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Capital:	Saarbrücken
Area:	2,568.69 km²
Inhabitants:	1,056,000 (31/12/2004)
pop. density:	411 people/km²
Website:	http://www.saarland.de/
ISO 3166-2:	DE-SL
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Minister-president:	Peter Müller (CDU)
Ruling party:	CDU
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Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1.08 million inhabitants. In both area and population it is the smallest of the German Flächenländer ("area states"), i.e., those that are not City States. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Saarbrücken [] is the capital of the Saarland Bundesland in Germany. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... A minister-president (Ministerpräsident) is the head of government of a German federal state; the office corresponds to the governorship of a state in the United States. ... Peter Müller Peter Aloysius Müller (born September 25, 1955 in Illingen, Germany) is a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). ... This article needs cleanup. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Download high resolution version (668x910, 12 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ... Saarbrücken [] is the capital of the Saarland Bundesland in Germany. ... A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city, and usually having sovereignty. ...

Geography

The state borders France (département of the Moselle) in the south and west, Luxembourg in the west and Rheinland-Pfalz in the north and the east. Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ...

It is named after the Saar River, which is an affluent of the Moselle River (a Rhine tributary) and runs through the state from the south to the northwest. Most inhabitants live in a city agglomeration on the French border, surrounding the capital of Saarbrücken. Saar loop at Mettlach The Saar (French: Sarre) is a river, that rises in the Vosges mountains in Alsace with two headstreams (Red and White Saar) at the Donon, running through Lorraine and the Saarland, which was named after it. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany, joining the Rhine river at Koblenz. ... Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (Dutch Rijn, French Rhin, German Rhein, Italian: Reno, Romansch: Rein, ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...

See also List of places in Saarland. This is a list of geographical features in the state of Saarland, Germany. ...

Saarland is divided into six districts:

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1. Merzig-Wadern
2. Neunkirchen
3. Saarbrücken
4. Saarlouis
5. Saarpfalz
6. Sankt Wendel

Merzig-Wadern is a Kreis (district) in the northeast of the Saarland, Germany. ... Neunkirchen is a Kreis (district) in the middle of the Saarland, Germany. ... The Stadtverband Saarbrücken is equivalent to a Kreis (district) and located in the south of the Saarland, Germany. ... Saarlouis is a Kreis (district) in the middle of the Saarland, Germany. ... Saarpfalz (Saar-Palatinate) is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of the Saarland, Germany. ... Sankt Wendel is a Kreis (district) in the north of the Saarland, Germany. ...

History After World War I

1920 the Saargebiet was created in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles. It comprised portions of the Prussian Rhine Province and the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate. The area was put under the control of the League of Nations represented by the following Chairmen of the Commission of Government: 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany. ... The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. ... Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 Prussia (German: ; Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Lithuanian: ; Polish: ; Old Prussian: PrÅ«sa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in East Prussia, an area which for centuries had substantial influence on German and European history. ... The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... The Palatinate (German: Pfalz), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), is a region in south-western Germany. ... The Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, built between 1929 and 1938, was constructed as the Leagues headquarters. ...

• 26 February 1920 - 18 March 1926 Victor Rault (France) (b. 1858 - d. 19..)
• 18 March 1926 - 8 June 1927 George Washington Stephens (Canada) (b. 1866 - d. 1942)
• 8 June 1927 - 1 April 1932 Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton (UK) (b. 1870 - d. 1952)
• 1 April 1932 - 1 March 1935 Geoffrey George Knox (from 1935, Sir Geoffrey George Knox) (UK) (b. 1884 - d. 1958)

It was in practice administered by France for 15 years, very much against the wishes of almost all Germans both inside and outside the territory.

In 1933, a considerable number of anti-Nazi Germans fled to the Saar, as it was the only remaining part of Germany that was neither annexed by foreign countries (Memelland) nor under the political control of the Third Reich. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Klaipėda Region (Memel Region, Memelland) is the name of the coastland of Lithuania around Klaipėda (formerly known as Memel) and the Curonian Lagoon, on the right bank of river Nemunas. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

As a result, anti-Nazi groups campaigned heavily for the Saarland to remain under French control as long as Adolf Hitler ruled Germany. However, due to century-long experience with France (see French-German enmity) only a small number sympathized openly with France. Hitler redirects here. ... The French-German enmity (German: ) describes the history of wars between France and the German states that eventually became the German Empire. ...

When the original 15-year-term was over, a plebiscite was held in the territory on 13 January 1935: 90.3% of those voting wished to join Germany rather than share the fate of Alsace-Lorraine which came under the control of France without a plebiscite. A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Imperial Province of Elsaß-Lothringen Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was a territory disputed between the nation states of France and Germany. ...

