Books set in Hessen
8 books and other written works set here; ordered by German Wikipedia lookups, not readers or sales.
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- 1Frankfurt am MainBekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull2
- 2Bad HersfeldDie Wolke1
- 3Bad Homburg vor der HöheVerbrechen1
- 4Burg KönigsteinDie mainzer Illuminaten1
- 5WetzlarWerther1
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- #1257avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
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- #382.6avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
- #435.6avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
- Adelheit von Rastenberg#5
- Die mainzer Illuminaten#6
- Hartmuth Hager oder Männerehre und Weibertreue#7
- Werther#8
How this list is made
Placed by where the story is set, not where the book was written.
Pick a region. Darker means more titles set there.
- Berlin51 titles
- Nordrhein-Westfalen41 titles
- Bayern40 titles
- Niedersachsen24 titles
- Hamburg12 titles
- Baden-Württemberg11 titles
- Thüringen10 titles
- Hessen8 titles
- Rheinland-Pfalz8 titles
- Sachsen8 titles
- Schleswig-Holstein7 titles
- Brandenburg6 titles
- Sachsen-Anhalt6 titles
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern2 titles
- Bremen1 title
- Saarland1 title
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