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SANKT JOHANN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANKT JOHANN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Saar, opposite Saarbrticken with which it is connected by three See also:bridges. It is 49 M. N.E. from See also:Metz and at the junction of lines from See also:Trier, Bingerbrfick and See also:Zweibrucken. Pop. (1905) 24,140. Sankt Johann is the seat of extensive See also:industries, the See also:chief being the manufacture of railway plant and machinery, See also:iron-See also:founding, See also:wire-See also:drawing and See also:brewing; its rapid See also:industrial development is due mainly to the extensive railway See also:system of which it is the centre. Sankt Johann obtains its name from a See also:chapel erected here. From 1321 to 1859 it formed a single town with See also:Saarbrucken, and then was See also:united to See also:form one See also:municipality with Saarbrticken and Malstatt-Burbach (united See also:population, 90,000).

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