Land of the Saar...

While this occurred a while ago, it was still a nice trip that was relatively cheap. We decided to head to Saarbruecken, a couple states over. It was just a Saturday trip, one of the places we can get to for free with a University Trier student ID. So for basically nothing, we tooled around Saarbruecken a bit.

Upon arriving, we just went to the information office and the lady there was quite helpful to us in finding a nice little route about the city and even reccommending a place to eat the local food. Sure, she may have been commissioned to tell us that, but even then, it was good food.

Our tour was a loop--couldn't have been more than 4 miles. We started down the road toward a church of some significance. I wasn't really in the mood to see a church for some reason, but after seeing it, my mind was quickly changed. It was one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. In mostly white, it was so pretty. The outside misled to what was inside.

The altar was quite large and just gorgeous. Above the altar was the choir area and the grand organ. I bought a book from the caretaker of the church and it said there that the church was almost totally demolished in world war two, and so it is quite contemporary on the inside. Whatever the case may be, it is quite the exquisite little catholic church--even more impressive than the grand looming cathedrals of gothic Europe.

We continued to the old city hall, also destroyed in the war. It is made up of three parts, a classical part, a baroque part, and a modern part. The modern part is made of metal and glass and the other two are wings and look exactly the same on the outside. Only problem was there was an event of some sort and we weren't permitted to tour the facility. Oh well, we just walked around the gardens a bit and saw some other neat things there. I found a little hole in the wall (literally) and I think it was a crypt. In the hole was just a really old stairwell out of stone that led down and down. Kind of neat.

What's in there?!

We finished up the day with a traditional Saar lunch. I had some weird potato dish with beer. It was good, but definitely a bit strange. All in all, for the money (the price of the book plus lunch) it was a nice trip with friends.

View of Saarbrucken from a bridge. The old part.

View of the newer part of Saarbrucken. I think the last two pictures were taken from the same bridge, just facing the other directions. Neat how Europe can be so old and so new at the same time!

From Dylon With Love