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Counties (Germany)

Kreise / Landkreise

Introduction
Counties (Kreise or Landkreise)

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Introduction

The entities referred to on this website as 'counties' are called Kreise in the communal constitutions [Kommunalverfassungen] of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein and Landkreise in the other states. This distinction does not in itself imply a difference in status, however, and the terms Kreise and Landkreise are in general used interchangeably. The Gemeindeordnungen and Kreisordnungen regulating municipalities' and counties' rights (to bear flags and arms, for instance) for all the States are available at this website.

Stefan Schwoon, 25 October 2001

Counties / Kreise or Landkreise

Aichach County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Aichach-Friedberg County (Bavaria)
Alb-Donau-Kreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Altenburger Land County (Thuringia)
Altötting County (Bavaria)
Alzenau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Amberg-Sulzbach County (Bavaria)
Ansbach County (Bavaria)
Aschaffenburg County (Bavaria)
Augsburg County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Augsburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Bad Dürkheim County (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Bad Kissingen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Bad Kissingen County (Bavaria)
Bad Neustadt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen County (Bavaria)
Bamberg County (Bavaria)
Bayreuth County (Bavaria)
Berchtesgaden County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Berchtesgadener Land County (Bavaria)
Biberach County (Baden-Württemberg)
Böblingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Bodenseekreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Bogen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald County (Baden-Württemberg)
Burglengenfeld County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Calw County (Baden-Württemberg)
Celle County (Lower Saxony)
Cham County (Bavaria)
Coburg County (Bavaria)
Coesfeld County (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Dachau County (Bavaria)
Dahme-Spreewald County (Brandenburg)
Deggendorf County (Bavaria)
Dillingen an der Donau County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Dillingen an der Donau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Dingolfing County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Dingolfing-Landau County (Bavaria)
Dithmarschen County (Schleswig-Holstein)
Donau-Ries County (Bavaria)
Donauwörth County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Donnersbergkreis County (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Ebermannstadt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Ebern County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Ebersberg County (Bavaria)
Eggenfelden County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Eichsfeld County (Thuringia)
Eichstätt County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Eichstätt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Emmendingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Enzkreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Erding County (Bavaria)
Erftkreis County (North Rhine-Westphalia): see Rhein-Erft-Kreis County
Erlangen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Erlangen-Höchstadt County (Bavaria)
Esslingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Feuchtwangen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Forchheim County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Forchheim County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Freising County (Bavaria)
Freudenstadt County (Baden-Württemberg)
Freyung-Grafenau County (Bavaria)
Friedberg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Fürstenfeldbruck County (Bavaria)
Fürth County (Bavaria)
Füssen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen County (Bavaria)
Germersheim County (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Göppingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Gotha County (Thuringia)
Greiz County (Thuringia)
Günzburg County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Günzburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Gunzenhausen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Hameln-Pyrmont County (Lower Saxony)
Hammelburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Haßberge County (Bavaria)
Haßfurt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Heidenheim County (Baden-Württemberg)
Heilbronn County (Baden-Württemberg)
Hildburghausen County (Thuringia)
Höchstadt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Hof County (Bavaria)
Hohenlohekreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Ilmkreis County (Thuringia)
Kaiserslautern County (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Karlsruhe County (Baden-Württemberg)
Karlstadt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Kaufbeuren County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Kelheim County (Bavaria)
Kitzingen County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Kitzingen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Königshofen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Konstanz County (Baden-Württemberg)
Kronach County (Bavaria)
Krumbach County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Kulmbach County (Bavaria)
Kusel County (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Kyffhäuserkreis County (Thuringia)
Lahn-Dill County (Hesse)
Landau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Landsberg County (Bavaria)
Landshut County (Bavaria)
