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SAARBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAARBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the imperial See also:province of See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine, on the See also:Saar, 44 M. N.W. from See also:Strassburg by See also:rail. Pop. (1905) 9818. Its See also:chief See also:industries are the manufacture of See also:watch springs, gloves, See also:lace, See also:beer and machinery, and it has a See also:trade in See also:grain. Saarburg, which has been identified with the Pons Saravi of the See also:Romans, belonged to See also:France from 1661 to 1871, its earlier owners having been the bishops of See also:Metz and the See also:dukes of Lorraine. Another Saarburg is a town in See also:Prussia at the confluence of the Saar and the See also:Leuk. Pop. (19o5) 2186. It has the ruins of a See also:castle, formerly belonging to the See also:electors of See also:Trier, and is still partly surrounded by walls. It has manufactures of bells, See also:furniture and cigars, other industries being tanning and See also:vine-growing. Saarburg See also:dates from the loth See also:century and received municipal rights in 1291.

From Io36 until 1727, when it passed into the See also:

possession of France, it belonged to the electors of Trier. It became Prussian in 1815. See Hewer, Geschichte der See also:Burg and Stadt Saarburg (Trier, 1862).

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