Püttlingen () is a town 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 ...

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, 10 km northwest 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 ...

Geography

The town lies in the Köller Valley, approximately 20 km to the northwest of

and 5 km north of

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. Going in a clockwise direction from the north, the neighbouring communities are

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, Saarbrücken and Völklingen in the Regionalverband Saarbrücken and the communities of Bous and Schwalbach in the Landkreis Saarlouis.

Climate

The annual precipitation amounts to 834 mm which places it in the top third of German locales according to the German Weather Service. The driest month is April, while November, the wettest month, sees 1.4 times as much rain.

Subdivision

The town is composed of the subdivisions of Püttlingen (made up of the Berg, Bengesen and Ritterstraße areas) and Köllerbach (made up of the Engelfangen, Etzenhofen, Herchenbach, Kölln, Rittenhofen, and Sellerbach areas).

Mayors

* 1946–1949: Peter Zimmer * 1949–1956: Peter Müller * 1956–1966: Nikolaus Boßmann, CDU * 1966–1974: Hans Koch, independent * 1974–2001: Rudolf Müller, CDU * 2002–2019: Martin Speicher, CDU * 2019–incumbent : Denise Klein, SPDGewählte Ober-/Bürgermeister*innen, Landrät*innen und Regionalverbandsdirektor*in im Saarland
accessed 19 June 2021.

Twin towns – sister cities

Püttlingen is twinned with: * Ber, Mali * Créhange, France * Fresagrandinaria, Italy *

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, Poland *

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, France *

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, Germany *

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, Hungary *

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, Czech Republic

Notable people

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (; Kramp; born 9 August 1962), sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a retired German politician who served as Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany), Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021 and as Leader of th ...

(born 1962), politician (CDU) *

Patrik Kühnen Patrik Kühnen (; born 11 February 1966) is a German former professional tennis player, who turned professional in 1985. Kühnen had his biggest career singles win in the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1988 when he beat Jimmy Connors en route to t ...

(born 1966), tennis player and

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team captain * Johann Nikolaus Weislinger (1691–1755), Jesuit polemicist *

Hendrick Zuck Hendrick Zuck (born 21 July 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a left winger for 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Club career Early career Zuck began his career at SC Großrosseln in 1992, where he was managed by his father. In 2004, ...

(born 1990), footballer

References

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