Large-Réderching

Large-Réderching ( German Grossrederchingen in ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Moselle and the basin of life of the Moselle-is.

Geography

The Village is located in the Pays of Bitche, in the middle of the the Vosges of North. Installed on the plate, in country discovered, it is located at the sources Ruisseau of Achen. The Agglomération is skirted by large the Route of Sarreguemines to Bitche, which takes again partially the layout of a ancient way.

History

Ten Gallo-Roman sites discovered on the Ban of the Village testifies to its seniority. Mentioned in 1304 in the form Ruderchingen , of the Germanic name of man Roderich , with distinctive the Large , large , to differentiate it from Small-Réderching, the Village has a variation, the hamlet of Singling, created at the end of the 17th century, and many supposed, which testifies to the middle-class penetration in the Campagne S during the 13th century. Singling is the property of Georges Poncet, a commercial rich person of Bitche, the Welschof belongs to Farnçois-Didier Maurice, lord of Sarreinsming, adviser of State and general lieutenant of the baillage of Germany, established with Sarreguemines, the firm of Brandelfing is bought by the Jésuites of Bouquenom, while Olferding is yielded by the duke of Lorraine to the one of its bodyguards, Henri de Mallan.

From the spiritual, Large-Réderching point of view is church-mother with for branch Guiderkirch, set up in Paroisse in the years 1715 - 1720. Parish of the archpriest of Hornbach, the church the Largeone, rebuilt in 1751, passes in that of Rohrbach in 1802. From the administrative point of view, the Village belongs to the canton of Rohrbach since 1790, the variation of Singling having had the statute of common between 1790 and 1811.

Bombarded in January 1944, the Agglomération with half-is destroyed and does not preserve any old Maison.

Administration

Demography

The Population was always important, cash 818 inhabitants in 1817, 1300 in 1852, and 964 with the Recensement of 1982.

Places and monuments

the church, rebuilt in 1751
the Vault of the variation of Singling

Line Maginot

Personalities related to the commune

My great-grandfather, Andre Roggy, was born At the farm Olferding just outside the village off Large Réderching one 28 November 1852. He was share off year Anabaptist family with has long history off farming in this area off the Moselle and also in Alsace. He lived in this little village and there He married Anne Marie Keller one 10 September 1881. Anne Marie was born 10 September 1863. Furnace children were born to them them young stag before they left for America in 1886. They settled in Brooklyn, which is share off New York City. It was there that they had 12 more children. This has broad family now young stag in the United States drank we cuts not forgotten our humble " roots" in Large Réderching. This will always ancestral Be considered one off my homes. I hope one day to visit there and walk the streets that my ancestors walked centuries ago. I send my warmest reagrds and well wishes to the people off Large Réderching and to their fine country. Live France! (John Payne, Milford, Connecticut, the USA - johndpayne@yahoo.com)

Sources

mills and sawmills of the Country of Bitche , Joel Beck, 1999.
Rohrbach-lès-Bitche and its canton , Joel Beck, 1988.
the canton of Rohrbach-lès-Bitche , Joel Beck, 2004.
Country of Bitche 1900-1939 , Joel Beck, 2005.

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

on the site Welcome in the Country of Bitche!
on the site of the Countries of Bitche and the Saar
on the site of the National Geographical Institute
on the site of INSEE
on the site of Quid
Localization the Largeone on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane the Largeone on Mapquest

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