Saulnois

Saulnois is a natural area of the south of the the Moselle. So today the limits of the country of Saulnois tend to merge with those of the Arrondissement Castle-Saline (old district of the Meurthe), it is historically a zone of the south of the department of the Moselle, corresponding to the valley of High the Seille, where one extracted from salt. It thus corresponded only partially to the district, since it would be necessary to exclude the canton from it from Albestroff and to add to it the communes of the surroundings of Morhange.

History

Saulnois owes its name with the exploitation of the salt which was formerly practiced there. The Briquetage of the Pail is a testimony of the extraction to the thousand-year-old Ier front J. - C..

The first written certificate of the " Salinensis Paganus" (Country of Saunois) date of 661.

From the Middle Ages one exploited saltworks with Dieuze, Marsal, Castle-Saline, Moyenvic, Saléaux (between Lezey and Ley), Salonnes, Vic-on-Pail, Bride, Lindre-Low, Morhange and Amelécourt.

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