Darmstadt?  - Some of you might not really be familar with our city. You probably have heard the name (if you're into engineering, or maybe german that is) and maybe even know that Frankfurt is just a few kilometers north. But there's more to Darmstadt and below you can find a short list what Darmstadt is.

Darmstadt...

... is located in the center of the Rhein-Main-Metroplitan areas

... has 140,000 inhabitants

... is the center of Art Nouveau in Germany and Europe

... is one of Europe's Space Cities, being home of the European Space Operations Center (ESOC), which is what Houston is for NASA. Also EumetSat is situated here,

... is home of three universities totalling over 30,000 students.

... is home of both Solar Decathlon winning plus-energy-houses

... is home of the Passive House Institute, pioneering the develepment of ecological sustainable housing

... used to be the capital of the state of Hassia until 1946

... is home of one of Europe's largest pharmaceutical companies: Merck

... was recommended by Albert Einstein to his son for his studies

... awards Germany's most important literature award: the Georg Büchner Preis

... has a superior wine region to the South and the West: the Bergstrasse and Rheinhessen

... has a superior, if not THE, cider = apple wine region to the North: Frankfurt

... is home of castle Frankenstein, yep that's the place which inspired Mary Shelly to her novel Frankenstein's Monster

... is home of the Grube Messel, one of the best fossil sites in Europe

... is home of the GSI, a particle accelerator which has discovered six new heavy elements

... can be found in the table of elements: element 110 is named Darmstadtium

... was the location for the movie 13 Semesters

... was where the study field of electronical engineering was "invented"

... was birth place of the last Russian Tsarina, Alice of Hessen Darmstadt, later known as Alexandra Fjodorowna

... is home of AEGEE Darmstadt