For example, in the USA we put house number, street name, city, zip code, etc. In Germany, how do residential addresses work?
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Name Street Street number Postal code City Germany Ex. Eberhard Wellhausen Schulstrasse 49 32547 Bad Oyenhausen GERMANY
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On the website of the German Post you find an entire section about how address in Germany work including examples. There are NO street numbers in Germany! Street number is not the same as house number and additionally you can no longer add the D in front of the postal code as is explained on the official website of German Post !!
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PhillipS -- Yes there are street numbers in Germany. SSPBowlDude has it right. You may want to add a "D-" before the postal code to signify it is a Deutschland postal code: Name Street Street number Postal code City Germany Ex. Eberhard Wellhausen Schulstrasse 49 32547 Bad Oyenhausen GERMANY or Eberhard Wellhausen Schulstrasse 49 D-32547 Bad Oyenhausen
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SSP and Den are quite correct! There are house/street numbers in Germany and all of Europe. The problem lies in the fact that non-English speakers don't understand that street number and house number are synonymous in the English language. It's further confused by the fact that some streets/roads/avenues in some countries are named xxth Street, so anyone who translates "literal", gets it wrong. On 16th Street, the "street/house number" is still the number of the building. so for Germany it would be: (Herr/Frau) First name last name Street name and (house) number ZIP and Town/City Country here's Deutsche Post, English version: http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?tab=1&skin=hi&check=yes&lang=de_EN&xmlFile=1016748 and yes, you don't need the "D" in front of the Zip, but it doesn't hurt either.....
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Name StreetName # PostalCode CityName and if mailing from outside the country to Germany the last line is: Germany
