Fénétrange
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Sarrebourg | |
| Community association | Sarrebourg Moselle Sud | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 51 ' N , 7 ° 1' E | |
| height | 227-317 m | |
| surface | 14.49 km 2 | |
| Residents | 723 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 50 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57930 | |
| INSEE code | 57210 | |
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| Alternative names | Baronnie de Fénétrange |
| Form of rule | Domination |
| Ruler / government | Baron |
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FR-57
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| Reichskreis | Upper Rhine district |
| Capitals / residences | Finstingen |
| Dynasties | Malberg House - Salm House - Lorraine House |
| Denomination / Religions | Roman Catholic until 1565, then Lutheran |
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French and Rhine Franconian
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France
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Fénétrange ( German Finstingen ) is a French commune with 723 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 .
geography
The village, which is still fortified today in the Middle Ages, is located on the Upper Saar between Sarrebourg and Sarre-Union on the border with the Bas-Rhin department (historic Alsace region ). The German city of Saarbrücken is around 40 kilometers away, the French cities of Nancy and Metz , both on the Moselle , are 60 and 70 kilometers away, respectively. The municipality of Fénétrange forms the easternmost tip of the Lorraine Regional Nature Park .
The Fénétrange station was on the Berthelming – Sarreguemines line .
history
"Vinstringen" was first mentioned in 1070. The lords of Festingen had been an influential noble family in Alsace and Lorraine since the 14th century. The place came from the Holy Roman Empire to France in 1766 , to Germany in 1871 and to France again in 1919.
etymology
Filestengas (10th century), Filistenges et Vinstringen (1070), Philistingis (1136), Phylestanges (1222), Finstingen (1323), Vinstingen (1328), Vinstinga (1340), Fenestranges (1433), Phinstingen (1558), Vinstringium (1675), Fénétrange (1793), Fénestrange (19th century).
Cultural assets and important buildings
Due to its long history, the city has a number of important buildings and cultural sites. The secular buildings include Roman relics, the fourteenth-century castle, which was rebuilt and converted into a public building in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries after its destruction. The fortified city still has parts of a city wall and a city gate: To the west the Porte de France , whose round tower still has remains from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In addition, the entrance gate to the castle has been preserved. The two city gates to the north and east ( Porte d'Allemagne ) no longer exist; the latter was seen as a traffic obstacle as early as 1824 and removed with the construction of the Route Départementale N ° 1 from Nancy to Landau .
Many streets still have a cohesive picture of their street facades with bay windows and sometimes remarkably designed reliefs, even if the vacancy is clearly noticeable.
In terms of sacred buildings, the high-Gothic collegiate church of Saint-Remy should be mentioned first, whose builder Hans Meiger von Werde from Strasbourg created a rather unusual church building for him outside of his traditional sphere of activity. Archbishop Heinrich von Vinstingen (before 1366 to ~ 1386) is buried in it. The Protestant parish church from 1805/06 is located at the intersection in front of the Porte de France D43 / D38. Fénétrange also had a Jewish community with its own synagogue and a Jewish cemetery. A chapel with an external spiral staircase in rue de L'Hôtel de ville dates from the 16th century.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 855 | 898 | 847 | 816 | 807 | 823 | 708 | 723 |
Personalities
- Heinrich II. Von Finstingen († 1286) was Archbishop and Elector of Trier .
- The baroque author Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601–1669) was one of the officials of the Finstingen rule from 1636–1642.
- Anna Katharina Dorothea von Salm-Kyrburg (1614–1655) was Duchess of Württemberg by marriage.
- Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ (1620–1684), Bishop of Cammin in Pomerania
- Johann Maria Philipp Frimont von Palota , Count of Palota, Prince of Antrodocco (1759–1831), was an Austrian cavalry general and governor of Mainz .
- Georg Ditsch (1829–1918), Mayor of Finstingen.
- Karl Gümbel (1888–1970), German lieutenant general in World War II
literature
- Emil Burger: From Finstingen's past. History of the town and the rule of Finstingen from the earliest times to the French Revolution in 1789 . Metz 1931.
- Heinrich Witte: Vinstingen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 1-5.
- Markus Müller: Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire . Volume 15.IV. 2012. pp. 422-425 ( Herren von Finstingen ) online
Web links
- Tourist information ( Office de tourisme )
- International music and culture festival ( Festival International d'Art Lyrique et de Musique - Rencontres Culturelles de Fénétrange )
Individual evidence
- ^ Marie Thérèse Morlet - Les Noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule Tome 3
- ^ Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe - Henri Lepage (1862)
- ↑ The villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui sur le site de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- ↑ Bulletin des lois de la République franc̜aise, p. 374
- ↑ Construction plan of the Route Départementale N ° 1 from Nancy to Landau , Bibliothèque nationale de France , November 6, 2012