Farébersviller | |
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 The church in Farébersviller | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Farébersviller  | |
  Farébersviller  Farébersviller | |
| Coordinates:49°06′56″N6°51′52″E / 49.1156°N 6.8644°E /49.1156; 6.8644 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle |
| Canton | Freyming-Merlebach |
| Intercommunality | Freyming-Merlebach |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Laurent Kleinhentz[1] |
Area 1 | 6.88 km2 (2.66 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 5,226 |
| • Density | 760/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57207 /57450 |
| Elevation | 219–321 m (719–1,053 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Farébersviller (French pronunciation:[faʁebɛʁsvilɛʁ];Lorraine Franconian:Fareewerschwiller/Ewerschwiller;German:Pfarrebersweiler) is acommune in theMoselledepartment inGrand Est in north-easternFrance.
It is located only 3 km from theGerman border.
Farébersviller lies at the heart of the coalfield between 3 major cities that areForbach,Sarreguemines andSaint-Avold.
The municipality consists of 2 very different entities that are the village, the original place to the south and the city, created from 1954 by the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL) to accommodate a large number of miners working in the Valley the Rosselle nearby.
Since 1989 the mayor of the municipality is Laurent Kleinhentz.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 8,001 | — |
| 1975 | 7,783 | −0.39% |
| 1982 | 7,122 | −1.26% |
| 1990 | 6,835 | −0.51% |
| 1999 | 6,876 | +0.07% |
| 2007 | 5,983 | −1.72% |
| 2012 | 5,692 | −0.99% |
| 2017 | 5,541 | −0.54% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
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