to vote: 16.357 Voters: 7.364 Wählern Rejected votes: 204 Valid votes: 7.160 Coat of arms of Dillingen Blazon: In blue a growing silver, pinned and black grooved wall, surmounted by a silver, gold-crowned and -supported and red-tongued seated Lorraine eagle, in the wall a tall, red-lined golden gate, covered with a red zigzag bar, surmounted by a three-rowed, blue tournament collar. The coat of arms is based in its design on the coat of arms of the noblemen of Siersberg, barons of Dillingen (red zigzag beam and blue tournament collar on gold background) and the official coat of arms of the former Prévôté (Bailiwick) Siersberg (silver tower with eagle on a blue background). The coat of arms of the noblemen is reinterpreted in the coat of arms of Dillingen to the gate in a city wall. Transport Dillingen (Saar) station is on the Saar Railway, which connects Saarbrücken Central Station and Trier Central Station. Iron ore comes to the steelworks by Germany's heaviest trains 6000T trains. Castle Dilingen's Old Castle is a medieval building. Around 1699 it was developed into a Renaissance castle. In 1789 the architect Balthsar Wilhelm Stengel created a grand residential space. The castle has a yearly arts and crafts market. Notable people Siegfried Alkan (1858–1941), composer Peter Jost (born 1960), musicologist Michael Müller (born 1981), opera singer (tenor) Andreas Rothkopf (born 1955), organist, pianist Rudolf Schmidt (1875–1943), Brandenburg journalist, local historian and regional historian References Saarlouis (district) Duchy of Lorraine