
Augsburg traces its origins to the military base of Augusta Vindelicum established in the year 15 BCE by the Roman generals Drusus and Tiberius.
Berlin arose from the mercantile settlements of Coelln (on what is now Museum Island) and Berlin (on the north bank of the Spree).
The city of Bochum is officially 687 years old, but its origins as a settlement date back to the early stone age.
Founded on the site of a Slavic fishing village, Dresden first appears in official records in 1206.
The first recorded mention of Frankfurt dates from an imperial assembly and church synod presided over by Charlemagne in 794.
Technically, Leverkusen is only 78 years old, but records show that nine of today's 13 administrative districts existed in the 12th and 13th ...
Monchengladbach, located west of the Rhine between Dusseldorf and the Dutch town of Roermond, only assumed its current boundaries in 1975.
Sinsheim lies at the heart of the Kraichgau region between Heidelberg and Heilbronn. The Kraichgau has been settled since ancient times.
Wolfsburg is one of the few new towns founded in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, and will be 70 this year.