SAARGEMUND (Fr. Sarreguemines)  , a town of Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine, situated at the confluence of the Blies and the Saar, 40 M . E. of Metz, 6o m . N.W. of Strassburg by rail, and at the junction of lines to Trier and Saarburg . Pop . (1905) 14,932 . It carries on considerable manufactures of faience, plush, velvet, leather, porcelain and earthenware, and is a chief depot for the papier-mache boxes, mostly snuff-boxes, which are made in great quantities in the neighbourhood . Saargemund, originally a Roman settlement, obtained civicrights early in the 13th century . In 1297 it was ceded by the count of Saarbrucken to the duke of Lorraine, and passed with Lorraine in 1766 to France, being transferred to Germany in 1871 . See Thomire, Notes historiques sur Sarreguemines (Strassburg, 1887); and Box, Notice sur le pays de to Saare (Nancy, 1903) .