Photos & captions courtesy of Deb
Merzig to Trier
Tower of Mettlach; now Villeroy & Boch Museum
Villeroy & Boch is a large manufacturer of ceramics
with the company headquarters located in Mettlach, Germany.
[More information can be seen HERE]
World's largest ceramic puzzle & Ivy Eagle at Villeroy Boch Museum
Ceramic puzzle
Museum café; made entirely of tiles
Shrine to St Leudwinus of Treves (Archbishop of Treves)
Born: c. 660 in Mettlach (today Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany)
Died: September 29, 722 (aged 62) in Treves, Austrasia
(today Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Honored in Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine: Lutwinuskirche, Mettlach Abbey
Feast: September 23
Saint Leudwinus, Count of Treves founded an abbey in Mettlach.
He is the patron saint of Mettlach parish and his relics are carried
by procession at the annual Pentecost celebration through the town.
[More information can be seen HERE]
Seventh-century chapel in the forest
Bonnie at the Saar
The Saar is a river in northeastern France & western Germany,
and a right tributary of the Moselle.
It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace & Lorraine
and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier.
After 246Ękm (126Ękm in France and 120Ękm in Germany),
the Saar flows into the Moselle at Konz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
between Trier & the Luxembourg border.
The Saar was very important for the Saarland coal, iron & steel industries.
[More information can be seen HERE]
Our second flat tire
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