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22 unusual facts about Saarland


3rd Liga South/West

However, clubs from the Saarland and Luxembourg are also entitled to play in this league in the future.

Arnold von Lasaulx

He described in 1878 the eruptive rocks of the district of Saar and Moselle.

C-AKv coupler

Beginning in late 2009, eighteen DBAG Class 189 electric locomotives owned by DB Schenker were converted to C-AKv couplers, in order to handle 6,000 tonne iron ore trains from Rotterdam to the steel works at Dillingen in the Saarland, replacing the previous German class 151 double units and Dutch class 6400 triple units commonly used on these workings previously.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Consular district covers the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Saarland.

Dillinger Hütte

Dillinger Hütte is a steel producer in Dillingen, in the German Federal State of Saarland, and has a history stretching back more than three hundred years.

Ensdorf

Ensdorf, Saarland, a village in the Saarlouis district, Saarland, Germany.

Family Party of Germany

It has elected members to several local councils in the Saarland.

François-Joseph d'Offenstein

06.28th.1796 : Nominated Brigader Chief of the "10th régiment d'infanterie de ligne", he made the battle of Renchen, Rastadt, Neresheim, Dillingen, Ingolstadt, and Geisenfeld.

Friedrichsthal

Friedrichsthal is a town and a municipality in the district of Saarbrücken, of Saarland, Germany.

Günter Hermann Ewen

Günter Hermann Ewen (1962 – May 18, 1999) was a German mass murderer who killed four people and wounded at least nine others in Dillingen, Germany on May 16, 1999, before escaping to Sierck-les-Bains, France, where he killed another person, and wounded two more.

Jörg Bastuck

Jörg Bastuck (4 September 1969 in Dillingen, Saarland, Germany – 24 March 2006 in Salou, Spain) was a German co-driver in the Junior World Rally Championship.

Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof

Since the line between Saarbrücken and Homburg (the Palatine Ludwig Railway) was heavily damaged, the less damaged lines from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen (the Nahe Valley Railway via Sulzbach and the Fischbach Valley Railway) was repaired and returned to operations on 25 June 1945.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Saar

This was a set of 16 local scenes, ranging from a view of the Saar River near Mettlach to the Burbach Steelworks at Dillingen.

Rehlingen-Siersburg

Rehlingen-Siersburg is a municipality in the district of Saarlouis, in Saarland, Germany.

Rudi Assauer

Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (born 30 April 1944 in Sulzbach-Altenwald) is a former German football manager and player.

S-mine

French soldiers encountered the S-mine during minor probes into the coal-rich German Saar region in September 7–11, 1939, during the Saar Offensive.

Saarbrücken Railway

Two years later, on 16 November 1852, passenger trains ran on the line, known as the Forbach Railway, via Sulzbach, Dudweiler and St. Johann-Saarbrücken to reach the French border at Forbach.

Saarland Hurricanes

This team played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1983 onwards, but relocated to Dillingen in 1984 and became the Dillingen Hurrikanes.

Saarwellingen

Saarwellingen is a municipality in the district of Saarlouis in Saarland, Germany.

Shanta Ghosh

Shanta Ghosh-Broderius (born 3 January 1975 in Neunkirchen, Saarland) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Siegfried Alkan

Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland (then Prussia, now Germany), the son of Johannes Alkan and Johanna Bonn in a family of merchants and musicians.

Sulzbach, Saarland

Sulzbach is a town and a municipality in the district of Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany.


Albert von Maybach

The district of Maybach in the Saarland town of Friedrichsthal was also named after Albert von Maybach.

Alfred Werner Maurer

In 1973, he participated as a researcher at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken under the direction of Rolf Hachmann in the excavations at Tell Kamid al lawz (or Kamid el-Loz) (Kumidi) in Lebanon part.

Alfred Werner Maurer was also active in sports, he was a board member of the German Fencing Association, Board member of the National Sports Association Saar,Fencing Federation President Interregio Saar-Lor-Lux-Elsass-Südwest, President of the Federal fencers Saar.

In 1974 he was a research associate at the University of Saarland at the of Winfried Orthmann directed excavation of the 5000 year old city of Tall plant Munbāqa (also Ekalte (Mumbaqat)) in Northern Syria.

