Sarrebourg

This article is about the town in France. For the town in Germany, see Saarburg.

Sarrebourg
Coat of arms
Location of Sarrebourg
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton	Sarrebourg
Intercommunality	Sarrebourg
Government
• Mayor	Alain Marty
Area 1	16.40 km2 (6.33 sq mi)
Population  (1999)	13,330
• Density	810/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	57630 /57400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Imperial City of Sarrebourg Reichsstadt Saarburg (de) Ville libre de Sarrebourg (fr)
? – 1661
Status	Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Sarrebourg
Government	Republic
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Granted mint by     Bishopric of Metz	962
• Passed to Lorraine	2 November 1464
• Gained Reichsfreiheit	Uncertain
• Passed to France by     Treaty of Vincennes	1661 1661
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Lorraine Early modern France

Sarrebourg (French pronunciation: [saʁbuʁ]; German: Saarburg, Lorraine Franconian: Saarbuerj) is a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France. It lies in on the upper course of the river Saar.

In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.