Germany address format & examples

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: These 2 items should be listed in this order, with no punctuation 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 isn’t separated by commas or other punctuation.
4. COUNTRY - DEU, in all caps.