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Saarland (German: [ˈzaːʁ̞lant] ⓘ, Luxembourgish: [ˈzaːlɑnt]; French: Sarre) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of 2,570 km 2 (990 sq mi) and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. [3]
As a result of the independence achieved by the Saarland in the 1950s, it made its own Olympia bid for the games in Helsinki 1952. Saarland’s once so successful teams in ball games no longer contend in the top national leagues . But Saarland’s sportsmen and women are well to the fore in some of the minor sports such as Ringen or table tennis.
Bertha Beckmann (1815–1901), possibly Germany's first professional woman photographer; Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands; Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany; Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker
The Church of St. Martin is based on Roman foundations. It contains Gothic wall paintings and a Gothic retable from around 1430, which was found in 1956.The Kreuzkapelle to the Sorrowful Mother on the Husarenberg was formerly a pilgrimage chapel. It dates from 1767 and contains a Pietà from 1554.
Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commercial and cultural centre. It is located on the Saar River (a tributary of the Moselle), directly borders the French department of Moselle, and is Germany's second-westernmost state capital after Düsseldorf.
Helmut Schön, later World and European champion with West Germany, was the manager of the Saarland team from 1952 until Saarland became a part of West Germany in 1957. [ 12 ] The Amateurliga Saarland was the local league within the German Football League System except 1948–1951 period when it was under independent Saarland Football ...
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Saarland national football team players Player Pos. Caps Goals Debut Last match Ref. Date Opponent Date Opponent Fritz Altmeyer: FW 6 3 26 September 1954 Yugoslavia: 1 May 1956 Switzerland [4] Jakob Balzert: FW 6 0 27 May 1951 Austria B: 8 November 1953 Norway [5] Karl Berg: DF 9 1 22 November 1950 Switzerland B: 1 May 1955 Portugal B [6]