Schorbach
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
| Canton | Bitche | |
| Community association | Pays de Bitche | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 5 ' N , 7 ° 24' E | |
| height | 276-412 m | |
| surface | 13.36 km 2 | |
| Residents | 540 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 40 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57230 | |
| INSEE code | 57639 | |
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Schorbach is a French commune with 540 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Sarreguemines and the Canton of Bitche . The inhabitants call themselves Schorbachois . They continue to be nicknamed Wurschtknipper , which refers to the annual Wurschtfescht that takes place on the Saint-Rémi festival.
geography
Schorbach is only about seven kilometers southeast of the border with Saarland and about ten kilometers from the border with Rhineland-Palatinate , northeast of Bitche at an altitude of 295 m above sea level. NHN . The municipality is part of the Northern Vosges Nature Park .
history
The name Schor-Bach , which is supposed to mean pond turtle-brook, first appeared in 1210. The place belonged to Zweibrücken-Bitsch for a long time .
Schorbach was the seat of a parish very early on, starting from the Hornbach Monastery and remained the central church for the surrounding villages until the Revolution .
At the beginning of the Second World War , the inhabitants were evacuated to the Charente department . Schorbach was liberated by the Americans on March 16, 1945 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 678 | 694 | 695 | 636 | 649 | 621 | 589 | 540 |
Culture and sights
The church of Saint Rémi, which dates back to a previous building that was consecrated in 1143 and towers above the lower town on a rock, was the central parish church in Bitscher Land for many centuries . The founder of the church is not known, but in local history it is often traced back to Berthold von Eberstein, whose son Eberhard III. ceded his patronage rights to the nearby Sturzelbronn Abbey around 1200 . Eberhard's daughter Agnes married Count Henri II von Zweibrücken-Bitsch in 1239.
A square tower is still preserved from the founding time, the nave is Gothic. However, an extensive restoration of the dilapidated complex was carried out in 1774.
Schorbach is particularly well known for the ossuary at the entrance to the former churchyard, which dates back to the Romanesque period .
Web links
- Schorbach on bitscherland.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Les Cahiers Lorrains, n ° 3, 1960.