Püttlingen () is a town in
Saarland
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,
Germany
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, 10 km northwest of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
.
Geography
The town lies in the Köller Valley, approximately 20 km to the northwest of
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
and 5 km north of
Völklingen
Völklingen (french: Vœlklange, Moselle Franconian: ''Välglinge'') is a town in the district of Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Saar, approx. 10 km west of Saarbrücken, and directly borders France.
The to ...
. Going in a clockwise direction from the north, the neighbouring communities are
Heusweiler
Heusweiler (; Saarlandic: ''Heiswiller''; older french: Hoysviller, link=no) is a municipality in the District of Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. ...
,
Riegelsberg
Riegelsberg () is a municipality in the District of Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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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 Speiche, CDU
* 2019–incumbent : Denise Klein, SPD
[Gewählte Ober-/Bürgermeister*innen, Landrät*innen und Regionalverbandsdirektor*in im Saarland]
accessed 19 June 2021.
Twin towns – sister cities
Püttlingen is
twinned with:
*
Ber
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, Mali
*
Créhange, France
*
Fresagrandinaria
Fresagrandinaria (locally ''Frò-išë'') is a ''comune'' and town in the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy.
Twin towns
* Nowa Sól, Poland
* Püttlingen, Germany
* Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, France
* Senftenberg
Senftenb ...
, Italy
*
Nowa Sól
Nowa Sól is a city on the Oder River in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the capital of Nowa Sól County and had a population of 38,763 (2019).
History
The first settlement in the region of modern Nowa Sól dates to the 14th century, wh ...
, Poland
*
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (, literally ''Saint-Michel on Orge'') is a commune in the Essonne ''département'' of France. It is in the southern suburbs of Paris, from the center of Paris.
Inhabitants of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge are known as ''Saint-M ...
, France
*
Senftenberg
Senftenberg ( wen, Zły Komorow) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, capital of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district.
Geography
Senftenberg is located in the southwest of the historic Lower Lusatia region at the border with Saxony. It ...
, Germany
*
Veszprém
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, Hungary
*
Žamberk
Žamberk (; german: Senftenberg in Böhmen) is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 6,000 inhabitants. In lies on the Divoká Orlice river. The town centre is well preserved and is pr ...
, Czech Republic
Notable people
*
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
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(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 th ...
(born 1966), tennis player and
Davis Cup
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team captain
*
Johann Nikolaus Weislinger (1691–1755), Jesuit polemicist
*
Hendrick Zuck (born 1990), footballer
References
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Towns in Saarland
Saarbrücken (district)