Hesse by Jialun Shen, Matthew Kinzer, Jacob Anderson

Place: Germany cultural center mid west Germany.


Number of inhabitants: 6,067,021

Size: 8100 sq miles

Economy: 318 Billion Us dollars ( 228.51 billions euro )

Main industries: automotive ( Opel ) textiles, chemicals, machinery, and metal goods as well as electrical products and scientific instruments.

GDP per Capita: 37,491 Euro

Big Cities: Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbac, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Kassel

Small Cities: Hann Mundeh, Bad Hersfeld, Marburg, GieBen, Wetzlar, Limburg,
Bad Homburg, Fulda, Russelsheim, Neu Isenburg, Dreieich, Rodgau, Maintal,
Hanau, Taunus-stein, Lamperthm, Bensheim, Viemhm

Country side Towns: Lorsch Beerfelden, Crbach, Hochst, Reinheim, pfungstadt,
Riedstadt, Eltville, Bad Schalbach, Karben, Bugingen, Bad Orb, Steinau,
Schluchten, Neuhof, Schotten, Hungen, Laubach, Butzbach, USingen, Weilburg,
 Elbtal, Herborn, Haiger, Dillenburg, Homburg, Busseck, Feinsungen, Lauterbach,
Schiltz, Niedraula, Alsfeld, Haiger

Before 1871, about 1000 years, the Holy Roman Empire existed in German history from 962 to 1806. The Central Hessian region was inhabited can trace back to the Paleolithic period. Hesse has no unified history. In the war of the Thuringian Succession, Hesse became a Landgraviate within the Holy Roman Empire. With the death of landgrave Philip, the territory was divided up by his sons. Afterwards, after the Holy Roman Empire dismantled, Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to the rank of a Grand Duchy in 1806. Then it was defeated by Prussia and the Grand Duchy joined the German Empire in 1871.

From 1871 to 1918, German Empire existed.

In 1871, the formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred. Then Hesse-Darmstadt joined the newly founded German Empire, and the last Grand Duke was forced from his throne at the end of World War I, and the states was renamed the People’s State of Hesse. It continued under its own dynasty until the German revolution of 1918.

From 1918 to 1948, Germany experienced Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. 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. 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. Then in 1946, Greater Hesse joined the federal republic and officially became Hessen today.

Hessen Germany (English name is Hesse) offers a huge scenic diversity. medieval towns, health spas, rolling hills, and a wide range of leisure activities. 

Hessen is well-known because of Europe's financial metropolis Frankfurt, and Germany's largest airport Rhein-Main.

North Hesse is fairy-tale country. The Brothers Grimm lived many years in Kassel, and collected the tales of the region.

Sababurg is known as the castle of Sleeping Beauty as it was surrounded by a 5km long and 3m high thorn hedge in the 16th century.

The Vogelsberg is one of the largest extinct volcanic fields on earth.

Leisure activities in Hessen include hiking, bicycling, fishing, watersports in summer. Skiing, especially cross-country skiing, and sledging are possible in many regions, when we have snow.

Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence

April 16, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany 

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr.

born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, West Germany

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