Spicheren (French pronunciation: [spiʃʁən];[3][4][5] German: Spichern) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

It is located on the German border, lying next to the city of Saarbrücken.

It was also where the first shots of the Franco-Prussian war were fired during the Battle of Spicheren.

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