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Darmstadt also has a large tertiary education sector, with three major universities and numerous associated institutions. History (from the official city website.

In the 20th century, industry (especially chemicals) as well as large science and electronics (later information technology) sectors became increasingly important, and are still a major part of the city's economy.

It was the residence of the counts of Hesse-Darmstadt, later as Grand Dukes of Hesse by the grace of Napoleon.

From here, various deep-space exploration spacecraft and Earth-orbiting satellites are operated for the purposes of scientific research, and tecnnology development and demonstration.EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, operates the principal European meteorological satellites from its headquarters, including the first and second generations of Meteosat geostationary satellites, and the polar-orbiting Metop series.Darmstadt is a centre for the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, with Merck, Rà¶hm and Schenck RoTec (part of The Dà¼rr Group) having their main plants and centres here.CultureThe 'Jazz-Institut Darmstadt' is Germany's largest publicly accessible Jazz archive. Jazz-Institut Darmstadt (official institute website)The 'Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt', harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (official institute website, in German) also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse fà¼r Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke.

Together with other tertiary institutions, the TU is responsible for the large student population of the city, which stood at 33,547 in 2004.

While the column still stands, the square is today surrounded by mostly modern buildings.