Saint-Louis-the-Bitche

Saint-Louis-the-Bitche (in German Münzthal ) is a Commune Frenchwoman, 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.

It is especially known for its Cristallerie Saint-Louis.

Its inhabitants are called Ludoviciens and the Ludoviciennes .

Geography

In country covered, in a small valley boxed dug by the brook of Saint-Louis and its Affluent S, the Village is a recent creation dependant on the installation of the glassmaking and a late Défrichement.

With leaving the Forest of Dürrenwald , the Route coming from Lemberg leads to deep a small valley. This exceptional site is occupied by the crystal manufacture and the Maison S working, the parish church overhanging the Vallée. Imbricated one in another, the buildings Industry ls, built throughout the 19th century, are attached to the regional architecture more quà the Architecture Industrie lle, by their Toit S of Tuile S with long sides and croups and the use of Matériau X local such as the Moellon rough-cast and the sandstone installed.

The Quoted S and the Maison S working invaded all space available around the crystal manufacture, until in the adjacent small valleys and on the sides of the slope in the North-West. In the street Didierjean, in the north of the factory, face of the Immeuble S and the dependences all built on the same model, intended to shelter the Chèvre S, small the agricultural Matériel , the Fourrage and the Bois of Chauffage.

Variations and localities

the Forest of Dürrenwald .
the Large Oak , or Oak Georgel .
Münzthal , hamlet at the origin of the Village.

History

The origin of the Village of Saint-Louis comes from the establishment of a first glassmaking with the locality Münzthal , the Vallée of the monks, in 1586. She is explained by the abandonment of the Verrerie of Holbach the preceding Année. The Guerre Thirty Year old causes devastations in the area and the glassmaking cease its activities in the middle of the 17th century. In 1767, two lawyers with the Lorraine Court sovereign of and Barrois, Rene-François Jolly and Pierre-Etienne Ollivier, obtains the authorization of the king Louis XV of ressusciter old the Industrie. It will carry the title of Verre laughs royal and will be placed under the term of Saint Louis , in remembering Louis IX. Around the Four S rise progressively Année S a Chapelle, Logement S for the Masters, the Ouvrier S and the farm, a Moulin, a Scierie and a Platine laughs.

In 1781, the news royal glassmakings of Saint-Louis is the first on the unintermitting to develop the crystal, whose England held the monopoly since its invention in 1627 with Newcastle. The glassmaking becomes in 1767 the Compagnie of Crystal manufactures of Saint Louis , taken again in 1989 by the famous house of Hermes luxury and always according to our days.

Worships

From the spiritual point of view, the Village is branch of the Paroisse of Soucht until in 1802, then of that of Lemberg until in 1846, before being set up in Paroisse of the archpriest of Bitche. The church, built 1897 with 1902 in pink sandstone , is a sumptuous building of Rhenish Style néoroman . Had with the Architect Charles Winkler and financed by the Family of Coëtlosquet, owner of the Factory, it replaces old the glass Chapelle , blessed in 1776 and become too small.

Administration

From the administrative point of view, the Village is a variation of Lemberg until in 1845, date of its common erection in of the Canton of Bitche.

Demography

The Population remained relatively stable. It counts 727 inhabitants in 1852, 807 in 1900 and 677 with the Recensement of 1982.

Places and monuments

the church Saint-Louis, one of most important the churches in pink sandstone of the the Vosges of North. Built in 1897, it overhangs the Vallée.
the crystal manufacture Saint-Louis, founded in 1586 and always according to our days.
the building of the direction of the factory is built perpendicular to the main street, the street of Coëtlosquet, the Nom of the one of the directors at the end of the 19th century. It is drawn up at the entry of large a Parc and remains unchanged compared to the representation of the table of Pingret made in 1836. Only a Corps of dwelling was to him assistant in the prolongation, on the side of the Jardin S.
the remarkable Chêne S such as the Gros Oak (or oak Georgel ), a oak of freedom.
To a few hundreds of Meter S in the west of the Village, on the Road of Montbronn, the Moulin of Münzthal , whose creation was authorized in 1727 on the site of the glassmaking of very the Nom, ceased turning since many Année S. On other side of the Route is a Maison installed at the edge of one of the pond S being shelled in the Vallée of the Eichel and of its Affluent S. And around, the Forêt is visible as far as the eye can see, with its Resinous and some Leafy S, which was one of the favorable conditions to the establishment of the glassmaking in this sector.
the fountain of the Coëtlosquet, set up in Freestone in the Forest by a former director of the Crystal manufactures.

Armorial bearings

The armorial bearings of the common are of azure to the letters S and L interlaced surmounted by a royal crown , surrounded of the Couronne of spines, the whole of Or, with the chief of Or to the Lion leopard ée of Gueules .

The weapons point out the county of Bitche and crystal manufacture celebrates it.

Personalities related to the commune

the Family of Coëtlosquet, directors of the Crystal manufactures and at the origin of the construction of imposing the church Saint-Louis in 1897.

Sources

mills and sawmills of the Country of Bitche , Joel Beck, 1999.
Country of Bitche 1900-1939 , Joel Beck, 2005.

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

Saint-Louis-the-Bitche on the site Welcome in the Country of Bitche!
Inter-commune Association of the Country of Glass (AICSEPT)
Saint-Louis-the-Bitche on the site of the Countries of Bitche and the Saar

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