Afterwork-Vinotheque Evening: 80 Years Democracy in State Hesse

The Hessian State Parliament is opening its doors and inviting all citizens to take a look behind the scenes of their parliament on 26 and 27 September Protected content .
Today's state of Hesse comprises the former territories of the Hessian principalities of Landgraviate of Hesse (later including Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Rotenburg and Hesse-Homburg), the County of Erbach, the Principality of Solms and large parts of the Duchy of Nassau, the County of Hanau, the County of Isenburg, the Principality of Waldeck, the Bishoprics of Mainz and Fulda, and the Free Imperial Cities of Frankfurt am Main, Friedberg, Gelnhausen and Wetzlar.
The proclamation of the American military government on 19 September Protected content the foundations for the present-day state of Hesse, which united the Prussian provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau and the People's State of Hesse to form the state of Greater Hesse, excluding the areas in the west that had become part of the French occupation zone. These were, on the one hand, the Nassau districts of Sankt Goarshausen, Unterlahn, Oberwesterwald and Unterwesterwald and, on the other hand, Rheinhessen, the province on the left bank of the Rhine of the former People's State of Hesse, whereby the districts of the cities of Mainz and Worms located on the right bank of the Rhine in the American occupation zone remained in the occupation zone and therefore (continue to) belong to Hesse today.