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This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany's sixteen states are further subdivided into 413 districts of which 112 are urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) – cities which constitute a district in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. Kreisfreie Städte are comparable to independent cities in the English-speaking world.

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Baden Freiburg im Breisgau Heidelberg

Heilbronn Karlsruhe Mannheim

Pforzheim Stuttgart Ulm

Bavaria

Amberg Ansbach Aschaffenburg Augsburg Bamberg Bayreuth Coburg Erlangen Fürth

Hof Ingolstadt Kaufbeuren Kempten (Allgäu) Landshut Memmingen Munich Nuremberg

Passau Regensburg Rosenheim Schwabach Schweinfurt Straubing Weiden in der Oberpfalz Würzburg

Berlin

Berlin

Brandenburg

• Brandenburg
• Cottbus
• Frankfurt (Oder)
• Potsdam

Bremen

• Bremen
• Bremerhaven

Hamburg

• Hamburg

Hesse

• Darmstadt
• Frankfurt am Main
• Kassel
• Offenbach am Main
• Wiesbaden

Lower Saxony

Braunschweig Delmenhorst Emden Göttingen ¹ Hannover ²

Oldenburg Osnabrück Salzgitter Wilhelmshaven Wolfsburg

¹ following the “Göttingen Law” of January 1, 1964, the town of Göttingen is incorporated into the district (Landkreis) of Göttingen, but the rules on urban districts still apply, as long as no other rules exist.
² following the “Law on the region of Hannover”, Hannover counts since November 1, 2001 as an urban district as long as no other rules apply.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Greifswald Neubrandenburg Rostock

Schwerin Stralsund Wismar

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen ¹ Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bottrop Dortmund Düsseldorf Duisburg

Essen Gelsenkirchen Hagen Hamm Herne Cologne Krefeld Leverkusen

Mönchengladbach Mülheim an der Ruhr Münster Oberhausen Remscheid Solingen Wuppertal

¹ The town of Aachen will become incorporated into the Aachen Regional Federation on October 21, 2009.

Rhineland-Palatinate

Frankenthal Kaiserslautern Koblenz Landau

Ludwigshafen Mainz Neustadt an der Weinstraße Pirmasens

Speyer Trier Worms Zweibrücken

Saarland
There are no longer any urban districts. The town of Saarbrücken used to be an urban district but became incorporated into the Saarbrücken Town Federation on January 1, 1974.

Saxony

Chemnitz Dresden Leipzig

Görlitz1 (merged with Löbau-Zittau and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis) Hoyerswerda1 (merged with Kamenz (district) and Bautzen (district)) Plauen1 (merged with the Vogtlandkreis) Zwickau1 (merged with the Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land)

¹The urban districts of Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Plauen und Zwickau lost their status as „kreisfreie Stadt“ on 1 August 2008 in a reform of the Saxon districts.

Saxony-Anhalt

• Dessau-Roßlau
• Halle (Saale)
• Magdeburg

Schleswig-Holstein

• Flensburg
• Kiel
• Lübeck
• Neumünster

Thuringia

Eisenach Erfurt Gera

Jena Suhl Weimar

[edit] See also

• Districts of Germany
• List of German rural districts