L'Hôpital

L'Hôpital
region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
Canton	Saint-Avold
Community association	Saint-Avold synergy
Coordinates	49 ° 9 ' N , 6 ° 44' E Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ' N , 6 ° 44' E
height	220-300 m
surface	3.99 km 2
Residents	5,350 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	1,341 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	57490
INSEE code	57336
Website	www.ville-lhopital.fr
	; Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville )

L'Hôpital (German Spittel ) is a French commune with 5350 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2016 Lorraine ).

geography

The community is located directly on the German-French border , almost 20 kilometers west of Saarbrücken , in the middle of the cross-border forest area of the Warndt . The next larger cities are Saint-Avold and Forbach in Lorraine and Völklingen and Saarlouis in Saarland .

City name

Merle (1179); - Merla in the Varand (1210); - Spiettal in the Warendt (1361); - De Hospitali (1400); - Merlen by the Spidade (early 15th century); - To Spittel (1592); - To the Spidal (1594); - Lhospital (1595); - Spiedel, Spidal, Lhospital (1756); - L'Hôpital, Spiedal (1779); - L'Hôpital (1793-1869); - Spittel in Lorraine (1871); - L'Hôpital en Lorraine (1918); - L'Hôpital (1939); - Spittel (Westmark) (1940); - L'Hôpital (1944).

history

L'Hôpital is located on the old Roman road Metz - Worms - Mainz . In 1856, Roman finds were discovered in the Aspenhübel district (today Bois-Richard ). In 1980, Roman coins and pottery shards were found in the Ziegelstücker district .

The village of L'Hôpital was created around 1200 at the source of the Merle brook , which flows into the Rossel after a few kilometers in Merlebach . The place name is said to go back to a hospital of the Villers-Bettnach monastery , which the Counts of Saarbrücken had built in Warndt. In the Thirty Years War the place was practically wiped out. The Frenchized name of the place was first used in 1595. In 1940, L'Hôpital am Gau Westmark, district of Sankt Avold, CdZ area Lorraine was annexed. L'Hôpital was badly damaged in World War II and liberated on December 6, 1944.

L'Hôpital - Rue Maréchal Foch

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
Residents	5,922	7.181	6,395	6,567	6,385	5,990	5,518

Personalities

General Michel Ordener (1755–1811), hero of Austerlitz , was born in L'Hôpital.
Pastor Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), whose organ is in the Protestant church of L'Hôpital.