Saarland is one of Germany's most religious states, and is the only one with an over-50 percent Catholic majority. The map below shows the concentration of self-identified Catholics in Germany ...

Enormous amounts of rain in Saarland and neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday and Saturday night caused flooding and landslides, but water levels were slowly retreating on Sunday making the ...

Ninety percent of it is located in Rhineland-Palatinate and 10 percent in the Saarland. The highest peak in the Hunsrück mountain range is the Erbeskopf, at a height of 816 meters (2,677 feet).