Perl () is a municipality in

Merzig-Wadern Merzig-Wadern is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northwest of the Saarland, Germany. Neighboring districts are Trier-Saarburg, Sankt Wendel, Saarlouis, the French ''département'' Moselle, and Luxembourg. History The district was created in 1816 wh ...

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of 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 ...

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. In 2020 its population was 8,824.

Geography

Overview

It is situated on the right bank of the river

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

, on the border with

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

and

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, approximately 25 km southeast of

Luxembourg City Luxembourg ( lb, Lëtzebuerg; french: Luxembourg; german: Luxemburg), also known as Luxembourg City ( lb, Stad Lëtzebuerg, link=no or ; french: Ville de Luxembourg, link=no; german: Stadt Luxemburg, link=no or ), is the capital city of the Lu ...

. It is joined by a bridge across the Moselle with

Schengen The Schengen Area ( , ) is an area comprising 27 European countries that have officially abolished all passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders. Being an element within the wider area of freedom, security and j ...

in Luxembourg and by a second bridge between

Nennig Nennig is a village in the Saarland, Germany, part of the municipality of Perl. It is situated on the river Moselle, opposite Remich, Luxembourg. Overview Nennig is known for a Roman villa containing well-preserved mosaics that were excavated in ...

and

Remich Remich ( lb, Réimech ) is a commune with town status in south-eastern Luxembourg with a population of 3,645 inhabitants . It is the capital of the canton of Remich. Remich lies on the left bank of the river Moselle, which forms part of the bord ...

. A fine

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

has been found in the village of

Subdivision

The municipality consists of Perl and 13 villages (''Ortsteil''):Municipal statistics at www.perl.de
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Administration

* 1989 - 2007 : Anton Hoffmann, CDU * 2007 - 2015 : Bruno Schmitt,

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

* 2015 - : Ralf Uhlenbruch, CDU

Education

There have been schools in the municipality of Perl for several centuries, with the oldest schooling and school building records dating back to the year 1743. The Deutsch-Luxemburgisches Schengen-Lyzeum Perl is the first cross-border grammar school which offers both the German and Luxembourg diplomas.

Day Care Centres

* Day Care St. Franziskus Besch * Day Care Center St. Martin Nennig * Day Care Center St. Quirinus Perl * Day Care Center Leukbachtal Oberleuken

Primary school

* Primary school Dreiländereck Perl

Grammar school

* German-Luxembourgish Schengen-Lyzeum Perl

Main sights

Roman mosaic floor

The Roman mosaic in

is the second largest mosaic north of the Alps, with a size of 160m². It was rebuilt in 1874 and restored in 1960. The mosaic has a 15.65 m × 10.30 m large, ornamental decorated surface, which is a gem that exceeds all mosaics that have been found in the Moselle region in Roman palaces and mansions.

Roman Villa Borg

The

Roman Villa Borg The Roman Villa Borg is a reconstructed Roman ''villa rustica'' located near the villages of Borg and Oberleuken in the municipality of Perl in Saarland, Germany. Discovered at the end of the 19th century, the site was excavated in the late 1980s ...

has been reconstructed faithfully with lobbies, public baths, gardens and Roman tavern and also displays archaeological finds. Original recipes of the Roman gourmet

Apicius ''Apicius'', also known as ''De re culinaria'' or ''De re coquinaria'' (''On the Subject of Cooking'') is a collection of Roman cookery recipes. It is thought to have been compiled in the fifth century AD. Its language is in many ways closer ...

are used for cooking.

Palace von Nell and parc von Nell

In 1733 the hereditary tenant of the

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

Cathedral Chapter constructed a stately house (palace), which later fell into the possession of a family from Nell. The residential building is a nine-axle, two-storey building with a front length of 24.30 m and a high kerb roof. Opposite the palace is a garden portal with a double-barreled external staircase that leads to the "Parc of Nell", which was transformed to a

Baroque garden The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. The style originated in the late-16th century in Italy, in the gardens of the Vatican and the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome and in the ga ...

as part of the project "Gärten ohne Grenzen".

Besch military cemetery

The military cemetery commemorates the fallen of the Second World War. Three large stone crosses stand atop a blown up bunker. The cemetery is the last resting place of 1279 German dead and also 950 war victims of other nations.

Schloss Berg

Schloss Berg in

consists of a lower and upper castle. The lower castle is private property and the upper castle has been rebuilt as the Renaissance-Schloss. Today it is a luxury hotel, a gourmet restaurant and a modern casino.

Personalities

Born in Perl

* Karl Eduard Heusner (1843-1891), Vice Admiral * Albert Grégoire (1865-1949), Member of the Reichstag * Nikolaus Simmer (1902-1986), politician (NSDAP) and mayor of Koblenz (1940-1945) * Aloysius Winter (1931-2011), professor of theology * Karl Peter Fixemer (born 1931), Entrepreneur * Rudolf Heinz (born 1937), philosopher, psychoanalyst and musicologist * Edmund Kütten (born 1948), politician, member of parliament (since 2004)

Connected to Perl

* Christian Bau (born 1971), chef

References

External links

Perl official website
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