Frankfurt Rhine-Main

Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region
Map of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan region
Country	Germany
States	Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate Bavaria
Largest Cities	Frankfurt am Main Darmstadt Mainz Offenbach Wiesbaden
Government^[1]
• Type	Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Conurbation Planning Association
• Verbandsdirektor	Heiko Kasseckert (CDU)
Area
• Metro	14,800 km² (5,700 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	5,821,523
• Metro density	391.89/km² (1,015.0/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
GRP	2004
Nominal	€152.1 billion (6th in EU)
Website	Planungsverband.de

The Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: Frankfurt/Rhein-Main. abbreviated FRM) is the third largest metropolitan region in Germany (after Ruhr and Berlin), with a total population exceeding 5.8 million. The metropolitan region is located in the central western part of Germany, and stretches over parts of three federal states: Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria, as well as the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Offenbach, Mainz, Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg.

The polycentric region is named after its core city Frankfurt am Main and the two rivers Rhine and Main. The Frankfurt Rhine-Main area is officially designated as a European Metropolitan region by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs and covers an area of roughly 13,000 square kilometers (5,000 sq mi).

Subdivisions

Rhine-Main is a polycentric metropolitan region, but the economic size and political weight of the city of Frankfurt sets it into a very monocentric relation with her commuter belt. Since the early 1970s the Frankfurt am Main metropolitan area (German: Ballungsraum Frankfurt/Rhein-Main) is defined as an area encompassing the cities of Frankfurt and Offenbach and their directly neighboring districts.

The Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt of the state of Hesse could be seen as the next administrative division, as it lies entirely within the metropolitan region and further includes the cities of Darmstadt and Wiesbaden and a number of larger districts. Only on a level further, the metropolitan region also includes the cities and districts of Mainz and Aschaffenburg in the two adjoing federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria.

Metropolitan region and larger urban zones

Eurostat's Urban Audit splits the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region into four Larger Urban Zones (LUZ). These zones do exclude a number of districts in the metropolitan area.

Hierarchy of planning bodies	Major cities	Area	Population	Refs
	Frankfurt am Main	248 km²	670,095	—
	Offenbach am Main	45 km²	118,245	—
Frankfurt am Main urban area		4,305 km²	2,517,561	^[2]
	Wiesbaden	204 km²	275,489	—
	Darmstadt	122 km²	142,191	—
Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt		7,445 km²	3,778,689	—
	Mainz	98 km²	196,784	—
	Aschaffenburg	63 km²	68,646'	—
Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan region		14,800 km²	5,821,523	—
Larger Urban Zone	Major cities	Area	Population	Refs
Frankfurt am Main		4,305 km²	2,517,561	^[3]
	Frankfurt am Main	248 km²	670,095	^[4]
	Offenbach am Main	45 km²	118,245	^[5]
Wiesbaden		1,015 km²	459,633	^[6]
	Wiesbaden	204 km²	275,489	^[7]
Darmstadt		781 km²	430,993	^[8]
	Darmstadt	122 km²	142,191	^[9]
Mainz		704 km²	386,173	^[10]
	Mainz	98 km²	196,784	^[11]

Cities and districts

Picture	City or district	Area	Population
	Frankfurt am Main	248 km²	670,095
	Offenbach am Main	45 km²	118,245
	Landkreis Offenbach	356 km²	337,986
	Main-Kinzig-Kreis	—	—
	Wetteraukreis	122 km²	142,191
	Hochtaunuskreis	—	—
—	Main-Taunus-Kreis	122 km²	142,191
	Darmstadt	122 km²	142,191
	Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg	659 km²	289,102
	Landkreis Groß-Gerau	453 km²	253,502
	Wiesbaden	204 km²	275,489
	Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis	98 km²	196,784
Subtotal	Hesse	7,445 km²	3,778,689
	Mainz	98 km²	196,784
	Mainz-Bingen	606 km²	201,451
—	Worms	109 km²	81,784
—	Landkreis Alzey-Worms	588 km²	124,758
Subtotal	Rhineland-Palatinate	1405 km²	604,777
	Aschaffenburg	63 km²	68,646
—	Landkreis Aschaffenburg	699 km²	173,946
	Landkreis Miltenberg	716 km²	130,009
Subtotal	Bavaria	1,478 km²	372,601
Total	Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan region	14,800 km²	5,800,000

Traffic

The growth of the area is chiefly to be traced to the favorable communications, that promoted an early industrialization. Today however, the importance of industrial concerns has to a great extent been replaced by banking, trade and logistics. Frankfurt lies within the populous Blue Banana region of Europe, which here runs along the Rhine valley, and the city is also a stepping stone from and to various parts of Switzerland and Southern Germany. The Rhine-Ruhr is accessible via a one-hour trip on the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, and the air route Frankfurt-Berlin is the busiest in German domestic air travel.

Frankfurt Airport is the busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany and one of the three busiest airports in Europe. Thereby, along with a strong railway connection, the area also serves as a major transportation hub.

Education

The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan region is home to five universities and over 20 partly postgraduate colleges, with a total of over 200,000 students. The largest university is the Goethe University Frankfurt and the oldest is the University of Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), originally founded in 1477 AD. Other universities include:

Notable colleges and universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen) include:

Gallery

Frankfurt is the most important city of the Rhein-Main area
Rheingau
Old town of Mainz
Castle of Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg
German House of Goldsmiths in Hanau
Rhenish Hesse

References

↑ Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain. "Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain /". planungsverband.de.
↑ Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain. "Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain /". planungsverband.de.
↑ "City Profiles".
↑ "Frankfurt a.M. - Städtestatistik im Internet". staedtestatistik.de.
↑ "Umlichen_Ebenen_des_UrbanAudit" (PDF).
↑ "City Profiles".
↑ "Wiesbaden, LH - Städtestatistik im Internet". staedtestatistik.de.
↑ "Country Code".
↑ "Darmstadt - Städtestatistik im Internet". staedtestatistik.de.
↑ "Country Code".
↑ "Mainz, LH - Städtestatistik im Internet". staedtestatistik.de.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhein-Main.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Rhine-Main.

Metropolitan regions in Germany

Berlin/Brandenburg Bremen/Oldenburg Hamburg Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Munich Nuremberg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Central German Stuttgart

states urban districts cities and towns (by population) municipalities

Cities in Germany by population

1,000,000+	Berlin Cologne Hamburg Munich

500,000+	Bremen Dortmund Dresden Düsseldorf Essen Frankfurt Hanover Leipzig Nuremberg Stuttgart

200,000+	Aachen Augsburg Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Braunschweig Chemnitz Duisburg Erfurt Freiburg im Breisgau Gelsenkirchen Halle (Saale) Karlsruhe Kiel Krefeld Lübeck Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Münster Mönchengladbach Oberhausen Rostock Wiesbaden Wuppertal

100,000+	Bergisch Gladbach Bottrop Bremerhaven Cottbus Darmstadt Erlangen Fürth Göttingen Hagen Hamm Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Jena Kassel Koblenz Leverkusen Ludwigshafen Moers Mülheim an der Ruhr Neuss Offenbach am Main Oldenburg Osnabrück Paderborn Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Saarbrücken Salzgitter Siegen Solingen Trier Ulm Wolfsburg Würzburg

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Coordinates: 50°06′N 8°42′E / 50.1°N 8.7°E / 50.1; 8.7

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