Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Saarbrücken, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 4.9 km
Ascend 81 m
Descend 130 m

Explore Saarbrücken in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Saarbrücken

Sight 1: Grabkapelle der Familie Röchling

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Grabkapelle der Familie Röchling

The Röchling Chapel is a private chapel of the Röchling family in Saarbrücken, Germany. It is listed as an individual monument.

Wikipedia: Röchling-Kapelle (DE)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Villa Obenauer

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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.

Wikipedia: Villa Obenauer (DE)

589 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Historisches Museum Saar

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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.

Wikipedia: Historisches Museum Saar (DE), Website

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Saarbrücker Schloss

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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.

Wikipedia: Saarbrücken Castle (EN), Website

35 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals

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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".

Wikipedia: Platz des Unsichtbaren Mahnmals (EN), Website

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte

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The Museum of Pre- and Early History in Saarbrücken is an Archaeological Museum for the early history of the Saarland. It is housed in the former Saarbrücken district trade house on Schlossplatz.

Wikipedia: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Saarbrücken) (DE), Website

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Museum in der Schlosskirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Schlosskirche (Saarbrücken) (DE), Website

371 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Alter Saarkran

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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.

Wikipedia: Saarkran (DE)

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Alte Brücke

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The Old Bridge over the Saar in Saarbrücken is the oldest surviving bridge in Saarland. It connects the districts of St. Johann and Alt-Saarbrücken and is only open to pedestrians and cyclists.

Wikipedia: Alte Brücke (Saarbrücken) (DE)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Theaterschiff Maria-Helena

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Theaterschiff Maria-Helena

The theatre ship Maria-Helena is a former péniche in Saarbrücken, Germany, which has been converted into a theatre.

Wikipedia: Theaterschiff Maria-Helena (DE), Website

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Marktbrunnen

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Marktbrunnen Die Autorenschaft wurde nicht in einer maschinell lesbaren Form angegeben. Es wird Hihawai als Autor angenommen (basierend auf den Rechteinhaber-Angaben). / CC BY-SA 2.5

The St. Johanner Marktbrunnen is located on the St. Johanner Markt in Saarbrücken. The fountain is listed as an individual monument.

Wikipedia: St. Johanner Marktbrunnen (DE)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken

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Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken is a contemporary art gallery in Saarbrücken, Germany. The sponsor is the state capital of Saarbrücken.

Wikipedia: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (DE), Website

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Saarländisches Staatstheater

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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.

Wikipedia: Theater Saarbrücken (EN), Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: Saarlandmuseum / Moderne Galerie

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The Saarland Museum is an art museum in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. It is spread across three sites, each with a different specialism.

Wikipedia: Saarland Museum (EN), Website

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Saarländisches Künstlerhaus

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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.

Wikipedia: Saarländisches Künstlerhaus (DE), Website

929 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 16: Villa Sehmer

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Villa Sehmer

Villa Sehmer is a listed building at Mainzer Straße 95 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Wikipedia: Villa Sehmer (DE)

604 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: St. Elisabeth

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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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