35 Sights in Saarbrücken, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Saarbrücken, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 35 sights are available in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Sightseeing Tours in Saarbrücken1. Johanneskirche
The Johanneskirche is a Protestant church in Saarbrücken, Germany, completed in 1898. It is located in the district of St. Johann, opposite the town hall of St. Johann. The neo-Gothic church survived the Second World War almost unscathed, although the air raids on Saarbrücken had largely destroyed the city. The church underwent a purifying redesign in the post-war period. Today, the St. John's Church is not only used for church services, but also for rallies and cultural events. In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is listed as an individual monument. The church is assigned to the Saar-West church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. The tower of St. John's Church with its height of 74 m is currently the highest church tower in Saarland after the destruction of the tower of Saarbrücken's St. Joseph's Church with its original height of 75 m.
2. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Saarbrücken was designed by the architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski and consecrated in 1914. The neo-Romanesque church is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a patron saint. The Feast of the Patron Saint is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the third Friday after Pentecost. The church, which is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland list of monuments, is located at Odilienbergstraße 1, in the Saarbrücken district of Burbach. The Sacred Heart Church is historically the third Catholic church in the municipality of Malstatt-Burbach, which was independent from 1874/75 to 1909, after the St. Eligius Church in Burbach and the St. Josef's Church in Malstatt. The church belongs to the Diocese of Trier.
3. Gedenkstätte „Ehemaliges Gestapo-Lager Neue Bremm“
Neue Bremm was a Nazi torture camp in Saarbrücken, set up in 1943 by the Gestapo intentionally with no oversight from other institutions. It was designed to break prisoners who were not destined for immediate death. Some prisoners were held only for a few weeks, others, much longer; both men, and women. During that time they were put to work in slave-labour commandos and broken. Those who survived purposeful starvation were sent on to Nazi concentration camps such as Buchenwald. Approximately 20,000 men and women passed through Neue Bremm, including Jews from occupied Eastern Europe as well as Frenchmen, Belgians, Britons and Italians. However, the total number of casualties remains unknown.
4. Pfarrkirche St. Michael
St. Michael is a Roman Catholic church in the Saarbrücken district of St. Johann, which was built from 1923 to 1924 according to plans by the architect Hans Herkommer. Since then it has been the largest church building in the Saarland state capital in front of the Evangelische Ludwigskirche from the base area of the interior. In addition to the so -called Saardom in Dillingen/Saar, the St. Ingberter Josefskirche and the painting store Josefskirche, the Michaelskirche is one of the largest churches in the Saarland. The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier. Patrozin day of the church is the festival of Holy Archangel Michael on September 29th.
5. Historisches Museum Saar
The Saar Historical Museum is the museum for the history of the Saarland and is located on Saarbrücken's Schlossplatz. The aim of the museum is to process and present the history of the state on the Saar over a period of 100 years until about 1959 from the point of view of cultural, social, economic, industrial and technical history. In addition, excavations of Saarbrücken Castle with its casemates can be used to trace the development from the castle to today's castle. The permanent exhibition is complemented by temporary exhibitions.
6. Alter Saarkran
The Saarkran in Saarbrücken, originally called "Saarkragen", most recently also called old Saarkra (HNE), was a baroque harbor crane, built after plans and under the direction of Friedrich Joachim Stengel 1761/1762 at the command of the sovereign Wilhelm Heinrich von Saarbrücken-Nassau. Today's crane is a replica, built in the same place south of the Wilhelm-Heinrich Bridge on the left bank of the Saar. It is a land -based tread crane, also called "house crawls" at the time, in contrast to the floating crane or crane ship.
7. Christkönigkirche
The Church of Christ King is a Roman Catholic parish church in St. Arnual, a district of Saarland. Patrozinium is Christ King. In the monument list of the Saarland, the church is listed as an individual monument to the Ensemble An der Christ-König-Church. With regard to the Christological intention of his iconography, the sacred buildings, designed in an expressionist and Byzantine language of form, are of particular theology and art-historical significance. The parish belongs to the diocese of Trier.
