Bliesbruck | |
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 The old railway station in Bliesbruck | |
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| Coordinates:49°06′58″N7°10′53″E / 49.1161°N 7.1814°E /49.1161; 7.1814 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Sarreguemines |
| Canton | Sarreguemines |
| Intercommunality | CA Sarreguemines Confluences |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Jean-Luc Lutz[1] |
Area 1 | 10.88 km2 (4.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 976 |
| • Density | 89.7/km2 (232/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57091 /57200 |
| Elevation | 202–362 m (663–1,188 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Bliesbruck (French pronunciation:[blizbʁyk];German:Bliesbrücken) is acommune in theMoselledepartment inGrand Est in northeasternFrance.
According to carved stone objects found in the village area, the valley of the Blies was inhabited by people since before the region belonged to theRoman Republic.
Later, new peoples settled in the region, such as theCelts,Belgians andLigurians.
Before theconquest of the Gauls in 52 B.C. the area was apparently populated by theMediomatrici.
Under the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, the region experienced phenomenal growth. It can be noted that the town ofSteinfelder, corresponds to the current location of the archaeological excavations ofBliesbruck-Reinheim.
The only testimony of the Merovingian era in the commune, is the discovery of four merovingian warriors' tombs.[3]
The name Bliesbruck, is a reduction of the German-speaking name of the village, which is Bliesbrücken. This means "bridges over theBlies", in fact, Brücke means "bridge" in German and takes -en in the plural. It must refer to the fact that the bridge connecting the two main parts of the village was often rebuilt, the first being a simple wooden bridge, then replaced by a vaulted bridge, destroyed during theSecond World War, then replaced by a wooden bridge by the French and the Americans. It was only in the 1970s that the current bridge was built.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 918 | — |
| 1975 | 867 | −0.81% |
| 1982 | 965 | +1.54% |
| 1990 | 915 | −0.66% |
| 1999 | 985 | +0.82% |
| 2009 | 1,019 | +0.34% |
| 2014 | 997 | −0.44% |
| 2020 | 1,007 | +0.17% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
Bliesbruck is twinned with :
This archaeological park is located in Bliesbruck but also in a German town namedGersheim. It is a cross-border project which combines excavations and reconstructions ofCeltic andRoman finds with exhibition and educational facilities.
It is aRoman thermal complex that operated from the end of the 1st to the middle of the 3rd century
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