Siersthal
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines | |
| Canton | Bitche | |
| Community association | Pays de Bitche | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 3 ' N , 7 ° 21' E | |
| height | 258-403 m | |
| surface | 10.51 km 2 | |
| Residents | 665 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 63 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57410 | |
| INSEE code | 57651 | |
 Ouvrage Simserhof |
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Siersthal (German Sierstal , Lorraine. Siirschel ) is a French commune with 665 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Sarreguemines arrondissement and is part of the Northern Vosges Natural Park .
geography
The village is located in the north of the historic Lorraine region in the Bitscher Ländchen (French: Pays de Bitche ), 8 km west of Bitche in the Schwalb Valley , at the confluence of the Schwangerbach. Downstream, on the edge of the Vosges to the open plateau to the west, lie the districts of Frohmuhl and Holbach . The meadows in the stream valleys and on the plateaus at the transition from the Vosges to the Lorraine plateau are increasingly overgrown by scrub and deciduous forest, so that the landscape is changing.
Saarbrücken is about 40 kilometers northwest of Siersthal.
history
The place, first mentioned in 1356, goes back to the Hornbach monastery and was the ecclesiastical center of the area for a long time, for example for Lemberg and Lambach until the seat of the church district was moved to Rohrbach in 1802 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 578 | 591 | 592 | 656 | 673 | 694 | 653 | 665 |
traffic
Siersthal is crossed in a west-east direction by the RN 62 ( Sarreguemines - Haguenau ).
Web links
- Siersthal (French)