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Darmstadt in South Hesse

Part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region with the financial center of Frankfurt and Germany's largest airport.

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Residence and City of Culture

  • 450 years capital and residence of Hessian landgraves and grand dukes
  • Center of Art Nouveau since 1901 – Ensemble on the way to becoming a World Heritage Site!

The Science City (since 1997)

  • Darmstadtium: Element discovered in 1994 in the chemical periodic table
  • “Darmstadtium“ as our new science and convention center
  • Technical University of Darmstadt and two other universities of applied sciences with a total of 600 professors and 45.000 students
  • Over 25 world-class scientific institutions (e.g. GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, ESOC and EUMETSAT) with a focus on the telecommunications sector and software development

The Digital City (since 2017)

  • Winner of Bitkom competition “Digital City”
  • Honors of EU Commission as 7th most powerful European ?top center in ICT
  • Home to Europe's leading and largest software cluster
  • Leading cybersecurity research: Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP)