Apach
Apach ( Luxembourgish Opéch ) is a commune with 1004 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. It belongs to the district of Thionville and Canton Sierck- les- Bains.
Geography
The municipality is situated on the Apach Moselle in the border triangle Germany -France- Luxembourg.
The neighboring communities are Perl ( Germany ) in the north, the French municipalities Merschweiller in the east, Kirsch -lès- Sierck in the south east, the south and Rustroff Sierck- les- Bains in the southwest and Schengen ( Luxembourg ) in the northwest.
The municipality also includes the easternmost district Belmach.
Apach is home to a lock of the Moselle with the name Pierre Ricard. A relief of the pioneer of the Moselle Marine (1899-1956) adorns the gate tower.
History
The town was first mentioned in 1196 as Unteraspach. In the Middle Ages it belonged for centuries to the reign Sierck- Meinberg in the county Lützelburg and came to France in 1606. From 1815 to 1833 Apach was incorporated into the neighboring Kirsch -lès- Sierck. After the Franco-German War of 1870 /71 came the Peace of Frankfurt to the newly founded German Empire. After the German defeat in the First World War came Apach as the rest of north-eastern part of Lorraine by the Treaty of Versailles restored to France. French was the only official language since then until 1940 the city was occupied by troops of the Nazi- ruled the German Empire. Thus Apach was de facto annexed, and it never came to a complete annexation. Since 1945 Apach is French again.
Demographics
Language
Not only because of the immediate vicinity, also due to the long political affiliation to Luxembourg is the privately spoken dialect of Apacher population but not the usual Rhine Franconian Lorraine Moselle Franconian but. This Luxembourgish language area closed again, the original extent of the county Lützelburg following, in present-day Germany in the north-south direction larger areas in the west of the former Rhineland-Palatinate district Saar castle and the westernmost parts of the Saar district Merzig- Wadern, as well as in today's France the north -lying areas, a running in east-west direction border south of Thionville ( Luxembourgish: Diddennueven, German: Diedenhofen ) a. While it is still "alive" spoken in the German regions of dialect in France, he also went through the massive pushing away all German dialects in Lorraine ( from 1945 until the mid- 1970s it was even prohibited within the school building, they only with each other to speak ), analogous to the Alemannic dialect in Alsace, over the decades further back and died in express - except for the immediate border regions, here is " married over the border " still - in the surface.
For more than ten years experience dialects especially in younger Lorraine - as the basis for a good high learning German and it is also significantly easier English - yet again rapidly growing importance primarily due to the larger opportunities of bilingualism on the German labor market. (From the proscribed " langue de l' ennemi ", the " language of the enemy" the grandfathers generation experienced German with their grandchildren in addition to the native French speak as a second language now the " renaissance de la langue de la Grand- Mère ", the " rebirth of the Grandmother language. " ) Along with the freedom of the Schengen Agreement is alone in Saarland already one in five jobs with Lorraine, especially Lorraine interior, mostly from the immediate French border region, occupied.
Attractions
- Church of Saint- Donat, 1832 built
- Chapel Chapelle Notre- Dame-des- Sept- Douleurs from 1718
- Chapel Saint -Antoine in the district Belmach from the 18th century
- Apacher Eiffel Tower: The nine -meter-high tower (without base) was founded by an entrepreneur in 2009. In autumn 2011, next to the tower a friendship tree was planted and installed a seating group. The Apacher Eiffel Tower is located at the border crossing to Perl ( N 153 / B 419), about 400 m away from Schengen.