Breidenbach (Moselle)

Breidenbach is a commune with 342 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. It is part of the Natural Park of the North Vosges.

Geography

Breidenbach is at the northern Lorraine, a few kilometers south of the border Palatinate and north of Bitche at the confluence of Breidenbach and Burbach.

History

The name Bredenbach first appears in the year 1152, where it is likely to have acted according to testimonies of 1172 to a farm of the Counts of Zweibrücken- Bitsch. This became the property of the Cistercian abbey Neubourg over at Haguenau and came in the 14th century at the Benedictine Abbey Bouzonville. In the Thirty Years' War, the town was almost completely eradicated. Settlers from Picardy populated the Annexe Olsberg end of the 17th century new. Breidenbach was from 1790 to 1801 for a short time the capital of a canton and then Volmunster been assigned.

Demographics

Economy and infrastructure

Breidenbach still has a rural infrastructure, with the majority of workers as a commuter in the economic centers of both sides of the border, however, is active. It is also a little tourism exists, so there is in Breidenbach several Gites de France.

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