16 Facts About Hesse

The American English term "Hessian" for 18th-century British auxiliary troops originates with Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel hiring out regular army units to the government of Great Britain to fight in the American Revolutionary War.

Territory of Hesse was delineated only in 1945, as Greater Hesse, under American occupation.

An early Celtic presence in what is Hesse is indicated by a mid-5th-century BC La Tene-style burial uncovered at Glauberg.

The region was later settled by the Germanic Chatti tribe around the 1st century BC, and the name Hesse is a continuation of that tribal name.

Hesse combined Enlightenment ideas with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach toward diplomacy.

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The rest of its territory was annexed to the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807; Hesse-Hanau was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt in 1810 along with the other territories held by the Prince-primate: Frankfurt, Fulda, Aschaffenburg and Wetzlar.

However, Upper Hesse was incorporated into the North German Confederation, a tight federation of German states established by Prussia in 1867.

Until 1907, the Grand Duchy of Hesse used the Hessian red and white lion barry as its coat-of-arms.

From 1999, Hesse was governed by the CDU under Roland Koch and Volker Bouffier .

Term "Rhenish Hesse" refers to the part of the former Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt located west of the Rhine.

However, Hesse operates representation offices in such foreign countries as the United States, China, Hungary, Cuba, Russia, Poland, and Iran.

Flag colors of Hesse are red and white, which are printed on a Hessian sack.

Furthermore, Hesse has always been one of the largest and healthiest economies in Germany.

Also in other part of Hesse there is important pharma and medical manufacturers, especially in Marburg where there is industry park based on ex-Behring Werke: BioNTech, CSL Behring, Temmler and Melsungen with B Braun.

In northern Hesse, in Baunatal, Volkswagen AG has a large factory that manufactures spare parts, not far-away from it there is a Daimler Truck plant, which produces an axes.

Manufacturing of heating boilers and heat pumps are typical for Hesse and represented with Bosch Thermotechnik and Viessmann.