Boulay-Moselle
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle | |
| Canton | Boulay-Moselle (main town) | |
| Community association | Houve-Pays Boulageois | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 11 ′ N , 6 ° 30 ′ E | |
| height | 202-365 m | |
| surface | 19.55 km 2 | |
| Residents | 5,587 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 286 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57220 | |
| INSEE code | 57097 | |
| Website | Ville de Boulay-Moselle | |
Boulay-Moselle ( Boulay for short , Bolchen in German ) is a French commune with 5587 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). Until December 31, 2014, it was the capital of the arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle ( sub-prefecture ) and the canton of Boulay-Moselle. It has been in the Forbach-Boulay-Moselle arrondissement since 2015, and the inhabitants of Boulay call themselves Boulageois . Her nicknames are Rachborn or Ratschborn , which means fountain of talkativeness . also “Bolcher Saaslecker”.
geography
The small town of Boulay is located east of the Niedtal , about halfway between Metz and Saarlouis . The district Halling-lès-Boulay (German: Hallingen), located three kilometers southeast of the town center, has been part of Boulay-Moselle since 1973.
history
Boulay was first mentioned in 1184 as Bollei , then in 1293 as Bolke , in 1487 as Bolchen and 1576 as Bolichen . In 1321 the place received city rights ; from 1614 it was the seat of a county and fell to France in 1766. The castle - built instead of a medieval castle - perished in the French Revolution . In 1861 Bolchen had 2968 inhabitants.
Like the other communities in the Moselle department, Boulay was ceded to the German Empire in 1871 in accordance with the preliminary peace of Versailles (Art. 1) and was given the official name Bolchen as part of the Alsace-Lorraine empire . Around 1900 Bolchen had a Protestant church, a Catholic church, a synagogue , a chief forestry and was the seat of a local court .
After the First World War , the parish came to France under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , but became Bolchen again during the Second World War under German occupation . During the fighting towards the end of the war in November 1944, the place was largely destroyed.
Demographics
| year | population | Remarks |
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| 1872 | 2870 | |
| 1890 | 2281 | |
| 1900 | 2137 | mostly Catholic residents |
| 1905 | 2202 | |
| 1910 | 2218 |
| Number of inhabitants since the end of the Second World War | ||||||||
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2985 | 3314 | 3830 | 4336 | 4422 | 4374 | 4711 | 5587 |
Attractions
In the Saint-Étienne church (former collegiate church from the 18th century) there is a famous organ from the nearby Cistercian Abbey of Villers-Bettnach , which was built in 1729 by Joseph Lepicard.
The Jewish community of Boulay-Moselle built a new synagogue in 1952 in place of a destroyed neo-Romanesque predecessor building from 1854. There is also a Jewish cemetery in the village .
The Banlieue Saint-Jean , a former residential area for the military, is internationally known as the “ghost town of Boulay”. The secrecy of the authorities and the police make the place a place of pilgrimage for “ghost hunters”.
Specialties
The macaroons of Boulay.
Town twinning
On June 4, 2006, Boulay celebrated 40 years of active partnership with the Upper Swabian city of Mengen .
Personalities
- Kaspar von Niedbruck (1525–1557), diplomat in the service of Ferdinand I and Maximilian II as well as a Reformation -minded humanist
- Charles von Villers (1765–1815), French officer and philosopher
- Julius Joseph Neumann (1836–1895), priest and member of the German Reichstag
- Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French politician, lived in Boulay in 1910
literature
- Friedrich Toepfer: Side dishes. VIII. The Lords of Bolchen . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , vol. II. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1867, p. 464–467 ( Google Books )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passé-Présent: La Moselle dévoilée N ° 5 (Janvier-Février 2012)
- ↑ a b c d M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
- ^ Complete geographic-topographical-statistical local lexicon of Alsace-Lorraine. Contains: the cities, towns, villages, castles, communities, hamlets, mines and steel works, farms, mills, ruins, mineral springs, etc. with details of the geographical location, factory, industrial and other commercial activity, the post, railway u. Telegraph stations and the like historical notes etc. Adapted from official sources by H. Rudolph. Louis Zander, Leipzig 1872, column 7 ( online )
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 3, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, p. 174 ( Zeno.org )