Saarbrücken-Forbach

Saarbrücken,¹ Deutschland,² and Forbach, France, are the centers of a metropolitan area of 1.1 million, although the cities themselves are both smaller than a quarter of that total. Saarbrücken is on the Saar River³ and Forbach southwest of it. Saarbrücken boasts a Gothic church of St. Arnaul. The city of Völklingen has the giant former iron works, a World Heritage Site. The industrial facility was a model for large scale integration of pig-iron production, from ore handling through beam production.⁴

External references

Völklingen iron works: 8000 ton press

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. While brueken means bridges, the name is said to derive from brucca, which once meant boulders (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%c%BCcken, accessed 12/24/2007).
2. Germany in Englishy.
3. A tributary of the Mosel (Moselle) River.
4. World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books and UNESCO, 2009).