Baerenthal
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
| Canton | Bitche | |
| Community association | Pays de Bitche | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 59 ′ N , 7 ° 31 ′ E | |
| height | 190-473 m | |
| surface | 39.19 km 2 | |
| Residents | 778 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 20 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57230 | |
| INSEE code | 57046 | |
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Baerenthal ( German Bärenthal ) is a French commune with 778 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Sarreguemines and the Canton of Bitche .
geography
The municipality of Baerenthal on the northern Zinsel is located in the North Vosges , embedded in a valley landscape with streams, ponds and forests. The municipality, located near the border with the Palatinate , is 15 kilometers from Bitche , the nearest larger town is Niederbronn-les-Bains .
history
middle Ages
The village of Bärenthal belonged to the Lemberg office of the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch and there to the Bärenthal-Philippsburg official school. To the village belonged the Dachshof, the Fischerhof, the Gauchsharder Hof, the Leimenthaler Hof, the Reinhardshöfe (today a desert ), the Rösselhof, the Rothenbronnerhof, the Scharfeneckerhof and the Wiesenlager Hof. In 1453 half of the village was owned by the Lords of Lichtenberg , and in 1467 it was probably pledged to them.
Modern times
Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) died in 1570 as the last male member of his family. The Lemberg office was inherited by his daughter, Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch , who was married to the (heir) Count Philipp (V) von Hanau-Lichtenberg . Her father-in-law, Count Philipp IV. Von Hanau-Lichtenberg , gave the strict Roman Catholic Duke Karl III by immediately introducing the Lutheran creed . of Lorraine, the opportunity to intervene militarily, as the latter had suzerainty over the Bitsch rule, which was also part of the inheritance . In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip IV was unable to cope with the overwhelming power of Lorraine, he chose the legal route. In the subsequent process before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to prevail with regard to the Bitsch rule, while the Lemberg office - and thus also Bärenthal - was awarded to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .
Due to France's reunification policy , in 1680 the parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under French sovereignty . This also included three villages belonging to the Lemberg Office, including Bärenthal.
1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In Hesse-Darmstadt times, Bärenthal belonged to the Lichtenberg Office or the Wolfisheim Office .
In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the office of Lemberg and Bärenthal - fell to France. After the end of Napoleonic rule, Bärenthal remained with France. It is now assigned to Lorraine.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 681 | 735 | 754 | 694 | 723 | 702 | 698 | 778 |
Attractions
North of the village, the Ramstein castle ruins are enthroned on a sandstone rock.
Economy and Infrastructure
The population lives mainly from agriculture and forestry. On the outskirts is the Baerenthal youth leisure and education center run by the Karlsruhe Youth Committee.
The Ramstein Plage campsite is located by the Baerenthal pond.
The place became known through the restaurant L'Arnsbourg and later the Hotel K on the outskirts in Untermuhlthal, named after the neighboring castle Groß-Arnsberg . In the former forester's house, which has been run as a family-run restaurant for generations, a world-class restaurant has developed since 1988. Under the leadership of Jean-Georges Klein , the restaurant acquired three stars in the Michelin Guide in 2002 and maintained this level until 2014. At the beginning of 2015, Jean-Georges Klein left the restaurant L'Arnsbourg, which is still run by his sister Cathy Klein. The Hotel K will continue to be run by Jean-Georges Klein.
Personalities
- Hans Karl Abel (1876–1951), German writer
Parish partnership
Web links
- Baerenthal website
- Baerenthal youth leisure and education center run by the Karlsruhe Youth Committee
- Baerenthal (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial inventory of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg Hesse-Darmstadt part . Darmstadt 1962, p. 8 .
- ^ A b Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 (ed.): Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (= Pays d'Alsace . No. 111/112 ). 1980, p. 9 .
- ^ Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 , p. 118 (268 pages).
- ↑ Jean-Georges Klein has left L'Arnsbourg ( Memento from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )