Postal codes in Germany facts for kids
Postal codes in Germany are called Postleitzahl (PLZ) in German. These special codes help mail get to the right place. They have five numbers. The first two numbers tell you the general area, like a big region. The last three numbers narrow it down to a specific postal district, which is a smaller area or even a part of a city.
Germany started using this five-number system on 1 July 1993. Before Germany became one country again (this was called German reunification), West Germany and East Germany each used their own four-digit codes.
For a short time after Germany reunited, there was a special system. Postal codes in the west started with 'W' (like W-1000 Berlin 30). Codes in the east started with 'O' (which stands for Ost, meaning 'East'), like O-1234 Berlin.
Sometimes, big companies that send a lot of mail have their very own postal codes. These are different from the codes used for regular neighborhoods or P.O. boxes. Also, postal regions don't always follow state borders exactly. This is because it's sometimes easier to deliver mail to a place near a border from the next state over.
Here are some examples of postal codes in different German states and regions:
Contents
Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
01 Region Dresden
- 01001-01462 - Dresden
- 01654 - 01664 - Meißen
- 01945-01987 are in Brandenburg, showing how codes can cross state lines.
02 Region Bautzen
- 02601-02626 - Bautzen
- 02801-02829 - Görlitz
- 02977 - Hoyerswerda
04 Region Leipzig
- 04003-04357 - Leipzig
- 04416 - Markkleeberg
- 04617 - 04626 is in Thuringia.
06 Region Halle an der Saale/Dessau
- 06001-06123 - Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
- 06484 - Quedlinburg
- 06667 - Weißenfels
08 Region Zwickau
- 08001 - 08066 - Zwickau
- 08209 - Auerbach (Vogtland)
09 Region Chemnitz
- 09111 - 09131 - Chemnitz
- 09456 - Annaberg-Buchholz
Berlin
10115 - 14199
- 10,12,13,14xxx - Berlin (different parts of the city have many codes)
- 10115, 10117, 10119 - Berlin-Mitte
- 10961, 10963, 10965 - Kreuzberg
- 12487, 12489 - Adlershof
- 14109 - Wannsee
Brandenburg
01000-01999
- 01945 - Ruhland
- 01968 - Senftenberg
04000-04999
- 04931 - Mühlberg (Elbe)
15000-19999
- 15201-15236 - Frankfurt (Oder)
- 15732 - Schönefeld (Berlin)
- 19348 - Perleberg
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
17000-17999
- 17166 - Teterow
- 17489 - Greifswald
18000-18999
- 18055-18109 - Rostock
- 18209 - Bad Doberan
Hamburg
20000-20999
- 20001-20999 - Hamburg
21000-21999
- 21001-21149 - Hamburg
- Codes 21450-21499 are in Schleswig-Holstein.
22000-22999
- 22001-22757 - Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein
21000-21999
- 21451 - 21465 - Reinbek
23000-23999
- 23501-23570 - Lübeck
- 24301-24306 - Plön
24000-24999
- 24103-24159 - Kiel
- 24534-24539 - Neumünster
- 24901 – 24944 - Flensburg
25000-25999
Bremen
28000-28999
- 28078-28199 - Bremen
Lower Saxony
21000-21999
- 21244 - Buchholz in der Nordheide
- 21680-21682 - Stade
26000-26999
- 26160 - Bad Zwischenahn
- 26351-26389 - Wilhelmshaven
- 26789 - Leer
29000-29999
- 29439 - Lüchow
30000-30999
- 30001-30659 - Hannover
31000-31999
- 31061 - Alfeld
- 31101-31141 - Hildesheim
- 31785 - 31789 - Hamelin
37000-37999
- 37073 - Göttingen
- Some codes in this range are also in Thuringia.
38000-38999
- 38154-38547 - Wolfsburg
- 38518 - Gifhorn
49000-49999
- 49074-49090 - Osnabrück
- 49477, 49479 - Ibbenbüren (This town is actually in North Rhine-Westphalia).
Thuringia
04000-04999
- 04617 - Naundorf
- The rest of these codes are in Saxony.
06000-06999
- 06577 - Etzleben
- The rest are in Saxony.
07000-07999
- 07701-07751 - Jena
- The rest of the 07 codes are in Saxony.
37000-37999
- 37301 - Heilbad Heiligenstadt
- 37321 - Leinefelde-Worbis
99000-99999
North Rhine-Westphalia
32000-32999
- 32257 - Bünde
- 32756 - Detmold
33000-33999
- 33775 - Versmold
40000-40999
- 40547 - Düsseldorf
- 40721 - Hilden
- 40878 - Ratingen
41000-41999
- 41334 - Nettetal
- 41460-41492 - Neuss
42000-42999
44000-44999
45000-45999
- 45000 - 45399 - Essen
- 45468 - 45481 - Mülheim an der Ruhr
- 45500-45529 - Hattingen
47000-47999
- 47701 - 47839 - Krefeld
48000-48999
- 48143-48167 - Münster
- 48249 - Dülmen
- 49477-49479 - Ibbenbüren
50000-50999
- 50600-50999 - Köln (Cologne)
51000-51999
- 51060-51149 - Köln (eastern parts)
- 51643 - Gummersbach
52000-52999
- 52000 - 52080 - Aachen
- 52231 - 52249 - Eschweiler
53000-53999
- 53111 - Bonn
- 53721 - Siegburg
- The rest of these codes are in Rhineland-Palatinate.
57000-57999
- 57001-57080 - Siegen
58000-58999
59000-59999
- 59174 - Kamen
- 59494 - Soest
Rhineland-Palatinate
53000-53999
- 53520 - Herresbach
- 53809 is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
54000-54999
55000-55999
- 55001-55131 - Mainz
- 55411 - Bingen am Rhein
- 55517-55545 - Bad Kreuznach
- 55548 is in North Rhine-Westphalia.
