Nitting
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Phalsbourg | |
| Community association | Sarrebourg Moselle Sud | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 2 ′ E | |
| height | 263-340 m | |
| surface | 8.86 km 2 | |
| Residents | 464 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 52 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57790 | |
| INSEE code | 57509 | |
 Nitting station |
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Nitting (German Nitting , 1940-44 Nittingen ) is a French commune with 464 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
geography
The community is located on the Red Saar , about seven kilometers south of Sarrebourg .
The hamlet of Barville-Bas ( Unterbarweiler ) and Bourdonne ( Burdenhof ), a farm south-east of the town center, belong to the municipality of Nitting .
history
The place was mentioned as Nithingas as early as the 7th century and is named after a Frankish landowner named Nitto. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Wissembourg Abbey , it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and since 1661 it has belonged to France.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 316 | 326 | 334 | 526 | 515 | 518 | 476 | 460 |
Web links
Commons : Nitting - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Nitting on cc-2sarres.fr (French)