Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. As of 2003, its population was 137,900. The city is located to the south of the metropolitan areas of Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.

Miscellaneous

Darmstadt is the site of one of the leading German universities, the Darmstadt University of Technology, renowned for its engineering departments. Related institutes are the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung and the three Institutes of the Fraunhofer Society. The European Space Operations Center (ESOC) of the European Space Agency is located in Darmstadt, as is EUMETSAT, which operates meteorological satellites. Darmstadt is a centre for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, with Merck and Röhm having their main plants and centres here.

Related Topics:
Darmstadt University of Technology - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung - Fraunhofer Society - ESOC - European Space Agency - EUMETSAT - Meteorological - Satellite - Merck

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In 1997 Darmstadt was officially awarded the designation Wissenschaftsstadt ("city of sciences").

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The chemical element Darmstadtium (atomic number: 110), first discovered at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung was named after the city in 2003, making Darmstadt only the fourth city with an element named after it (the other three are Ytterby, Sweden, Berkeley, California, and Dubna, Russia). Meitnerium (atomic number: 109) was also synthesized in this facility in 1982.

Related Topics:
Chemical element - Darmstadtium - Atomic number - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung - Ytterby - Sweden - Berkeley, California - Dubna - Russia - Meitnerium

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The Jazz-Institut Darmstadt is Germany's largest publicly accessible Jazz archive.

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The Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music, also hosts the biannual summer school Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.

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Post-war - Sheet music

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The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Academy for Language and Poetry) provides writers and scholars with a place to research the German language. The Academy's annual Georg-Büchner-Preis, named in memory of Georg Büchner, is considered the most renowned literary award for writers of German language.

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Literally translated, the German name "Darmstadt" means "City of the intestine". But that is just an unfortunate coincidence, as the name derives from the medieval name "darmundestat", meaning "Place at the mouth of the Darmbach." The Darmbach is a small creek running through the city and flowing into the Modau, a small confluence of the river Rhine. (Darmstädter unhappy with the city name traditionally seek solace in the fact that their city is not named Düsseldorf.)

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Modau - Rhine - Düsseldorf

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