Saarbrück,

Saarbrück, a town of Rhenish Prussia, on the Saar, 40 miles SE. of Treves, is the centre of a large coalfield, and of iron and glass works, with manufactures of tobacco, chemicals, metal utensils, &c. Pop. 10,453. Here, on 2d August 1870, the first engagement took place between the French and Germans, the latter retreating.