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Malstatt-Burbach joined the former Saarbrücken (now called ''Alt-Saarbrücken'') and Sankt Johann to form the present city of
Malstatt-Burbach joined the former Saarbrücken (now called ''Alt-Saarbrücken'') and Sankt Johann to form the present city of Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
in 1909.
Malstatt received municipal
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rights in 1321. These, however, were afterwards resigned to the newer town of Saarbrücken, and in 1818 Malstatt and Burbach were two small villages with a joint population of only about 800. About the middle of the century the population began to increase rapidly, in consequence of the development of the mining industry of the district and the extension of the railway system, and in 1874 the two villages were united to form a town.
In 1900, Malstatt-Burbach had a population of 31,195. At the time, it belonged to the district of Saarbrücken, the southernmost district of Prussia
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's Rhine Province
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Malstatt-Burbach was an industrial town, described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
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as "little more than a long and narrow row of manufactories and workmen's houses".
The largest factories were engaged in the production of iron, steel and cement. There was a large wharf on the river for the export of coal.
The Burbach ironworks, which had employed more than 23,000 people in 1975, was closed in 1988, temporarily causing an unemployment rate of 23%.
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