Wiesbaden
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Wiesbaden
The capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.
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At approximately €77,500, Wiesbaden has the second largest gross domestic product per inhabitant in Hesse, after Frankfurt, making it one of the richest cities in Germany.
At the 1965 Congress in Wiesbaden FIDE raised the standards required for international titles.
At its 1934 Wiesbaden meeting the technical commission designated the thirty-year period from 1901 to 1930 as the reference time frame for climatological standard normals.
At Niedernhausen station on the Main-Lahn Railway, transfer to the Ländchesbahn to Wiesbaden is possible.
Besides, other north-south connections traverse major east-west routes from Wiesbaden and Mainz to Frankfurt and from Hanau and Aschaffenburg to Fulda and Kassel.
Brahms' Symphony No. 3 (Op. 90) was composed in Wiesbaden in the summer of 1883.