Lorquin

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Lorquin
Lorquin coat of arms
Lorquin (France)
Lorquin
region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton Phalsbourg
Community association Sarrebourg Moselle Sud
Coordinates 48 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  E
height 260–341 m
surface 8.77 km 2
Residents 1,151 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 131 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 57790
INSEE code 57414
Website Lorquin

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Lorquin (German Lörchingen , Lorraine Lëëschinge ) is a French commune with 1151 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 and was the capital of the canton of Lorquin until 2015 .

geography

The municipality of Lorquin is located about ten kilometers southwest of Sarrebourg in the southeast corner of the Moselle department. At the border with the municipality of Hermelange in the northeast, the Red and White Saar flow together.

The hamlet of Zufall and its castle in the south belongs to the municipality of Lorquin .

history

The place was first mentioned in 699 as Launarigo and has belonged to France since 1661. Despite the German-sounding place and field names in the area, French has been spoken here, as in the rest of the canton, since the Thirty Years' War.

In 1871 the place came to the German Empire through the Peace of Frankfurt , which resulted in the emigration of some of the inhabitants to France; after the end of the First World War it came under French administration again.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2015
Residents 1,945 2,073 1,726 1,479 1,350 1,287 1,221 1,161

  • Exaltation of the Cross Church

  • Chapel of Sainte-Anne

  • Notre-Dame des Ermites chapel

Personalities

  • Peter Gallade (1708–1780), Lorraine Jesuit and professor of canon law
  • Charles Sebastien Paul Louis Marchal (1809–1889), doctor and collector, made house calls by walking machine from 1854–1870, as a fictional character Docteur Lorquin

Web links

Commons : Lorquin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claude Reynaud: L'ère de la Draisienne en France 1818-1871. Domazan 2015