based in Mainz. Among the commercial radio stations that are active in Hesse are Hit Radio FFH, Planet Radio, Harmony FM, SKY Radio and Main FM.

Traffic and public transportation

Hesse has one of the best transportation infrastructures in Europe. Many trans-European and German interstate freeways cross Hesse as well as high-speed train lines and many important trans-European waterways. Frankfurt International Airport is Germany's biggest airport and number three in Europe (after London and Paris). Frankfurt am Main International Airport, known in German as Flughafen Frankfurt am Main or Rhein-Main-Flughafen and in rest of Europe

Death penalty

The death penalty is still mentioned in the constitution of Hesse, as the Hessian constitution was ratified in 1946, when the death penalty was still part of the German penal code (and carried out as well). Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. The Hesse constitution signed on the December 1, 1946 is the constitution for the Hesse state Because the 1949 federal constitution provides for the abolition of the death penalty (Art. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland is the Constitution of Germany. 102) and because of the supremacy of the federal constitution (Art. 31, incidentally the two shortest articles in the whole constitution), the Hessian constitutional articles still mentioning the death penalty are de facto obsolete. Nonetheless, no politician has yet proposed to formally abolish the death penalty in Hesse because that would require a plebiscite.

Trivia

• Locals from the area speak the Rhine Franconian dialect known as Hessisch. Rhine Franconian (German Rheinfränkisch) or Rhenish Franconian, is a Dialect family of West Central German.

• The chemical element of Hassium is named for Hesse alongside with Darmstadtium for the Hessian City of Darmstadt. Hassium (ˈhæsiəm or /ˈhɑːsiəm/ is a Synthetic element in the Periodic table that has the symbol Hs and Atomic number 108 Darmstadtium (dɑrmˈʃtætiəm formerly known as Ununnilium is a Chemical element with the symbol Ds and Atomic number 110 Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland

• Hesse is a sister state of Wisconsin, one of the states of the United States of America

• During the 17th and 18th centuries thousands of Hessians fought in the American Revolution and other conflicts as soldiers of fortune (though usually conscripted, the pay going to their Lord) on both sides^[3]. Wisconsin ( or wɪˈskɑnsɨn (French Ouisconsin) is one of the fifty United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

See also

• Landgraviate of Hesse
• Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Hesse-Kassel
• Hessische Bergstrasse

References

1. ^ State population. The Landgraviate of Hesse (Landgrafschaft Hessen was a Landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire. The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt was a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. Portal of the Federal Statistics Office Germany. Retrieved on 2007-04-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
2. ^ Hessen - 60 stolze Jahre - Zeittafel 1945/1946. Retrieved on 2006-12-01. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican
3. ^ Die verkauften Hessen (German text). Retrieved on 2007-19-02. Events 197 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum

External links

• Official government portal
• 360 degree virtual trip through the Rhön - part of eastern Hesse
• Hesse. Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia