Kirrberg (Saar)
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Kirrberg (Saar) is a district of Homburg, situated in the eastern part of the Saarpfalz-Kreis and the Saarland bordering Bundesland Rhineland-Palatinate. Homburg (5 km), Zweibrücken (7 km), Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern (both 35 km) are the closest towns. Currently (December 1, 2005), 3,155 inhabitants live in Kirrberg (Saar).
The chapel of Kirrberg was firstly mentioned in the year 1290 as "Capella in Kirchperch". On the 28th of March in 1949 Kirrberg was affiliated to the Bundesland Saarland and because of that it is the youngest village of the Bundesland. The river Lambsbach runs through the district from east to west.
