Sarrebourg - Sarrebourg

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Sarrebourg
province
Meurthe department has no parent region.
Residents
12.331 (2018)
height
244 m, 325 m
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Sarrebourg

Sarrebourg (Ger. Saarburg, same name, but not identical to the city Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate) is a city with 12,000 inhabitants in the department Moselle in Lorrainebelonging to the region Grand Est belongs.

background

The Roman post office Pons Saravi was founded 2000 years ago at a ford across the Saar, which the Gallo-Romanesque villa St. Ulrich still bears witness to today. Nowadays the city is called "Gate of the Vosges" and offers the visitor a starting point for bike or boat tours in this mountain range. In addition to the historic old town, there is a large green area with the "city pond" in the west of the city.

getting there

By plane

The nearest commercial airports are

By train

The place has rail connections to Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg and is a stop on the TGV Paris-Strasbourg connection.

By bus

There are daily bus connections from Sarrebourg to Strasbourg, Sarreguemines (Saargemünd), Nancy, Metz, Basel and Paris.

In the street

Place is on the four-lane developed N 4that comes from Nancy to the west and further east with the Symbol: AS 44 Phalsbourg - Sarrebourg connection to the A4 (Strasbourg - Paris) has. Sarrebourg has a good road connection to Saarbrücken (65 km).

By boat

Location is on Rhine-Marne Canal and has a port in the south of the town near Hesse.

By bicycle

The place is the station of the here unofficial Saar cycle path, the Paneuropean Cycle Route and the EuroVelo 5. These routes are not signposted here.

mobility

Map of Sarrebourg

Tourist Attractions

Market hall
City wall in the Freedom Park (Parc de Liberté)
  • 1  Chapelle des Cordeliers (In the Cordeliers Chapel is the monumental, 12 meter high Marc Chagall window with the title "La Paix"), rue Napoléon. Chapelle des Cordeliers in the Wikipedia encyclopediaChapelle des Cordeliers in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsChapelle des Cordeliers (Q195052) in the Wikidata database.A must for all Chagall friends! In 1970 it was decided to demolish the dilapidated building adjacent to the chapel. The remains of the chapel were then restored. As a result of the demolition, the chapel was open to the east. Marc Chagall was commissioned to close the opening with a stained glass window. In 1976 the monumental window, which has peace as a motif, and other side windows were completed. The peace window measures 12 meters in height, 7.5 meters in width and weighs 900 kilograms. The stained glass was implemented by Chagall in collaboration with Charles Marq. Today the chapel serves as a museum for the Chagall windows and is part of the Marc Chagall museum course of the city of Sarrebourg. Photography is prohibited in the chapel!last change: Jun. 2019
  • Remnants of 2 city ​​wall at the Place de la Liberté
  • The Gallo-Roman 3 Villa Saint-Ulrich

activities

golf

To go biking

  • Circuits des Deux Vallées. (Signposted!)
  • There are several railway line cycle paths which together are over 20 km long. The Sarrebourg route - Abreschviller is now continuous and approx. 16 km long. Unfortunately there are many names for the trails (e.g. "Voie verte des Deux Sarre") that do not appear on the signs on site.

shop

There is a 1 Carrefour shopping center and a 2 LeClerc shopping center as well as a couple of Lidl markets.

kitchen

The Tourist Info website lists numerous restaurants of various flavors and there is a Flunch (Improved Fast Food) at Carrefour.

nightlife

accommodation

  • 1  IBIS Styles Sarrebourg, Zone de loisir, 15 chemin d'imling, 57400 Sarrebourg. Price: room from € 74 euros.
  • 2  Couvent de Saint-Ulrich, Dolving, 57400 Sarrebourg. Tel.: (0)3 87 03 19 33, Email: . The monastery is located near the village of Haut-Clocher and offers inexpensive overnight accommodation, but is somewhat isolated, 5 km from the city center.Price: room from € 42, -, Fr. € 8, -.
  • Other accommodation: see the tourist information website

security

health

Practical advice

The locals are often able to speak German. Before using English for lack of sufficient knowledge of French, an attempt in German is justified.

  • Tourisme Sarrebourg, Rue du Musée, 57400 Sarrebourg. Tel.: 33 3 87 03 11 82. Open: Mon - Sat 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., closed on Sun.

trips

  • 4  Source of the Red Saar (Source Rote Saar). Source of the Red Saar in the Vosges, at Abreschviller, 15 kilometers of road.
  • 1 SaverneWebsite of this institutionSaverne in the Wikipedia encyclopediaSaverne in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsSaverne (Q22741) in the Wikidata database (Ger. Zabern), (Rohan Castle, ship lift, Hohbarr castle ruins), 30 kilometers by road
  • 5 Abbaye de HesseAbbaye de Hesse in the encyclopedia WikipediaAbbaye de Hesse in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsAbbaye de Hesse (Q14637686) in the Wikidata database The abbey church of the Benedictine monastery from the 11th century in Hesse, 5 kilometers by road
  • 6 Parc Animalier de Sainte-CroixParc Animalier de Sainte-Croix in the Wikipedia encyclopediaParc Animalier de Sainte-Croix in the media directory Wikimedia CommonsParc Animalier de Sainte-Croix (Q3363939) in the Wikidata database large animal park in a nature park, 17 kilometers by road

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