Dudweiler is a borough 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 ...

, on the Sulzbach creek. In 977, Dudweiler was first mentioned in official documents of German Emperor

Otto II Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red (), was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy. Otto II was ...

as the location of a chapel (Duodonisvillare). Dudweiler received

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

on 12 September 1962. In 1974 it was incorporated into the city of

. Since then, Dudweiler has also been the name of one of the four city districts ''(Stadtbezirke)'' of Saarbrücken. The district of Dudweiler comprises four city boroughs ''(Stadtteile)'': Dudweiler, Herrensohr, Jägersfreude (both were boroughs of Dudweiler before 1974), and Scheidt (a municipality in the amt of Brebach before 1974). The coal mining industry played an important role for the growth of Dudweiler until 1968 when the last mine was closed. Today Dudweiler is characterised by its proximity to the

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campus.

Sister cities

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