PFALZBURG  , a

town of Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace—Lorraine, lies high on the west slopes of the Vosges, 25 M . N.W. of Strassburg by rail . Pop . (1905), 3716 . It contains an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue and a teachers' seminary . Its industries include the manufacture of gloves, straw hats and liqueurs, and also quarrying . The principality of Pfalzburg, of which this town was the capital, originally a part of Luxemburg, afterwards belonged in turn to the bishop of Metz, the bishop of Strassburg and the duke of Lorraine, and passed into the possession of France in 1661 . The town was of importance as commanding the passes of the Vosges, and was strongly fortified by Vauban in 1680 . The works resisted the Allies in 1814 and 1815, and the Germans for four months in 187o, but they were taken on the 12th of December of that year . They have since been razed .