The French-German Park is one of the few parks in the official language of the 1950s and 1960s. The heart of the park was already built in the prewar Deutschmühlenweiher with a water area of about 5 acres, which was completely muddy and overgrown with war disturbances. Around it were created various elements of garden and garden design. The model was the principle of Ferme Ornée, which was originally in the design of the English garden in the eighteenth century. The design elements of the DFG include a wide network of paths and gardens with cultivated plants, forests, individual trees and "Valley of Flowers" with weeds, perennial plants and many types of flowers, as well as a large garden of roses and flowers. The Valley of Flowers is designed by French garden architects Jacques Sgard and Gilbert Samuel. In the Rose Garden, 12,700 roses were planted on the German side during the opening year, in the French section there were 15,000 copies.
In 2007, Saarbrucken, in cooperation with the German Society for Horticulture and Garden Coordination (DGGL), announced a competition for the partial re-design of the German-French Garden. At the beginning of 2008, winners were identified whose designs must be achieved respectively from 2009 onwards.
The cable car in the German-French garden
The cable car was built in the German-French park in 1960 by Heckel. It overcomes the height difference of 20 meters at a distance of 752 meters and contains eight pillars. The diameter of the cable car in the French garden, which was out of service for several years until Easter 2007, is 20 mm and the speed is 2.8 meters / second.
