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"Most of Darmstadt's 3000 Jews were killed by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945."
Though I do not doubt the Holocaust in general, I should add that the most German Jews did survive the Genocide through early emigration after the Nazis took power. The big bulk of killed Jews were the Jews of Eastern Europe.
"Darmstadt had the dubious honor of being the first city in Germany to force Jewish shops to close in early 1933,..." This an NPOV violation; it is not the place of a factual article on Darmstadt to declare oppression of anyone is good or bad. I shall make the fact plainly stated. Tilsit 09:13, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
The September_11 line for 1944 says that 11 500 were killed, but this page says 12 300. What are the sources for/verifiability of this?
-- J 21:09, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
"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)."
The element Strontium is named for Strontian, Scotland, so I added that. However, it is more accurate to say those five cities are the only ones to have an element named after the modern form of the name. Holmium is named for the Latinized Holmia (Stockholm), Hafnium for Hafnia (Copenhagen), and Lutetium for Lutetia (Paris). I'm not sure how to say this, so anyone have a good way?
From city: "City is primarily used to designate an urban settlement with a large population. However, city may also indicate a special administrative, legal, or historical status." Anyway, how much bigger than 140,000 does a population have to be to be called a city? Lars T. 22:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
The remarkable water tower by the Eisenbahn with pointed roof, which has had an art studio and restaurant in it, deserves mention and a photograph. We already have Image:Darmstadt-Wasserturm-1.jpg available. I shall add it. Tilsit 09:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
In addition to Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne, Darmstadt also has U.S. Army personnel at Kelly Barracks. There is also Ernst Ludwig Kaserne, just south of Kelly Barracks, but that has been returned to the city some years ago. Also, I believe that AFN Europe operates from Frankfurt, not Darmstadt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kernelgt ( talk • contribs)
Echelon-station at
http://snipr.com/1pog1 missing completely here. Thanks for updating :-) —The preceding
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130.83.220.231 (
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How do people feel about pruning that subsection? Any city that has existed for a long time and is any size is likely to be able to fill such a subcat quite quickly. And while certainly many people of city X are notable enough to be on Wikipedia (and are welcome to be linked backwards to their birthplace), I do not think that most of them are so notable that they should stay with a forward link.
I think that most of the newer (still living) names in the category do not justify inclusion under tighter critera. Should be narrowed down to 4-6 of the list only - like Büchner, Goethe, Prinzessin Alice von Hessen', Lichtenberg, von Liebig...
What do others feel? Ingolfson 06:40, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I disagree. The purpose of a "Famous people" list is to include references to people you might think of in relation to a place; that is especially useful for people who are currently alive, or were recently so. It's a way of seeing patterns that you might not otherwise notice. John D Berry ( talk) 22:45, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I added Georg Büchner to the list, arguably the most famous son of the city. Let me know if there were any particular reasons to leave him out until now. I also took the liberty of ordering the list alphabetically by last name, for lack of a better ordering (some chronological order might be an alternative, e.g., by date of birth); so far, it was unordered, which I found unfortunate. -- Georgepauljohnringo ( talk) 23:57, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm somewhat surprised that Justus von Liebig has been omitted from the famous people list. His work has added significantly to our present day. 12:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC) ColinWLewis ( talk) [1] — Preceding ColinWLewis comment added by 95.160.126.169 ( talk) 11:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
I just added Freiberg to the twinned towns, because it is one of them ;) Greets from Darmstadt ;) -- 79.216.232.219 ( talk) 16:09, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
"the origins of the name are unknown", this reminded my wife, who comes from Darmstadt, of the following local explanation of the name "Darmstadt": Originally the town was called "Armstadt" (Poor Town) and Umstadt (Groß Umstadt, approx. 20 Km. east of Darmstadt), was called Dumstadt (no translation needed), by mutual agreement the inhabitants of both towns decided to transfer the leading "D" from Dumstadt to Armstadt, thus improving both names at a stroke.
This has no basis in fact of course, but it makes a nice story. And who says that the Germans have no sense of humour! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris.in.Dieburg ( talk • contribs) 15:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
I've updated the article to remove the unsourced early history comments. The German Wikipedia article on Darmstadt includes several possible origin stories. This one from
Chris.in.Dieburg is one of them. I hope this helps - this section still needs improvement.
Neurogeek (
talk)
05:03, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason that most (all?) of the images in the article are "forced to imagebox width" (254 pixels), rather than allowing them to be the standard thumb size (default: 220 pixels)? A number of them are portrait-oriented, and thus become a bit large at 254px width.— DocWatson42 ( talk) 03:53, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
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