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Schiffweiler

municipality of Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ631957 ↗
Source-derived summary

Schiffweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈʃɪfvaɪlɐ] ) is a municipality in the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km northwest of Neunkirchen, and 20 km northeast of Saarbrücken.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Schiffweiler” as municipality of Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Schiffweiler, municipality and Germany can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality of Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q631957. VIAF identifies the subject as 136625516. The Library of Congress control number is n78050082. Authority coordinates are 49.371, 7.129. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Schiffweiler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.