Boulay-Moselle arrondissement

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Location in Lothringen / Lorraine

The Arrondissement Boulay-Moselle is a former administrative unit of the Moselle department in the Lorraine region of France . The sub-prefecture is Boulay-Moselle ( German  Bolchen ). On January 1, 2015, it was merged with the Arrondissement Forbach to form the new Arrondissement Forbach-Boulay-Moselle .

It consisted of three cantons and 96 municipalities. The area was 722 square kilometers, the population (2011) 79,696, the population density 110 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Constituencies

  • Canton of Bouzonville

  • Canton of Boulay-Moselle

  • Canton of Faulquemont

history

With the ratification of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty in 1871, the arrondissement formed part of the German Empire. The Bolchen district was formed from him at the end of 1871 . It belonged to the Lorraine district of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine ; the district director had his seat in the city of Bolchen. Initially, the French law of July 18, 1837 on municipal administration continued to apply. On April 1, 1896, the previous municipal constitution was replaced and the new municipal code for Alsace-Lorraine of June 6, 1895 was introduced. It applied to all municipalities and made no distinction between those with a rural or urban constitution.

After the First World War, the district was occupied by France in 1918. With the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, it belonged again to the French state as Arrondissement Boulay-Moselle. However, local law from 1895 continued to apply until the end of 1940.

During the Second World War, German Wehrmacht troops occupied the arrondissement in June 1940. On August 2, 1940, it was renamed the Bolchen district . It was now subordinate to the chief of civil administration in the Lorraine region ; a German land commissioner was appointed to the administration in Bolchen. On 1 December 1940, the district with the Bolchen was district Forbach the district Saint Avold together. In November / December 1944, the district was occupied by an attack by the US Army and again placed under French administration.

tourism

The Arrondissement Boulay-Moselle is marketed as the Niedland ( le Pays de Nied ) for tourism. Worth seeing are u. a. the Lorraine houses in Oberdorff and Gomelange , the Saint-Sixte castle in Freistroff , the water mill in Fouligny and the 10th century church in Valmunster and the Ban Saint Jean camp .

Communities

Before its dissolution, the Arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle consisted of the following municipalities:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1721/jo/texte