Lichtenfels County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Lichtenfels County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Lindau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Lippe County (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Lohr County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Lörrach County (Baden-Württemberg)
Ludwigsburg County (Baden-Württemberg)
Ludwigshafen County (Rhineland-Palatinate): see Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis County
Ludwigslust County (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)
Mainburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Main-Kinzig County (Hesse)
Main-Spessart County (Bavaria)
Main-Tauber-Kreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Märkischer Kreis County (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Marktheidenfeld County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Marktoberdorf County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Mettmann County (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Miesbach County (Bavaria)
Miltenberg County (Bavaria)
Mindelheim County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Mühldorf County (Bavaria)
Munich County (Bavaria)
Nabburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Neuburg an der Donau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Neuburg-Schrobenhausen County (Bavaria)
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz County (Bavaria)
Neunburg vorm Wald County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim County (Bavaria)
Neustadt an der Waldnaab County (Bavaria)
Neu-Ulm County (Bavaria)
Nordfriesland County (Schleswig-Holstein)
Nordhausen County (Thuringia)
Nördlingen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Nordvorpommern County (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)
Nürnberger Land County (Bavaria)
Oberallgäu County (Bavaria)
Obernburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Ochsenfurt County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Oder-Spree County (Brandenburg)
Ortenaukreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Osnabrück County (Lower Saxony)
Ostalbkreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Ostallgäu County (Bavaria)
Parchim County (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)
Parsberg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Passau County (Bavaria)
Passau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Pegnitz County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Pfaffenhofen County (Bavaria)
Pfarrkirchen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Rastatt County (Baden-Württemberg)
Ravensburg County (Baden-Württemberg)
Regen County (Bavaria)
Regensburg County (Bavaria)
Rems-Murr County (Baden-Württemberg)
Rendsburg-Eckernförde County (Schleswig-Holstein)
Reutlingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Rhein-Erft-Kreis County (North Rhine-Westphalia, until 1st November 2003 Erftkreis County)
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis County (Rhineland-Palatinate, until 1st January 2004 Ludwigshafen County)
Rhön-Grabfeld County (Bavaria)
Roding County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Rosenheim County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Rosenheim County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Roth County (Bavaria)
Rottal-Inn County (Bavaria)
Rottenburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Rottweil County (Baden-Württemberg)
Rügen County (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania)
Saale-Holzland-Kreis County (Thuringia)
Saale-Orla-Kreis County (Thuringia)
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt County (Thuringia)
Schleswig-Flensburg County (Schleswig-Holstein)
Schmalkalden-Meiningen County (Thuringia)
Schongau County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Schrobenhausen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Schwäbisch Hall County (Baden-Württemberg)
Schwabmünchen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Schwalm-Eder-Kreis County (Hesse)
Schwandorf County (Bavaria)
Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis County (Baden-Württemberg)
Schweinfurt County (Bavaria)
Sigmaringen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Sömmerda County (Thuringia)
Sonneberg County (Thuringia)
Sonthofen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Staffelstein County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Starnberg County (Bavaria)
Steinburg County (Schleswig-Holstein)
Straubing County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Straubing-Bogen County (Bavaria)
Südliche Weinstrasse County (Rhineland-Palatinate, until 31st December 1977 Landau-Bad Bergbadzabern County)
Südwestpfalz County (Rhineland-Palatinate, until 31st December 1996 Pirmasens County)
Sulzbach-Rosenberg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Teltow-Fläming County (Brandenburg)
Tirschenreuth County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Tirschenreuth County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Tübingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Tuttlingen County (Baden-Württemberg)
Uckermark County (Brandenburg)
Uffenheim County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis County (Thuringia)
Unterallgäu County (Bavaria)
Vilsbiburg County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Waldeck-Frankenberg County (Hesse)
Waldshut County (Baden-Württemberg)
Wartburgkreis County (Thuringia)
Weilheim-Schongau County (Bavaria)
Weimarer Land County (Thuringia)
Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen County (Bavaria)
Wertingen County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Wesel County (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wunsiedel County (after 1972) (Bavaria)
Wunsiedel County (until 1972) (Bavaria)
Würzburg County (Bavaria)
Zollernalbkreis County (Baden-Württemberg)