8. Saarländisches Staatstheater
Theater Saarbrücken, officially Saarländisches Staatstheater since 1971, is the state theatre of Saarland in its capital Saarbrücken, Germany. It has several divisions and offers annually around 30 new productions in around 700 events for more than 200,000 people. Its venues are Großes Haus, Alte Feuerwache, Congresshalle and sparte4. While theatre in Saarbrücken has a long history, the present main venue was completed in 1938, with plans commissioned by the Nazi regime.
9. Villa Obenauer
The Villa Obenauer is an upper-middle-class villa built between 1905 and 1907 according to a design by Peter Behrens in Saarbrücken, Trillerweg 58. It is located in the Saarbrücken residential area of Triller on the south-eastern slope above the road, the hillside location characterises the architecture. As an important testimony to the development history of modern architecture in the 20th century, the building is a listed building.
10. ehem. Winterbergdenkmal
The Winterberg Monument was a war memorial on the Winterberg in Saarbrücken, Germany. Built on an artificial hill, the 30-metre-high tower monument with a surrounding foyer commemorated Prussia's victory at the Battle of Spichern on 6 August 1870. Today, only the reconstructed plinth with staircase remains, which is a listed building. The name Winterberg itself is a corruption of Wingert-Berg, as wine was grown here.
11. Deutschherrenkapelle
The Kommende St. Elisabeth in Saarbrücken is the former branch of the Teutonic Order in Saarbrücken. They was founded at the end of the life of Count Simon III, who had taken part in the Fifth Crusade. In common parlance, it was formerly referred to as the "Deutschhaus" or today mostly subsumed as the "Deutschherrenkapelle", but strictly speaking this refers only to parts of the ensemble.
12. St. Antonius
The Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua is a church building of the three parishes in the upper and lower malstatt, which united since 1 January 2006, in the pastoral orgy unit St. Josef (Saarbrücken) in the dean office of Saarbrücken of the diocese of Trier and is located in the district of Malstatt in Saarbrücken. She carries the patrozium of St. Anthony of Padua.
13. Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals
The Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals – or in English, the Place of the Invisible Memorial – is a memorial to Jewish cemeteries. It is located in Saarbrücken, capital of the German state of the Saarland. To the visitor, the memorial is completely invisible – it only appears as a sign at the place, reading "Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals".
14. Stumm-Kirche
The Stumm Church is a former Protestant church in the Brebach-Fechingen district of Saarbrücken, Germany. It is named after the Stumm family of industrialists, who had the church built. The building is listed as an individual monument in the Stummstraße monument ensemble. The former sacred building is now used for agriculture.
15. Evangelische Kirche Güdingen
The Evangelical Church of Güdingen is a sacred building in the parish of Obere Saar in the district of Güdingen in Saarbrücken, Germany. The parish is assigned to the Saar-West church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is listed as an individual monument.
16. St. Paulus
The Catholic Church of St. Paulus is a church building of the parish community of Saarbrücken-Malstatt in the deanery of Saarbrücken of the Diocese of Trier and stands on the corner of Lebacher Straße and Rheinstraße in the Saarbrücken district of Malstatt auf dem Rastpfuhl. It bears the patronage of St. Paul of Tarsus.
17. St. Marien
The Catholic Church of St. Marien is a church building of the parish community of Saarbrücken Malstatt in the deanery of Saarbrücken of the Diocese of Trier and stands in Fischbachstraße in the Saarbrücken district of Malstatt on the Rußhütte. It bears the patronage of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
18. Evangelische Kirche Scheidt
The Evangelical Church of Scheidt is a church building in the Saarbrücken district of Scheidt, Germany. It is located in a central location just south of the Kaiserstraße (B 40) on the flank of the Scheidter Berg. In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is listed as an individual monument.
