Divides and unites: the Saar
A wide variety of districts and neighborhoods throng its banks. Friedrich-Joachim Stengel, the court architect of the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken, gave the medieval city complex on both banks of the Saar a baroque face in the mid-18th century that still characterizes the city today.
Alt-Saarbrücken
The district has always been a government quarter. The counts and princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken once resided around the castle and Ludwigskirche church. Today, the regional association, the state parliament, the ministries and the state chancellery are located here. On the southern edge of the city, just beyond the Franco-German Garden, Saarbrücken borders on France.
St. Johann
Here trade and commerce, art and culture are concentrated. The St. Johann market forms the center with its small stores, restaurants, cafés and pubs. Behind it lies the shopping mile and lively pedestrian zone, which extends to the Europa-Galerie and the Europabahnhof on the northern edge of the city. To the east, the lively and colorful multi-culti scene district of Nauwieser Viertel awaits its visitors.
Upstream along the Saar
In Malstatt and Burbach, former ironworks and mining districts have been transformed into new high-tech locations. Between Burbach and Völklingen, the chimneys of the modern steel industry still smoke. But after only two or three kilometers, you are out of the city and in the middle of greenery: in the St. Arnualer Stiftswald, in the Stadtwald of St. Johann or in the Saarbrücken Urwald.
