Morhange
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle | |
| Canton | Sarralbe | |
| Community association | Saint-Avold synergy | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 6 ° 38' E | |
| height | 221-305 m | |
| surface | 15.38 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,445 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 224 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57340 | |
| INSEE code | 57483 | |
| Website | www.morhange.fr | |
 former courthouse |
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Morhange ( German Mörchingen ) is a French commune with 3445 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The place belongs to the arrondissement Forbach-Boulay-Moselle .
geography
The municipality of Morhange is located about halfway between Saarbrücken and Nancy , about 50 kilometers from Metz , Nancy and Saarbrücken.
history
The Morhange area was populated early on. The Romans also recognized the convenient location. The name of the place changed over time, from Morehenges in the Middle Ages to Morchingen, Morhanges to Morhange de la Haute Tour at the time of the French Revolution . The city was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . From 1871 to 1918 it belonged to the German Empire as a district town in Lorraine and was a Prussian garrison. In the battle of Mörchingen at the beginning of the First World War , the French 2nd Army under General de Castelnau suffered a heavy defeat against the German 6th Army . From 1940 to 1944 the city was again incorporated into the German Reich . In 1992 the French army gave up their Morhange garrison, which resulted in a decline in population.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 4,170 | 4,478 | 4,724 | 4,674 | 4,460 | 4,050 | 3,867 | 3,484 |
Morhange Military Cemetery
To the east of the train station on the edge of the Hellenwald there is a German military cemetery . It was laid out in August 1914 as part of the garrison cemetery that had been in existence for a long time, in order to receive soldiers who had died in the border battles. After the war, the dead French nationality were moved to another place and instead the remains of German Fallen from the environment to this place reburied, also victims of the trench warfare of the years 1915-1918 and in the hospital dead. Today there are 4,754 German war dead there, of which 1966 are buried in individual graves, the rest in two communal graves.
Former Bismarckian column
On 25 August 1901, on a hill north of the city center, the first of only two Bismarckian columns in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine was inaugurated. Both columns were of the Götterdämmerung type . While the Morhange column was demolished in November 1918, the other, on Mount St. Quentin near Scy-Chazelles , was preserved.
traffic
When the railway line from Rémilly to Rieding was built by the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine in 1877, a route was chosen that led past Mörchingen to the northeast. At this the place received a train station (original name Mörchingen- Baronweiler ) about three kilometers from the center. From 1911 a steam tram connected the station and town. As early as 1914, operations were temporarily suspended due to the events of the war, and then finally stopped from 1917. Today the TER Lorraine (Metrolor) lines 21 and 22 run from Morhange station . The offer includes almost ten trains a day in each direction to and from Metz on the one hand and Saarburg and Strasbourg on the other.
By the location and transversely to the railway line which runs department road D674 of Saargemünd to Nancy. Until its graduation in 2006, the road was classified as the N74 national road.
Town twinning
An official partnership with Feuchtwangen has existed since 1974 .
Personalities
- Eckart Hachfeld (1910–1994), German writer, copywriter and screenwriter
- Hans-Joachim Kahler (1908–2000), German officer, most recently major general in World War II
- Joseph M. Piel (1903–1992), German Romanist.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Morhange military cemetery on the VDK website .
- ↑ Bismarck Column Mörchingen on the website Bismarcktueme.de
- ↑ Morhange train station ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Metrolor website.
