Sarreguemines
(German Saargemünd), a town in Alsace-Lorraine, at the confluence of the Blies and the Sarre. It is 40 miles E. of Metz, and 60 miles N. W. of Strasbourg. It is noted for manufactures of plush, leather, velvet, porcelain, faïence, and papier-mache snuffboxes. Sarreguemines was originally a Roman settlement. Ceded to the Duke of Lorraine by the Count of Saarbrücken in 1297, it went to France in 1766, returned to Germany in 1871, and became French again with Alsace-Lorraine under the Versailles Treaty in 1919. Pop. about 15,000.