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Kusel

town in Germany
Place urban_municipality_in_germany Q22937

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
urban municipality in Germany, district capital[7]
Official website
stadt.kusel.de[13]

Location

Country
Germany[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 49.535°, 7.398°[12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kusel-Altenglan[3]

Population and size

Area
+1437, +14.37
Elevation above sea level
+239
Population
5.1k (5.0k–6.5k, n=9)[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Codes

Local dialing code
06381[11]
Postal code
66869[9]
More facts +9
Capital of
Kusel
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23]
Different from
Kusel
Hashtag
Kusel
Head of government
Jochen Hartloff, Martin Heß[5][6]
Licence plate code
KUS[10]
Member of
association of municipalities and cities in Rhineland-Palatinate[2]
P14586
87954
Twinned administrative body
Zalaegerszeg[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kusel ar كوزل fa کوزل he קוסל ja クーゼル ja クゼル pl Cusel ru Кузель zh 库瑟尔
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
237692212
GND ID
4033862-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kusel Blick vom Marktplatz.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
5629
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
kusel
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4343562
FactGrid item ID
Reinhard Rieger
Freebase ID
/m/04rf9k
GeoNames ID
6547415
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6547415 GND (DNB) 2882265 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
German municipality key
07336055
German regional key
073365010055
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1039957
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
kusel
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0462053
Klimadashboard.de region ID
3c04f570-bd32-44db-8a73-eaf7ad1515cb
Museum-digital place ID
1978
MusicBrainz area ID
afdbe3a5-270f-4854-b47e-30bb68f90cb3
NL CR AUT ID
ge1095780
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1246590
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2882265
RKD thesaurus ID
40995
Topic's main category
Category:Kusel
UN/LOCODE
DEKUS
Who's on First ID
101839867
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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🔗 Connections
People born here 9
Carl Ludwig Koch, Fritz Wunderlich, Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, Axel A. Weber, Paul Bauer, Alexander Ulrich, Antje Lezius, Hans-Werner Moser +1 more
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People who died here 2
Herman Wirth, Frédéric Henri Walther
Capital of 1
Kusel
Contained subdivisions 1
Offenbach-Hundheim
Country 1
Germany
Different from 1
Kusel
FactGrid item ID 1
Reinhard Rieger
Instance of 1
district capital
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kusel-Altenglan
Twinned administrative body 1
Zalaegerszeg
← Capital 1
Kusel
← Headquarters location 1
Kusel
← Twinned administrative body 1
Zalaegerszeg
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Summary

Kusel is an urban municipality in Germany[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Areas include {'amount': '+1437'}[24] and {'amount': '+14.37'}[25]. Kusel sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+239'}[26].

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+5926'}, {'amount': '+4992'}, {'amount': '+5421'} +6
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51891|batch #51891]]: einwohnerzahlen2025"
  2. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 87954
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  3. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+5926'}, {'amount': '+4992'}, {'amount': '+5421'} +6
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39115|batch #39115]]: einwohnerzahlen2024"
  4. 19w ago · Ludwig We · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+5926'}, {'amount': '+4992'}, {'amount': '+5421'} +6
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||0 */ Changing order of values for [[Property:P1082|P1082]]"
  5. 20w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36128|batch #36128]]"
  6. 23w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'amount': '+239'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kusel-Altenglan
    Twinned administrative body → Zalaegerszeg
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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