This year, fill is a guest in Saarlouis. Jazz is played on three days on the Vauban Island at the Stadtgarten. The guests are Thomas Siffling and Marcel Loeffler. Daniel Mattar will also be offering a participatory concert. On Sunday there will be a jazz breakfast and the Gramophoniacs will play swing music from the 1920s and 1930s. Dancing is allowed!

The island was once part of the outer fortifications of Saarlouis and can be reached from the town via a footbridge. The building was commissioned by the French King Louis IVX, who wanted the master builder Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban to build a comprehensive fortification for the town named after him, Sarre-Louis.

In 1898, Vauban built an outer structure to protect the lock bridge. The “Contregarde Vauban” was intended to protect the lock, which could dam up the Saar by up to 6 meters and submerge the surrounding floodplain by up to 1.5 meters, thus thwarting any attack. The powder magazine, which was protected by a mound of earth, has been preserved on the island.

Today, the picturesque island forms a park-like unit with the Saar oxbow lake and the city garden, which was created in 1929 and is a wonderful place to relax under old trees.