Brooding in the shadows
A mural from the Bruch brewery.
2009-06-08
White brewery in the sun
The Bruch family have been brewing beer in Saarbrücken since 1702. They have been located in the Scheidter Straße, seen in the photo, since 1899.
2009-06-07
Red van
This blog has already shown you Peugot's latest model to beat the recession. Here is the same from Mercedes. They seem to be going for a retro flower-power look.
2009-06-06
Upward curve
Maria Königin from close up. The church was designed by the architect Rudolf Schwarz and completed in 1959. Wikipedia provides a view of the interior.
2009-06-04
Oskar kann's - Oskar can do it
Oskar Lafontaine is currently the most famous face to come from Saarland. He narrowly missed becoming Chancellor -- losing to Helmut Kohl in 1990 and being Finance Minister and party chariman in the following SPD government. He resigned from his minister's post and later quit the SPD to head a new party, die Linke (the Left). On Sunday there are elections in Lafontaine's home state, where he remains personally popular. Then we shall see if Oskar still can do it.
2009-06-03
Mélodie Régnier
Four cities, Saarbrücken, Trier, Luxembourg and Metz, in three countries, have decided that they cannot compete with the dynamism of the major conurbations alone and need to pool resources to form one cross-border metropolitan area, Quattropole. A small step in the building of Quattroplole was a festival, where Mélodie Régnier, a native of Metz, could be found singing French chansons in the street café area of Saarbrücken. The MySpace page of the artist will give you an idea of the music being played.
2009-06-01
Tree in a coal wagon
I climbed up and checked. The tree is growing in the dirt and coal at the bottom of the wagon.
2009-05-31
Rusty twins
As much a symbol of Lorraine as of the Saarland. And the economics would appear to be similarly unrosy.
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