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Wikipedia June 1, 2026 at 04:38 PM

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Gro%C3%9Fst%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland

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und neun, die einem Landkreis angehören: Bergisch Gladbach, Göttingen, Gütersloh, Hannover, Moers, Neuss, Paderborn, Recklinghausen, Reutlingen, Saarbrücken und Siegen.
Correction

This list wrongly treats Hannover and Saarbrücken as cities belonging to a Landkreis. Official sources show they belong to the Region Hannover and the Regionalverband Saarbrücken, both special municipal associations rather than Landkreise.

Full reasoning

The sentence mixes two different kinds of administrative units.

  • Hannover is not in a Landkreis. The official municipal register lists Hannover under "Kreis: Region Hannover", and the official Region Hannover site explains that the Region Hannover was created from the merger of the former Landkreis and the Kommunalverband Großraum Hannover. Another official page from Region Hannover explicitly groups Hannover with the "regionsangehörigen Städte und Gemeinden".
  • Saarbrücken is not in a Landkreis either. The official municipal register lists Saarbrücken under "Kreis: Regionalverband Saarbrücken". The Regionalverband Saarbrücken itself says it "nimmt ... im Wesentlichen die Aufgaben eines Landkreises wahr" — meaning it performs county-level functions, but is not itself a Landkreis.

So the clause is incorrect as written: the list labeled "die einem Landkreis angehören" includes Hannover and Saarbrücken, even though both belong to special county-level associations instead. If those two are removed, the remaining cities are the county-affiliated large cities.

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