Quick reference
General | Events | Company addresses | Personal addresses, post and phone codes | Reference sources
General
- Web.de: Auskunft und Information
- German Studies Web: Reference Shelf dictionaries, handbooks, train timetables, Postleitzahlen etc
- CIA World Factbook: Germany
Events
- Bellnet: Veranstaltungen Ausstellungen, Messen, Sport etc
Company addresses
- Austrian Worldport information on Austrian companies and services, plus business homepages worldwide
- compnet.at Unternehmen und Dienstleistungen in Österreich. From Compass-Verlag GmbH
- Teleauskunft Deutschland German white and yellow pages - from Deutsche Telekom. Now also with email directory
- YelloWWW: das Business-Portal (unofficial) Yellow Pages, jobs, hotels, etc etc
- FLIX Deutschland: der deutsche Internet-Branchenindex German businesses on the Net searchable by place and sector
- Electronic Business Server (Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation) list of German firms, alphabetically, by sector and by post code; job openings too
- suchen.de Email address search: company or personal addresses
Personal addresses, phone numbers, post and phone codes
- Yahoo! people search worldwide telephone and email address finder
- DFN Directory Services Indexes all academic institutions in Germany
- suchen.de Email address search: company or personal addresses
- Teleauskunft Deutschland German white and yellow pages - from Deutsche Telekom. Now also with email directory
- AVON: Amtliches Verzeichnis der Ortsnetzkennzahlen The official list of dialling codes - hugely detailed. Use the Find function in your browser to locate a particular town or city. NB spell out Umlauts - ae, oe, ue.
- Postleitzahlen
Reference sources
- Dictionaries and quotations
- Lexika, Enzyklopädien Encyclopedias, dictionaries etc from Konstanz
- Lexikonsuche in Fachlexika New! 30 searchable subject lexica
- Wikipedia: die freie Enzyklopädie New! content a bit variable, but could be useful
- Wissensnetz.de Online reference works and research sources, arranged by subject. Also links to a list of search engines, information on distance learning and a news feed on online learning
- zeno.org New! C19th reference books, historical and literary texts, art images etc online
- Bibles online includes Luther and the Elberfelder Übersetzung
- mythologica.de: Lexikon der griechischen Mythologie New!
- Saur's World Biographical Index - a searchable index, containing data on 2.8 million people. This database contains the indexes ("Kurzbiographien") as in the CD-ROM edition. The biographical data themselves are available only in microfiche
- Biographische Nachschlagewerke New! Freely available biographical dictionaries from Wikisource
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