Mouterhouse
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
| Canton | Bitche | |
| Community association | Pays de Bitche | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 59 ′ N , 7 ° 27 ′ E | |
| height | 212-423 m | |
| surface | 42.60 km 2 | |
| Residents | 308 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 7 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57620 | |
| INSEE code | 57489 | |
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Mouterhouse ( German Mutterhausen ) is a French commune with 308 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Sarreguemines arrondissement and the Bitche canton and is part of the cross-border Palatinate Forest-Northern Vosges biosphere reserve .
geography
Mouterhouse is located south of Bitsch (French Bitche ) in the Forêt domaniale de Mouterhouse (German State Forest Mutterhausen ) at an altitude between 212 and 423 m above sea level. In the municipality, which covers 42.6 square kilometers, districts such as:
- Afrique (1876)
- Altschmelz or Vieille-Fonderie
- Bitscherthal
- Großhammer or Gros-Marteau
- Hammer head
- Hasselthal
- Hirtenberg
- Hochkopf (forester's house)
- Hohe Weyersberg (castle ruins)
- Hungerbach
- Chapel courtyard
- Kleinhammer or Petit-Marteau
- Langenberg
- Lindelhof
- Neuhammer or Marteau Neuf
- Neuschmelz or Fourneau Neuf
- Ochsenhübel
- Schindelthal
- Snipe mill
history
The place was called in 1518 "Munterhausen". Later it became "Moderhausen". "Hausen" should be derived from a house . It is not known whether the beginning of the place name means a mother or the river Moder .
Population development
| 1817 | 1900 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| 587 | 821 | 326 | 326 | 351 | 318 | 310 | 305 | 291 | 308 |
As a result of the First World War , the population decreased significantly.
Buildings
- Chapel and reconstructed smithy in the Gros-Marteaus district, dated to the years 1763 and 1764
- "Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde" chapel in Grünberg from the 16th century
- Remains of a hunting lodge from the 16th century on the Hohen Weyersberg (Grünberg)
