Indices of Germany: five digits "guidance"

Germany Post is a rather old organization that worked even when, in fact, a united Germany did not exist. Over the centuries, a lot of experience has accumulated. The modern postal index system in Germany is the quintessence of experience, designed to speed up the process of delivering correspondence to all regions of the country.

First digit

Region: from zero to nine.

The new German postal system Postleitzahl in Germany was put into effect on 1.07.1993, the same after the merger of West and East Germany.

The German postal code begins with a figure indicating the territorial delivery area with the central airport, where the correspondence arrives. There are nine such zones, marked with numbers from 0 to 9.

Second digit

The number of the region inside the zone indicated by the first digit. The following numbers, step by step, indicate even smaller postal units, down to a specific branch. It is worth noting that the boundaries of the territorial zones in the German indices do not always coincide with the administrative borders of the Lands. They can be in several zones at once. The region within the zone may also not correspond to the administrative boundaries. Berlin, for example, includes five regions. Everything in the German indices is subordinate to the interests of logistics.

We give the coding of the primary zones in the indices of Germany.

The following three numbers can be precisely found on the German Post website by entering the name of the required city and the address with the street name and house number.

Example

Ideally, the index would be something like this: 11011.

• 1 is the first zone
• 1 - federal institutions in Berlin
• The following will bring the message to the German Bundestag.

Here is such a system in Germany.