List of the smallest municipalities in Germany
The list of the smallest municipalities in Germany provides an overview of the 101 municipalities that have the smallest area in Germany . A further overview shows the smallest municipalities in the federal states . All municipalities that are administratively independent are taken into account.
Smallest municipalities in Germany
The 101 municipalities with the smallest area are spread across five federal states: Rhineland-Palatinate (85), Schleswig-Holstein (9), Thuringia (5), Bavaria (1) and Lower Saxony (1). The reason: In the course of the regional reform , especially in Rhineland-Palatinate, many small municipalities were not incorporated and have therefore remained independent. In the other federal states, places of this size were mostly attached to other municipalities.
All information in the following table is from the Federal Statistical Office (territorial status: January 1, 2019).
The smallest municipalities in the federal states
All municipalities with the smallest area in the respective federal state are listed.
state | Smallest community |
district | Area in km² |
---|---|---|---|
Baden-Württemberg | Wembach | Loerrach | 1.80 |
Bavaria | Buckenhof | Erlangen-Höchstadt | 1.39 |
Brandenburg | Eichwalde | Dahme-Spreewald | 2.79 |
Bremen | Bremerhaven | District-free city | 101.53 |
Hesse | Sneezes | kassel | 4.06 |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Pingelshagen | Northwest Mecklenburg | 2.08 |
Lower Saxony | Buchholz (near Stadthagen) | Schaumburg | 1.77 |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Schwelm | Ennepe-Ruhr district | 20.49 |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Martinstein | Bad Kreuznach | 0.39 |
Saarland | Bous (Saar) | Saarlouis | 7.63 |
Saxony | Rathen | Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains | 3.56 |
Saxony-Anhalt | Ahlsdorf | Mansfeld-Südharz | 5.09 |
Schleswig-Holstein | Arnis | Schleswig-Flensburg | 0.45 |
Thuringia | Eichstruth | Eichsfeld | 1.33 |
See also
- List of the smallest cities in Germany
- List of the smallest municipalities in Germany by population
- List of the smallest cities in Germany by population
- List of the 100 largest municipalities in Germany
- List of the 100 largest municipalities in Hesse
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Register of municipalities