The special purpose association "Saar-Blies-Gau/Auf der Lohe" and the Saarpfalz district invite you to a picture presentation "Monuments in the Saarpfalz district" on 26 September from 7 pm. The venue is the Haus Lochfeld cultural landscape centre in Wittersheim. Speaker Martin Baus from the Department of Culture and Local History of the Saarpfalz District in Homburg will present well-known monuments as well as hidden treasures during his tour of the Saarpfalz. The participation fee is five euros per person.
Ruins of medieval castles such as in Kirkel and Kirrberg, relics of monasteries such as Wörschweiler or Gräfinthal, old churches such as in Böckweiler or Medelsheim are prime examples of what is generally regarded as exemplary for a monument. Between the Höcherberg in the north and the border with Lorraine in the south, the Saarpfalz district is home to a large number of historically significant buildings that have been formally designated as monuments and are therefore under official protection. However, monuments don't have to be that old; even remnants from the industrialisation era now have protected status. In St. Ingbert, the Alte Schmelz workers' housing estate has been attractively spruced up, and the "Möllerhalle" there is just as much a part of this list as the Bexbach railway station, the oldest preserved railway station (from 1849) in Saarland, or the columned cellar of the brewery in Walsheim, the last remnant of an industrial plant from which beer was once exported in huge quantities to Algiers and Madagascar.
Registration for the approx. 90-minute picture presentation is possible by Monday, 23 September at the latest at the Saarpfalz-Kreis by telephone on weekdays during business hours on (06841) 104-7228 or at any time by e-mail to [email protected]. Due to the limited parking available at the building, please use car parks in the surrounding area or form car pools.
The baroque building "Taubenhaus" in the former Gräfinthal monastery courtyard. Photo: Martin Baus