Saulnois
The Saulnois , officially Pays du Saulnois (German Salzgau ), is a French landscape in the Grand Est region , which roughly corresponds to the former arrondissement of Château-Salins .
The Pays du Saulnois is located in the south of the Moselle department . The biggest cities of the Saulnois are Château-Salins and Dieuze ( Duss ). Other places in the region include Marsal , Vic-sur-Seille and Delme . Important waters are the Linderweiher (French: Étang de Lindre) and the Seille .
history
In the valley of the Seille im Saulnois, salt has been mined since the Hallstatt period (750 to 450 BC). Only the Merovingians introduced the technology of the salt pans . First the salt pans belonged to various abbeys , then to the diocese of Metz and the duchy of Lorraine . The salt pans in Moyenvic , Marsal and Dieuze in particular were of economic importance as early as the Merovingian era. The salt was transported on the Seille to the Port-Sailly district (salt port) of Metz . In the Middle Ages , salt was not only important as a preservative for food, but also because of the Gabelle (salt tax).
Economy and Infrastructure
Even today salt pans, for example in Dieuze, and salt marshes like that of Marsal can be visited. The location between Alsace in the east and the large Lorraine cities of Metz and Nancy in the west also made the Saulnois an important transit country.
The Lorraine Regional Nature Park (Parc naturel régional de Lorraine) is bounded in the east by the towns of Château-Salins, Morhange , Fénétrange and Réchicourt-le-Château . The Pays des Étangs (Land of Ponds) with the Lindre Pond near Lindre-Basse is also part of the nature park.
literature
- Denis Mathis: Géohistoire agraire d'un pays lorrain: le Saulnois. Doctoral thesis (Thèse de doctorat NR en géographie), December 7, 2009 (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Guides Gallimard (ed.): Lorraine . Gallimard, Paris 2002, ISBN 978-2-7424-0908-2 , pp. 48 f. + 138 . (French)