Rheingau Taunus Kreis

Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Limburg-Weilburg, Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus-Kreis, district-free Wiesbaden, Mainz-Bingen, Rhein-Lahn. In Germany, a district Kreis is an administrative unit between the "Lander" German federal states and the neighborhood municipal stages Gemeinden. As of 2011, maximum of the 402 German districts are "Landkreise", rural districts. 107 larger cities generally with greater than a 100,000 inhabitants that do not belong to a district are considered as urban districts "Kreisfreie Stadte" or "Stadtkreise". A local subdistrict is referred to as a Gemarkung, and is mostly a smaller rural region with similar ideas in Austria and Switzerland.

A Gemarkung is commonly related to and named after a central metropolis or village. Areas in such subdistricts and their utilization are documented in crucial registries German: Kataster and were traditionally used for taxation. In a few states, there's extra level of management between the Lander and the Landkreise known as Regierungsbezirk government district Bezirk changed into additionally an administrative subdivision of the German Democratic Republic from 1952. See Administrative division of the German Democratic Republic City district Stadtbezirk or Ortsbezirk is the primary subdivision category of many Kreisfreie Stadte.