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    The Hessentag (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛsn̩taːk]; English: Hesse Day) is an annual event, both fair and festival, organized by the German state of Hesse...
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    seat of the Fulda district (Kreis). In 1990, the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. In 744 Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, founded...
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    September 2020. Siemon, Thomas (31 May 2013). "Hessentag 1964 in Kassel: 200.000 sahen den Festzug" [Hessentag 1964 in Kassel: 200,000 saw the parade] (in...
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    fine fachwerk buildings and houses. In 2002, the town hosted the 42nd Hessentag state festival. Idstein lies in the Taunus mountain range, about 16 kilometres...
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    as a hub for the surrounding area. In 1994, the town hosted the 34th Hessentag state festival. Groß-Gerau lies in the north of the Hessisches Ried, the...
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    is the 13th largest town in Hesse. In 2011, the town hosted the 51st Hessentag state festival. The maximum distance from the northern town border to...
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    German Timber-Frame Road. Herborn hosted the 26th Hessentag state festival in 1986, and the 56th Hessentag in 2016. The town's coordinates are 50°41′4″N 8°18′15″E...
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    Main (Südosthessen) and Darmstadt (Südhessen). Following a police reform in 2001, the regional police authorities are now directly subordinate to the Interior...
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    in northeastern Hesse, Germany. In 1971, the town hosted the eleventh Hessentag state festival. The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Werra...
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    on the German Timber-Frame Road. In 2018, the town has hosted the 58th Hessentag state festival. Korbach lies at the north-east edge of the Rhenish Slate...
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    home to the University of Giessen. In 1969, the town hosted the ninth Hessentag state festival. Giessen came into being as a moated castle in 1152 built...
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    about 18 km (11 miles) east of Marburg. In 2010, the town hosted the 50th Hessentag state festival. Under the German system of Naturräume, Stadtallendorf...
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    energy conservation pilot project. In 1968, the town hosted the eighth Hessentag state festival. Viernheim lies in the Rhine rift, and although it also...
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    buildings are nowadays seldom seen in Dietzenbach. In 2001, Dietzenbach hosted the 41st Hessentag state festival. Lying in the Upper Rhine Plain, the climate...
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    around the station were modernised and redecorated in preparation for the Hessentag (Hesse Day) celebrations of 2010. The station was opened along with the...
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    Werra-Meißner-Kreis in eastern Hesse, Germany. In 2006, the town hosted the 46th Hessentag state festival. Hessisch Lichtenau lies in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis 20 km...
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    2500 people and also proved its worth at the Hessentag 2004. In 2004, the town hosted the 44th Hessentag state festival. The sharp rise between 1971 and...
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    Worms, and 17 km north of Mannheim. In 1981, the town hosted the 21st Hessentag state festival. Bürstadt lies in the Rhine rift between the Rhine and...
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    biggest Romanesque church ruin. In 1967, the town hosted the seventh Hessentag state festival. The town lies in the Hersfeld Basin formed here by the...
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    the river stand the ruins of several stone towers. The town hosted the Hessentag state festival twice (the 15th and the 52nd in 1975 and 2012 respectively)...
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    Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn won). In 1964, the town hosted the fourth Hessentag state festival (again in 2013). In 1972 the Chancellor of West Germany...
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    different nations (as of 30 July 2007). In 1977, Dreieich hosted the 17th Hessentag state festival. The town’s name comes from a royal hunting forest – the...
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    Site. In 1991, the town hosted the 31st Hessentag state festival. The firm TrekStor GmbH & Co.KG was founded in 2001 in Lorsch and has its head office here...
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    administrator's office on Limburger Straße. In 2005, the town hosted the 45th Hessentag state festival from 17 to 26 June. Ahausen is first mentioned in documents...
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    right near Niedernhausen municipal limits on the occasion of the 2002 Hessentag, state festival in Idstein. Some 2 km north of Oberseelbach, near Idstein-Heftrich...
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    Idsteiner Zeitung (in German). 30 May 2000. Neuhoff, Klaus (22 October 2001). "Heerscharen, himmlisch". Wiesbadener Kurier (in German). p. 27. "Stehende...
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