List of sights in Saarland

This list of sights in Saarland contains sights in Saarland , which as a federal state is the smallest of the German territorial states and, in terms of population, the second smallest state (before Bremen ). Nevertheless, there is an abundance of sights from the fields of nature and technology and lots of monuments and works of art to discover here, sometimes in a very small space. The following overviews name and describe the main sights of the country without claiming to be exhaustive.

Saarschleife and Montclair-Berg as seen from the Cloef

nature

Saargau Saar loop Boots  Schlossberg caves Burning mountain Niedaltdorf stalactite cave Black Forest high forest St. Wendeler Land Bliesgau Warns  Primstalsperre  Nied Losheim reservoir  Bostalsee

The most important natural monuments (red), landscapes (green) and bodies of water (blue) in Saarland

Natural monuments

• The Saar loop is to a certain extent the landmark of the Saarland. The Cloef near Orscholz offers the best view of the Saar loop .
• The boot at St. Ingbert is a naturally formed, legendary rock in the shape of an upside-down boot.
• The rock paths in St. Arnual lead in several levels through a rock wall along the Saar.
• The rock path in Kirkel has impressive rock formations.
• The Burning Mountain in Dudweiler is a coal seam that caught fire over 300 years ago.
• The Niedaltdorf stalactite cave in Niedaltdorf is a 120 meter long show cave .

Landscapes

• Bliesgau Biosphere Reserve
• Saargau
• Black Forest High Forest / Hunsrück High Forest National Park
• Sankt Wendeler Land
• Warns

Waters

Bostalsee

• The Saar . In connection with the Saar Canal, a varied, cross-border waterway for recreational boating.
• The Bostalsee is a large reservoir with a beach.
• The Primstalsperre on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate
• You can also swim in the Losheim reservoir .
• The Nied , a tributary of the Saar, is ideal for hiking, swimming and canoeing.
• The Blies is an approx. 100 km long river that flows from north to south through the Saarland and Lorraine. Canoeing is possible on its lower reaches.

Buildings

Gollenstein near Blieskastel

prehistory

• The Gollenstein is a 7.80 m high menhir near Blieskastel ; about 6 m of the Hinkelstein protrude from the earth. Its age is estimated to be 4,000 years. It is considered to be the largest menhir in Central Europe.
• The Spellenstein in Rentrisch is also a roughly 4,000 year old, almost 5 m high monolith that the local development overtook after 1900. Following a legend, it is popularly known as the giant whetstone .
• The Hinkelstein von Walhausen is an approx. 2.5 m high menhir, about 4000 years old, with a weight of 13 t.

Celts

Celtic ring wall of Otzenhausen (Hunnenring)

• The remains of the Hunnenring near Otzenhausen , one of the largest preserved protective walls from Celtic times, around 150-30 BC. Chr.
• The European Culture Park Bliesbruck-Reinheim with a grave of a Celtic princess from around 400 BC, discovered in 1954 . BC extends on both sides of the German-French border.
• Celtic-Roman excavations in the Varus Forest near Tholey (1st - 4th century AD)
• A former Celtic settlement is located on the Momberg near Gronig , where the remains of a ring wall can still be seen today.

Romans

→ Main article : Roman excavations in Saarland

Villa Borg

Nennig, mosaic floor

• The Roman Villa Borg was largely reconstructed, including the gardens.
• The largest and best-preserved Roman mosaic floor north of the Alps is located in the Roman villa in Nennig .
• Finds from the Roman Vicus Contiomagus can be seen in the museum in leases .
• The Roman Museum in Homburg-Schwarzenacker shows a partially reconstructed Roman city stage.
• Mithras shrine on the Halberg in Saarbrücken
• The European Culture Park Bliesbruck-Reinheim shows the excavations of an initially Celtic and later Roman settlement on a cross-border area in Germany and France. The grave of a princess of the Celts with rich jewelry is well known.
• The Emilianus tunnel is part of a Roman copper mine on the steep slope of the Saargau

middle Ages

Fortifications

→ Main article : List of castles and palaces in Saarland

Montclair

• The Burg Kirkel .
• The Teufelsburg in Felsberg .
• The Siersburg in Rehlingen-Siersburg .
• The castle Montclair at the Saar loop .
• The Burg Kerpen in Illingen
• The Merburg in Kirrberg
• The Stiefeler Castle near St. Ingbert
• The artificially created Schlossberg caves in Homburg are the largest system of red sandstone caves in Europe.

