Sierck-les-Bains
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Thionville | |
| Canton | Bouzonville | |
| Community association | Bouzonvillois-Trois Frontières | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 27 ' N , 6 ° 22' E | |
| height | 145-337 m | |
| surface | 4.80 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,755 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 366 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57480 | |
| INSEE code | 57650 | |
| Website | www.mairie-sierck.fr | |
Sierck-les-Bains ( German Bad Sierck , Lorraine and Moselle-Franconian Siirk ) is a French commune with 1755 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
The inhabitants call themselves Sierckois . Nickname: " Di Siirker Ieseln " (translated: "The Siercker Esel").
geography
The municipality of Sierck-les-Bains is located in the border triangle France - Luxembourg - Germany on the right bank of the Moselle . The next place in Luxembourg is Schengen , the closest German municipality is Perl .
The Montenach Bach flows into the Moselle in Sierck. On the other side of the Moselle, the Stromberg, covered with vineyards, lies within the Moselle loop, with Sierck on the outside.
history
The name Sierck probably goes back to the Latin words circum and circulus , which describe the location of the place on a loop of the Moselle. However, there are no Roman finds in Sierck. Nevertheless, the existence of a Gallo-Roman fort, circum castellum , is suspected at the site of the later castle.
The place arose around a castle, which was built in the 10th or 11th century in a location dominating the valley. Around this time, Sierck, previously under the rule of the Bishops of Trier , came into the possession of the Dukes of Lorraine . Sirck Castle (Sirick, Sierck) was besieged and taken on September 3, 1643 under Duke Enghien of France. In 1661, Sierck was incorporated into the French crown in the Treaty of Vincennes . War Minister Louvois (under Louis XIV) had the residential buildings demolished in 1673. The French then used the resulting plateau for military purposes. In the 17th century Vauban built Sirck into a fortress with porches.
The origins of the von Sierck family are in the dark. It appears in the 10th century and expires around 1530. Sierck flourished under their rule. Two well-known representatives of the family are Johann von Sierck († 1305), Bishop of Utrecht and Toul , and Jakob I von Sierck (1400–1456), Archbishop of Trier and founder of the university there. Jakob's father, Arnold VI. von Sierck (1366–1455), married to Elisabeth from the Beyer von Boppard family , built, among other things, Meinsberg Castle, now known as Malbrouck Castle , for a long time the headquarters of the von Sierck family.
The upswing continued until the Thirty Years' War . After that, the city fortifications and the castle lost their strategic importance. In 1785 the banks of the Moselle were fortified and the city walls torn down - the city was able to expand.
From 1790 Sierck was the capital of the surrounding canton . From 1802 to 1806 the place belonged to the canton Launstroff. 1871-1918 Sierck belonged to the Lorraine district of the German state of Alsace-Lorraine . In 1944, Sierck was badly damaged in bombing raids. The place name Sierck-les-Bains, which has been valid since July 23, 1936, goes back to the thermal baths that were located in the 19th century on the site of today's train station.
The neighboring towns of Montenach were incorporated from 1811 to 1820 and Rustroff from 1811 to 1880 .
Sierck was the first French place to be captured by the vanguard during the Allied campaign against revolutionary France in 1792 . On his visit to Gut Pempelfort, Goethe gave Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi a watercolor of the tree of freedom , which had presumably stood on the border of Sierck (with a view of the Stromberg in the background). (The watercolor adorns the cover of the exhibition catalog in question 200 years later.) The cannon of Sierck Castle, which had been taken from the Swiss 100 years earlier, immediately came to Trier as spoils of war "along with many shotguns".
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
| Residents | 1,165 | 1,471 | 1,583 | 1,665 | 1,825 | 1,872 | 1,710 | 1,733 |
economy
In Sierck, wine of the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée Moselle (AOC) is grown.
Attractions
- The Sierck Castle above the town with towers and bastions from the 16th and 17th centuries has been preserved as an impressive ruin, only a few remains of the medieval upper castle can be seen.
- Only remnants of the medieval city fortifications (see clock tower ) are preserved.
- In the center of the village there are several late Gothic and Renaissance houses (see Berweiler House ).
- The La Vénérie castle dates back to the 18th century.
- The former Cistercian Abbey Marienfloss was founded in 1238, from 1415–31 it was a Carthusian monastery, then a collegiate monastery; It was destroyed in 1792 and the ruins restored in 1963.
- The castle Malbrouck is about eight kilometers away.
- The Menhirs de l'Europe on the border with Germany at Launstroff (about 15 km away) are known on the German side as stones on the border .
- Every year at the end of August the “Castle Festival” takes place on a weekend. In addition to culinary offers, there are theater, jousting games and other cultural projects.
Sierck les Bains seen from the Stromberg
Old town center
Western part of the city with Notre-Dame church
Memorial in memory of those who fell in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71)
Bridge over the Montenachbach
Town twinning
The community maintains a twinning relationship with the city of Waldenburg in Baden-Württemberg and conducts mutual visits every year.
Personalities
- Louis Billot (1846–1931), religious priest and theologian
- Nicolas Charton (1859–1923), landowner, mayor and member of the German Reichstag.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ otsierck.com - Sierck-les-Bains ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sierck on genealogie-lorraine.fr (French)
- ^ Karl-Heinz Weichert: Goethe and the Igel column. P. 102. In: Goethe in Trier and Luxemburg. 200 years of the campaign in France 1792. Catalog of the exhibition of the Trier City Library, the Luxembourg National Library and the Weimar Classic Foundation. 1992, ISBN 2-87980-005-6 . ISSN 0942-7031 .
- ^ Gunther Franz: Goethe in Trier. P. 17 ff. In: Goethe in Trier and Luxemburg. 200 years of the campaign in France 1792. Catalog of the exhibition of the Trier City Library, the Luxembourg National Library and the Weimar Classic Foundation. 1992, ISBN 2-87980-005-6 . ISSN 0942-7031
- ^ Gunther Franz, Jean-Claude Muller: Goethe's first encounter with the revolution. The freedom tree near Sierck. In: Hémecht . 44, 1992, pp. 5-17.
