Arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle

The district Boulay -Moselle is an administrative unit of the department of Moselle in the French region of Lorraine. Sub-prefecture is Boulay- Moselle ( German Bolchen ).

It consists of three cantons and 96 municipalities.

Cantons

  • Boulay -Moselle
  • Bouzonville
  • Faulquemont

History

With the ratification of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty in 1871, the district was part of the German Empire. End of 1871, the county was formed Bolchen from him. He belonged to the district of the Empire State Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine; the district director had its headquarters in the city Bolchen. First, the French law of July 18, 1837 on the town administration was on. To April 1, 1896 but the former municipal constitution was replaced and the new municipal code for Alsace- Lorraine on June 6, 1895. It applied to all municipalities and did not differ between those with rural or urban Constitution.

After the First World War the county was occupied in 1918 by France. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles on 10 January 1920, he was a district Boulay -Moselle back to the French State. However, the municipal law of 1895 was valid until the end of 1940 on.

During World War II troops occupied the German Wehrmacht in June 1940, the arrondissement. On 2 August 1940, was renamed County Bolchen. It now came under the head of the civil administration in the area of Lorraine; to manage a German land commissioner in Bolchen was used. On 1 December 1940, the district Bolchen was merged with the district of Forbach to the district of Saint Avold. In November / December 1944, the county area was occupied by an attack by the U.S. Army and again placed under French administration.

Tourism

The district Boulay -Moselle is marketed touristy than the Niedland (le Pays de Nied ). Worth seeing are, inter alia, the houses of Lorraine in Oberdorff and Gomelange, the castle of Saint- sixte in Freistroff, watermill in Fouligny and the church from the 10th century in Valmunster and the bearing Ban Saint Jean.

Bar-le- Duc | Boulay -Moselle | Briey | Château- Salins | COMMERCY | Epinal | Forbach | Luneville | Metz -Campagne | Metz -Ville | Nancy | Neufchâteau | Saint- Dié -des-Vosges | Sarrebourg | Sarreguemines | Thionville- Est | Thionville- Ouest | Toul | Verdun

  • Arrondissement in Lorraine
  • Moselle
Lorraine (region) Cantons of France Bezirk Lothringen CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen Lorraine house Arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc Arrondissement of Briey Arrondissement of Commercy Arrondissement of Forbach Arrondissement of Metz-Campagne Arrondissement of Metz-Ville Arrondissement of Nancy Arrondissement of Sarrebourg Arrondissement of Sarreguemines Arrondissement of Thionville-Est Arrondissement of Thionville-Ouest Arrondissement of Toul Arrondissement of Verdun
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