City
Dillingen an der Donau
Western Europe
Dillingen an der Donau is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, on the Danube River, serving as the administrative center of the district of Dillingen, with a population of 19,806 as of December 31, 2024 across 75.59 square kilometers. The municipality includes the town proper and six villages: Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim. Historically a center of the Counter-Reformation, it was home to a university founded in 1549 and closed by Napoleon in 1804, and today Bosch and Siemens Household Appliances are among its largest employers.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude48.576944 degrees north 1 FAQs
Who ran the old university in Dillingen?
From 1563 to 1773 it was a Jesuit university.
The university grew out of a college founded in 1549 by the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, and Pope Julius III raised it to a university in 1551. From 1563 until the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773 it was run as the first fully developed Jesuit university in the Holy Roman Empire. It was dissolved in the secularization by the Elector of Bavaria.
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1. Dillingen an der Donau (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 19,643 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 48.576944, longitude 10.493889
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 433 m
P2046 (area)
area 75.59 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 19643 (2025)
View the Source2. Wikipedia (German): Dillingen an der Donau
Wikipedia (German)Source text, founding-year-range-start: 973
973 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt, fiel Dillingen 1258 als Schenkung an das Hochstift Augsburg , das seit 1500 zum Schwäbischen Reichskreis gehörte.
Source text, founding-year-range-end: 973
973 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt, fiel Dillingen 1258 als Schenkung an das Hochstift Augsburg , das seit 1500 zum Schwäbischen Reichskreis gehörte.
Source text, founding-year: 973
973 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt, fiel Dillingen 1258 als Schenkung an das Hochstift Augsburg , das seit 1500 zum Schwäbischen Reichskreis gehörte.
View the Source Dillingen an der Donau (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
a.d.Donau; lit. 'Dillingen on the Danube') is a town in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
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