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Weltkulturerbe Voelklinger Huette
Schipe Says: ..former iron work with blast furnaces...now an unesco world cultural heritage....stillgelegtes Eisenwerk mit Hochoefen und alles was sonst noch zur Eisenerzeugung notwendig war....
bonio Says: Some more photos, including a couple of Mrs B at play!
bonio Says: When this iron making plant was closed down in 1986 it was left intact and by 1994 it was a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.As a former steelworker in the UK this was a great place for me to visit, everything here is pretty much the same as I remembered from the plant I...
christine.j Says: I had been in Völklingen very often as a child and I remembered it as a busy city. It has certainly changed quite a lot! Walking from the steel works towards the city center we only saw deserted, dirty streets, full of litter, lots of graffiti and hardly any open shops. It...
christine.j Says: Another part of the science center deals with magnetism.This room was probably intended for children to experiment, but no adult can be there without starting to play. You can direct a crane by a control pad, so that it takes up nails, screws or other iron things from one...
christine.j Says: The main place to visit in Völklingen is the old steel plant. You can walk around and follow the way the steel was produced.Explanations are given in German,French and English.Sometimes they were a bit too technical for me, since I really don't know very much about steel...
christine.j Says: Apart from the exhibition hall in which changing exhibition are staged, there are some steady ones in a science center, among them a very interesting one about the four elements, fire,water,air and earth. To get in you walk through artificial fog, created by a soft rain....
christine.j Says: The forest close to Völklingen is called Warndt. It covers a large area, both in Germany and in France. The name comes from the word "warning", "warnen" in German. This was a forest for the princes only to hunt, and everybody else was warned to stay away from it. The name...
antistar Says: The Hutte is probably Volklinger's only real draw. But it's a big one. Not only in terms of being a big magnet for tourists, but just through the sheer enormity of the complex. It's almost as big as the town itself. The UNESCO protected World Heritage site was once a...
Rene48 Says: A old ironworks listed in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, today a cultural center.Very interresting to see.
Warndt Hotel Waibel: Excellent food
christine.j Says: I had chosen this hotel because of the attached restaurant, which serves excellent food. The hotel itself was completely average, nice and clean, but nothing special. There is a sauna and a fitness room, but we didn't use them during our stay there. The hotel is in the tiny...
Bio-Restaurant Waibel: A Gourmet Restaurant
christine.j Says: We had chosen our hotel because of this restaurant. It was the first certified restaurant in the Saarland using only organic food or meat from free range farms. The menu is small, not too many choices, but a good variety including vegetarian dishes. All products are from the...
bonio Says: The Völklinger Hütte (good view from the end of the platform) is just a couple of minutes walk from the railway station, turn left and head under the tracks.See DB website for train details.
antistar Says: Volklingen is just a few minutes outside of Saarbrucken by train. It's also easily reached from the tourist haven of Trier. Trains run once every hour or so between those two destinations. And that's about the limit for this little out of the way place. The train station has...
Huck Chocolatier: Éclairs to die for
christine.j Says: Well, maybe not to die for, but at least to forget all about the million calories éclairs have.We had been told about a very good bakery, somewhere between Grossrosseln and Petite-Rosselle. This somewhere consists of a bridge, maybe 20 meters long. No bakery on this bridge,...
christine.j Says: One of the small villages in the Warndt is called St.Nikolaus - Santa Claus in German. Needless to say, the local post office gets quite a lot of letters for Santa Claus during the Christmas season. Each year in November and December volunteers come and help answering the...
International Fraud / Scam BBzint. with Internet
MarcSeghersRuiz Says: This is one International Warning to all the people/companys that are looking for one Off-Shore account : Please DO NOT USE the service of the Biggest Scam/Fraud company that is based at Völklingen (Germany). :BBz-International Gbr. Pc.Notdienst , Hangstrasse 12, 66333...
Old newspapers, old scandals, old ads
christine.j Says: Not far from Völklingen there is Wadgassen which is home of the German Museum for Newspapers - Deutsches Zeitungsmuseum. It really is off the beaten path, and when we were there we were the only visitors. Hard to understand really, as the museum was very interesting. Apart...
christine.j Says: This close to France nobody would be surprised to find a chapel dedicated to a French saint. When we came to the Oranna chapel ,however, I found out that it was dedicated to an Irish saint. Oranna was an Irish woman who had come to the Lorraine in 7th century to heal people....
christine.j Says: The Schengen Zone and the idea behind it was not easy to create. It took many dedicated people to convince others. Part of the European idea started here in this small area,where the Lorraine on the French side and the Saarland on the German side had a lot of first hand...
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A old ironworks listed in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, today a cultural center.Very interresting to see.
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Völklingen:Steel Works and City
The old steel works, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for Industrial Culture, a fascinating place, and on the other side the city of Völklingen, a dirty, run down city with a high unemployment...
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Volklingen is simply dwarfed by the enormity of the mammoth Hutte industrial complex. The small town was little more than a dormitory for people who worked at the giant industrial dinosaurs that...
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I was a steel worker from 1977 - 80 so this was a great day out for me, a visit to the UNESCO Völklinger Hütte, a preserved iron making plant. Lots more on things to do tips.
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LIttle town with great treasures
Walking along this little town was pretty nice even if the weather was crazy. Time to time I think that this picture is a trick that came out of that :)
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