56000-56999
- 56291 - Bickenbach (Hunsrück)
- 56626 - Andernach
- 56841 - Traben-Trarbach
65000-65999
- 65624 - Altendiez
- 65835 - Liederbach
66000-66999
- 66849 - Landstuhl
- The rest of these codes are in Saarland.
Hesse
35000-35999
- 35037 - 35043 - Marburg
36000-36999
- 36396 - Steinau an der Straße
60000-60999
- 60000 - 60624 - Frankfurt am Main
61000-61999
- 61348-61352 - Bad Homburg
63000-63999
64000-64999
- 64283 - 64297 - Darmstadt
- 64319 - Pfungstadt
65000-65999
- 65183-65207 - Wiesbaden
- 65624 is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Saarland
66000-66999
- 66117 - Saarbrücken Centre
- 66666: This is a special code for a very large customer.
- 66879 is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Baden-Württemberg
69000-69999
- 69115 - 69126 - Heidelberg
- 69151 - Neckargemuend
- 69469 - Weinheim
- 69488 - Birkenau
70000-70999
- 70173 - 70629 - Stuttgart (many codes for different parts of the city)
- 70734 - Fellbach
- 70771 - Leinfelden-Echterdingen
71000-71999
- 71032 - 71034 - Böblingen
- 71063 - 71069 - Sindelfingen
- 71229 - Leonberg
- 71332 - 71336 - Waiblingen
- 71522 - Backnang
- 71634 - 71642 - Ludwigsburg
72000-72999
- 72070 - 72076 - Tübingen
- 72108 - Rottenburg
- 72160 - Horb
- 72250 - Freudenstadt
- 72336 - Balingen
- 72379 - Hechingen
- 72458 - 72461 - Albstadt
- 72488 - Sigmaringen
- 72525 - Münsingen
- 72555 - Metzingen
- 72622 - Nuertingen
- 72760 - 72770 - Reutlingen
73000-73999
- 73033 - 73037 - Göppingen
- 73054 - Eislingen
- 73230 - Kirchheim unter Teck
- 73249 - Wernau
- 73312 - Geislingen
- 73430 - 73434 - Aalen
- 73450 - Neresheim
- 73525 - 73529 - Schwaebisch Gmuend
- 73614 - Schorndorf
- 73728 - 73734 - Esslingen
74000-74999
- 74072 - 74081 - Heilbronn, Neckar
- 74172 - Neckarsulm
- 74321 - Bietigheim-Bissingen
- 74523 - Schwaebisch Hall
- 74564 - Crailsheim
- 74613 - Öhringen
- 74722 - Buchen(Odenwald)
- 74821 - Mosbach, Baden
- 74889 - Sinsheim, Elsenz
- 74906 - Bad Rappenau
75000-75999
- 75015 - Bretten
- 75031 - Eppingen
- 75172 - 75181 - Pforzheim
- 75305 - Neuenbuerg
- 75365 - Calw
- 75417 - Muehlacker
76000-76999
- 76131 - 76229 - Karlsruhe
- 76275 - Ettlingen
- 76437 - Rastatt
- 76530 - 76534 - Baden-Baden
- 76646 - Bruchsal
- 76726 - Germersheim
- 76829 - Landau
- 76846 - Hauenstein
- 76863 - Herxheim
- 76870 - Kandel
77000-77999
- 77652 - 77656 - Offenburg
- 77694 - Kehl
- 77704 - Oberkirch
- 77815 - Buehl
- 77933 - Lahr
- 77955 - Ettenheim
- 77977 - Rust
78000-78999
- 78048 - 78056 - Villingen-Schwenningen
- 78073 - Bad Duerrheim
- 78166 - Donaueschingen
- 78224 - Singen
- 78315 - Radolfzell
- 78462 - 78467 - Konstanz
- 78532 - Tuttlingen
- 78628 - Rottweil
- 78647 - Trossingen
- 78713 - Schramberg
- 78727 - Oberndorf
79000-79999
- 79098 - 79117 - Freiburg
- 79183 - Waldkirch
- 79312 - Emmendingen
- 79379 - Muellheim
- 79539 - 79541 - Loerrach
- 79576 - Weil am Rhein
- 79618 - Rheinfelden
- 79650 - Schopfheim
- 79713 - Bad Saeckingen
- 79761 - Waldshut-Tiengen
- 79822 - Titisee-Neustadt
88000-88999
- 88001-88048 - Friedrichshafen
- 88069 - Tettnang
- 88131 - Lindau
- 88181 – 88214 - Ravensburg
- 88250 - Weingarten
- 88381-88400 - Biberach
Bavaria
63000-63999
- 63916 - Amorbach
80000-80999
- 80xxx - München
81000-81999
82000-82999
- 82256 - Fürstenfeldbruck
- 82467 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen
84000-84999
- 84001-84036 - Landshut
85000-85999
- 85049 - Ingolstadt
- 85221 - Dachau
- 85354 - 85356 - Freising
86000-86999
- 86000-86199 - Augsburg
- 86316 - Friedberg
- 86899 - Landsberg Am Lech
87000-87999
- 87448 - Waltenhofen
89000-89999
- 89420 - Höchstädt an der Donau
90000-90999
- 903xx, 904xx - Nürnberg
91000-91999
92000-92999
- 92224 - Amberg
- 92421 - Schwandorf
- 92627 - Weiden in der Oberpfalz
93000-93999
- 93001-93059 - Regensburg
94000-94999
- 94034 - Passau
95000-95999
- 95401-95448 - Bayreuth
- 95632 - Wunsiedel
See also
In Spanish: Códigos postales de Alemania para niños