Amelécourt
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Le Saulnois | |
| Community association | Saulnois | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 50 ′ N , 6 ° 30 ′ E | |
| height | 202-365 m | |
| surface | 7.56 km 2 | |
| Residents | 154 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 20 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57170 | |
| INSEE code | 57018 | |
 Saint Martin Church |
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Amelécourt is a French commune with 154 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins , to the canton of Le Saulnois and to the communal association Communauté de communes du Saulnois .
geography
The municipality of Amelécourt is located immediately north of Château-Salins and about 48 kilometers southeast of Metz in the Saulnois at an altitude between 202 and 365 meters above sea level. The municipal area covers 7.56 square kilometers.
history
The village belonged to the Prévôté (Bailiwick) of Amance , which was part of the Duchy of Lorraine . The Duchy of Lorraine used the Amelécourt saltworks in the 14th and 15th centuries. The saline was closed towards the end of the 15th century as a result of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453).
The Duchy of Lorraine has been independent several times since it was founded as Lotharii Regnum by Lothar I. It later belonged temporarily to the Holy Roman Empire and also to France. In 1738 it was awarded to the Polish King Stanislaus I. Leszczyński (1677–1766) in the Peace of Vienna , which ended the War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738), and after his death in 1766 it fell to France.
In 1793 Amelécourt (as Amelecourt ) received in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and in 1801 (as Ammelécourt ) the right to local self-government. From 1801 to 1871 it belonged to the former Meurthe department , which was renamed the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in 1871 . In 1871 the community was incorporated into the newly created realm of Alsace-Lorraine of the German Empire due to changes in territory due to the course of the Franco-German War (1870/71) . The realm of Alsace-Lorraine existed until the end of the First World War (1914–1918) and was then dissolved. At that time, Amelécourt was in the Moselle department, this change was retained in 1918 when Moselle was again assigned to France. As a French-speaking town, Amelécourt was one of the last 247 municipalities whose name was Germanized on September 2, 1915. The name was changed to "Almerichshofen" and was the official place name until 1918.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Residents | 115 | 114 | 113 | 119 | 102 | 117 | 141 |
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the community shows the mantle of the patron saint Martin of Tours as the opposite of a heraldic point , since in French chape means both cope (liturgical cloak) and "opposite of a heraldic point" (heraldic cloak). It is silver with a red coat of arms and a blue chape .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ L'or blanc du Saulnois (French) Retrieved February 25, 2010.
- ↑ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands: the German territories from the Middle Ages to the present . In: Beck Historical Library . 7th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 391 f . (French, in Google Books [accessed February 25, 2010]).
- ^ Biography of Stanislaus I. Leszczyński on stanislasurbietorbi.com (French) Retrieved March 30, 2015.
- ↑ Amelécourt on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved February 25, 2010.
- ↑ Les 247 dernières communes à noms français, débaptisées seulement le 2 septembre 1915 (French) . Accessed 25 February 2010.
- ↑ Blazon on genealogie-lorraine.fr (French)