19. Evangelische Kirche Fechingen
The Evangelical Church in Fechingen is a listed church building in the Saarbrücken district of Fechingen. The building is one of the oldest Christian buildings in Saarland. The parish of Brebach-Fechingen belongs to the Saar-West church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
20. St. Elisabeth
The Church of St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic branch and youth church of the Diocese of Trier in Saarbrücken. It is located on Hellwigstrasse in the St. Johann an der Saar. The Patrozinium Day is the church commemorative day of the Elisabeth of Thuringia on November 19.
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21. Ludwigskirche
Ludwigskirche in Old Saarbrücken, Germany, is a Lutheran Baroque-style church. It is the symbol of the city and is considered to be one of the most important Protestant churches in Germany, along with the Dresden Frauenkirche and the St. Michael's Church, Hamburg.
22. Evangelisch-Lutherische Immanuelgemeinde Saarbrücken
The Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saarbrücken is a Protestant church in Saarbrücken, Germany. It belongs to the Southern Germany church district of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK). The parish includes Saarbrücken and Walpershofen.
23. E-Werk
The E-Werk is an event hall in Saarbrücken-Burbach on the Saarterrassen. The former industrial hall is a listed building. It was built in a steel skeleton construction with brick infill. On the narrow sides, large basket-arched windows illuminate the building.
24. 4560
The 4560 is a so -called Graffiti Hall of Fame in Saarbrücken. On this graffiti wall, the city allows graffiti to spray, and in this way wants to promote the creativity of youth culture. The wall extends over 450 meters and has 1800 square meters of area.
25. Saarländisches Künstlerhaus
The Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken e.V. is a place of work and meeting for cultural workers from the fields of visual arts, literature and arts and crafts in the form of an association structure. The seat of the institution is Saarbrücken.
26. Evangelische Kirche Malstatt
The Evangelical Church of Malstatt in the Saarbrücken district of Malstatt is one of the two churches of the parish of Malstatt in the Saar-West church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. It is listed as an individual monument.
27. Oblatenkloster
The Oblate Monastery of Saarbrücken, a former Roman Catholic monastery of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. It is located in the residential district of Rotenbühl, which is why it was sometimes referred to as the Rotenbühl Monastery.
28. Saarbrücker Schloss
Saarbrücken Castle is a Baroque château in Saarbrücken, the capital of Saarland. It is located in the district of Alt-Saarbrücken on the left bank of the Saar. Earlier, a medieval castle and a Renaissance castle stood on the same site.
29. Museum in der Schlosskirche
The Schlosskirche is a former church in Saarbrücken, Germany. Until the introduction of the Reformation in 1575, it bore the patronage of St. Nicholas of Myra. Since 2004, the church building has been a museum of Christian sacred art.
30. Alte Feuerwache
The old fire station is a venue for the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken-St. Johann. Previously, it was used as a gymnasium with a fire station of the volunteer fire brigade. The building is under protection as a single monument.
31. Schloss Halberg
Der Halberg ist mit 280 m ü. NN ein einzeln stehender, bewaldeter Berg in Saarbrücken. Der Halberg erhebt sich in der Saaraue, die er um etwa 80 m überragt. Am Hang steht der mittlere, auf der Kuppe der obere Buntsandstein an.
32. Schwarzenbergturm
The Schwarzenberg Tower is an observation tower on the Schwarzenberg in Saarbrücken, Germany. The square cross-section tower was built in 1930 from reinforced concrete and has been a listed building since 1 August 1996.
33. Stiftskirche St. Arnual
The St. Arnual Abbey is a former canon pen in the Sankt Arnual district belonging to Saarbrücken today, which belonged to the diocese of Metz and was converted into an Evangelical pen during the Reformation period.
34. Wildpark Saarbrücken
The Saarbrücken Wildlife Park is the wildlife park of Saarbrücken, the capital of Saarland, Germany. It is located in the St. Johann city forest on the Meerwiesertalweg opposite the Hermann-Neuberger-Sportschule.
35. Alter Jüdischer Friedhof
The old Jewish cemetery in Saarbrücken, the state capital of the Saarland, was created in 1841. The Jewish cemetery is located on Graf-Simon-Straße/corner of Komturstraße and is a protected cultural monument.
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