List of postal codes in Germany
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Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. Postleitzahlen, abbreviation PLZ), consist of five digits, which indicate the wider area (first 2 digits), and the postal district (last 3 digits).
The present system was introduced on July 1, 1993. Before reunification, both the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) used 4 digit postal codes.
Under a transitional arrangement following reunification, between 1989 and 1993 postal codes for destinations in the west were prefixed with 'W', eg: W-1000 Berlin 30 (postal districts in western cities were separate from the postal code) and those in the east with 'O' (for Ost), e.g: O-1xxx Berlin.
Large users, or Großkunden, have their own postal codes, separate from those used for postal districts or PO Box number ranges.
As one can see in the map, postal regions do not necessarily follow federal states' borders. Therefore sorting by state is not truly practical.
Here are postal regions and some postal codes in Germany:
Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
01 Region Dresden
- 01001-01462 - Dresden
- 01616 - Strehla
- 01654 - 01664 - Meißen
- *01654 - Meißen
- *01664 - Meißen (centre)
- 01731 - Kreischa
- 01762 - Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau, Schmiedeberg
- 01774 - Pretzchendorf
- 01809 - Dohna
- 01816 - Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, Bad Gottleuba, Oelsen, Hellendorf, Markersbach
- 01819 - Bahretal, Berggießhübel, Zwiesel, Bahra, Langenhennersdorf, Forsthaus
- 01825 - Börnersdorf, Breitenau, Hennersbach
- 01833 - Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach, Stolpen
- 01847 - Lohmen
- 01987 is in Brandenburg
02 Region Bautzen
- 02xxx
- 02601-02626 - Bautzen
- 02627 - Ratibor
- 02774 - Berthelsdorf, Großhennensdorf, Herrnhut, Strahlwalde
- 02801-02829 - Görlitz
- 02894 - Reichenbach (Oberlausitz)
- 02999 - Knappensee
03 Region Cottbus
04 Region Leipzig
- 04xxx
- 04003-04357 - Leipzig
- *04003 - Leipzig
- *04109 - Leipzig (Neues Rathaus)
- *04357 - Leipzig
- 04416 - Markkleeberg
- 04509 - Delitzsch
- 04617 - 04626 is in Thuringia
- 04758 - Naundorf
- 04758 - Oschatz
- 04860 - Torgau
- 04931 is in Brandenburg
06 Region Halle an der Saale/Dessau
- 06001-06123 - Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
- *06001 - Halle
- *06100 - Halle (market area)
- *06123 - Halle
- 06420 - Könnern
- 06449 - Aschersleben
- 06458 - Bode-Selke-Aue expect Ditfurt, Hausneindorf, Hedersleben (Selke), Heteborn, Wedderstedt
- 06484 - Ditfurt (centre), Quedlinburg
- 06493 - Ballenstedt, Dankerode, Ditfurt, Harzgerode, Königerode, Neudorf, Radisleben, Schielo, Siptenfelde, Straßberg
- 06502 - Neinstedt, Thale, Westerhausen, Weddersleben
- 06507 - Gernrode/Harz: Bad Suderode, Friederichsbrunn, Gernrode, Rieder, Stecklenberg
- 06557 is in Thuringia
- 06667 - Weißenfels
- 06686 - Poserna
