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Saarbrucken does have its own airport but I think it is for flights within Germany. From the UK I flew into Luxembourg which is just a short drive away - this was the most convenient way I could come up with for getting there. Theme: Airplane
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 Saarbruecken Main Station by Nemorino
Three of the daily direct trains are EuroCities which stop here in Saarbruecken on their way from Frankfurt to Paris. These will presumably be replaced by French TGV trains when the new high speed line "TGV Est Europeen" is inaugurated in France in June 2007. (Germany as usual is lagging behind, so these trains will have to putter along at reduced speed as soon as they cross the border.) Leave a Comment
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 Saarbahn line # 1 by Nemorino
Line number 1, shown in the photo, runs from Saarguemines, which is across the border in France, by way of Saarbruecken to Riegelsberg, a distance of 25.5 kilometers. An extension is now being built from Riegelsberg to Lebach, so the complete distance will be 44 kilometers. Leave a Comment
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 Bicycle routes (click to
enlarge) by Nemorino
Here there is even a sign (near the theater in Saarbruecken) pointing to the ADFC regional office.
(I am of course a member of the ADFC, but in Frankfurt not Saarbruecken.) Leave a Comment
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Being a state capital has some advantages, and despite its small size, Saarbrucken gets its own high-speed ICE line, making it easy to reach from anywhere in Germany. In about two hours the line takes you as far as Frankfurt, from where you can go just about anywhere. Regionally there are directl lines to towns like Kaiserslautern, Trier and Koblenz. Internationally there are also direct lines to Paris, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. Leave a Comment
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even if theres an airport, you should know that its about 40 Km far from the city, so its better to take the plain to frankfurt and then go by train to Saarbrücken!
you can buy the saar-lor-lux ticket, that allows you to use all trains in this region, but its valid only at weekends, then theres a saarbrücken card for about 15 marks i think ant with it you can use all public transports at SB (there are lots of buses everywhere)
but besides this, SB is so small that you can go nearly everywehere by foot) Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Often use local transport for a "sightseeing" trip. One tramline runs through Saarbrücken, we joined it at the main railway station and stayed on it to the end at Sarreguemines, just over the border into France. Journey time around 30 minutes each way. On a cold and wet day a good afternoon trip. Leave a Comment
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 Merzig town by MD2nd
Follow directions: Saarlouis, leave Saarbruecken, continue ahead onto A620/E29, at the junction Saarlouis change onto A8/E29.
Follow directions: Luxembourg, Merzig, Dillingen-Mitte, at junction Merzig/Merziger Strasse turn right from A8/E29, continue ahead onto L173 Leave a Comment
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As the name implies, this is a modern museum for modern art from the twentieth and presumably also the twenty-first centuries, starting with the German expressionists and going on from there.
I think the best word to describe this museum would be spacious. There is plenty of room for another century's worth of art works, and also room for several hundred visitors. When I was there recently on a Sunday afternoon I was the only visitor in the whole building, so it seemed a bit lonely and sterile, and the guards outnumbered me by about fifteen to one.
To be fair, though, I should point out that this was one of those rare Sundays when the stores in the city center were allowed to open up and sell things, so a lot of people were probably shopping instead of going to museums. And a group of four young people did arrive at the museum just as I was leaving. Leave a Comment Address: Bismarckstrasse 11-15, D-66111 SaarbrueckenPhone: (06 81) 99 64 - 0Directions: Right next to the University of Music.Website: http://www.saarlandmuseum.de
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The entrance to the History Museum is right next to the palace on Schlossplatz. It looks somewhat like a Quonset hut, and doesn't seem to be very large from the outside, but it is actually quite huge since most of it is under ground, incorporating the remains of a medieval tower and ramparts which have been excavated over the past eighty years.
The museum was built essentially on top of the historical remains, to protect and preserve them. Further excavations have now begun on the square in front of the museum and the palace.
In addition to the archeological remains, the museum includes detailed exhibits on the history of this region over the past thousand years, but paying special attention to the past century: the First and Second World Wars, the Nazi dictatorship and the development of the Saarland over the past fifty years.
When I was there they also had a very thoughtful and balanced special exhibit on the referendum of 1955, when the people of the Saarland again voted to re-join Germany.
To get the most out of this museum you would have to understand German, since there are very few texts in any other language, not even in French even though the border is just a few kilometers a way.
The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 12 noon to 6 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Admission is EUR 2.50 for the permanent exhibit (1.50 if you get a reduction) and EUR 3.00 for the special exhibits (also 1.50 reduced). Or you can get a combination ticket for EUR 4.00 which gets you into everything.
Second photo: Inside the History Museum.
Third photo: Remains of an old wall, in the museum. Leave a Comment
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