Saareck Palace
A historicist sandstone palace above the Saar in Mettlach, built from 1902 for Luitwin von Boch-Galhau. Today a guest house and event venue of Villeroy & Boch.
Saareck Palace stands on the heights above the Saar in Mettlach. It was commissioned by Luitwin von Boch-Galhau (1877-1932) after his marriage to Adeline Freiin von Liebieg in 1901, and built by the Cologne architect and cathedral master builder Ludwig Arntz; ground was broken on 5 July 1902.
Built of sandstone in the Historicist style, it is marked by a six-storey square tower with a half-timbered top floor and a three-part front facing the river.
During the Second World War the building served as a military hospital; the red cross on its roof is said to have spared it from damage. In 1954 Luitwin von Boch transferred his parental home to the Villeroy & Boch company, which uses it today as a guest house, hotel and event venue.
Not to be confused with the Old Tower of Mettlach: that massive Ottonian structure was raised around 990 as a burial chapel for the canonised monastery founder Lutwinus, belongs to the old abbey and stands a few hundred metres away down in the village.
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