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native tribes in remote corners The display rooms are a veritable of the earth, about whom little was treasure trove, packed with gifts previously known. from the natives, exchanged everyday objects, and hunting trophies. But they are not without some spectacular exhibits either – starting with the shrunken head and poison­ous curare arrows, the skins of a South American anaconda The fascination of the unknown, and an African python, each 6 m the unexplored: the Werner Freund long, to a furnished yurt from the Expeditionsmuseum Expedition Museum brings it all to Kyrgyz steppe. Werner Freund life. During the 1960s and 70s alone, Propsteistraße 4, 66663 Merzig wolf researcher and anthropologist Follow in the expeditions‘ tracks: to The exhibits are supplemented by Info/visits: Tourist Office, Werner Freund undertook as many the lone hunters of the Gran Chaco a wealth of photographs and short Phone +49 (0) 68 61 / 85 330 as 17 expeditions – to the habitats of in Paraguay, the burial feast at the explanatory texts, which together tell Rio Marauia/Brazil, the „man- a fascinating story – of the lives of Opening hours: eaters“ in Papua-New Guinea, the aboriginal peoples as well as the February – December: through the „green hell“ in South risks and dangers of the journeys. Sunday 2pm – 6 pm Colombia, to the last queens of the April – September: Savannah in southern Sudan – and Sunday + Thursday 2 pm – 6 pm to Werner Freund‘s latest study Group visits by arrangement, subjects, the wolves, bears and outside opening times. people of Kyrgyzstan ... Closed in January. Feinmechanisches Museum Fellenbergmühle

The “Feinmecha–­ Today the workshop pro­vides a jour- Feinmechanisches Museum nisches Museum ney through time to the industrial Fellenbergmühle th Fellenbergmühle” history of the early 20 century: Marienstr. 34a, 66663 Merzig is an industrial everything is still in working order Information and tours: Förder­ history rarity. and on request competent guides verein Fellen­bergmühle e.V., Built as far back who learned their craft as appren­ Phone/Fax +49 (0) 68 61 / 7 68 13 as 1767 as a flour mill, it was con­ tices here themselves will bring the verted into a precision engineering machines back to life for visitors. Opening hours: workshop in 1927, where owners Tue – Sun 2:30 pm – 5 pm, Peter Hartfuß and Paul Gottfrois provides a unique ambience for group visits any time by manufactured equipment prized by those once-in-a-lifetime moments: arrangement watchmakers and jewellers Couples can still have their initials around the world – for example engraved on their band of gold on the Cardan wedding the Cardan wedding ring engraving “Café Cardan” bistro. Fellenberg­ ring engraving machine – and sign their civil mühle is also an exceptional venue machine or the marriage papers in the adjacent for readings, art exhibitions and Multiplex punching markets – or simply for taking a and riveting machine. The apparent confusion of tools, breather after a guided tour. equipment and transmission belts, the typical workshop smell, the hum The Feinmechanisches Museum of the machines and the turbine that Fellenbergmühle was awarded the produces the energy to drive them 1997 “saarländischer Denkmal­preis” from the hydropower of the for authentic architectural heritage Seffersbach stream – all this creates restoration. a fascinating atmosphere. And it also Museum Schloss Fellenberg

In 1856 Lavishly renovated and restored by Städel Art Institute graduate Swiss-born by the District of Merzig-Wadern, Peter Becker and photographer Wilhelm Tell Museum Schloss Fellenberg has Monika von Boch, a student of Otto von Fellenberg, stood resplendent in its present form Steinert, bring the artistic impulses married to a since 2000. of the region to life. daughter of the von Boch family, founded the “Thonwarenfabrik Contemporary artwork is document­ed von Fellenberg & Cie.” earthenware in regular rotating exhibitions as manufacture in well as the park featuring sculptures Merzig. In 1858, by Leo Kornbrust, Liselotte Netz- he converted an Paulik, Heinz Oliberius and Paul Museum old, run-down Schneider. The museum also houses Schloss Fellenberg mill into an opu- the art collection of the District of Torstraße 45a, 66663 Merzig lent residence – Merzig-Wadern. Those with a keen Phone + 49 (0) 6861 / 7930-30 Schloss The focus of the exhibition is a local interest in the district will find an and -31 Fellenberg history collection. Attractively dis- archive and a reference library on Telefax +49 (0) 6861 / 793032 place. With its played exhibits provide entertaining the top floor. [email protected] carved sand­ insights into the history folklore, stone annex, industry religious art, literature and And: Museum Schloss Fellenberg is Opening hours: oriels and painting from the region, all under- also an exclusive wedding venue ... Thu – Sun and holidays 2 – 6 pm turrets, it is scored by audiovisual and inter- and by arrangement typical of the active media. As well as recordings 19th century from works by the authors Gustav Museum and rotating exhibition: architecture Regler, Peter Wust and Maria Croon, www.museum-schloss-fellenberg.de of the town. the Saar lithographies (1858–1860) B-Werk Besseringen

In the years leading up the Second built in 1938/39, is the only intact B-Werk Besseringen World War, a gigantic, around structure with all armoured cupolas Am Heiselkreisel, 66663 Merzig 630 km-long defence line was built left. Info: Tourist-Info Merzig – from the Netherlands to just before Phone+49 (0) 68 61 / 85 330 and Basle in Switzerland – known as the The B-Werk Besseringen was so Verein für Heimatkunde – West Wall, or Siegfried Line. con­structed that a force of 85 – 90 Phone +49 (0) 68 35 / 36 54 soldiers could keep up the battle unaided for up to 4 weeks. The Opening hours: edifice reaches three storeys deep April – September, Sundays and into the ground; on the surface only persecution and resistance, as well holidays, 2 – 6 pm; the sentry and the gunrooms can as civilian losses. guided tours by arrangement be seen. Inside, 44 rooms housed the crew, provisions, weapons and The armoured cupolas: ammunition. A presentation under- l 2 six-gunport turrets 20 P 7 lines the memorial character of the for 2 MG 34 on gun-mounting 34 B-Werk, impressively documenting l Armoured cupola for automatic 22,000 bunkers and fortifications M19 mortar with automatic were planned, of which around ammunition hoist 14,800 were actually built – in­­ l Armoured flamethrower cupola cluding 32 so-called B-Werke. The for automatic flamethrower FN B-Werke were among the biggest l Observation cloche 90 P 9 for and strongest bunker complexes issuing target and firing along the Siegfried Line and were instructions only built at strategically important points. The B-Werk in Besseringen, Merzig – the town with more to offer: for example ... lying villages with their traditional farmhouses or in the footsteps of Krüger Druck und Verlag – 3/14 PrintedVerlag by: und Druck Krüger

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... Relax in unspoiled nature, nature reserves or the Garden of Senses, hiking along the “Stones on the Border” sculpture trail or on one of ... Experience tense excitement at the acclaimed premium hiking trails, the Werner Freund wolf reserve... on a bike or on the water ...... Recharge your batteries and give your health and wellbeing a boost with the healing waters from Bietzen Spring, in the saline hut in the muni- cipal park or at “DAS BAD” ... . Brockschnieder, S. Rosar, W. Waldow, H. Hartusch, H. Jenal, Archives of the Museum Schloss Fellenberg and City of Merzig of City and Merzig Fellenberg Schloss of Museum the Archives Jenal, H. Hartusch, H. Waldow, W. Rosar, S. Brockschnieder, . J

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