Soucht
Soucht is a common French, located in the department of the the Moselle and the area Lorraine. The Village belongs to the Regional natural park of the Vosges of North and of the basin of life of the Moselle-is.
Geography
History
The village develops around a glassmaking founded in 1629 by a glassmaker of Münzthal, cradle of the future village of Saint-Louis-the-Bitche.To the 17th century, by granting the authorization to found the glassmaking, the Count of Two-Bridges-Bitche would have indicated like site: " Sucht" ( seek! ), which would explain the name of the village. It is in 1681 only that is mentioned under its current form the Sucht , a rectangular patch of land in the shape of pillowcase.
In 1700, for lack of wood, fires are extinguished and of new glassmakings installed elsewhere in the Pays of Bitche. It should be noted that Soucht, forest small village, counted more than sixty Sabot iers before the Second world war.
In 1950, the direction of the glassmaking financed the construction of a school and a small vault.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
- the parish church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, with her furnace bridge in Stucco (false Marble) gray and orange and its imposing Way of very beautiful crosses and its Gloss S in Glass.
- the Museum of the Sabot-maker.
- the Presbytery, entirely renovated, is a donation of the duke of Lorraine.
- the vault of the fourteen Holy Auxiliaries, known as Pauluskapelle .
- the way of the Hergötte , leading to the vault, with the terra cotta statuettes of the Auxiliary Saints. Beautiful stained glasses of the life of Saint Paul.
- the circuit of the Rocks with the Kammerfelsen , the Heidenfelsen and the Jägerfelsen .
- Highland Cattles in the parks arranged within the framework of the fight against the waste lands.