Saarlouis (Sarrelouis in French) is a Kreis ( district ) in the middle of the Saarland , Germany . Neighboring districts are Merzig-Wadern , Sankt Wendel , Neunkirchen , Saarbrücken , and the French département Moselle .
5-491: Schmelz is a municipality in the district of Saarlouis , in Saarland , Germany . It is situated approximately 15 km northeast of Saarlouis , and 25 km northwest of Saarbrücken . The town of Schmelz (which translates to Glaze) is made of six municipalities, Schmelz itself – which consists of Außen and Bettingen – and Hüttersdorf, Limbach, Michelbach, Primsweiler, and Dorf im Bohnental. These independent villages in
10-415: A part of the holy empire) between 1737 and 1766. Other villages were part of the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken . The territory of the city Saarlouis which was built to protect the border, came to France as part of the three Bishoprics. Other villages, which today are considered to be too small to form villages of their own were independent imperial territories. The district showed the fundamental problem of
15-658: The Saarlouis district date back to Roman times. A native of Schmelz would be called a Schmelzer as in a person from Berlin being referred to as a Berliner . This Saarland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saarlouis (district) The district was part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. The biggest part of the district was part of duchy of Lorraine which gradually came under French sovereignty (still as
20-716: The coat of arms is taken from the coat of the Hohenzollern , to remember that the area belonged to the German Empire (which was ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty) directly. The bottom part is the coat of arms of the Lorraine , as Saarlouis belonged to Duchy of Lorraine 1100-1766. The star stands for the French fortress of Saarlouis, the origin of the city, which was built in a star form. The fleur-de-lis comes from
25-583: The whole empire: A strong influence of foreign rulers and micro-sized territories. After the Napoleonic wars the area went to Prussia , which in 1816 created the district as part of its Rhineland province. Between 1936 and 1945 it was called Saarlautern , when the Nazi government attempted to conceal the name's French origin. The main river in the district is the Saar . The checked black-and-white top part of
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