Bellange

Bellange
region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton	Le Saulnois
Community association	Saulnois
Coordinates	48 ° 54 ' N , 6 ° 35' E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ' N , 6 ° 35' E
height	217-327 m
surface	3.83 km 2
Residents	55 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	14 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	57340
INSEE code	57059
Website	www.bellange.fr

Bellange (German Böllingen ) is a French commune with 55 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

Bellange (Moselle) is located about 40 kilometers southeast of Metz in Saulnois at an altitude between 217 and 327 meters above sea level, the mean height is 230 meters. The municipal area covers 3.83 square kilometers. The Ruisseau de Bellange stream , named after the municipality, has its source in the municipality.

history

Bellange was mentioned in a document in 1274 as Billange , then Billingen (1303), Billinguen (1361). It belonged to the Baillage of Vic-sur-Seille , which in turn belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine . 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. Under the protection of the Duchy of Lorraine, the Knights Templar was active in Bellange and among other things had a Romanesque church built. Until the 16th century the monastery of Neumünster (today a district of Ottweiler ) received the tithe of Bellange. Then the Counts of Nassau received the tithe. In the 17th century, the tithe went to the collegiate monastery Saint-Etienne of Vic-sur-Seille, which was under the bishops of Metz .

1793 received Bellange in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) the status of a municipality and 1801 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 (1870–1871) . The realm of Alsace-Lorraine existed until the end of the First World War (1914–1918) and was then dissolved. Bellange was in the Moselle department at that time, this change was retained in 1918, when Moselle was again assigned to France.

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year	1793	1836	1861	1886	1911	1946	1982	1990	2007
Residents	188	278	242	185	166	76	50	35	55

Bellange had the most inhabitants in 1836, after which the population decreased until 1990, only 35 people lived in the municipality. Since then, the population has increased slightly again.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows a silver dove on a red background with the golden oil bottle of the patron saint Remigius of Reims in its beak. Two golden stones are shown above, attributes of Stephen (Étienne), in memory of the collegiate monastery of Saint-Étienne.

Web links

Commons : Bellange - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Passé-Présent: La Moselle dévoilée n ° 1 (May-June 2011).
^ Henri Lepage: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe . In: Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain (ed.): Dictionnaire topographique de la France . 6th edition. tape 18 , no. 14 + 63 . Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1862, p. 14 ( in Google Books [accessed March 3, 2010]). In French.
↑ 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 . ( in Google Books [accessed February 25, 2010]). In French.
↑ Histoire on bellange.fr in French.
↑ Bellange on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved March 3, 2010.
↑ Union of Cercles GENEALOGIQUES Lorrain (French) Accessed on March 3 of 2010.

[1] Passé-Présent: La Moselle dévoilée n ° 1 (May-June 2011).

[2] Henri Lepage: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe . In: Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain (ed.): Dictionnaire topographique de la France . 6th edition. tape 18 , no. 14 + 63 . Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1862, p. 14 ( in Google Books [accessed March 3, 2010]). In French.

[3] 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 . ( in Google Books [accessed February 25, 2010]). In French.

[4] Histoire on bellange.fr in French.

[5] Bellange on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved March 3, 2010.

[6] Union of Cercles GENEALOGIQUES Lorrain (French) Accessed on March 3 of 2010.