The Nazis appointed Josef Bürckel (b. 1895 - d. 1944) on 1 March 1935 as Reichskommissar für die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes. When the re-incorporation was considered accomplished, the style was then changed from 17 June 1936 to Reichskommissar für das Saarland. A further change was from 8 April 1940 to Reichskommissar für die Saarpfalz; finally from 11 March 1941, he was made Reichsstatthalter in der "Westmark" (the region's new name, meaning "Western March or Border"), till 28 September 1944 when he was succeeded by Willi Stöhr (b. 1903, also NSDAP), until 21 March 1945. Reichskommissar (Commissionary of the Empire) was an official title of authorized representative of the Deutsches Reich (after 1871) who was appointed to a special task, e. ... Reichsstatthalter, German Statthalter (cfr. ... Mark or march (or various plural forms of these words) are derived from the Frankish word marka (boundary) and refer to an area along a border, e. ...

History After World War II

Main article: Saar (protectorate)

After World War II the Saarland came under French administration again, as the Saar Protectorate. The Saar, corresponding to the current German state of Saarland, was a protectorate under French control between 1947 and 1959. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France/Free France, United States, Canada, China, India, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8... The Saar protectorate (1,000 sq. ...

An official reason for that was given by the United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in a speech [1] in 1946 as The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory. In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... Portrait of U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1879 – April 9, 1972) was a confidant of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the most powerful men in American domestic and foreign policy in the mid-2006s. ...

The Morgenthau Plan of 1944, which became heavily entrenched in parts of the U.S. government, might also have influenced the U.S. decision to transfer the Saar to France, as it spelled out the need to cripple Germany industrially in order to preclude future wars. In order to achieve this, Germany would, amongst other things, have to surrender the areas richest in industry or the minerals necessary for industrial production (coal and iron). These areas included Silesia, the Ruhr area and the Saarland. The Morgenthau Plan showing the planned partitioning of Germany into a North State, a South State, and an International zone. ... Prussian Silesia, 1871, outlined in yellow; Silesia at the close of the Seven Years War in 1763, outlined in cyan (areas now in the Czech Republic were Austrian-ruled at that time) Silesia (Czech: ; German: ; Polish: ; Silesian: Ślonsk / Ślónsk) is a historical region in central Europe. ... Map of the Ruhr Area The Ruhr Area (German Ruhrgebiet, colloquially Ruhrpott or Kohlenpott or simply Pott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large (former) industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to...

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval (b. 1904 - d. 1981), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 - June 1955 as the first of two French 'Ambassadors', his successor being Eric de Carbonnel (b. 1910 - d. 1965) till 1956. However Saarland was allowed a regional administration very soon, consecutively headed by: The Saar protectorate (1,000 sq. ... A High Commissioner is a person serving in a special executive capacity. ... An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ...

• a President of the Government:
  • 31 July 1945 - 8 June 1946: Hans Neureuther, Non-party
• a Chairman of the (until 15 December 1947, Provisional) Administration Commission:
  • 8 June 1946 - 20 December 1947: Erwin Müller (b. 1906 - d. 1968), Non-party
• Minister-presidents (as in any Bundesland):
  • 20 December 1947 - 29 October 1955 Johannes Hoffmann (b. 1890 - d. 1967), CVP
  • 29 October 1955 - 10 January 1956 Heinrich Welsch (b. 1888 - d. 1976), Non-party
  • 10 January 1956 - 4 June 1957 Hubert Ney (b. 1892 - d. 1984), CDU

In 1954, France and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) developed a very detailed plan, called the Saarstatut, to establish an independent Saarland, but a second plebiscite rejected this plan by 67.7%. French attempts to limit campaigning against this plan using undemocratic means did not sit well with the inhabitants, and made the plebiscite's result more decisive than had been expected. On October 27, 1956, the Saar Treaty established that Saarland should be allowed to rejoin the Federal Republic of Germany, which it did on January 1, 1957. This article needs cleanup. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Saarland's reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany was sometimes referred to as the kleine Wiedervereinigung ('small reunification', as opposed to the post-cold war reabsorption of the GDR). The French Franc remained for another year as the territory's currency, until West Germany's Deutsche Mark replaced it in 1958. The Saar Treaty established that French, not English as in the rest of West Germany, should remain the first foreign language taught in Saarland schools; this provision is still largely followed today, although no longer binding. Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ... French Franc. ... The Deutsche Mark (DM, DEM) was the official currency of West and, from 1990, unified Germany. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Other

The Saar competed in the qualifying section of the 1954 football World Cup, but failed after coming second to West Germany but ahead of Norway. They also competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics (see Saarland at the 1952 Summer Olympics). First international Saarland 5 - 3 Switzerland B (Saarbrücken, Saarland; 22 November 1950) Norway 2 - 3 Saarland (Oslo, Norway; 24 June 1953) Last International Netherlands 3 - 2 Saarland (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 6 June 1956) Largest win Switzerland B 2 - 5 Saarland (Bern, Switzerland; 15 September 1951) Worst defeat Saarland 1 - 7... The 1954 Football World Cup was held in Switzerland. ... The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were held in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. ... Flag of the Saarland The Saarland competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. ...

From 1920 to 1935, and then from 1947 to 1959, the inhabitants used postage stamps issued specially for the territory; see postage stamps and postal history of the Saar for details. A selection of Hong Kong postal stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ... This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the German territory of the Saar. ...

In 1954, the Paris mint coined 10, 20, and 50 "franken" pieces. The following year a 100 franken was also minted. Following reunification Saarland switched to the West German mark.

Rulers in the Saarland

1. 1920 - 1926: Victor Rault (France)
2. 1926 - 1927: George Washington Stephens (Canada)
3. 1927 - 1932: Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton (United Kingdom)
4. 1932 - 1935: Geoffrey George Knox (United Kingdom)
5. 1935 - 1944: Josef Bürckel (NSDAP)
6. 1944 - 1945: Willi Stöhr (NSDAP)
7. 1945 - 1946: Hans Neureuther
8. 1946 - 1947: Erwin Müller
9. 1947 - 1955: Johannes Hoffmann (CVP)
10. 1955 - 1956: Heinrich Welsch (no party)
11. 1956 - 1957: Hubert Ney (CDU)
12. 1957 - 1959: Egon Reinert (CDU)
13. 1959 - 1979: Franz Josef Röder (CDU)
14. 1979 - 1985: Werner Zeyer (CDU)
15. 1985 - 1998: Oskar Lafontaine (SPD)
16. 1998 - 1999: Reinhard Klimmt (SPD)
17. since 1999: Peter Müller (CDU)

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September 5, 2004 state election

See also: Saarland state election, 2004 The Saarland state election, 2004, was conducted on September 5, 2004, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of Saarland. ...

Seat results -- SPD in red, CDU in black, Greens in green, FDP in yellow

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Language

Although falsely believed by some to be francophone—likely due to its history and some French town names such as Saarlouis and Beaumarais—, the native population of the Saarland speaks Rhine Franconian (in the southwest) and Moselle Franconian (in the northeast), dialects of German. Outside of the Saarland, specifically the Rhine Franconian variant spoken in the Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken is generally considered to be the Saarland dialect. In general, both dialects are an integral part of the “Saarlandish” identity and thus a strong source of local patriotism. French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Saarlouis is a city in the Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. ... Rhenish Franconian (in German: Rheinfränkisch) is a dialect family of West Central German. ... Moselle Franconian is a dialect of the High German language, which is spoken in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate as well as Romania and the département de Moselle of France. ... Saarbrücken [] is the capital of the Saarland Bundesland in Germany. ...

Both dialects, even more so in their respective Saarland flavour, share many characteristic features, some of which will be explained below.

A curious fact is that female persons are grammatically not attributed the feminine, but the neutral “gender”. The result are phrases such as Es hat mir's gesaat (it told me so, instead of she told me so; vs. correct High German: Sie hat es mir gesagt). This fact stems from the word Mädchen (girl) being neutral in the German language.

The conjunctive is normally composed with the words dääd (“would do”) or gäng (“would go”) as auxiliary verbs: Isch dääd saan, dass... (“I would say that...”) instead of correct High German Ich würde sagen, dass....

Declension is rather different: In linguistics, declension is a paradigm of inflected nouns. ...

• The Genitive case does not exist at all and is entirely replaced by constructs with the Dative case.
• In most cases, a word is not altered when cast into the Dative case. Exceptions are mostly pronouns.
• The same holds for the Accusative case. Even more so, it is accepted practice to use the Nominative case instead of the Accusative.

Diphthongs are almost non-existent. The Saarlandish variant of a High-German word that contains a diphthong usually will have a long vowel in its place. Moreover, the vowel ü does not exist in the dialect. It is mostly replaced by i. The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... Dative has several meanings. ... In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun phrase. ... The term accusative may be used in the following contexts: A form of morphosyntactic alignment, as found in nominative-accusative languages. ... The nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun. ... In phonetics, a diphthong (in Greek δίφθογγος) is a vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another, often interpreted by listeners as a single vowel sound or phoneme. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

The French language has had a considerable influence on the vocabulary, although the pronunciation of imported French words usually is quite different from their original. Popular examples comprise Trottwaa (from troittoir), Fissääl (from ficelle), and the imperative or greeting aalleh! (from allez!).

A curious fact is that the English phrase My house is green is pronounced almost the same (in the Rhine Franconian variant): Mei Haus is grien. The main difference lies in the pronunciation of the r sound.

See also

• Saar Offensive
• Saarland University
• Saar Protectorate, 1947 to 1957
• Monnet Plan

The French attack on Saarland was a French sortie into the Saarland in the early stages of World War II. The purpose of the attack was to assist Poland, which was then under attack. ... The Saarland University (German Universität des Saarlandes) is a university located in Saarbrücken, Germany. ... The Saar protectorate (1,000 sq. ... This article deals with the 1945-47 plan of the immediate post war period. ...

Sources and External links

• Official governmental portal
• Statistics office
• WorldStatesmen - Germany
• France, Germany and the Struggle for the War-making Natural Resources of the Rhineland Describes the contest for the Saar over the centuries.

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