Moyenmoutier
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | |
| Canton | Raon-l'Étape | |
| Community association | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 23 ' N , 6 ° 55' E | |
| height | 285-642 m | |
| surface | 34.21 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,186 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 93 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88420 | |
| INSEE code | 88319 | |
 Location of Moyenmoutier in the Vosges department |
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Moyenmoutier (German Mittelmünster ) is a French commune with 3186 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ); it belongs to the arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges .
geography
The city is located at the mouth of the Rabodeau in the Meurthe , ten kilometers north of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges . The forest portion of the 34.21 km² large municipal area in the Vosges is almost 80%.
The municipality includes the districts and hamlets of La Chapelle, La Prelle, Le Grand Himbaumont, Le Paire, Le Petit Himbaumont, Saint-Blaise and Saint-Prayel .
Neighboring municipalities of Moyenmoutier are Celles-sur-Plaine (point of contact) in the north, Senones and Ménil-de-Senones in the east, Ban-de-Sapt and Denipaire in the south-east, Hurbache and La Voivre in the south, Étival-Clairefontaine in the west and Raon- l'Étape in the northwest.
history
The origin of the place name is clear: the monastery ( moutier ) founded by St. Hydulph in 671 is located between the monasteries of Senones in the east, Étival in the west, Saint-Dié in the south and Bonmoutier (in Val-et-Châtillon ) in the north. Together the five monasteries form the Croix Sacrée de Lorraine .
In 915 Moyenmoutier was sacked and burned by the Magyars . It was rebuilt around 960. In the 12th century, Aubert de Paroye built a castle on the rock "La Haute Pierre", which was destroyed in the following century on the orders of the Duke of Lorraine.
At the end of the 16th century the monastery was in a deplorable condition due to the administration in Commendam . The administrative abbot, Erich von Lothringen-Mercoer , who was also abbot of the Saint-Vanne monastery in Verdun and bishop of Verdun , tried to restore orderly conditions. He entrusted Dom Didier de La Cour with the reorganization. In 1604, Pope Clement VIII approved the statutes of the Congrégation Saint-Vanne et Saint-Hydulphe , of which the two abbeys of Saint-Vanne and Moyenmoutier became the mother monasteries. The monasteries were very much involved in the Counter Reformation and founded the Congrégation française de Saint-Maur , which became much better known. The 18th century was Moyenmoutier's golden age, when Dom Augustin Calmet taught here, who later became abbot of the neighboring monastery in Senones. The French Revolution also abolished the Moyenmoutier monastery.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 4188 | 4148 | 3854 | 3498 | 3304 | 3350 | 3326 | 3186 |
Attractions
- Almost completely preserved Benedictine abbey
- Church Saint-Hydulphe (18th century)
- Oratory Saint-Grégoire
Parish partnership
Moyenmoutier's partner municipality is Oberthal (Saar) in Germany
Web links
- Official website of Moyenmoutier
- Moyenmoutier on Memorials Europe 1939-1945