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Saarbrücken (bahasa Luksemburg: Saarbrécken, bahasa Prancis: Sarrebruck) ialah sebuah kota di Jerman. Juga merupakan ibu kota negara bagian Saarland dan merupakan satu-satunya kota terbesar di negara bagian tersebut. Saarbrücken memiliki kurang lebih 180.000 penduduk dan terletak di bantaran sungai Saar.
Saarland adalah sebuah negara bagian Jerman. Negara bagian ini berbatasan dengan negara bagian Rheinland-Pfalz dan Prancis serta Luxemburg. Sejarah. Negara bagian Saarland dibentuk setelah berakhirnya Perang Dunia I dari provinsi Prusia dan Bayern: Rheinland dan Pfalz.
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In modern German, Saarbrücken literally translates to Saar bridges (Brücken is the plural of Brücke), and indeed there are about a dozen bridges across the Saar river. However, the name actually predates the oldest bridge in the historic centre of Saarbrücken, the Alte Brücke, by at least 500 years. The name Saar stems from the Celtic word sara (st...
Roman Empire
In the last centuries BC, the Mediomatrici settled in the Saarbrücken area. When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in the first century BC, the area was incorporated into the Roman Empire. From the first century AD to the fifth century, there was the Gallo-Roman settlement called vicus Saravus west of Saarbrücken's Halberg hill, on the roads from Metz to Worms and from Trier to Strasbourg.Since the first or second century AD, a wooden bridge, later upgraded to stone, connected vicus Saravus with t...
Middle Ages to 18th century
The Saar area came under the control of the Franks towards the end of the fifth century. In the sixth century, the Merovingians gave the village Merkingen, which had formed on the ruins of the villa on the south-western end of the (in those times still usable) Roman bridge, to the Bishopric of Metz. Between 601 and 609, Bishop Arnual founded a community of clerics, a Stift, there. Centuries later the Stift, and in 1046 Merkingen, took on his name, giving birth to St Arnual. The oldest documen...
19th century
In 1793, Saarbrücken was captured by French Revolutionary troops and in the treaties of Campo Formio and Lunéville, the county of Saarbrücken was ceded to France. After 1815 Saarbrücken became part of the Prussian Rhine Province. The office of the mayor of Saarbrücken administered the urban municipalities Saarbrücken and St Johann, and the rural municipalities Malstatt, Burbach, Brebach, and Rußhütte. The coal and iron resources of the region were developed: in 1852, a railway connecting the...
Climate
Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate).
Region
Some of the closest cities are Trier, Luxembourg, Nancy, Metz, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe and Mannheim. Saarbrücken is connected by the city's public transport network to the town of Sarreguemines in France, and to the neighboring town of Völklingen, where the old steel works were the first industrial monument to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994 – the Völklinger Hütte.
Saarbrücken has a population of about 180,000. In 1957, when Saar Protectorate and Saarbrücken transformed to Saarland and became a part of West Germany, it had a population of about 125,000. In 1960s many Italian guest workers came to Saarbrücken, since then Italians are the largest number of foreigners in Saarbrücken. The 2nd largest foreign grou...
Mayor
The current mayor of Saarbrücken is Uwe Comradt of the Christian Democratic Union(CDU) since 2019. The most recent mayoral election was held on 26 May 2019, with a runoff held on 9 June, and the results were as follows:
City council
The city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 26 May 2019, and the results were as follows:
The city is served by Saarbrücken Airport (SCN), and since June 2007 ICE high speed train services along the LGV Est line provide high speed connections to Paris from Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof. Saarbrücken's Saarbahn (modelled on the Karlsruhe model light rail) crosses the French–German border, connecting to the French city of Sarreguemines.
The city is home to several different teams, most notable of which is association football team based at the Ludwigsparkstadion, 1. FC Saarbrücken, which also has a reserve team and a women's section. In the past a top-flight team, twice the country's vice-champions,5-time DFB Pokal Semi-finalists and was a participant in UEFA Champions League, the...
Saarbrücken is a fellow member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with Luxembourg, Metz, and Trier(formed by cities from three neighbouring countries: Germany, Luxembourg and France).
Arts
1. Edmond Pottier(1855–1934), French art historian and archaeologist 2. Carl Röchling(1855–1920), painter and illustrator 3. Margot Benary-Isbert(1889–1979), author 4. Max Ophüls(1902–1957), film director 5. Wolfgang Staudte(1906–1984), film director 6. Otto Steinert(1915–1978), photographer 7. Frédéric Back(1924–2013), Canadian artist and film director of short animated films 8. Ingrid Caven(born 1938), actress 9. Egbert Baqué(born 1952), gallerist, author and translator 10. Saskia Vester(bo...
Public service
1. Walther Poppelreuter(1886–1939), neurologist and psychiatrist 2. Alfred Sturm(1888–1962), lieutenant general in World War II 3. Hans Wagner(1896–1967), lieutenant general in World War II 4. Peter Altmeier(1899–1977), politician (Centre, CDU) 5. Rudolf Schmeer(1905–1966), politician (NSDAP) and civil servant 6. Walter Schellenberg(1910–1952), senior SS officer 7. Gerhard Schröder(1910–1989), politician (CDU) 8. Michel Antoine(1925–2015), French historian 9. Frederic Vester (1925–2003), bioc...
Sport
1. Adolf Kertész(1892–1920), Hungarian footballer, settled in Saarbrücken 2. Gerd Peehs(born 1942), footballer 3. Werner Klein(born 1950), racing driver and entrepreneur 4. Claudia Kohde-Kilsch(born 1963), tennis player and politician 5. Christian Hohenadel(born 1976), racing driver 6. Jonas Hector(born 1990), footballer 7. Lisa Klein(born 1996), cyclist
Stiftskirche St. ArnualSchlosskirche St. NikolausFriedenskirche, seen from LudwigsplatzSt. John's BasilicaSaarland (German: [ˈzaːʁ̞lant] ⓘ, Luxembourgish: [ˈzaːlɑnt]; French: Sarre) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of 2,570 km 2 (990 sq mi) and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin , Bremen , and Hamburg , and the smallest in population ...
Eat. Drink. Sleep. Go next. Saarbrücken has an impressive history of over a 1000 years, with its predecessors dating back to ancient Roman Empire. It has architectural heritage to prove that, and stands picturesquely over the bends of the river Saar, serving as the gateway to this underrated region of Germany.
Saarbrücken (German: [zaːɐ̯ˈbʁʏkn̩] ; French: Sarrebruck; Rhine Franconian: Saarbrigge [zaːˈbʁɪɡə]; Latin: Saravipons) is a German city and a district in the state of Saarland. The city is also the capital of the Saarland. Saarbrücken has 180,000 inhabitants. It is on the Saar River. References
Description: capital of the German state of Saarland; Categories: big city, college town, urban municipality in Germany, district capital, state capital in Germany and locality; Location: Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany, Central Europe, Europe; View on OpenStreetMap
