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Giessen and Surroundings

My first ever map of the surroundings of Gießen in central Germany - a 60x60km area condensed to huge map size (need to turn on experimental map sizes).
Credit to Raccoon, who inspired me to make this after I saw their Marburg map and just wanted more to play with.
With lots of flat building area as well as scenic valleys, enabling the construction of a network with mainlines, branch lines etc. Another awesome aspect of this particular slice of Germany is the abundance of historic train lines, which I have attempted to include in their entirety with one marked exception.

The map has 65 or so towns (most being small or tiny) and 50 manually placed industries.
I intended the map to be playable both as an economic playthrough, as well as for beautification, and I am personally not a fan of too much detail in maps to give more creative freedom. The topography is mostly accurate though I took some liberty with the shapes of rivers, as well as some valleys to make them more playable.
As this is my first attempt at a map, please let me know of any improvements you can think of.
Have fun!