Neunkirchen, Saarland

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Neunkirchen is a town-municipality in Saarland, Germany. It is the capital (Kreisstadt) of Neunkirchen District.

It had about 46,000 people in 2016.

Neunkirchen lies at an altitude of 252 m, on the Blies river, and about 20 km northeast of Saarbrücken.

It is the biggest settlement of Saarland after Saarbrücken.

Well-known people

• Erich Honecker (1912-1994), East German leader
• Stefan Kuntz (b. 1962), footballer

Neunkirchen, Saarland Media

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  Casting monument at Hüttenberg, by Fritz Koelle

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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.

Other websites

• Official website