Pfalzburg
Pfalzburg (French: Phalsbourg), the administrative center of the German canton of Lorraine, district of Saarburg, is situated at a high elevation in the Vosges Mountains on the Lützelburg–Drulingen railway line (with a branch to Pfalzburg) at an altitude of 380 meters above sea level. It features a Protestant church, a Catholic church, a synagogue, a teacher training college, a local court, a chief forestry office, and a rural workhouse. Local industries include stone quarrying, wool embroidery, and the manufacture of liqueurs, gloves, and straw hats, as well as significant silk-crocheting operations and sandstone quarrying. In 1905, the town had a population of 3,716, including the garrison (1 Battalion Füsiliere Nr. 99), comprising 802 Protestants and 90 Jews.
Pfalzburg, formerly the principal town of a principality belonging to Luxembourg, passed to the Bishops of Metz in the 14th century and subsequently to the Bishops of Strasbourg; it came under the control of Lorraine in 1583 and France in 1661, with the latter commissioning Vauban to fortify the town in 1680. The fortress was besieged by the Allies in 1814 and 1815, and was captured by the Germans on December 12, 1870, following a prolonged siege. The fortifications have since been dismantled.
Source: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6. Auflage 1905–1909