Goetzenbruck

Goetzenbruck (in German Götzenbrück ) 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

The Village is located in the Bitscherland, in the middle of the the Vosges of North. Culminating with 430 meters, near the sources of the Moderbach and the Breidenbach, the Village develops on the edge of the plate, in limit of the country covered and discovered.

Variations and localities

Sarreinsberg, going back to 1746.
Althorn, quoted since 873 and rebuilt after the War Thirty Year old.

History

During its creation in 1721, the Village is presented in the form Gotzbrick , whose origin is shared. It could come from the German Götze-Brück , the Pont which carries the Statue of a Saint, or then more probably of Gaetzenbrück , i.e. an assembly of juxtaposed logs recovering a marshy ground on the course of a road. The Village is founded in 1721 by glass of Meisenthal having received duke Léopold I {{er}} of Lorraine 600 arpents of wood to establish to them Industrie there.

During the Second world war, the commune is evacuated in the night of the 6 to the February 7th 1945 in the area of Saar-Union until end March 1945. The town hall is folded up with Bistroff. The village is bomardé December 5th 1944 with the March 15th 1945 and is released by the American troops the December 6th 1944. " Village of Lorraine tested by the bombardments, Goetzenbrück, whose population at summer the object of many vexations and requests of the occupant, supported all the tests with an admirable courage. By its sacrifices, by its attachment in France, was acquired rights to the recognition of the Country. " This quotation comprises the attribution of the Military Cross with bronze star. In 2005, the commune publishes the book Freiheitswind writes by Philippe Koffler and Lise Pommois. This book recalls the release of the village in December 1944 by the allied troops and gathers testimonys of inhabitants having lived this period.

Worships

From the spiritual point of view, Goetzenbruck is the branch of Soucht until in 1802, then it becomes Paroisse of the archpriest of Bitche. Althorn becomes branch in 1802 and is set up in Paroisse in 1872.

Administration

Passed in the Canton of Bitche in 1802, the chief town and its two variations of Sarreinsberg and Althorn belong to transitory the canton of Lemberg between 1790 and 1802.

After having known various situations and having depended on Mouterhouse before becoming common, Althorn and Sarreinsberg are definitively attached to Goetzenbruck only in 1946. A First vault of the glassmakers had been built in 1724.

Demography

The Population increased considerably, passing from 285 inhabitants in 1817 with 559 in 1852. With the Census of 1982, it counted 1759, the glass activity of them since 1981 in the manufacture of Verre S of Lunette S.

Places and monuments

the church of the Visitation, set up at the 19th century.
the vault of the Glassmakings, located at the north of the glassmaking.
the vault of the Virgin-of-Seven-Pains.
the glassmaking, founded in 1721.
Several large houses of the beginning of the 19th century border the street of Bitche, the North-South main axis of the village. That located at the 7 and 8 of the street, undoubtedly an old relay of Station, is essential by its long frontage very largely bored. In spite of a date, 1789, in a Cartouche on the lintel of the door pedestrian seems to be regravée on a quite posterior date, the house appears to go back to the beginning of the 19th century. The neatest part of rise, located on the right, is characterized by its windows equipped with exceptional barges for projecting table separating the two levels. The covered carriage door of a arc in Anse of basket is installed, while the door pedestrian of right-hand side to the profiled casing is finely decorated with enrubannées rods, threaded piastres, oves and rays of heart, all these decorative elements belonging to the repertory of the classic art, like the dentils and let us modillons them which underline the entablature and the pot with fire which crowns it.
High at the end of the 18th century or with the whole beginning of the 19th century, the farm located at 19, rue Saint-Hubert, shelters under the same roof the home and the exploitation. The frontage on street is framed by two chains of angle to embossings and the levels are separated by a stringcourse, a profiled cornice containing rise. Particularly neat in the rate/rhythm of the covers, the frontage of the exploitation, of symmetrical composition, opens by two doors in semicircular arch corresponding to the cattle shed and the stable, framing the door hinge of the barn, of the same form.

Armorial bearings

The weapons of the common are: cut semi-party: with 1st of Mouths to the Hunting horn of money, bound and ferruled Gold, surmounted of a alérion of money; with 2nd of money to a mount with three coupeaux of Mouths, the second and third coupeaux bordered of azure towards the sides, summoned of a standard of azure to three flowers of lily of Gold; with 3rd of azure to the streaked fasce money, to the small tank of constant Gold of Flame S of Mouths stitching .

The Hunting horn ( Horn ) and the alérion symbolize the hamlet of Althorn, where the dukes of Lorraine had a Château. The mount and the standard represent Sarreinsberg, which was called initially Mount-Royal ; the nets of azure evoke the River which go down from there towards the the Saar and the the Rhine. The hooped Pont ( Gitterbrücke ) constitutes a speaking emblem. Finally the Vase points out the industry of glass.

Personalities related to the commune

Georges Walter known as “Confined Georges”.

Sources

mills and sawmills of the Country of Bitche , Joel Beck, 1999.
Country of Bitche 1900-1939 , Joel Beck, 2005.
" Freiheitswind - release of Goetzenbruck, Sarreinsberg and Althorn" , Philippe Koffler, 2005.

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

Goetzenbruck on the site Welcome in the Country of Bitche!
Goetzenbruck on the site of the Countries of Bitche and the Saar
Goetzenbruck on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Goetzenbruck on the site of INSEE
Goetzenbruck on the site of Quid
Localization of Goetzenbruck on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Goetzenbruck on Mapquest
Inter-commune Association of the Country of Glass (AICSEPT)
MCA Line Europe - Center of calls

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