Lutzelbourg | |
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| Coordinates:48°44′07″N7°15′07″E / 48.7353°N 7.2519°E /48.7353; 7.2519 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins |
| Canton | Phalsbourg |
| Intercommunality | CC du Pays de Phalsbourg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Grégoire Perry[1] |
Area 1 | 5.84 km2 (2.25 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 558 |
| • Density | 96/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57427 /57820 |
| Elevation | 205–397 m (673–1,302 ft) (avg. 225 m or 738 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Lutzelbourg (French pronunciation:[lytsəlbuʁ];German:Lützelburg) is acommune in theMoselledepartment inGrand Est in north-easternFrance. This town is located in the historic region of Lorraine and is part of the country of Sarrebourg.
Its inhabitants are called the Lutzelbourgeois. It is located on theMarne-Rhine Canal.
Crossed by the Marne-Rhine canal, the town of Lutzelbourg is located 3.5 km from Phalsbourg, 10 km from Saverne and 4 km from the inclined plane of Saint-Louis-Arzviller. The village is surrounded by four hills.
Lutzelbourg station is on the Line from Paris-Est to Strasbourg-Ville and was the origin of the old Line from Lutzelbourg to Drulingen, now downgraded and deposited.
The cycle path along the Marne-Rhine canal leads to Saverne, Strasbourg or Sarrebourg.
Twinning of towns between Lutzelbourg / Moselle and Lützelburg (Gablingen) / Bavaria. For about 20 years, a partnership has taken the form of regular meetings.
The name can be broken down into two terms in Middle High German: " lützel", namely "small", and " Burg", namely "fortified place, castle" (although this gave the term "bourg" in French with a completely different meaning). Finally, the name translates to "small fortification". It is the same etymology as that of the city of Luxembourg which is always called `` Lëtzebuerg in Luxembourgish.
Coming from Metz, Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich, came to Lutzelbourg on 26 December 1940, where he was received at the Hôtel des Vosges, for a Christmas Eve, in the presence of the troops from the sector. The armored train, parked in the Arzviller railway tunnel, was waiting for the "Führer" at 6:40 pm for the return to Berlin, where he arrived the next morning.
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