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| Merzig | ||
| federal state | Saarland | |
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| Residents | 29.745 (2019) | |
| height | 172 m | |
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Merzig is a city in Saarland.
background
Merzig is located in the Saar valley at the southern end of the Hunsrück. It is approx. 50 km away from the cities of Saarbrücken, Trier, Metz and Luxembourg.
Historically, Merzig goes back to Celtic-Roman origins, with some of the villages that are now part of the urban area, foundations of the Franconian conquest in the 7th century. The oldest mention of Merzig can be found in an order from the Western Roman Emperor Valentinians, issued during his stay in "Mansio praedium Martiaticum" on June 4, 369. At the exit of the Merchinger Valley in the Hangenfeld district, the Roman settlement is believed to be in the area of the confluence of the Ritzerbach Various Roman finds were made in the Seffersbach.
Charles the Bald gave the Merzig crown estate to Archbishop Bertolf of Trier on the occasion of his episcopal ordination in 869. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the ministerial dynasty of Merzig served the elector. The Archbishop of Trier had bailiwick rights in Merzig. Merzig was divided into seven bailiwicks, "the bailiwick" of the archbishop, the combined "Schultheißerei" with the "Montclairer Vogtei", the "Rischerei", the "Mettlacher Vogtei", the "Brückerei" and the "Propstei". The Wolkessen or Wolkesingen deserted area exists in the Merzig district, mentioned in 1337 in the documents of the Mettlach Abbey.
In the 11th century Merzig became the capital of the country chapter of the same name, to which 45 parishes belonged. From the 11th century on, Merzig came under the tension of the expanding powers Kurtrier and Lorraine.
In 1333 Trier and the powerful Elector Baldwin were able to exercise their rights against Duke Rudolf of Lorraine in the men’s court “zu den Bäumelen”. enforce via Merzig. After the ruling house of Lorraine had gained strength, a stalemate arose and from 1368 Merzig was jointly administered with the district of Merzig-Saargau by Kurtrier and Lorraine. This condominium existed for about 400 years until 1778. Thereafter, Merzig was raised to the status of the Electorate of Trier by Elector Clemenz Wenzeslaus. This important part of the history of Merzig is reflected in the city arms of Merzig, which shows both the red Electorate of Trier and the black double cross of Lorraine. After the end of the French occupation, the Rhine province came into being in 1815.
It was not until May 25, 1857, that the city rights of the city of Merzig were expressly recognized by the Prussian king.
Before the Holocaust, Merzig had a proven Jewish community since the 17th century. There is still a Jewish cemetery below the Kreuzberg. A memorial can be found at the site of the former synagogue on Synagogenstrasse. Since 2012, as part of the "Stolpersteine" project, the Cologne artist Gunther Demnig has been laying stumbling blocks on Merzig civic stones.
getting there
By plane
The closest airport in Germany is the small one Saarbrücken Airport
(IATA: SCN), 60 km southeast; 1½ hours by bus and train via Saarbrücken Hbf). It is a little closer and bigger Luxembourg Airport(IATA: LUX), 55 km northwest; however no cheap connection with public transport)
By train
The 
Merzig (Saar) train station is on the railway line Saarbrücken-trier. There are regional trains every half hour and regional express trains every hour from Saarbrücken Hbf (travel time 30–40 minutes), every hour RB and RE from Trier (35–50 minutes) and Kaiserslautern (1: 15–1: 35 hours), and hourly RE from Koblenz and Mannheim (both a good 2 hours). Switching from long-distance traffic usually takes place in Saarbrücken.
In the street
Merzig and Merzig-Schwemlingen are interchanges on the motorway 
Saarbrücken – Luxembourg. The leads from Trier 
here. Saarbrücken is 45 km away (with good traffic conditions about 40 minutes drive), Trier also 45 km (50 minutes), Luxembourg city 55 km (just under an hour).
By boat
- The Saar near Merzig is navigable
By bicycle
Merzig is on Saar cycle path, from Saarbrücken it is 45 km downstream, from the mouth of the Saar in Konz 48 km upstream (from Trier 57 km).
mobility
Tourist Attractions
Churches
- 1 Saint Peter.
three-aisled late Romanesque basilica, approx. 1190–1230, with a baroque rectory. Most important Romanesque church in Saarland. Worth seeing inside: Gothic plague cross from the 14th century, paintings in the style of the Nazarene school. - Catholic Church of St. Josef: St. Peter in Merzig (Merzig-Wadern district) is the largest preserved Romanesque church in the Saarland.
