Düppenweiler
Sign in to saveDüppenweiler is a village in Germany that belongs to the federal state of Saarland. It is a district of the municipal of Beckingen in the county of Merzig-Wadern. The village counts 3,300 inhabitants and consists of 1.254 ha land, while approximately 507 ha of it is woodland.
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- Instance of
- municipality in Germany
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Beckingen
- Population
- 3300
- Area
- 12.54
- Elevation
- 234
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.dueppenweiler.de
- Image
- Düppenweiler Kirche.jpg
- Dialing code
- 06832
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- Düppenweiler
- postal code
- 66701
- P8168
- Sergio Pininfarina
- official color
- white
- twinned administrative body
- Étain
- hashtag
- Düppenweiler
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Düppenweiler is a village in Germany that belongs to the federal state of Saarland. It is a district of the municipal of Beckingen in the county of Merzig-Wadern. The village counts 3,300 inhabitants and consists of 1.254 ha land, while approximately 507 ha of it is woodland.
==History== The first official document of Düppenweiler is from 1153 and it mentions Düppenweiler as Villari. In 1335, Düppenweiler is mentioned as Duppinwilre for the first time. Excavations show that in former times Düppenweiler had a pottery, which explains where the word "Düppen" comes from. ("Düppen" in dialect means something like pot)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Düppenweiler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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