Enchenberg

Enchenberg is a commune with 1259 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. It belongs to the district of Sarreguemines and Canton Rohrbach- lès -Bitche. It is part of the Natural Park of the North Vosges.

Geography

Enchenberg located in the north of Lorraine in Bitscher Ländchen ( frz: Pays de Bitche ) on the western edge of the Northern Vosges forests and surrounded by orchards. Directly east of the building is the boundary of the canton of Bitche. In the north Lambach and Siersthal adjoin, to the north west, the district attracts far beyond up against Petit- Réderching. To the south, the district border to Rohrbach and Bining is then also the border of the nature park. Close to the village runs to the south edge of the forest to the border district of Montbronn.

To Enchenberg include the hamlet Heiligenbronn with the Heiligenbronner forest on the road to Petit- Réderching and Guisberg in a district in the far west corner.

History

As a testimony from Gallo-Roman times there is a Mercury statue made ​​of sandstone.

1286 emerged the place as Ennechenberg first time in a document. He was on the course of the Lombard Street of Flanders via Strasbourg to Italy.

Guisberg is mentioned in 1736 as a property of the abbey Sturzelbronn. Heiligenbronn was an estate of Claude -Charles de la Lance de Ville Moran, chief huntsman of the Duke of Lorraine.

Demographics

Attractions

Many of Lorraine crosses are as testimonies of faith in the district still exists. The main attraction is the chapel Verena, whose original buildings dating from the 16th century and was named after the influx of Swiss immigrants who had been recruited after the Thirty Years' War from the sovereign, renewed and given its present name. It is every year on May 1, the starting point of the largest procession of Lorraine, which leads through the Cross of the 18th century village church of St. Peter, which was renewed in 1861 in the Gothic Revival style.

Traffic

Enchenberg has a station on the branch line Sarreguemines - Bitsch. It lies on the road D 36 Sarreguemines - Lviv. In Enchenberg the D 83a branches to Montbronn.