Dillenburg, Hesse, Germany

🇩🇪 Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis. The town lies on the German-Dutch holiday road called the Orange Route, joining towns, cities and regions associated with the House of Orange-Nassau, as well as on the German Timber-Frame Road and the Rothaarsteig hiking trail.

Transport The bypass on Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B277 opened in April 2007. It is a tunnel under the Schlossberg, bypassing the historic Old Town with its timber-frame houses and it was one of Germany's biggest tunnel projects. As a result of the bankruptcy of the contractor for the works, Walter Bau, completion of the project was delayed by more than a year.

Dillenburg station is on the Dill line, part of the original Cologne-Gießen Railway. It runs from Gießen to Siegen and connects central Hesse with the Rhineland and the Ruhr. The Heller Valley Railway, runs from Betzdorf via Burbach to Dillenburg. The Dillenburg station was once a major freight terminal for iron mining in the Schelderwald.

Established businesses • Deutsche Post AG • E.ON Mitte (OT Oberscheld) • Funkenerosionstechnik Hartwig Hermann • INDEN Design • Isabellenhütte Heusler GmbH & Co. KG • Linde & Wiemann • Ströher-Keramik • ThyssenKrupp Nirosta Dillenburg Works • TSR Recycling GmbH & Co. KG Dillenburg Branch • Volksbank Dill eG • Weber Kunststofftechnik

Media • Dill-Post • Dill-Zeitung

Public institutions • Police station • Fire brigade • Dill-Kliniken (hospital) • Deaconate • German Red Cross Dillkreis chapter • Lahn-Dill Youth Office • Lahn-Dill Jugendbildungswerk • Lebenshilfe for the mentally handicapped Kreisvereinigung für den ehem. Dillkreis e.V. (District association for the former Dill district) • Lahn-Dill Social Office

Education • Gewerbliche Schulen (vocational school) • Goldbachschule (Haupt- and Realschule) • Juliane-von-Stolberg-Schule (primary school) • Johann-von-Nassau-Schule (Haupt- and Realschule) • Kaufmännische Schulen (vocational school) • Kindergartens (Evangelical, Catholic, municipal, Arbeiterwohlfahrt [German workers' welfare]) • Lahn-Dill-Akademie (Folk high school) • Otfried-Preußler-Schule für Praktisch Bildbare (special school) • Roteberg-Schule (primary school) • Schelderwald-Schule (primary school and Hauptschule) • Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule (Gymnasium)