Sarralbe
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Moselle | |
Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
Canton | Sarralbe (main town) | |
Community association | Sarreguemines Confluences | |
Coordinates | 49 ° 0 ′ N , 7 ° 2 ′ E | |
height | 206-262 m | |
surface | 27.29 km 2 | |
Residents | 4,555 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 167 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 57430 | |
INSEE code | 57628 | |
Website | www.sarralbe.fr | |
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Sarralbe (German Saaralben , Lorraine Alwe or Saaralwe ) is a French commune in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The place belongs to the arrondissement Sarreguemines and is the capital of the canton Sarralbe . Sarralbe has 4555 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) on 27.29 km² and is the third largest municipality in the arrondissement after Saargemünd and Bitsch .
The inhabitants call themselves Sarralbigeois or Sarralbenois in French, Saaralbener in German and Alwener in the local Rhine-Franconian dialect . In this German-Lorraine regional language, the Saaralben people are also known as frogs-plumpser .
geography
location
Sarralbe is on the Saar , on the Berthelming – Sarreguemines railway line and only a few kilometers away from the A4 autoroute from Paris via Metz (approx. 75 km) to Strasbourg (approx. 90 km). The small town is also the capital of the canton of the same name and is located on the former border with the Alsace region , just 8 km from Sarre-Union . After Saarbruecken is around 30 km away. The coordinate intersection 49 ° 0 '0 " N , 7 ° 0' 0" E , the crossing of the Saar Canal over the Albe and the confluence of the Albe into the Saar are located on the municipality's boundary .
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities of Sarralbe are Hambach in the north, Willerwald in the north-east, Herbitzheim and Keskastel in the east, Harskirchen , Bissert and Hinsingen in the south, Kirviller in the south-west, Le Val-de-Guéblange and Holving in the west and Richeling in the north-west.
Districts
The residential areas Eich, Rech, Salzbronn and Le Haras (formerly Die-Stuterei ) belong to Sarralbe .
history
Sarralbe was mentioned as Alba in 718 . The city was fortified in the 12th century and belonged to the Bishops of Metz from the 10th to the 16th centuries . It was then in ducal ownership until it was annexed to France in 1766 .
Between 1871 and 1918 Sarralbe part after the defeat of France in the Franco-German War under the name Saaralben as part of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire . After the defeat of the Empire in World War I , Alsace-Lorraine was awarded to France in the Treaty of Versailles ; Saaralben was renamed Sarralbe again.
During the Second World War , Sarralbe was again under German administration when it was occupied by troops of the Wehrmacht of the now National Socialist German Empire and they took control of the place - again renamed Saaralben - and the rest of Alsace-Lorraine, even if the area de jure was not annexed; this did not happen until the end of the war. In 1944 the place fell back to France and Saaralben was renamed Sarralbe again.
Sarralbe was the junction of the double-track railway lines Saarburg – Saargemünd and Sarralbe – Chambrey . Passenger traffic in Sarralbe only took place on the connection Sarre-Union - Sarralbe – Kalhausen –Saargemünd, the other lines were closed or dismantled.
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
Residents | 4210 | 4366 | 4600 | 4553 | 4487 | 4538 | 4613 | 4555 |
Attractions
- Albe tower
- Stations Saaralben and computing
- Forsthaus St. Hubertus, near the arboretum
- Neumühle
- Military cemetery
- Parish Church of St. Martin, also Saar Cathedral called
- Holy Trinity Church in Eich
- Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Rech
- St. Wendelin Chapel in Salzbronn
- Lutheran chapel
former wash house ( Lavoir )
Personalities
- Karl Wilhelm von Heideck (1788–1861), German landscape painter
- Franz de Schmid (1858–1907), factory owner and member of the Reichstag
- Philippe Wahl (* 1956 in Sarralbe), managing director of the French post office
- Marie-Jo Thiel (* 1957), Roman Catholic theologian
- Christopher Baldelli (* 1965 in Sarralbe), Managing Director of RTL Radio France
Web links
- Official website (French)
- www.sarralbe.info (French)
- www.sarralbe.net (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passé-Présent: La Moselle dévoilée N ° 7 (September-Octobre-Novembre 2012)
- ↑ Sarralbe . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 14, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 112.
- ^ Administration générale des postes, Dictionnaire des postes aux lettres , Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1845.