Pfungstadt
Pfungstadt () is a town of 25,029 inhabitants (2020), in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in the state of Hesse, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Pfungstadt.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Pfungstadt Altes Rathaus 01.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Old town hall
- German location.image_plan
- Pfungstadt in DA.svg
- German location.state
- Hessen
- German location.region
- Darmstadt
- German location.district
- Darmstadt-Dieburg
- German location.elevation
- 103
- German location.area
- 42.54
- German location.postal_code
- 64310–64319
- German location.area_code
- 06157
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- Twin towns – sister cities
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Pfungstadt () is a town of 25,029 inhabitants (2020), in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in the state of Hesse, Germany.
==History== The town was first mentioned in 785 as property of the Monastery of Lorsch and got its town rights in 1886 due to its railway station. It is situated just west of the Odenwald hills, one of the closest being Frankenstein with its castle ruin of monstrous fame (Mary Shelley) on its summit. It is said Shelley used the name after asking a sailor on a Rhine trip to tell her the name of "this yonder castle".