08 Region Zwickau
- 08000 - omitted
- 08001 - 08066 - Zwickau
- *08001 - Zwickau
- *08056 - Zwickau (centre)
- *08066 - Zwickau
- 08209 - Auerbach (Vogtland)
- 08340 - Schwarzenburg (Erzgebirge)
- 08468 - Reichenbach (Vogtland)
09 Region Chemnitz
- 09xxx
- 09111 - 09131 - Chemnitz
- 09212 - Limbach-Oberfrohna
- 09232 - Hartmannsdorf (Chemnitz)
- 09380 - Thalheim
- 09392 - Auerbach (Erzgebirge)
- 09394 - Hohndorf
- 09456 - Annaberg-Buchholz
- 09509 - Pockau
- 09623 - Frauenstein
Thüringen
07 Region Gera
- 07181-07196 - Pirna
- *07196 - Pirna (Am Markt)
- 07356 - Birkenhügel, Neundorf (bei Schleiz)
- 07501-07613 is in Thuringia
27000-27999
- 27120 - Steinkirchen and Hollern-Twielenfleth
- 27123 - Hollern-Twielenfleth
- 29575 - Altenmedingen
38000-38999
- 38489 - Beetzendorf, Ahlum
39000-39999
- 39439 - Wipperaue, Güsten
- 39551 - 39576 - Stendal
- *39551 - Stendal
- *39551 - Stendal (centre)
- 39619 - Arendsee (Altmark)
Berlin
10, 12, 13 and 14 Regions Berlin
- 1xxxx
11 Region Federal Ministries
Brandenburg
01000-01999
- 01945 - Ruhland
- 01968 - Senftenberg
- 01983 - Großräschen
- 01987 - Schwarzheide
- 01990 - Ortrand
04000-04999
The rest under 04931 are outside Brandenburg- 04931 - Mühlberg (Elbe)
15000-19999
- 15201-15236 - Frankfurt (Oder)
- *15201 - Frankfurt (Oder)
- *15230 - Frankfurt (Oder) (centre)
- *15236 - Frankfurt (Oder)
- 15518 - Briesen (Mark)
- 15732 - Schönefeld (Berlin)
- 15926 - Heideblick
- 19348 - Perleberg
- *19348 - Reetz
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
17000-17999
- 17235 - Möllenbeck (Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- 17236 - omitted
- 17237 - Möllenbeck
- 17489 - Greifswald
18000-18999
- 18055-18109 - Rostock
- 18209 - Bad Doberan
- 18210 - not used
- 18211 - Nienhagen (Mecklenburg)
- 18666 - Warnemünde
19000-19999
- 19300 - Möllenbeck (Ludwigslust)
Hamburg
20000-20999
- 20001-20999 - Hamburg
- *20253 - Hamburg
21000-21999
- 21001-21149 - Hamburg
- Postal codes over 21450 through 21499 are in Schleswig Holstein
22000-22999
- 22001-22757 - Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein
21000-21999
- 21451 - 21465 - Reinbek
- *21451 - Reinbek
- *21465 - Reinbek (centre)
23000-23999
- 24301-24306 - Plön
- *23406 - Plön (centre)
24000-24999
- 24000-24159 - Kiel
25000-25999
- 25801 - 25813 - Husum
- *25801 - Husum
- *25813 - Husum, centre
- 25876 - Schwabstedt
Bremen
28000-28999
- 28078 - Bremen
Lower Saxony
05000-05999
The rest are in Saxony21000-21999
- 21244 - Buchholz in der Nordheide
- 21729 - Freiburg/Elbe, in the Balje area
- 21730 - Balje
26000-26999
- 26689 - Apen
- 26789 - Leer
- 26802 - Moormerland
- 26817 - Rhauderfehn
- 26844 - Jemgum
- 26931 - Elsfleth
- 45500-45529 - Hattingen
- *45500 - Hattingen
- *45504 - Hattingen (centre)
- *45529 - Hattingen
- 45549 - Sprockhövel
47000-47999
- 47701 - 47839 - Krefeld and around
- *47701 - Krefeld
- *47798 - Krefeld (centre)
- *47799 - Krefeld
- *47800 - Krefeld, in the Bockum area
