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Germantown is a village in Washington County, Wisconsin, within the Milwaukee metropolitan area, and it completely surrounds the small remaining Town of Germantown.

Originally designated the Wisconsin Territory's 'Town Nine,' Germantown is the oldest settlement in Washington County.

The territorial legislature created the Town of Germantown on January 21, 1846; German immigrants from Bavaria, Hessen, the Rheinland, Pommern, and Prussia who settled the area gave it its name.

The Village of Germantown incorporated in 1927 out of the hamlet of South Germantown and was then far smaller than it is today.

Fearing Milwaukee would annex the town after the city grabbed a parcel for a landfill in 1963, the village defensively annexed all the surrounding unincorporated hamlets, jumping to about 24 square miles; it now covers about 34.4 square miles.

The 2020 census counted 20,917 people in Germantown living in 8,470 households.

From July 1944 to January 1946, the Germantown hamlet of Rockfield hosted Camp Rockfield, a prisoner-of-war camp holding 500 German POWs, including Afrika Korps soldiers captured at the Battle of Cherbourg, who worked in local agriculture and canning.

Germantown's Dheinsville neighborhood, founded in 1842 by the Philip Dhein family, preserves original German half-timber (fachwerk) buildings and the Bast Bell Museum in Dheinsville Historical Park.

The southern part of Germantown is rich in Silurian limestone, quarried since the 1870s around Rockfield and South Germantown.

Germantown's historic hamlets — Dheinsville, Goldenthal, Kuhberg (later Victory Center), Meeker Hill, Rockfield, South Germantown, and Willow Creek — survive as neighborhoods of the modern village.