Bousseviller

Bousseviller ( German Busweiler in ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Moselle and the area Lorraine. The Village belongs to the Regional natural park of the Vosges of North and of the basin of life of the Moselle-is.

Geography

Located in the oriental party of the Canton of Volmunster, the small village of Bousseviller is installed at the bottom of the Vallée of the Horn, in the zone where the country covered is perforated vast clearings of Défrichement.

History

Mentioned at the end of the 12th century like Village - Border of the seigniory of Bitche, one finds the village in 1493 in the form Bus-weyler , i.e. Bussonis-villare , of the Germanic name of man Bosso or Busso and of the substantive vilare , weyler , the village.

From the spiritual point of view, Bousseviller is in turn branch of the Paroisse of Walschbronn then of Hanviller starting from 1804, its church being set up in vicarial Chapelle in 1847. From the administrative point of view, the village belongs to 1790 with 1801 of transitory the canton of Breidenbach then passes in that of Volmunster.

Dedicated to Holy Odile and Holy Gengoult, the church is built in 1781 for emplacer a Chapelle mentioned in 1607, raised with the foot of the Kapellenberg , at a place considered to be bad by the inhabitants because " all against a rock very haut" . Of modest size, it comprises a Nef with single vessel reached a maximum and a chorus with polygonal Chevet , well in the tradition of the local religious architecture. Its frontage with high pinion surmounted by a covered bell-tower of a roof with Bulbe connects it with the Chapelle of the Pond of Bitche and with old the church S parochial of Bitche and Hanviller.

With the top of the main door, a openwork pediment of the 18th century, decorated with a Sun framed hemmed ailerons of foliages, would come, according to the local tradition, of old the Cistercian abbey of Sturzelbronn.

In the Cemetery which still surrounds the church, remain a monumental cross of the 18th century and several Tombe at years 1840 - 1850, decorated with the face, for several of them, of a Weeping willow sheltering under its branches patron saint of late, and with the reverse of a Croix with the five wounds of the Christ.

Administration

Demography

The Population, which counted 209 inhabitants in 1817, seems to have been stable during second half of the 19th century with approximately 300 inhabitants. With the Census of 1982, it counted nothing any more but 154 of them.

Places and monuments

Postcards of the village

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