a "princely" grave containing a golden torc and arm rings from late Hallstatt period (around 500 BC). The Gallo-Roman settlement of Contiomagus stood at the intersection of the highways from Metz-Mainz and Trier-Straßburg in today's district of Pachten. Around 275/276, during the Migration Period, Contiomagus was destroyed and rebuilt. The oldest written mention of "Dillingen" and "Pachten" can be found in a document of Albero von Montreuil, Bishop of Trier (1131-1152). 1324 sees the first written mention of "Diefflen", and 1357 the first mention of the Old Castle in Dillingen (Altes Schloss). The area was devastated by the Thirty Years War between 1618 and 1648, and again in 1672-1678/79 in the Franco-Dutch War. In 1685, the feudal ruler of Dillingen received permission from King Louis XIV of France to build an ironworks, the Dillinger Hütte. The French Revolution ended the rule of the local nobility. In 1815, the region was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in the Second Treaty of Paris. With the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty in 1918 Dillingen became part of the Free State of Prussia. Between 1920 and the Saar Referendum of 1935, by the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, Dillingen was part of the Territory of the Saar Basin administered by the League of Nations. After the referendum of 1935 Dillingen returned to the German Reich, but without again becoming part of Prussia. In 1936 Pachten was incorporated. During the Second World War, especially during the fierce fighting in the winter of 1944/1945, war between the German Wehrmacht and the United States Army caused heavy destruction. In 1947 Dillingen became part of the Saarland, which, in 1957, joined the Federal Republic of Germany politically and on 5 July 1959 also economically. In 1949, Dillingen was granted city rights by the Saar state government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann. In 1969 Diefflen was incorporated in 1969. In the year 1990 Dillingen-Pachten celebrated two thousand years of settlement in Contiomagus. Dillingen is the place of origin for the toponymic surname "Dillinger". Mayors April 1945-May 1945: Benedikt Hoffmann May 1945-September 1945: Heinrich Scherer November 1945-September 1946: Theodor Okon October 1946-May 1956: Peter Lamar October 1956-February 1974: Eduard Jakobs, CDU March 1974-March 1994: Gerhard Leonardy, CDU March 1994-March 2004: Erwin Planta, SPD since March 2004: Franz-Josef Berg, (born 1957), CDU Municipal Council The City Council with 39 seats after local elections on 25 May 2014 Persons entitled