Canton of Lorquin
| Former canton of Lorquin |
|
|---|---|
| region | Lorraine |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg |
| main place | Lorquin |
| Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
| Residents | 7,081 (Jan 1, 2012) |
| Population density | 34 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 210.91 km² |
| Communities | 18th |
| INSEE code | 5716 |
The canton of Lorquin was 2015 a French constituency in the Arrondissement Sarrebourg in the Moselle department and in the region of Lorraine . The main town of the canton was the municipality of Lorquin (Lörchingen). The canton had 6,896 inhabitants (as of 2006) on 210.91 km².
Communities
The canton comprised 18 municipalities:
| local community | Residents | Code postal | Code Insee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abreschviller | 1,285 | 57560 | 57003 |
| Aspach | 36 | 57790 | 57034 |
| Fraquelfing | 108 | 57790 | 57233 |
| Hattigny | 160 | 57790 | 57302 |
| Heming | 458 | 57830 | 57314 |
| Hermelange | 186 | 57790 | 57318 |
| Lafrimbolle | 198 | 57560 | 57374 |
| Landange | 199 | 57830 | 57377 |
| Laneuveville-lès-Lorquin | 73 | 57790 | 57380 |
| Lorquin | 1,287 | 57790 | 57414 |
| Métairies-Saint-Quirin | 259 | 57560 | 57461 |
| Neufmoulins | 37 | 57830 | 57500 |
| Niderhoff | 289 | 57560 | 57504 |
| Nitting | 518 | 57790 | 57509 |
| Saint-Quirin | 873 | 57560 | 57623 |
| Turquestein-Blancrupt | 21st | 57560 | 57682 |
| Vasperviller | 281 | 57560 | 57697 |
| Voyer | 402 | 57560 | 57734 |
history
The canton Lorquin (Lörchingen) was established as part of the Sarrebourg district in the Meurthe department as part of the administrative reorganization of revolutionary France in 1789 and 1790, with the communities Abreschviller, Aspach, Barchain, Fraquelfing, Héming, Hermelange, Hertzing, Hesse, Landange, Laneuveville -lès-Lorquin, Lorquin, Neuf-Moulin, Niderhoff, Nitting, Saint-Quirin, Voyer and Xouaxange.
Due to the reorganization of the administration in VIII (1800), the canton of Lörchingen was expanded to include the 10 municipalities of the dissolved canton of Cirey and now comprised 27 municipalities.
In 1821 the community of Nonhigny was reclassified from the canton of Lörchingen to the canton of Blâmont.
The canton was divided by the Peace of Frankfurt : the municipalities of Bertrambois, Cirey-sur-Vezouze, Parux, Petitmont, Saint-Sauveur, Tanconville and Val-et-Châtillon remained with France and formed the restored canton of Cirey from September 1871. The municipality of Raon-lès-Leau was assigned to the canton of Badonviller - albeit without its extensive forests, which fell to the German Empire.
The remaining 18 municipalities now formed the canton until its dissolution in 2014, when the number of cantons was reduced by half due to the change in the electoral procedure for the Conseil départemental . All municipalities in the canton now belong to the new or considerably expanded canton of Phalsbourg .