Kissing, Germany

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Kissing is a small town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located just 10 km south of Augsburg and has about 11.500 inhabitants (as of the year 2003).

Kissing was first mentioned in a document in 1050 as Chissingin. In even earlier times, around 500, there was a thing hill nearby, which was later swept away by the floods of the river Lech.

The surname Kissinger (as in Henry Kissinger) means inhabitant of Kissingen.