- *47829 - Krefeld, in the Uerdingen area
- *47839 - Krefeld
- 47918 - Tönisvorst
48000-48999
- 48249 - Dülmen and the district of Hiddingsel
50000-50999
51000-51999
- 51060-51149 - Cologne (East, main part in 50000 series)
- 51588 - Nümbrecht
- 51643 - Gummersbach
- 51644 - not used
- 51655 - Gummersbach
- 51666 - not used
- 51677 - Gummersbach
- 51702 - Bergneustadt
52000-52999
53000-53999
- 53111 - Bonn
- 53721 - Siegburg
- 53809 - Ruppichteroth
55000-55999
- 55548 - Lippstadt
57000-57999
- 57001-57080 - Siegen
- *57001 - Siegen
- *57072 - Siegen (market area)
- *57080 - Siegen
58000-58999
- 58000 - 58139 Hagen
- 58256 - Ennepetal
- 58285 - Gevelsberg
- 58300 - Wetter (Ruhr)
- 58313 - Herdecke
- 58401 - 58456 Witten
- 58507 - 58515 Lüdenscheid
59000-59999
- 59439 - Holzwickede
Rhineland-Palatinate
53000-53999
- 53520 - Herresbach
- 53809 is in the Rhineland-Palatinate
54000-54999
55000-55999
- 55001-55131 - Mainz
- *55001: Mainz
- *55116 - Mainz, (downtown)
- *55131 - Mainz
- 55218 - Ingelheim am Rhein
- 55517-55545 - Bad Kreuznach
- *55517: Bad Kreuznach
- *55545: Bad Kreuznach (downtown)
- 55548 is in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 55566 - Daubach
- 55569 - Auen
- 55595 - Sponheim
- 55743 - Reichanbach (Baumholder)
- 55758 - Weiden bei Idar-Oberstein
56000-56999
- 56291 - Bickenbach (Hunsrück)
- 56346 - Reichenberg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- 56368 - Katzenelnbogen
- 56370 - Biebrich, Rhineland Palatinate
- 56459 - Rothenbach
- 56472 - Hardt (Westerwald)
- 56626 - Andernach
- 56841 - Traben-Trarbach
- 56851 - Zell (Mosel)
57000-57999
- 57612 - Kirchheib
65000-65999
- 65624 - Altendiez
66000-66999
- 66849 - Landstuhl
- 66879 - Reichenbach-Steegen
- 66117 - Saarbrücken Centre
- 66124 - Universität des Saarlandes
The rest of the postal codes beginning with 65 are in the state of Hesse
Hesse
35000-35999
- 35037 - Marburg (city centre)
- 35038 - omitted
- 35039 - Marburg
- 35040 - omitted
- 35041 - Marburg
- 35042 - omitted
- 35043 - Marburg
- 35633 - Lahnau
36000-36999
- 36396 - Steinau an der Straße
60000-60999
- 60000 - 60624 (maybe higher) Frankfurt
61000-61999
- 61348-61352 Bad Homburg v.d.H.
- 61476 - Kronberg im Taunus
63000-63999
- 63015-63075 - Offenbach
- *63015: Offenbach (centre)
- *63075 - Offenbach
- 63303 - Dreieich
- 63450 - Hanau
- 63451 - not used
- 63452 - Hanau
- 63453 - not used
- 63454 - Hanau
- 63455 - not used
- 63456 - Hanau
- 63457 - Hanau
- 63571 - Gelnhausen
- 63575 - Freigericht (PO boxes)
- 63576 - Freigericht (PO boxes)
- 63579 - Freigericht (mail)
64000-64999
- 64283 - 64297 Darmstadt
- 64404 - Bickenbach (Bergstraße)
65000-65999
- 65183-65207 - Wiesbaden
- *65183 - Wiesbaden
- 65207 - Wiesbaden
- 65624 is in the Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
66000-66999
- 66xxx
- 66150 AOL
- 66666: Großkunde
- 66879 is in Rhineland-Palatinate
Baden-Württemberg
69000-69999
