Zabern
the name of three German towns. (1) ELSASS-ZABERN (French, Saverne), a town of Elsass, on the Zorn, 27 miles N. W. of Strassburg. A Gothic Hauptkirche of the 15th century, a castle built in 1667, but now a barrack, and a museum with a collection of local antiquities, are the principal buildings.
The Rhine and Marne canal passes through the town. Tanneries, potteries, and woolen mills are the chief indusrial establishments, and there is considerable timber trade. The town stands at the mouth of the Zabern Pass, leading across the Vosges Mountains. The Roman Tabernæ, this town still contains traces of Roman occupation. It was long an ecclesiastical city belonging to the bishops of Metz, and an episcopal palace occupied the site of its present castle. Always a German town, though held for a time by France, it receded to Germany in 1871, and the castle, formerly occupied by the widows of members of the Legion of Honor, was employed as a barrack. (2) BROG-ZABERN, a town of Rhine Bavaria, on the Erlenbach, 8 miles S. of Landau. (3) RHEIN-