Hombourg-Haut

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Hombourg-Haut
Coat of arms of Hombourg-Haut
Hombourg-Haut (France)
Hombourg-Haut
region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
Canton Freyming-Merlebach
Community association Freyming-Merlebach
Coordinates 49 ° 8 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E
height 209-354 m
surface 12.25 km 2
Residents 6,433 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 525 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 57470
INSEE code
Website http://www.hombourg-haut.fr/

medieval core of Oberhomburg

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Hombourg-Haut train station
Former collegiate church of
Saint-Etienne

Hombourg-Haut (German Oberhomburg , Lorraine Humerich ) is a French commune with 6,433 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region ( Lorraine until 2016 ). Hombourg-Haut is part of the Forbach-Boulay-Moselle arrondissement . The inhabitants call themselves Hombourgeois . Their nicknames are "The Humeriche Eichert" and "Bachwasser".

geography

Hombourg-Haut is on the edge of the Warndt between Saint-Avold and Freyming-Merlebach , near the border with Saarland . The community is surrounded by forests ( Forêt de Zang, Forêt de Steinberg ). The old town center lies on a rocky promontory above the Rossel valley .

Neighboring communities of Hombourg-Haut are Freyming-Merlebach in the northeast, Betting in the east, Guenviller in the southeast, Macheren in the south and Saint-Avold in the west and northwest.

history

Hombourg-Haut goes back to a castle built in the 10th century to protect the Abbey of Saint-Avold ("Altburg" near Hombourg-Bas). In 1254, Bishop Jakob von Metz founded a new castle and collegiate church on the opposite side of the valley, the nucleus of today's town of Hombourg-Haut. The castle settlement was fortified in a timely manner and received city ​​rights in 1283 . In 1581, Hombourg-Haut fell to the Duchy of Lorraine, and thus to France in 1766. During the Thirty Years War , the castle was razed by French troops.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2014
Residents 10.111 10,571 10,401 10,055 9580 9486 8048 6826

Attractions

Culture

music

  • The Rencontres Musicales of the Festival International Théodore Gouvy have been taking place in Hombourg-Haut every year since 1989 . Five of the six concerts will be performed in the collegiate church of St-Étienne, the New Year's concert in the town hall.
  • “Chœur d'hommes de Hombourg-Haut” (founded in 1865 ) is the oldest male choir in the former Lorraine region (dissolved in 2015).

Cultural event

partnership

Transport links

Hombourg-Haut is on the national road 3 from Paris via Metz to Saarbrücken . The motorway and the railway line parallel to the RN3 also run through Hombourg-Haut.

Personalities

  • Simon Batz , called Simon von Homburg (1420–1464), council syndic in Lübeck
  • Anton Gapp (1766–1833), French Catholic priest and founder of an order of sisters, pastor in Hombourg from 1821 to 1833
  • Théodore Gouvy (1819–1898), composer
  • Fritz Münch (1906–1995), German international lawyer

Web links

Commons : Hombourg-Haut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements II. Hombourg and Saint-Avold In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the noble and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Bd. III. Ms. Campe, Nürnberg 1872, pp. 220–224 ( Google Books )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Passé-Présent, La Moselle dévoilée, n ° 4, Novembre-Décembre 2011.
  2. History of the City