Karlsbrunn

<h2 id="geography">Geography</h2>
<p>The village lies in the urban area of <a href="/facts/Saarbr%C3%BCcken/0PnbwXz9">Saarbrücken</a>, 5 km south of Großrosseln and close to the frontier with France (near the department of <a href="/facts/Moselle_(department)/ez6QYNjK">Moselle</a> in <a href="/facts/Lorraine_(region)/42ssBtDP">Lorraine</a>). The nearest French municipalities are <a href="/facts/Rosbruck/g6jB7DbE">Rosbruck</a>, <a href="/facts/Forbach/LN2WaURn">Forbach</a> and <a href="/facts/Freyming-Merlebach/TwvvzPPq">Freyming-Merlebach</a>.
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<h2 id="link-to-dwight-d-eisenhower">Link to Dwight D. Eisenhower</h2>
<p>The town is the ancestral home of the family of American president <a href="/facts/Dwight_D._Eisenhower/a21WXe8r">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>. The Eisenhauer (German for "iron <a href="/facts/Hewer/8UVl8eKK">hewer</a>/miner") family migrated from Karlsbrunn to North America in 1741, first settling in <a href="/facts/York,_Pennsylvania/HwzbxG6B">York, Pennsylvania</a>. Accounts vary as to how and when the German name Eisenhauer was anglicized to Eisenhower. President Eisenhower's <a href="/facts/Pennsylvania_Dutch/LxFq7QLQ">Pennsylvania Dutch</a> ancestors, who were primarily farmers, included Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer of Karlsbrunn, who migrated to <a href="/facts/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania/3M5RqEtj">Lancaster, Pennsylvania</a>, in 1741.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>(in German) <a href="http://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.306/REL?PPN=241264081&COOKIE=U998,Pbszgast,I17,B0728+,SY,NRecherche-DB,D2.306,E42f45090-192,A,H,R95.234.24.235,FY">Literature of Karlsbrunn</a> at <i>Saarländische Bibliographie</i></li></ul>

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Karlsbrunn