Hirzweiler is a small village in

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, in the Bundesland

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west 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 settlement was first mentioned in a document dated 1365. There are currently roughly 1,200 people living in Hirzweiler. Hirzweiler is in a jumelage (partnership) with the village of Walschbronn in

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. Hirzweiler is one village of Gemeinde

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External links

Hirzweiler's homepage
Towns in Saarland {{Saarland-geo-stub