Germany address examples & format

German address format got you going, “Hä?” Not to fear. Smarty is here to explain exactly how to address a letter to your friends and customers in Germany. You can look at our geil sample German address examples here and try our suite of address validation tools for addresses in Germany below. Just enter an address, and we'll format, standardize, and validate it blitzschnell. That’s German slang for really fast.

Now, let's get into it with the basics. The German address format for shipping or mailing addresses should be written in all capital letters as follows:

1. Addressee line - The recipient's name.
2. Street name and house number - It should be these 2 items listed in this order forgoing any punctuation marks unless secondary address information is required (e.g. apartment number). Apartment numbers should appear after the street name separated by 2 forward slashes and spaces (e.g. street + number / / apartment number).
3. Postal code and city - The postal code goes before the city in this instance and is not spearated by commas or other punctuation.
4. COUNTRY - DEU, in all caps.

Get ready to explore interesting intricacies of Germany’s letter address format.