Boulay-Moselle
Boulay- Moselle ( short Boulay, German Bolchen ) is a commune with 5223 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. It is the capital of the arrondissement Boulay- Moselle ( sub-prefecture ) and the canton of Boulay- Moselle. The inhabitants Boulay Boulageois call themselves.
Geography
The small town is located east of Niedtales Boulay, about halfway between Metz and Saarlouis. Since 1973, three kilometers southeast of the core village hamlet on Halling -lès- Boulay heard ( German: Hallingen ) to Boulay- Moselle.
History
Boulay was first mentioned in 1184 as Bollei. Then Bolkestein ( 1293 ), Bolchen ( 1487 ), and Bolichen ( 1576 ). 1321 was the municipal charter; since 1614 it was the seat of a county and fell in 1766 to France. The castle - built in the place of a medieval castle - has perished in the French Revolution.
Like the other municipalities of the department of Moselle Boulay was annexed by the German Empire in 1871, and received as part of the Imperial Lands Alsace-Lorraine the official name Bolchen. 1918, the community came to France again, but was again during the Second World War under renewed German occupation to Bolchen. Before the liberation, in November 1944, the city was largely destroyed.
Attractions
In the Church of Saint- Étienne ( former collegiate church of the 18th century) is a famous organ from the nearby Cistercian abbey of Villers- Bettnach, which was built in 1729 by Joseph Lepicard.
The Jewish community Boulay -Moselle, built in 1952, a new synagogue in place of a destroyed Neo-Romanesque earlier building of 1854. In the resort there is also a Jewish cemetery.
The suburbs of Saint -Jean, a former residential area for military, is internationally known as a " ghost town Boulay ". The secrecy of the authorities and the police make the course a place of pilgrimage for " Ghostbusters ".
Specialties
The macaroons of Boulay.
Twinning
On June 4, 2006 Boulay was able to celebrate 40 years of active partnership with the Upper Swabian town quantities.
Personalities
- Charles Villers (1765-1815), French officer and philosopher
- Julius Joseph Neumann (1836-1895), priest and member of the German Reichstag
- Robert Schuman (1886-1963), French politician, was living in 1910 in Boulay