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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

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

From Io36 until 1727, when it passed into the

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

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