Allerbach

Allerbach, alternative name for the Wallesbach, headstream of the Todbach in Hirstein and Namborn, Kreis St. Wendel, Saarland

Allerbach, alternative name for the Todbach, tributary of the Blies in St. Wendel, county of St. Wendel, Saarland

Arnold Janssen

The Arnold-Janssen High School in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, is also named for him, as is the Arnold-Janssen-Hauptschule in Bocholt.

Bundesstraße 51

The Bundesstraße 51 (translates from German Federal road, abbreviated as B 51) runs from Bremen in south-west direction though Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, and ends at the French border in the town Kleinblittersdorf.

Dagstuhl

Dagstuhl is a computer science research center in Germany, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland.

Dagstuhl Castle

Dagstuhl Castle (in German: Burgruine Dagstuhl or Burg Dagstuhl) is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany.

Gungwiller

Positioned to the north-west of Phalsbourg on the road towards the Saarland, Gungwiller is a one-street village surrounded by farmland.

Hasborn-Dautweiler

In connection with the territory and administrative reform in the Saarland in 1974, on January 1, 1974, the thus far independent municipality Hasborn-Dautweiler was associated to the newly created municipality of Tholey

Heinz Vollmar

With the population of Saarland to join West Germany, via a referendum taken place already in 1955, Vollmar's first of twelve West Germany caps was on 30 June 1956, in Stockholm versus Sweden.

Helene Demuth

Helene Demuth was born of peasant parents on December 31, 1820 in Sankt Wendel, Saarland.

Infor

In February 2004, Agilisys headquarters were relocated to Alpharetta, in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and Agilisys acquired the German company Infor Business Solutions, headquartered in Friedrichsthal (Saar), Germany.

Karl Eduard Heusner

Karl Eduard Heusner (born 8 January 1843 in Perl (today in the German state of Saarland); died February 27, 1891 in Weimar, Germany) was a Vice-Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

Kraichgau Railway

In 1888 the Bretten–Eppingen–Heilbronn section of the line was duplicated as part of a military supply route from central Germany via Nuremberg, Crailsheim, Heilbronn, Bretten, Bruchsal, Zweibrücken in the Saarland to Lorraine.

Lebach–Völklingen railway

The Lebach–Völklingen railway is a single-track branch line that originally ran from Lebach to Völklingen in the German state of the Saarland.

Leudwinus

His coffin was placed alone on a ship that was sailed by itself, first to Moselle, then Saar and finally docked at Mettlach where the church bells began to ring.

Nadine Schön

Nadine Schön (born Nadine Müller, 5 June 1983 in Lebach, Saarland) is a German politician, member of the CDU.

Nicolaus von Weis

After the early death of the father, his mother went back with the boy to Germany and he grew up in Altheim, now a part of Blieskastel, Saarland.

Odilo Scherer

The family of his father originated from the town of Tholey in the Saarland in Germany.

Philipp Wollscheid

Born in Wadern, Saarland, Wollscheid started his career in the youth teams of various local amateur sides.

Saarland Police

The Police Support Group consists of the state's rapid reaction company, police dog section, the police band and the river police station in Beckingen that patrols the Saar and Moselle in Saarland.

Saarländisches Karnevalsmuseum

The Saarländisches Karnevalsmuseum (English: Saarland Carnival Museum) is located in St. Ingbert, Saarpfalz (Saar-Palatinate) district in the south-east part of the Saarland, Germany.

SV Mettlach

SV Mettlach is a German association football club from the city of Mettlach, Saarland.

SV Röchling Völklingen

This affected a number of German clubs and resulted in Saarland being represented by separate teams in the Olympics and the 1954 World Cup.

Theodor Berkelmann

At the beginning of the Second World War, Berkelmann was appointed "Höherer SS und Polizeiführer" (SS and Police Leader) in Saarland and Moselle.

Türkismühle station

Türkismühle station is a station in the municipality of Nohfelden in the German state of the Saarland.

Verbandsliga Südwest

While the Oberliga covers the two states of Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz, the Verbandsliga covers only the southern half of Rheinland-Pfalz.

Winfried Hassemer

Born in Gau-Algesheim, Hassemer was from 1964–1969 a scientific assistant at the Institut for laws and social philosophy of the university of Saarland.