Wintersbourg
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins | |
| Canton | Phalsbourg | |
| Community association | Pays de Phalsbourg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 47 ' N , 7 ° 11' E | |
| height | 254-334 m | |
| surface | 3.95 km 2 | |
| Residents | 265 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 67 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57635 | |
| INSEE code | 57747 | |
| Website | Wintersbourg | |
 Mairie Wintersbourg |
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Wintersbourg ( German : Wintersburg ) is a French commune with 265 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 and the canton of Phalsbourg .
geography
Wintersbourg is located about 12 km northeast of Sarrebourg at an altitude between 254 and 334 m above sea level. The mean altitude of the place is 320 m. The municipality covers 3.95 km².
The source of the southern Zinsel , a tributary of the Zorn, lies in the municipality .
history
middle Ages
Wintersburg was in the Büttelei Lohr . A peculiarity was that the Büttelei Lohr belonged to the Lichtenberg rule , but only half of the village of Wintersburg. In the case of the two divisions of the Lichtenberg rule, which took place around 1330 and 1335, the Lichtenberg share in Wintersburg is mentioned as part of this rule . He is the part of the country of the "middle line", the descendants of Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , assigned.
In 1396 Büttelei and the village were given to the Lords of Finstingen as pledge for the dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Adelheid von Lichtenberg , daughter of Johann IV. Von Lichtenberg , with Johann von Finstingen . It later came to Nassau-Saarbrücken , who introduced the Reformation there.
Modern times
It was not until the successors of the Lichtenberg family, the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg , that the Wintersburg pledge was released again in 1544.
During the Thirty Years War the place was completely destroyed.
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , Wintersburg came under French sovereignty. With the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871, Wintersbourg became German again, and after the First World War it became French again as Wintersburg. During the Second World War , the region was reintegrated into the German Reich from 1940 to 1945 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2015 |
| Residents | 198 | 214 | 217 | 188 | 164 | 180 | 220 | 270 |
