(Fr. Ruremonde), a strongly-fortified town in the Dutch province of Limburg, at the confluence of the Roer with the Maas or Meuse, 28 miles N. by E. of Maestricht. It has broad, regular streets, and a fine bridge across the Roer, leading to the suburb of St Jacob. The chief buildings are the cathedral in the Byzantine style, episcopal palace, spacious town-hall, convent, and hospital. There are here a college and several schools. Woollen cloth, silk, paper, leather, and beer are manufactured, and there are also bleach-fields, dye-works, flour-mills, &c. Pop. (1860) 7172.