Breidenbach

Geography

The village is established in discovered country, on the plate, with the confluence of two Ruisseau X little boxed, the Breidenbach and the Burbach.

The Village preserved the same configuration since the time when was drawn up the topographic Atlas of county of Bitche , in the middle of the 18th century. However, the houses, always nonjointed, then exclusively established with the foot of the slopes to avoid the wet funds, moved into the cleansed zones. The habitat extended along the roads which lead to Lengelsheim in the south and Waldhouse in north. Finally the pond of the Breidenbacher Weyer , on the principal River, the Breidenbach, was drained.

History

The Village owes its name - Bredebach in 1152, of the German breit (broad) and Bach (the Ruisseau) - with the presence of three Ruisseau X which confluent on its Ban, where the Rivière is broadest.

Simple farm of the seigniory of Bitche in 1172, this one is successively the property of the Abbaye cistercian of Neubourg, close to Haguenau, then of the Benedictine abbey of Bouzonville, which has it in the current of the 14th century. The village suffers particularly from the Guerre Thirty Year old, which almost reduces to nothing the number of its inhabitants. A colony of Picards comes to repopulate the hamlet of Olsberg at the end of the 17th century.

Worships

From the spiritual point of view, Breidenbach is branch of the parish of Loutzviller, in the archpriest of Hornbach, before passing in 1804 in that of Bitche. The Vault, dedicated to holy Hubert, is built in 1779 and is increased in 1859.

Administration

From the administrative point of view, the village is the chief town of the transitory canton of Breidenbach created in 1790 then passes in that of Volmunster in 1801.

Demography

Places and monuments

the church, dedicated to holy Hubert.
a martyrdom dating from the 17th century is high on the old way towards Lengelsheim, dominating the village in the south. A long inscription engraved on the right barrel recalls that Pierre Druar was killed by a carriage in April 1778 and that his/her parents made draw up this piles to remember at the place even the accident.
the vault baroque of Olsberg, built at the 18th century and dedicated to holy Antoine de Padoue.
In the middle of the uniformity of the monuments in Granite of the 20th century, single a Stèle finished by a cross, which escaped the transformation ever completed from the Cimetière, evokes what could be the funerary art here at the 19th century. Cut in the sandstone, painted in White like the crosses of way, according to the regional practice, it dates from the years 1830. Bordered by threaded piastres, it carries the rpresentation in half relief of the owners of the dafunt: holy Michel weighing a heart in its balances and holy not identified with the sword of sound Martyr E in the hand. With the feet of the Christ, a Cœur ignited in a radiant cloud evokes the Amour this one for the men.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

Breidenbach on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Breidenbach on the site of INSEE
Breidenbach on the site of Quid
Localization of Breidenbach on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Breidenbach on Mapquest

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