Kalhausen
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
| Canton | Sarreguemines | |
| Community association | Sarreguemines Confluences | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 ' N , 7 ° 9' E | |
| height | 203–331 m | |
| surface | 13.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 837 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 62 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57412 | |
| INSEE code | 57355 | |
Kalhausen is a French commune with 837 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the canton of Sarreguemines in the arrondissement of the same name .
geography
Kalhausen is located in the extreme southwest of Bitscher Land , 18 kilometers southeast of Sarreguemines . In the northwest, the Saar forms the boundary, in the west the acorn , also the border with Krummen Alsace , which also connects to the south. The neighboring town to the east is Schmittviller , Etting to the northeast and Achen to the north . The district of Kalhausen also includes the hamlet of Hutting and the village of Weidesheim, where the Ache flows into the Saar, which crosses the northern municipality from east to west in a clearly deepened valley. A settlement has also arisen around the train station near Weidesheim.
history
The first traces of settlement lead back to the Mesolithic . As in many places in this area, which was crossed by important Roman roads, there are some testimonies from the Gallo-Roman era. The oldest part of the village is likely to be the hamlet of Hutting, which appears in documents from the 13th century. A castle must have stood at the strategically important exit of the Achetal to the Saar by the 14th century at the latest, because its destruction in a war between Zweibrücken-Bitsch and the County of Saar Werden in 1380 is documented. This castle was rebuilt in the 15th century and the Weidesheim settlement developed in the process. Before 1811 Weidesheim was an independent municipality. Kalhausen itself was first mentioned in 1425 as Kalenhausen .
During the French administrative reform of the 18th century, Kalhausen and its suburbs first came to the canton of Bouquenom in 1790. After the union of Bouquenoms ( German: Bockenheim ) with Neu-Saar becoming the city of Sarre-Union , which was then added to Crooked Alsace , Kalhausen and Weidesheim were incorporated into the canton of Rohrbach , which no longer existed in 1793 . Since 2015, they have been assigned to the canton of Sarreguemines .
In the 1930s, the Kalhausen district was affected by the construction of the Maginot Line .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 805 | 855 | 844 | 868 | 841 | 799 | 858 | 858 |
Culture and sights
Originally very simple and destroyed in 1380, Weidesheim Castle was rebuilt in the 15th century by the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch. In 1728 Peter von Hausen acquired the rights to the property and restored the complex. Dominique Ignace Charles d'Hausen , Mayor of Saargemünd, rebuilt parts of the palace in the neoclassical style on the eve of the French Revolution . The neighboring chapel of St. Martin, originally St. Barbara , was renovated at the end of the 15th century by Simon von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . Steles from a Gallo-Roman predecessor building from the 3rd century were installed. The structure was damaged in World War II and restored in 1975. The chapel is classified as a monument historique .
The Weidesheimer Mühle also dates from the 18th century.
Remains of the former Maginot line can be found in the area.
On the plateau in the south of the district near Lanzenbronnen there is an ornate Lorraine cross from 1868.
Transport links
Kalhausen is located on the Départementalstrasse D 33 Saargemünd - Diemeringen .
With the Regional Express route Saarbrücken - Saargemünd - Diemeringen - Obermodern - Strasbourg , on which trains run every hour, Kalhausen's double-track station became the most frequented station in Bitscher Land. Here you can transfer to the trains in the direction of Sarre-Union . Kalhausen is the only train station between Saargemünd and Diemeringen that is still in operation today.
Kalhausen is also located on the Saar-Kohlenkanal , which has little freight traffic and is mainly used by recreational captains.
