Schiffweiler is a municipality in the
district of Neunkirchen, 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
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. It is situated approximately 5 km northwest of
Neunkirchen, and 20 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 ...
.
People from Schiffweiler
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Konrad Grebe
Konrad Grebe (7 June 1907 – 12 July 1972) was a German mining engineer and inventor.
Life
He worked as a mining engineer in Ibbenbüren for German company Preussag. In 1937, Grebe invented the ''Kohlenhobel'' (coal plow). Grebe was marr ...
(1907–1972), German mining engineer and inventor of coal plow
References
Neunkirchen (German district)
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