Holving

Holving is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle and the basin of life of the Moselle-is. Its inhabitants is called the Holvingeois .

Geography

Holving is surrounded in the east by the commune of Sarralbe, in the south by the commune of the Valley-with-Guéblange, in the west by the commune of Hilsprich and in the North-West by the commune of Richeling.

The commune is crossed by Mutterbach (affluent of the Alba).

The commune is made up of six hamlets: Ballering, Bettring, Diderfing, Holving, Hinsing and Hirbach.

In Hirbach a pond is.

History

One found the traces of a Gallo-Roman temple in the honor of Apollon, proving thus that the zone was populated at that time.

The pond of Hirbach (52ha) is a part of the watery Ligne Maginot, created in 1939 to supplement the hole left in the Ligne Maginot by the refusal by referendum of the the Saar to become French.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Perched church neo-gothic 1869 (Immaculate Conception): rule and confessionals 18th.

Vault Saint-Sebastien (on Kappelberg) 1622, restored 18th, destroyed during the war: Gothic windows.

Vault Our-Lady-of-Doors.

Gallo-Roman vestiges: triangular stone, remains of a temple in the honor of Apollon.

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

Holving on the site of the national geographical Institute
Holving on the site of INSEE
Holving on the site of Quid
Localization of Holving on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Holving on Mapquest

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