Sarrebourg

Sarrebourg ( German: Saar castle ) is a commune with 12,398 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region. It lies in a wide basin at the still young Saar. The nearest major cities are Metz, Nancy and Strasbourg.

Sarrebourg is a sub-prefecture ( sous- préfecture French ) of the department of Moselle and the administrative seat of the Local Government Association Sarrebourg ( Communauté de Communes de l' agglomà sarrebourgeoise ). For community association include the eight municipalities Sarrebourg, Réding, Buhl- Lorraine, Imling, Hommarting, Sarraltroff, skin Clocher and Bébing.

• 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 4.2 It worked in place

History

About 2,000 years ago the Roman post station Pons Saravi arose where the Roman road from Reims to Strasbourg, the Saar crossed at a ford. Located at the crossroads major roads and in the midst of a fertile basin, the place became an important trading center. The Villa Saint -Ulrich with its 33 individual buildings testifies to the former importance of the place.

Middle of the 3rd century began the invasion of the Germanic tribes into the Roman provinces on the Rhine. The first fortifications originated. In the year 259/260, the limit fell to 455 the Rhine frontier. Thus began the Frankish colonization of the area of ​​Saar castle. At the time of the Merovingians, the city was still an important center from the Carolingian period, there is little evidence.

Sarrebourg was under the protection of the bishops of Metz, to Henry the Fowler, the Duchy of Lorraine incorporated the eastern kingdom. Sarrebourg was a fief of the bishops of Metz. 1240 the fortification was extended. An economic boom ensued, which had its peak in the 14th century. The glass and ceramic production was one of the foundations of this recovery.

The relations deteriorated to Metz. On November 2, 1464 to Sarrebourg assumed by contract the Duchy of Lorraine. In the Thirty Years' War the city was devastated. This was followed by plague and famine, so that Duke Leopold saw finally forced to call immigrants from Tyrol, Switzerland and Italy to Lorraine.

In the Treaty of Vincennes in 1661 Sarrebourg came to France and now belonged to the strip of land that connected France with Alsace and Lorraine split. The destroyed city was rebuilt.

From 1871 to 1918/19, Sarrebourg belonged to the German Empire. According to the Peace Treaty of Frankfurt between the French Republic and the German Empire on 10 May France in 1871 to cede large areas of Alsace and Lorraine to the German Empire. The city was so Sarrebourg 1871 affiliated to the German Reich. With the newly created administrative structure of the city was under the German name Saar castle, the administrative headquarters of the district and canton Saar castle in the Lorraine district of the National Rural Alsace-Lorraine. The city experienced as transport and administrative center as well as the extensive garrison ( Staff of the 59th Infantry and 30th Cavalry Brigade, an infantry regiment No. 97, two Ulanenregimenter No. 11 and 15 and two divisions Field Artillery No. 15), a time of prosperity.

Today Sarrebourg is a thriving commercial center with industry in the areas of metal processing, printing products, footwear production ( Mephisto ) and agricultural products.

1963 FC Sarrebourg was founded.

Demographics

Twinning

• Saar, Rhineland -Palatinate

Attractions

• The Franciscan Chapel ( Chapelle des Cordeliers ) from the 13th and 16th centuries with a big glass windows by Marc Chagall
• The local museum ( Musée du Pays de Sarrebourg )
• The Gallo -Roman Villa Saint -Ulrich

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Anatole de Baudot (1834-1915), architect, architectural historian and restorer.
• Louis Munzinger (1877-1957), journalist and first editor of the Munzinger archive.
• Wilhelm Rieger (1878-1971), economist.
• Charles Mangin (1866-1925), General.
• Gerhard Haniel (1888-1955), painter.
• Alfred Wünnenberg (1891-1963), member of the SS and police officer.
• Jean floor ( * 1948 ), journalist and TV manager.
• Christian Streiff (born 1954 ), manager.
• Yohan Croizet (* 1992), football player.

It worked in the place

• Georg Clemens Müller (1875 - unknown), Member of Parliament and Mayor of Saar castle.
• Pierre Messmer (1916-2007), French Prime Minister, ministers, mayors of Sarrebourg.