Giessen, spelled Gießen in German, is a town in the German state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students.
Main building of Justus Liebig University
Historical drawing of the marketplace, 1844
Historical drawing of the Akademischer Forstgarten Gießen, 1877
Botanical garden Gießen
Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major historic cities are Darmstadt and Kassel. With an area of 21,114.73 square kilometers and a population of over six million, it ranks seventh and fifth, respectively, among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area, is mainly located in Hesse.
River Lahn in Runkel
Taunus landscape with Großer Feldberg in the center of the background
The state chancellery building in the capital city of Wiesbaden
Frankfurt am Main skyline