Upper Hesse"The term Upper Hesse (German: Provinz Oberhessen) originally referred to the southern possessions of the Landgraviate of Hesse, which were initially geographically separated from the more northerly Lower Hesse by the County of Ziegenhain [de]. Later, it became the name of one of the three provinces in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (and the People´s State of Hesse after World War I), which was located within the historical region; the other two were Starkenburg (capital: Darmstadt) and Rhenish Hesse (capital: Mainz). Its territory covered the area of land north of the River Main. The provincial capital and largest town of the rural provinces was the university town of Gießen." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) Hesse