Spicheren

Spicheren (German: Spichern ) is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle and the basin of life of the Moselle-is.

Geography

Village of 3500 inhabitants located in Moselle-Is, at the Franco-German border, Spicheren top of its 300 m, dominates, towards the West, the basin of the Warndt crossed by the road axes and railway which connect Metz to the Germany via Forbach, and, towards North, its large neighbor, the town of Saarbrucken.

History

Cité for the first time in a document of 1259, the name of Spicheren derives from Latin “ spicarium ”, i.e. attic with grains, from where the presence of 2 corn ears on the blazon of the Commune. The sword, which separates the 2 ears, evokes the Franco-German battle of the 6 August 1870 marked by the retirement of the 2nd French Body ordered by the Frossard general, which opened with the Prussian the road of Metz and Paris.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

On the heights of Spicheren, one finds the Large Cross of the French Memory, as well as momument of Europe (3 stones coming from the careers of the 3 surrounding regions) set up in 1993 to celebrate the removal of the borders. But also an American tank M-24 Chaffee which took part in the release of the area in 1944.

Personalities related to the commune

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Spicheren
Spicheren on the site of the national geographical Institute
Spicheren on the site of INSEE
Spicheren on the site of Quid
Localization of Spicheren on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Spicheren on Mapquest

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