Schorbach

Schorbach is a commune with 568 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region.

Geography

Schorbach located in the Moselle department in Lorraine in the far north, a few kilometers south of the border Palatinate, northeast of Bitche. The municipality is part of the Natural Park of the North Vosges.

History

The name Schor -Bach, what it should mean terrapins -Bach, first appears in the year 1210. The place was constantly Zweibrücken - Bitsch and is still the seat of a mayor for the surrounding communities.

It was very early Schorbach, starting from Hornbach Monastery, the seat of a church and remained until the Revolution central church for the surrounding villages.

At the beginning of the Second World War, the inhabitants were evacuated in the Charente. Schorbach was released on 16 March 1945 by the Americans.

Demographics

Culture and sights

The going back to a previous building in 1143 consecrated church of Saint Rémi, which overlooks the lower place on a rock, was for many centuries the central parish church in Bitscher country. The church founder is not known, but it is in the History often attributed to Berthold von Eberstein, whose son Eberhard III. ceded in 1200 his patronage rights to the nearby Abbey Sturzelbronn. Eberhard's daughter Agnes married in 1239 Count Henry II of Zweibrücken- Bitsch.

From the founding period, a square tower is still standing, the nave is Gothic. However, an extensive restoration of the dilapidated plant was made ​​in 1774.

Is particularly well known for the Schorbach still coming Romanesque ossuary ( ossuary ) at the entrance to the former cemetery.