Maizières-lès-Vic
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Le Saulnois | |
| Community association | Saulnois | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 ' N , 6 ° 47' E | |
| height | 217-299 m | |
| surface | 25.99 km 2 | |
| Residents | 496 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 19 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57810 | |
| INSEE code | 57434 | |
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Maizières-lès-Vic is a French commune with 496 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 .
geography
The municipality of Maizières-lès-Vic is located 20 kilometers east of Vic-sur-Seille and 20 kilometers west of Sarrebourg at an altitude between 217 and 299 m above sea level. The municipality covers 25.99 km².
The village lies in the catchment area of the Seille , a tributary of the Moselle . In the south, the municipality extends to the Rhine-Marne Canal in the valley of the Meurthe tributary Sânon . The municipality is located in the Lorraine Regional Nature Park .
Apart from the village itself, the municipality also includes it
- the Hellocourt Castle (German: Hellohof ) in the southeast
- in the south the Haute Xirxange and Moulin de Xirxange farms as well as the former freight port Port Sainte-Marie on the Rhine-Marne Canal in the south
- the abandoned farm Bagnesholtz in the east
- La Gare , a former train station and two further individual courtyards in the northeast
history
The place name comes from the Latin maceriae (remains of a wall), which refers to ruins from Roman times. The oldest name as place Maceriis comes from the year 1182. In the Thirty Years War Maizières-lès-Vic was completely destroyed.
The village has belonged to France since 1684, and from 1871–1918 it belonged again to the German Empire .
1915-18 and 1940-44 it bore the Germanized name Machern bei Wich .
See also: Maizières-lès-Vic Jewish community .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 534 | 542 | 505 | 398 | 401 | 368 | 446 | 496 |
