What Is Plz In German

Overview of postal codes in Germany

Germany introduced postal codes on 25 July 1941, in the course of a 2-digit system that was applied initially for the parcel service and later for all mail deliveries. This organization was replaced in 1962 in Due west Germany by a iv-digit organization; iii years afterwards East Frg followed with its ain four-digit system. Whereas the Federal Democracy introduced a organisation with space left for the East German postal system later a possible reunification, such as by omitting all codes starting with '1' (except yard for West Berlin) and 'nine', the German Democratic Commonwealth had a system that used all codes starting from '1' to 'ix' just for East Deutschland.

Today, German postal codes are numeric and have consisted of five digits since 1993. Betwixt 1990 and 1993 the previous four-digit codes in the former West were prefixed with the letter "Due west", and in the former E with the letter "O" (for "Ost", "eastward" in German). Even though the western system had kept some number ranges gratis, specifically for afterward integration of the Eastward in instance of reunification, it was decided that the time was right to create an entirely new system for the 1990s, in which larger towns and cities would exist divided into multiple postal lawmaking areas (the former system had inconsistently used boosted numbers after the city'southward names), and companies receiving big amounts of post (such as post-social club businesses) could exist assigned their own private code. This resulted in a system where one could no longer identify the size of the city by the number of trailing zeros in its postal lawmaking (such as 2000 for Hamburg or 8000 for Munich).

Post role boxes are arranged in racks containing several dozens of them. Each rack is identified past an individual postal lawmaking.

The 1993 system has geographic zones on the offset (Postleitzonen) and on the 2nd level (Postleitregion), due east.k., 1 is Due north E Germany, and x is a zone in the inner city of Berlin.

German Postleitzahl map of the first ii digits. The green lines mark state borders, which do non always correspond with postal lawmaking areas.

P. O. box racks in a German post office of the Duisburg mail code area. The summit number is the postal code (PLZ=Postleitzahl) for the individual rack.

On 31 December 2007, the zones had the following expanse and population:

Leitzone	Expanse (km²)	Population	Region covered	Big cities
0	37,187.eight	half dozen,819,607	Saxony, southern parts of Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, eastern part of Thuringia	Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Chemnitz, Cottbus, Jena
1	47,642.4	7,034,541	Berlin, larger parts of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, small parts of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt	Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Rostock, Schwerin
two	44,207.iv	viii,691,409	Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, northern part of Lower Saxony, Bremen, small part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Oldenburg
iii	45,488.1	9,012,212	southern part of Lower Saxony, eastern role of Westphalia, northern parts of Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt	Hanover, Bielefeld, Kassel, Fulda, Gießen, Göttingen, Brunswick, Magdeburg
4	twenty,212.3	10,331,535	north-western role of North Rhine-Westphalia, south-western function of Lower Saxony	Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Münster, Mönchengladbach, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen, Osnabrück
v	28,834.five	9,233,815	south-western part of North Rhine-Westphalia, larger part of Rhineland-Palatinate, modest function of Hesse	Cologne, Bonn, Aachen, Mainz, Koblenz, Trier
6	17,247.9	7,540,503	southern parts of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, modest parts of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg	Frankfurt (Main), Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Aschaffenburg
7	27,864.2	eight,715,898	larger part of Baden-Württemberg, minor part of Rhineland-Palatinate	Stuttgart, Tübingen, Freiburg, Konstanz, Baden-Baden
8	36,427.2	7,675,001	southern function of Bavaria, south-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg	Munich, Rosenheim, Augsburg, Ulm, Ingolstadt
9	47,803.7	7,163,416	northern part of Bavaria (Franconia), larger office of Thuringia, small part of Baden-Württemberg	Nuremberg, Würzburg, Erfurt, Weimar, Eisenach, Bamberg, Bayreuth

There are three states (Saxony, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein), in addition to the urban center states (Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg), that lie completely within one postal zone, while three states (Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Baden-Württemberg) cover four postal zones.

Come across also [edit]

Briefzentrum (Deutsche Mail service)

External links [edit]

Find town or P.O. box past postal code and in reverse social club