Roundtrip Saarlouis Idar Oberstein
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Last edit: 14-04-2021
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5h 12m
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273.39 km
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RP 3 Saarlouis. This fortified city was founded in 1680 by King Louis XIV. There are still many remains of the fortress to be seen.
RP 5 Ruins of Siersburg castle
RP 8 Keuchingen has a lot to see. A ceramic museum, a castle and tower and a nice center. Everything on the edge of the river Saar.
RP 9 Viewpoint
RP11 Ruins of Grimburg castle
RP12 Museum about Grimburg castle and witches.
RP13 Museum with steam locomotives
RP14 Museum about the fire brigade
RP16 Nice to visit is the Celtic wall with a recreated Celtic village next to it. There is also a viewpoint over the reservoir of Nonnweiler nearby.
RP17 Just beyond the Celtic wall you can visit a blacksmith's shop: Züscher Hammer. Powered by hydropower.
RP18 An airplane museum with many jet planes, including a Concorde and a De Havilland Comet.
RP20 In Morbach you can stop for coffee or lunch. There you can also visit two museums: a museum about telephones and a museum about woodworking.
RP21 Herrstein is a small old village with a castle, clock tower and many half-timbered houses. Worth walking through.
RP22 The airport of Idar-Oberstein. Small but fun and with gliders. And you can have lunch there. At RP23 is another lunch restaurant.
RP24 Idar-Oberstein with the gemstone museum. This is the gem center of Germany. Lots of shops and restaurants. Enough to experience for a stop.
RP25 Castle ruin Frauenberg.
RP29 An airport with gliders. Or visit the town of Marpingen and have a drink there.
RP30, 33, 34 There are many religious caves in this area, such as the Lourdes Grotto in Dirmingen (RP30), the Espen Grotto (RP33) in Giesenbach and the Marien Grotte (RP34) in Schwarzenholz.
This route gets 4 stars from me. There is a lot to do, the surroundings are beautiful and the roads are good.
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The Saarland (, US also , German: [ˈzaːɐ̯lant] (listen); French: Sarre [saʁ]) is a state of Germany in the west of the country. With an area of 2,570 km2 (990 sq mi) and population of 995,600 in 2015, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and also Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle (Grand Est) in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border about 8 kilometres (5 miles) long with the canton of Remich in Luxembourg to the northwest.
Saarland was established in 1920 after World War I as the Territory of the Saar Basin, occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate. The heavily industrialized region was economically valuable, due to the wealth of its coal deposits and location on the border between France and Germany. Saarland was returned to Nazi Germany in the 1935 Saar status referendum. Following World War II, the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany organized the territory as the Saar Protectorate on 16 February 1946. After the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, it joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
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Saarland was established in 1920 after World War I as the Territory of the Saar Basin, occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate. The heavily industrialized region was economically valuable, due to the wealth of its coal deposits and location on the border between France and Germany. Saarland was returned to Nazi Germany in the 1935 Saar status referendum. Following World War II, the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany organized the territory as the Saar Protectorate on 16 February 1946. After the 1955 Saar Statute referendum, it joined the Federal Republic of Germany as a state on 1 January 1957. Saarland used its own currency, the Saar franc, and postage stamps issued specially for the territory until 1959.
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