- Protestant church:
Castles, chateaux and palaces
- 2 Montclair Castle (Mettlach)
- 3 Malbrouck Castle (Manderen)
- 4 Saareck Castle (Mettlach)
Buildings
- Old Town Hall: Built by master builder Matthias Staudt 1647–1649 as an electoral hunting lodge for Archbishop Philipp Christoph von Sötern of Trier; six-axis building with two corner towers protruding strongly in front of the front. The stair tower burned down around 1730. Under the direction of the master builder Christian Kretschmar, the outside staircase and the decorative sculpture on the main portal were created. In 1829 the castle became the property of the city. In 1932/33 the interior layout was renewed as part of a necessary renovation. The floors were laid out with Mettlach terracotta tiles. The meeting room on the top floor was given oak parquet. In 1986 a new town hall was added to the building.
- Staadt-Marx town house: built 1745-50) by the master builder Christian Kretschmar.
- Hilbringer Castle: In the 13th century there was an ancestral seat of the Knights of Hilhaben on this square. After several inheritances and marriages, the property came in 1733 to the Lorraine bailiff Francois Didier de Maurice from Forbach. In 1745 he had the dilapidated castle torn down and the current building built by the master builder Christian Kretschmar.
- 5 Fellenberg Castle
- 1 Villa Fuchs, Cultural and event center
- 6 Seffersbach Bridge, 1901, last preserved suspension strap bridge "System Möller" in Saarland
- Halfenhaus: Built around 1745 located on the cattle market, where the Saar flowed right past the town until it was straightened in 1936/37.
- Former "Provincial Insane Asylum“Merzig, today SHG Kliniken Merzig: Location: Trierer Straße 148, built: 1872–76 by Carl Fr. Dittmar. Hidden behind it on the Münchberg is the Gustav-Regel-Zentrum, founded in 1997 as a "place for culture and tolerance"
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Monuments
- Stones at the border (French: Menhirs de l'Europe) is the name of a sculpture road along the German-French border on the heights of the Saargau. It forms the Franco-German counterpart to the Northern Saarland "Street of Sculptures".
Museums
- 7 Fine mechanics museum Fellenbergmühle. It houses a precision engineering workshop for the manufacture of watchmaking tools and a locksmith's shop from the end of the 19th century.
- Expedition Museum Werner Freund
- Local history museum in Fellenberg Castle
Streets and squares
- "Poststrasse" pedestrian zone
- "Triererstraße" pub district
- church Square
Parks
- City park Merzig
- 8 Garden of the Senses
- Farm garden in Tünsdorf (Mettlach)
- 9 Garden of Arts. At the Fellenberg Castle Museum in Merzig.
- Parish garden of St. Peter in Merzig
- 10 Jewish Cemetery
- 11 Park of Dissenters
Viewpoints
- 12 Kreuzberg Chapel. Kreuzberg chapel with vineyard.
- Panorama path
- Nackberg: It has been a nature reserve since 1938. From Kreuz there is a beautiful panoramic view of the Merzig basin. On the slopes of the Nackberg there are around 2,800 tall fruit trees, mainly apples and pears. Large parts of it are integrated into the nature reserve and are maintained and used as part of the reserve design. In this environment, the apple variety plant of the NABU Saar was set up in cooperation with the district town of Merzig from 2001. There are 100 varieties of two trees each.
various
- 13 Wolf Park Werner Freund, Waldstrasse 204, 66663 Merzig.
- 14 B-Werk Besseringen
- Villeroy & Boch adventure center, Mettlach
- Zeltpalast Merzig: In 2001 the “Musik & Theater Saar” in Merzig built the “Zeltpalast Merzig” as its own venue, where the “Opera in the tent” takes place to this day. Concerts and festivals also take place here.
activities
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- Hiking: Merzig is located on the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig, a 218-kilometer hiking trail in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park from Perl on the Moselle via the Saar loop near Mettlach in Saarland via Hermeskeil to Idar-Oberstein an der Nahe in Rhineland-Palatinate.
- Cycling: Merzig is the starting point of Saar-Pedal a car-free adventure day on the Saar from Merzig to Konz - a total of 40 km.
- Viezfest
- Beech oak resistant
- Fair
- Climbing park
shop
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
Learn
Practical advice
trips
- Mettlach (9 km northwest; 5–8 minutes by train), west of Mettlach is the lookout point Cloef over the Saar loop, which towers southeast of Orscholz 200 meters above the river.
- Losheim am See (13 km northeast; 20 minutes by bus route R1)
- Pearl/Schengen (25 km to the west; 35–45 minutes by bus 210), triangle between Germany, France and Luxembourg
- Saarburg (30 km north; 20-25 minutes by train or by bike on the Saar cycle path)
- Saarbrücken (45 km southeast; 30-40 minutes by train or by bike on the Saar cycle path)
- trier (45 km north; 35–50 minutes by train or by bike on the Saar and Moselle cycle paths)
- Luxembourg city (55 km northwest; 1–1: 15 hours with the SaarLuxBus)
- Metz (60 km southwest)
literature
- http://www.merzig.de - Official website of Merzig == Weblinks ==
