Sarreguemines

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Coordinates: 49°06′40″N 7°04′05″E / 49.1111111111, 7.06805555556

Commune of Sarreguemines

View of the Saar River and the casino in Sarreguemines
Location
Sarreguemines (France)
Sarreguemines
Administration
Country France
Region Lorraine
Department Moselle (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement Sarreguemines
Canton Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality Communauté
d'agglomération
Sarreguemines Confluences
Mayor Céleste Lett
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹ 29.67 km²
Population²
(1999)		 23,202
 - Density 782.0/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
Postal code 57200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Sarreguemines (German Saargemünd) is a town and commune in the Moselle département, in Lorraine, northeastern France. It is the chief town of an arrondissement.

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[edit] Geography

Sarreguemines, whose name is a French spelling of the name in local Lorraine-German dialect "Saargemin", meaning "confluence into the Saar", is located at the confluence of the Blies and the Saar, 40 miles east of Metz, 60 miles northwest of Strasbourg by rail, and at the junction of the lines to Trier and Saarburg. Traditionally Sarreguemines was the head of river navigation on the Saar, its importance being a depot where boats were unloaded.

[edit] Administration

Sarreguemines is the chief town of two cantons:

  • the canton of Sarreguemines, comprising the sole commune of Sarreguemines
  • the canton of Sarreguemines-Campagne, comprising 21 nearby communes

[edit] History

Saargemünd, originally a Roman settlement, obtained civic rights early in the 13th century. In 1297 it was ceded by the count of Saarbrücken to the Duke of Lorraine, and passed with Lorraine in 1766 to France.

It was transferred to Germany in 1871, with the Treaty of Frankfurt following the Franco-Prussian War. From 1871 to 1918 it formed part of Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine and manufactured plush velvet, leather, porcelain and earthenware, and was a chief depot for papier-mâché boxes, mostly used for snuffboxes. It was returned to France after World War I.

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Sarreguemines was the birthplace of

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