Saalfeld
a town in the former Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, situated on the left bank of the Saale, 87 miles S. W. of Leipzig. Its importance is based on its manufacturing, its industries being principally knit goods, paints, and machinery. Pop. about 15,000.
SAARBRÜCK, or SAARBRÜCKEN (French, Sarrebruck), a town of Rhenish Prussia; on the Saar; 40 miles S. E. of Treves; the center of a large coalfield, and of iron and glass works, with manufactures of tobacco, chemicals, metal utensils, etc. Here, on Aug. 2, 1870, the first engagement took place between the French and Germans, the latter retreating. As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the town came, at least temporarily, under French control. See SARRE BASIN. Pop. about 106,000.