Frankfurt city region

Metropolitan region Frankfurt / Rhine-Main and metropolitan area / city region Frankfurt

The Frankfurt metropolitan area is the agglomeration around the core city of Frankfurt am Main . It is organized by the FrankfurtRheinMain regional association. According to the harmonized terms of the Statistical Office of the European Union , the urban region DE005C Frankfurt am Main is one of 323 “ Functional Urban Areas ” in the European Union as well as cities in Norway , Switzerland and Turkey , for which since 2003/2004 within the framework of Urban Audit static data and quality of life indicators are collected and published.

The functionally delimited urban area of the urban region comprises the following administrative units:

000000002729562.00000000002,729,562 inhabitants live in the region thus delimited with a total of 4305 square kilometers (as of December 31, 2019)

The urban region is part of the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region , but is broader than the actual urban agglomeration , as defined by the law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region of the Hessian state parliament of March 11, 2011. Accordingly, the regional association FrankfurtRheinMain comprises the following independent cities, districts and municipalities:

the independent cities of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main;
in the Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus-Kreis and Offenbach district, all cities and communities;
in the Main-Kinzig district the towns of Bruchköbel , Erlensee , Hanau , Langenselbold , Maintal , Nidderau and the communities of Großkrotzenburg , Hammersbach , Neuberg , Niederdorfelden , Rodenbach , Ronneburg , Schöneck (Hesse) ;
in the Wetterau district the cities of Bad Nauheim , Bad Vilbel , Butzbach , Florstadt , Friedberg (Hesse) , Karben , Münzenberg , Niddatal , Reichelsheim (Wetterau) , Rosbach vor der Höhe and the communities of Ober-Mörlen , Rockenberg , Wölfersheim , Wöllstadt ;
in the district of Groß-Gerau the cities of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg , Groß-Gerau , Kelsterbach , Mörfelden-Walldorf , Raunheim , Rüsselsheim am Main and the communities of Bischofsheim and Nauheim .

This area has 2,359,773 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) on an area of 2,458.5 square kilometers.

The area delimited by the regional association includes, with Hintertaunus and Wetterau, some relatively sparsely populated areas and thus goes beyond the traditional definition of an agglomeration / urban region. The structurally connected area, which corresponds to the current definitions, therefore covers an area of around 1,000 to 1,500 square kilometers with around 1.3 to 1.9 million inhabitants, depending on the underlying definition.

Individual evidence

^ Map of the city region DE005C Frankfurt am Main
↑ City maps for the LUZ of the Urban Audit 2007. Accessed on January 27, 2016 .
↑ Eurostat - Urban Audit. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
↑ What is a city? - Spatial units. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
^ The spatial levels of the Urban Audit for Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region. (pdf) In: Frankfurter Statistical Reports 1/2003. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
↑ Eurostat - Urban Audit Database. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .
↑ Law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region of the Hessian State Parliament of March 11, 2011, (GVBl. II 330-48)
↑ The FrankfurtRheinMain region in facts and figures

[1] Map of the city region DE005C Frankfurt am Main

[2] City maps for the LUZ of the Urban Audit 2007. Accessed on January 27, 2016 .

[3] Eurostat - Urban Audit. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .

[4] What is a city? - Spatial units. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .

[5] The spatial levels of the Urban Audit for Frankfurt am Main and the Rhine-Main region. (pdf) In: Frankfurter Statistical Reports 1/2003. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .

[6] Eurostat - Urban Audit Database. Retrieved January 17, 2016 .

[MetropolG-7] Law on the Frankfurt / Rhine-Main metropolitan region of the Hessian State Parliament of March 11, 2011, (GVBl. II 330-48)

[8] The FrankfurtRheinMain region in facts and figures