Urban districts of Germany

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This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany is divided into 439 districts(Not to be confused with the larger Regierungsbezirk); these consist of 323 rural districts (Landkreise, see List of German rural districts) and 116 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. The concept is comparable to the independent city in the English-speaking world.

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Berlin

Berlin

Brandenburg

Bremen

Bremen

Bremerhaven

Hamburg

Hamburg

Hesse

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Lower Saxony

¹ following the "Göttingen Law" of July 1 1964, the town of Göttingen is incorporated into the district (Landkreis) of Göttingen, but the rules on urban districts still apply, as long as no other rules exist.
² following the "Law on the region of Hannover" of June 5 2001, Hannover counts as an urban district as long as no other rules apply.

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland
There are no longer any urban districts. The town of Saarbrücken used to be an urban district but became incorporated into the Saarbrücken Town Federation on January 1 1974.

Saxony

Görlitz (will be merged with Löbau-Zittau and the Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis¹)
Hoyerswerda (will be merged with Kamenz (district) and Bautzen (district)¹)
Plauen (will be merged with the Vogtlandkreis¹)
Zwickau (will be merged with the Zwickauer Land and Chemnitzer Land¹)

¹The urban districts of Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Plauen und Zwickau will lose their state as „kreisfreie Stadt“ probably on 1st July 2008 in a reform of the saxon districts.

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia