Tarquimpol

Tarquimpol
region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton	Le Saulnois
Community association	Saulnois
Coordinates	48 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E
height	210-243 m
surface	4.09 km 2
Residents	62 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	15 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	57260
INSEE code	57664
Tarquimpol taken from the north

Tarquimpol is a French commune with 62 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins .

geography

The municipality of Tarquimpol is located southeast of Metz on the southern edge of the Linderweiher (Étang de Lindre). The municipality is part of the Lorraine Regional Nature Park .

The two hamlets belong to Tarquimpol:

• Alteville ( Altweiler ) with associated castle
• La Breidt ( width )

history

The place lies on the old Roman road from Metz to Strasbourg and was known as Decempagi in Roman times . At that time he owned one of the largest amphitheatres in Gaul , with a diameter of 115 m and about 12,000 spectators; this system has completely disappeared and was only rediscovered in aerial photographs in 1981.

In the Middle Ages the place was in the German-speaking area, in 1274 it was mentioned as Tackenpail . Then Tachempach (1295), Teckempal (1364), Tachemphul (1591), Tachempoltz (1612). By the events of the Thirty Years' War at the latest , the language border shifted to the north and Tarquimpol became francophone .

Through the Peace of Frankfurt , the place came back to Germany in 1871 , was temporarily renamed Taichenphul in 1915-18 and returned to France in November 1918.

During the Second World War , the place was again under German administration, which renamed it Taichen from 1940 to 1945 .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2013
Residents	78	75	76	78	76	69	66	67

Personalities

• Maurice Barthélémy (1871–1922), landowner at Château d'Alteville, mayor of Tarquimpol, member of the state parliament
• Stanislas de Guaita (1861–1897), esotericist and founder of the cabbalistic Rosicrucians, born in the Château d'Alteville, buried in Tarquimpol

Grave of the Guaita family, including the esoteric Stanislas G.

Web links

Commons : Tarquimpol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• private archaeological website ( Memento of December 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mémoires de la Société d'Archéologie Lorraine et du Musée-Volume 11- (1861)