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Giessen is a Hesse university town on the Lahn River, where Justus Liebig University's 37,000 students make up a large share of the population. Its center holds Germany's oldest botanical garden on its original site and the hands-on Mathematikum museum, with half-timbered streets around the Seltersweg strip.

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