Chicourt
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Le Saulnois | |
| Community association | Saulnois | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 6 ° 30' E | |
| height | 239-340 m | |
| surface | 5.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 96 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 17 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57590 | |
| INSEE code | 57141 | |
Chicourt is a French commune with 96 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
Chicourt is located in the Saulnois , 34 kilometers northeast of Nancy , 32 kilometers southeast of Metz and 26 kilometers southwest of Saint-Avold , between the neighboring communities of Château-Bréhain in the southeast, Oron in the southwest, Frémery in the northwest and Villers-sur-Nied in the northeast, at an altitude between 239 and 340 meters above sea level. The municipal area covers 5.52 km² (552 hectares). The French Nied flows south of the town center through the municipality.
history
Chicourt was mentioned as Diekesinga in 1121 and 1180 . (1476: Chiecourt ). Ernest Nègre assumes that the place name is composed of the Germanic name Cadulus and the Middle Latin word curtis , "homestead" and thus means "homestead of Cadulus".
From 1594 to 1751 Chicourt was part of the Amance castellan , which was subordinate to the Nancy Bailliage . From June 1751 until the French Revolution (1789–1799) it was part of the Bailliage of Château-Salins. Until the beginning of the 17th century there was a Benedictine priory in Chicourt.
The Seigneurie Neufchère was located in what is now the municipality of Chicourt, about halfway to Villers-sur-Nied . She was mentioned in 1594 in the copy book of the Abbey of Salival (now part of the municipality of Moyenvic ) and appears as Neuf-Chaire on a map by Jean Dominique Comte de Cassini (1748-1845) from the 1780s.
In 1793 Chicourt received the status of a municipality in the course of the French Revolution and in 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. Chicourt was in the Moselle department at that time, this change was retained in 1918 when Moselle was again assigned to France. As a French-speaking town, Chicourt was one of the last 247 communities whose name was Germanized on September 2, 1915 during World War I. The name was changed to "Diexingen" and was the official place name until 1918.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Residents | 114 | 115 | 117 | 109 | 102 | 98 | 101 |
Saint-Nicolas church
Notre-Dame-de-Neufchère chapel
coat of arms
The municipality's coat of arms is red, has a silver coat of arms in the middle and shows three golden balls (besants) , two of them in the upper part and one at the top. The silver coat of arms comes from the coat of arms of the castellany of Amance. The golden balls are attributes of the patron saint Nicholas of Myra .
Infrastructure
The closest airport is Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport , 19.7 kilometers northwest of Chicourt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Village de Chicourt, Actuacity.com (French)
- ↑ a b Village de Chicourt, Annuaire-Mairie.fr (French)
- ^ Reach for the West: "Westforschung" Part II (2003)
- ↑ Lexicon Mediae Latinitatis (French / English)
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 888 ( in Google Books [accessed April 6, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ a b Navigation menu on Cassini.ehess.fr, after entering a place name (here Chicourt) you can call up a Cassini map or a community note (French)
- ^ 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 14 , no. 18 . Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1862, p. 4 + 30 + 32 + 100 ( in Google Books [accessed April 6, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ Les 247 dernières communes à noms français, débaptisées seulement le 2 septembre 1915 (French)
- ↑ Union des Cercles Génealogiques Lorrains (French)