Bexbach () is a town in the
Saarpfalz district, in
Saarland
Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in ...
, Germany. It is situated on the river
Blies, approximatively 6 km east of
Neunkirchen, and 25 km northeast of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...
. The
Saarländisches Bergbaumuseum (Saarland Mining Museum) is located in the town.
Sons and daughters of the town
* Edwin Hügel (1919-1988), politician (FDP), minister of economy, transport and agriculture in Cabinet Zeyer II (1982-1983)
*
Gerd Dudenhöffer (born 1949), comedian and author
International relations
Bexbach is
twinned with:
*
Edenkoben, Germany, since 1936
*
Goshen, United States, since 1979
*
Pornichet
Pornichet (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Geography Location
Pornichet is a coastal town of the Côte d'Amour, located ten kilometers west of the centre of Saint-Nazaire. The adjacent communes are ...
, France, since 1985
References
External links
http://www.bexbach.de
Saarpfalz-Kreis
Palatinate (region)
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