Sturzelbronn

Sturzelbronn (in German: Stürzelbronn ) 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 Vallée Mühlenbach, and the Eastern part of the Pays of Bitche, the country covered, in the extreme North-East of the department of the the Moselle. It is located on old the Roman Voie driving of Bitche at Wissembourg, with the limit of the Alsace.

History

Fragements of Sculpture S of the Gallo-Roman time testify to the Antiquité of the site, already mentioned in 1155 under its current form, meaning spouting out fountain . Old Lorraine ground , the Pays of Bitche is one of the first possessions of the dukes of Lorraine which set up at the beginning of the 12th century a Château with the site of current the citadel and the Abbaye of Sturzelbronn.

Worships

From the spiritual point of view, the Paroisse, which was served by the monks, depends on the archpriest of Bitche since 1804. The parish church, dedicated to holy Elisabeth, is old a Chapelle built in 1764, to which was added a turn-bell-tower in 1858.

Administration

From the administrative point of view, the Village is common Canton of Bitche since 1790.

Demography

The Population, not very important, increased until the middle of the 19th century, passing from 215 inhabitants with 385 in 1851. Since it did not cease decreasing and nothing any more but 205 inhabitants with the Recensement of 1982 counted.

Places and monuments

  • vestiges of the Cistercian abbey, founded in 1135 by holy Bernard.
  • the church Holy-Elisabeth, old Vault of the abbey.
  • formerly Giving access to the buildings surrounded by a surrounding wall, the Gate with triangular pediment carried by oven walls with returning table date of the first decades of the 18th century and consitue one of the dernies testimonys of the rebuilding of the abbey at that time.
  • the forging mill.
  • the Hand of the Prince, evoking a Battle 13th century.
  • the limits known as Pierre de Corvée.
  • three marked out and landscape transborder paths.
  • the many ones and remarkable rock sites, of pink sandstone of the Vosges, if typical for the sector; examples: Kleiner Hundskopf and Grosser Hundskopf , Pilsfels and Geierstein , Glockenfels and Luchsfels , Falkenberg and Rothenberg , Kandelfels and Landersberg , Kohlberg and Abrahamfels , Kreuzberg , Erbsenfels , etc!

Armorial bearings

The weapons of the common are: of Gold to the Lion of Sand, embanked wave of azure, with the cotice of Mouths .

They are the weapons of the Abbaye of Sturzelbronn, to which oa added embanked the wave, representing the current Eau of a fountain ( Brunnen , Bronn ).

Personalities related to the commune

Sources

  • the Cistercian abbey of Sturzelbronn , Jerome MICELI, 1994. Municipal files of Sarreguemines.
  • 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

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

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