Embedded in vineyards and woods there lies the romantic town Saar castle with the worth seeing monuments of her millennial history. The strategical meaning of the picturesque scenery already recognized count Siegfried von Luxemburg who built 964 on a ridge the castle arrangement Saar castle. He created with it one of the nicest and mightiest height castles of the west. The castle area was 137 ms long and up to 50 ms wide, moved with high military walls. The castle well reached with his 60-m deep almost up to Saar sole. 107 steps lead to the view plateau in the upper part of the coat tower.
The donjon - over 1,000-year-old main weir arrangement - was never destroyed. From here a marvelous view comes up in the Saar valley. From the settlement small in the beginning at the foot of the castle entwikkelte to itself already in the high-level Middle Ages a considerable place to which in 1291 by king Rudolf von Habsburg the town rights were lent. From then on the castle and also the small town were a thorn in the eyeball of many army crowds which often pillaged the town with her castle and zerst örten.
However, the reconstruction also brought over and over again dynamic, living changes in the townscape and created an absolutely successful grouping of nature and architecture. The places of interest of the accredited resort lure guests from far. Main attraction is the waterfall which overthrows 20 meters about cliff cascades in the depth as a unique spectacle of nature in the middle of the town and drives the Mühlräder in the valley kettle. Today there is in it a mill museum with the earlier meal room, meal chairs, Mühlräder, sets of millstones as well as a huge number of tools. The urban museum„ Amüseum“ is in the former kurfürstlichen mill with the oldest still stream-generating turbine in private property and interesting change exhibits.
Who brings leisure, is fast enchanted by the winding lanes with southern atmosphere„ Of castle Saar Small Venice“, his house lines around the brook Leuk on mighty oaken posts rest, the castle arrangement which sits high enthroned about the picturesque Old Town with the colored fishing houses and the bell-foundry in which even today the traditional craft of the Glockengießens is exercised. Beside the numerous places of interest Saar castle offers extensive leisure possibilities. So, for example, swimming in the modern leisure outdoor swimming pool or in the leisure indoor swimming pool friendly to families, ship round trips on the Saar, city tours with the Saar valley road or with the armchair elevator. Who likes it more organized, can take part in the varied leisure program which offers the tourist information, in the city hall for the visitors of the Saarburger land. Among the rest, thus bus journeys stand to Trier, Luxembourg and Metz, town guidances through Saar castle, wine tests and controlled wanderings on the everyday program.
