Linden () is a town in the district of Gießen, in

Hesse Hesse or Hessen ( ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre. Two other major hist ...

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. It is situated 6 km south of

Gießen Giessen, spelled in German (), is a town in the German state () of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 university students. Th ...

. The town consists of the two parts Großen-Linden and Leihgestern. The

Dießenbach The Dießenbach (; also: ''Gönsbach'') is a small brook and right tributary to the Kleebach brook in central Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Kleebach in Linden, Hesse, Linden in the Gießen (district), district of Gießen. See also *List of ...

, a small brook, flows into the

Kleebach Kleebach () is a left tributary of the Lahn river in central Hesse, Germany. It originates in the most Eastern part of the Hintertaunus mountains and from there it flows mostly in Northern direction towards the Lahn, Lahn River. Along its course ...

in Linden.

Economy

Since 2015 Swedish bank

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has an office in the town with a heavy focus on IT operations. In September 2019, the Linden office employed 90 people.

References

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