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The Saarschleife is a transverse valley of Saarland, Germany by the Taunusquartzite and one of the most famous sights there. The popular view provides the location 180m above the river viewpoint Cloef in Mettlach district Orscholz. The shore is rock faces, Schutthalden formed and small canyons. It is also called the Great Saarschleife at Mettlach, as opposed to Little Saarschleife in Hamm, a district of Taben-Rodt.

An approximately 100-hectare area west of the Saar loop is as Steinbachtal west Saarschleife under protection.



Location
The Saar loop begins shortly after the Merzig he district Besseringen and ends in Mettlach. The air line between Besseringen and Mettlach is only about two kilometers. However, the Saar makes a detour, which is close to ten kilometers.

On the wooded ridge within the Saarschleife the Church St. & nbsp are; Gangolf with parts of the former monastery and the castle ruins Montclair. The only directly located at the Saarschleife place is the village of Dreisbach, to which one can translate with a ferry.

Both on the inside as on the outside loop runs a continuous walking and cycle path.

Prominent visitors The Saar loop is considered the symbol of the Saarland. Limelight she is coming again when heads of state arrive there. Frederick William IV., King of Prussia, visited the Lookout Cloef overlooking the Saarschleife on 29 September. 1856 Adolf Hitler was on May 16, 1939 here. At the time, a commemorative plate was mounted, which was later removed. Oskar Lafontaine and Gerhard Schröder were photographed at the Cloef before Saarschleife 4 August 1997th The French president Jacques Chirac and the late Polish President Lech Kaczyński found there to a trilateral summit one with Chancellor Angela Merkel on 5 December of 2006.

Links

 * [Http://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.306/REL?PPN=241269199 literature on the Saarschleife] in the Saarland bibliography
 * [Http://www.cloef.de/ 'Saarschleife and environment.' '] Photo collection of Wolfgang Reichel, Merzig-Besseringen.
 * [Http://www.tourist-info.mettlach.de/panoramatour/index_de.html  Panorama Saarschleife ] 360 ° panoramic view of Saarschleife