Hessian Dialects - Dialects

Dialects

Hessian can be divided into four main dialects, namely those of:

Northern Hesse (around the city of Kassel),

Central Hesse (including the Marburg and Gießen areas),

Eastern Hesse (around Fulda),

Southern Hesse (around Frankfurt).

To understand this division one must consider the history of Hesse and the fact that this state is the result of an administrative reform.