Bessungen
Sign in to saveBessungen is a district in the South of the city of Darmstadt in Hesse.
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- Instance of
- Ortsteil
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Darmstadt
- Area
- 5.53
- Elevation
- 179
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Orangerie in Darmstadt-Bessungen (Germany).jpg
- Dialing code
- 06151
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- Commons category
- Darmstadt-Bessungen
- postal code
- 64295
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Bessungen is a district in the South of the city of Darmstadt in Hesse.
== History == Until 1888, Bessungen was an independent municipality. Its reputation as the oldest part of Darmstadt goes back to Bessungen being first mentioned in 1002. In fact, Bessungen was probably founded by the Alamanni in the 5th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bessungen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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