Phalsbourg
| Phalsbourg | |
|---|---|
 Place d'Armes, with, basically, the town hall. At right, the statue Lobau. | |
 Details | |
| Administration | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Lorraine |
| Department | Moselle |
| Borough | Sarrebourg |
| Canton | Phalsbourg |
| Common Code | 57540 |
| Postcode | 57370 |
| Mayor Current term | Dany Kocher 2008 - 2014 |
| Intermunicipal | without |
| Website | http://www.phalsbourg.com/ |
| Demography | |
| Population | 4661 inhabitants (2007). |
| Density | 354 inhabitants / km 2 |
| Demonym | Phalsbourgers |
| Geography | |
| Contact | 48 46 '07 "North 7 15 '33 "East / 48.768611, 7.259167 |
| Altitudes | Min. 200 m - max. 384 m |
| Area | 13.15 km 2 |
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Phalsbourg (in German is a common French , located in the department of Moselle and the Region Lorraine.
Summary |
Population of about 4600 inhabitants, the town was fortified by Vauban. She also serves as a framework for summer festival Erckmann Chatrian. The city is part of the Regional Park of Vosges du Nord and the transboundary biosphere reserve Vosges du Nord-Palatinate Forest.
Deviations and localities
- Buchelberg north,
- Les Maisons Rouges (Rothhuser) in the West
- Roulette (Rollweiler) in Eastern and
- Oak Wood (Eichwald or Eichbaracken) and
- Three Houses (Dreihuser) in the South.
Common Boundary
History
City Phalsbourg is created by the Count Palatine Jean-Georges Veldenz , Protestant prince, with the dowry of his wife Anna Maria, daughter of Swedish King Gustav I Vasa. The foundation was motivated by the reception of reformed , while events in the very Catholic duchy of Lorraine. Count Palatine had the castle of his Einhartzhausen County Petite Pierre , enclosed in Lorraine. He is drawing near in terms of a new town , in checkerboard , then symbol of order and modernity. It grants franchises to new residents who would populate the city, whose establishment has been recognized 27 September 1570 by Emperor Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. The city was renamed Pfalzburger, meaning Pfalz Palatinate and Burg fortress.
However, lack of money, the city was ceded to the Duke of Lorraine from 1590 and the attempted expulsion of the Protestants are increasing, not without encountering fierce resistance from the population.
Count Palatine George Gustavus, heir of George John, founds Lixheim in 1608, which will suffer the same fate.
With Lixheim, Phalsbourg form a short-lived principality from 1629 to 1660, the benefit of Henriette de Lorraine , sister of Duke Charles IV of Lorraine and her successive husbands.
Lorraine was occupied almost continuously by the French troops from 1634 to 1697, the fortifications are revised and supplemented by Vauban.
The city suffered three seats (1814-1815-1870) The "Incubator Braves. 22 August 1919, President Raymond Poincare comes to Phalsbourg awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor for his heroism during the siege of 1870.
In 1953, the USAF began construction of what will be the airbase Phalsbourg-Bourscheid. The database will be used by the Americans until 1967, when the withdrawal of France from the integrated command of NATO. Fame 's Camp Horie , the base hosts the 1st Regiment of helicopter gunships.
The city gave birth to marshal Mouton , Count de Lobau. She is also the venue of the meeting between the two authors regionalist Erckmann Emile and Alexandre Chatrian.
Administration
| Period | Identity | Label | Quality | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Empire | Charles Joseph Parmentier | |||
| XIX century | Desir Parmentier | Son of Charles Joseph Parmentier | ||
| XIX century | M. Germain | Son of the previous | ||
| March 1983 | March 1995 | John Riehl | ||
| March 1995 | Dany Kocher | UDF then MoDem | ||
| All data are not yet known. | ||||
Demographics
| Count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting |
Education
- Central Elementary School
- College-school-Erckmann Chatrian , founded in 1803 and experiencing various names during its history.
- College-Lycee Saint-Antoine.
Places and monuments
- Historical Museum and Erckmann Chatrian
- The doors of France and Germany (the fortifications were completed by Vauban from 1679).
- Einhartzhausen Castle, the first castle built in 1390 by Count Henry of Lutzelstein was built to control the Vosges mountain passes. In 1568 Count Jean-Georges Veldenz had rebuilt the castle style renaissance.Vendu in 1588 the Duke of Lorraine, Charles III of Lorraine (ISMH)
- City Hall - Main Care (ISMH)
- All houses in the Place d'Armes (ISMH)
- House - 2 College Street
- House - 1 rue du General Michel
- Place d'Armes (Get listed)
- Building - 2 rue Lobau (ISMH)
- Barracks Lobau
Religious buildings
- Church of Our Lady of the Assumption 1876 neo-Gothic facade on the Place d'Armes (IMH).
- Chapelle Saint-Jean.
- Protestant church
- Synagogue, built in 1857 on the site of the previous (built in 1772). The building retains its original appearance.
- Old Jewish cemetery. Presence of a Jewish community from the late seventeenth century. Important rabbinate during the nineteenth century. The cemetery, established in 1796, has rows of headstones of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century
 The mayor of Phalsbourg (former guard) |  Place d'Armes Phalsbourg |  The statue Lobau (Marshal Sheep) on the Place d'Armes Phalsbourg |  Monument Erckmann Chatrian |
 German gate |  Barracks Lobau |  The church Phalsbourg |  Protestant church |
 Storks nest Phalsbourg |
Famous Phalsbourgers
- Emile Erckmann Phalsbourg was born May 21, 1822 and died in Luneville March 14, 1899. His friend Alexander Chatrian (Abreschviller born December 18, 1826 and died in Villemomble September 3, 1890) are also studied. Erckmann Chatrian is the name under which signed two French writers: Emile and Alexandre Erckmann Chatrian.
- Francis Joseph Gerard (October 29, 1772 at Phalsbourg - September 18, 1832), Major General of Cavalry, Baron of the Empire.
- Georges Mouton (February 21, 1770 at Phalsbourg - November 27, 1838 in Paris) Napoleon Earl of Lobau April 21, 1809 because he rejects attacks on seven occasions Austrian bridge Landshut, Napoleon would have said to him: My Sheep is a lion After taking the bridge of Landshut. General and aide de camp to Napoleon, he was elected member of the Meurthe (1828), commander of the National Guard (1830), Louis Philippe made him Marshal of France (1831) and was elevated Peer of France (1833 ). He is buried in the crypt of the Invalides in Paris and his name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
- Charles Joseph Parmentier ( one thousand seven hundred sixty-five - 1 843 ), French politician of the nineteenth century.
- Calman-Levy family , who founded the publishing house Calmann-Levy in 1836.
- David-Weill family and family Lazarus (Phalsbourg), who founded the bank Lazard
- Lazare Isidor , Rabbi Phalsbourg then chief rabbi of France (1866-1888)
Place in Literature
- Tour de France by two children , reading book French school in 1875, by G. Bruno starts Phalsbourg occupied by Prussia.
- The novels of Erckmann Chatrian are sometimes Phalsbourg scene: it's in the other soldier's hometown of Story of a conscript in 1813.
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