City facilities

Ottweiler, Rathausplatz

• The medieval-early modern city center of Ottweiler

Sacred buildings

Romanesque

Merzig, St. Peter

• Old tower in Mettlach : The building was built around the years 990 to 994 by the then Irish abbot Lioffin as the Ottonian burial chapel of St. Lutwinus , who founded the monastery of St. Peter and Mary in Mettlach around 675 .
• Wörschweiler Monastery : The abbey was built in the 12th century on the site of a Roman complex. The monastery was closed during the Reformation and destroyed in a fire at the beginning of the 17th century.
• St. Peter (Merzig) : The former monastery church, completed at the beginning of the 13th century, is the largest surviving Romanesque church in the Saarland .

Gothic

Wendalinus basilica in St. Wendel

Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius (Tholey)

• The Wendalinus basilica in St. Wendel
• Sankt Arnual Abbey : The collegiate church in Saarbrücken- St. Arnual is a former Augustinian Canons - Abbey in the Sankt Arnual district , which today belongs to Saarbrücken , and which was converted into a Protestant monastery during the Reformation . The construction of today's high Gothic collegiate church began in 1315 and was probably completed at the end of the 14th century. Here is one of the graves of the Counts of Saarbrücken, equipped with grave monuments from the late Middle Ages to the 17th century, including the grave of Elisabeth of Lorraine .
• The Deutschherrenkapelle is the oldest church in Saarbrücken. It is a holdover from the settlement of the Teutonic Order .
• The ruins of the Wörschweiler monastery , a former Cistercian abbey near Homburg
• Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius (Tholey) : The monastery complex that still exists today rises on the ruins of an earlier Roman bath complex. Presumably as early as the 7th century, a clerical community of Colombian origin formed at this point . Today's abbey church is a three-aisled early Gothic complex without transepts from the middle and second half of the 13th century.

Renaissance

• The Sulgerhof, with what is probably the oldest surviving early modern kitchen in the Saarland (2nd half of the 16th century), in Ormesheim in the municipality of Mandelbachtal

Baroque

Ludwigskirche (Saarbrücken)

• The Gräfinthal monastery ruins in Mandelbachtal
• The city center and castle church of Blieskastel form a closed baroque ensemble.
• The ensemble of Ludwigskirche and the surrounding Ludwigsplatz with development on the edge in Saarbrücken is a prime example of a baroque plaza that is uniformly planned on the drawing board.
• Saarlouis is a baroque fortress town. The fortifications have been partially preserved.
• The Hohenburg , a largely destroyed Vauban style fortress on the Schlossberg near Homburg .
• Manor house in the Empire style of Baron Wahlster in Heusweiler -Bietschied, today a RAG sanatorium. Napoléon Bonaparte's personal horses were bred and ridden in at Freiherr Wahlster's stud.
• Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken with the baroque Old Town Hall and Saarbrücken Castle .

classicism

• Karlsberg Palace , classicist palace complex based on the model of Versailles Palace on the Karlsberg of the same name near Homburg , only the foundations and parts of the park have been preserved, can be viewed on a circular hiking trail (using the mp.3 files available on the Internet with a soundtrack).
• Evangelical Church in Bischmisheim : The Saarbrücken master builder Johann Adam Knipper the Younger built the octagonal building from 1822 to 1824 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

historicism

Town hall St. Johann with phoenix fountain

• Saarbrücken Mining Directorate : The administration building, built from 1877 to 1880 according to plans by architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden in the neo-renaissance style with echoes of the early Florentine renaissance , housed the administration of the saarland mines
• City Hall St. Johann : The city hall of the state capital Saarbrücken was built as the city hall of the then independent city of St. Johann an der Saar in the years 1897 to 1900 according to the designs of Georg von Hauberrisser in the neo-late Gothic style, which among other things also the new city hall in Munich designed. The St. Johann town hall is the largest neo-Gothic secular building in Saarland .
• Saardom ("Catholic Parish Church of the Most Holy Sacrament"): The neo-late Romanesque church in Dillingen / Saar is considered to be the largest sacred building in the Saarland , along with St. Johann's St. Michaelskirche .