- 69001-69126 - Heidelberg
- *69117 - Heidelberg (market square)
- 69436 - Schönbrunn (Baden)
76000-76999
- 76185 - Karlsruhe
- 76275 - Ettlingen
- 76276-76287 - Rheinstetten
77000-77999
- 77815 - Bühl
78000-78999
- 78739 - Hardt (Schwarzwald)
79000-79999
- 79001-79140 - Freiburg
- 79001 - Freiburg
- 79098 - Freiburg (centre)
- 79140 - Freiburg
- 79183 - Waldkirch (Breisgau)
- 79224 - Umkirch
- 79236 - Vogtsburg
- 79342 - 79346 - Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
- 79359 - Riegel am Kaiserstuhl
- 79362 - Forchheim am Kaiserstuhl
- 79400 - Kandern
- 79410 - Badenweiler
88000-88999
- 88486 - Kirchberg an der Iller
Bavaria
63000-63999
- 63916 - Amorbach
80000-80999
- 80xxx - Munich
81000-81999
82000-82999
- 82256 - Fürstenfeldbruck
- 82442 - Saulgrub
- 82515 - Wolfratshausen
89000-89999
- 89420 - Höchstädt an der Donau
91000-91999
- 91001-91058 - Erlangen
- *91001 - Erlangen
- *91052 - Erlangen (centre)
- *91058 - Erlangen
- 91077 - Neunkirchen am Brand
- 91189 is in Thuringia
- 91275 - Auerbach in der Oberpfalz
- 91522 - Ansbach
92000-92999
- 92242 - Hirschau
- 92342 - Freystadt
- 92627 - Weiden in der Oberpfalz
- 92665 - Altenstadt an der Waldnaab
93000-93999
- 93001-93059 - Regensburg
- *93001 - Regensburg
- *93047 - Regensburg (centre)
- *93055 - Regensburg
- 93164 - Brunn
94000-94999
- 94034 - Passau
- 94569 - Stephanspoching
95000-95999
Old postal codes
These were postal codes that were used until 1993:
Western Part
Schleswig-Holstein
- 2xxx
Hamburg
- 2000 Hamburg
Bremen
- 2800 Bremen
- 2850 Bremerhaven
Lower Saxony
3000-3099- 3000 - Hanover
- 3200 - Hildesheim
- 3250 - Hamelin
North-Rhine Westphalia
4000-4099- 4000 - Düsseldorf
- 4040 - Neuss
- 4200 - Oberhausen
- 4250 - Bottrop
- 4300 - Essen
- 4330 - Mülheim an der Ruhr
- 4350 - Recklinghausen
- 4400 - Münster
4600
- 4600 - Dortmund
- 4630 - Bochum
- 4650, 4660 - Gelsenkirchen
- 4700 - Hamm
4900
5000-5099
- 5000 - Cologne
- 5100 - Aachen
- 5300 - Bonn
- 5600 - Wuppertal
- 5800 - Hagen
- 5810 - Witten
- 5820 - Gevelsberg
- 5900 - Siegen
Rhineland-Palatinate
5400- 5400 - Koblenz
- 5500 - Trier
- 6500 - Mainz
- 6550 - Bad Kreuznach
Saarland
- 6600 - Saarbrücken
Hesse
6000-6099- 6000 - Frankfurt
- 6200 - Wiesbaden
- 6242 - Kronberg im Taunus
- 6400 - Fulda
- 6460 - Gelnhausen
- 6461 - Gelnhausen (district)
- 6463 - Freigericht (formerly only Somborn)
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Berlin (West)
- 1000 - Berlin
Eastern Part
Note that GDR had not 5½ "Länder", but 15 "Bezirke".Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Brandenburg
7800-7899- 7817 - Schwarzheide
Berlin (East)
- 1xxx - Berlin
Thuringia
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony
- 7000-7099 - Leipzig
- 8010-8090 - Dresden
- 8301 - Bahretal
- 89xx - Görlitz
- 90xx - Chemnitz
- 9102 - Limbach-Oberfrohna
- 9112 - Burgstädt
- 9201 - Frauenstein
- 8300 - Pirna
- 95xx - Zwickau
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