Modern

St. Albert, Campanile

Maria Queen, Saarbrücken, interior

• Villa Obenauer : The upper-class villa was built in the years 1905–1907 based on designs by Peter Behrens in Saarbrücken . The building is an important testimony to the history of the development of modern architecture in the 20th century
• St. Agatha (Merchingen (Merzig)) : The church building designed by the Viennese architect Clemens Holzmeister in 1928 is considered to be trend-setting for the more modern history of church architecture in German-speaking countries.
• French embassy in Saarbrücken : The former French embassy building, which the French architect and town planner Georges-Henri Pingusson created in the style of Mouvement Moderne , is one of his most important buildings.
• St. Albert (Saarbrücken) : The sacred building designed in 1950 by the architects Dominikus and Gottfried Böhm is considered a prime example of modern central construction.
• Maria Queen (Saarbrücken) : The Marienkirche was designed by the Cologne church architect Rudolf Schwarz . Construction began on December 8, 1954, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. The foundation stone was laid on May 31, 1956, and the consecration was celebrated on May 31, 1959, on the date of the feast of the Queen of Mary .

Memorials and memorials

• Gestapo cell in Saarbrücken Castle, part of the Saar History Museum
• Neue Bremm Memorial
• Grave site of Russian prisoners of war and foreign workers in the cemetery in Heusweiler
• Place of the Invisible Memorial in front of the Saarbrücken Castle

Modern (monuments, sculpture trails, towers ...)

• European monument in Berus
• Hindenburg Tower in Bexbach
• Word sail , a steel sculpture in Tholey

technology

• World cultural heritage Völklinger Hütte
• Ostertalbahn museum railway
• Neunkircher Hüttenweg and Hüttenpark
• Saarland mining museum in Bexbach
• Optical telegraph stations in Mandelbachtal
• Adventure Mine Velsen of Velsen mine in Klarenthal
• The heritage and Gondwana Park in Landsweiler-Reden

Art in public space

De Monn with da long Stong (bronze sculptures by Zoltan Hencze) in Dudweiler

• The international sculpture symposium Stones at the Border near Merzig consists of sculptures by various artists that were created on the spot on the German-French border.
• The street of the sculptures near St. Wendel follows a part of the Saarland circular hiking trail.

The Institute for Current Art in Saarland offers an overview of the works of art in public space in Saarland in its online art dictionary.

Museums

→ Main article : List of museums in Saarland

• The Adventure Museum of Heinz Rox-Schulz was until recently in the Old Town Hall in Saarbrücken. The museum's friends' association is currently looking for new premises for the exhibition.
• The Museum Haus Ludwig in Saarlouis offers changing exhibitions.
• The Saar Historical Museum at Saarbrücken Castle offers an interesting insight into the eventful Saarland history of the last 150 years. A multitude of different exhibits, which should bring life closer to the last 150 years, make this museum interesting for children too. It is ideally suited as a destination for trips of several generations of a family, because personal stories and experiences can then be added to the exhibits.
• The historic copper mine in Düppenweiler.

The museum for prehistory and early history on Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken

• The Museum of Prehistory and Early History on Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken offers a selection of interesting exhibits from the Stone Age to the Carolingians.
• The Roman Museum near Homburg-Schwarzenacker.
• The Saarland Museum with modern gallery, old collection and the museum in the castle church
• The Fellenberg Castle Museum in Merzig
• The German Newspaper Museum in Wadgassen shows exhibits on the historical development, the technical production and distribution of the newspaper.
• The customs museum in Habkirchen / Mandelbachtal shows exhibits from the changing border history of the country.
• The museum for everyday village culture in Gerheim- Rubenheim shows everyday life in the village, especially that of the lower social classes , e.g. B. the small farming families of the 19th and 20th centuries, day laborers, artisans and workers. The entire Saar area and the adjacent areas are taken into account.
• The Mineral Museum in Freisen shows a large number of different stones, agates and petrified woods from the Idar-Oberstein , Oberkirchen and Freisen region.

Zoos and animal enclosures

• Saarbrücken Zoo
• Saarbrücken wildlife park
• Wolf Park Werner Freund
• Neunkirchen Zoological Garden
• Freisen Wildlife Park
• Weiskirchen- Rappweiler wildlife and hiking park

Hiking and biking trails

→ Main article : Hiking trails in Saarland

The Saarland hiking trails are marked by the Saarwald Association , the most important and longest of these trails is the Saarland circular hiking trail, currently the trail network covers a distance of 2,400 kilometers. Many Saarland communities and districts also set up numerous hiking trails.

Old border path in the municipality of Überherrn : This path leads along old connecting routes from Germany to France and back. Along the way there are boards with information about the mining of lime for the steel industry, the Europe 1 transmitter and other sights such as the European monument in Berus.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WP article Gronig
2. ↑ http://institut-aktuelle-kunst.de/kunstlexikon , accessed on August 21, 2018.