Creutzwald

Creutzwald
Commune
Creutzwald Lake
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 49°12′00″N 6°41′00″E / 49.2°N 6.6833°E / 49.2; 6.6833Coordinates: 49°12′00″N 6°41′00″E / 49.2°N 6.6833°E / 49.2; 6.6833
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
Canton	Boulay-Moselle
Intercommunality	Warndt
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Luc Wozniak
Area 1	26.72 km2 (10.32 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	13,070
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	57160 /57150
Elevation	198–334 m (650–1,096 ft) (avg. 219 m or 719 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Creutzwald (German: Kreuzwald) is a commune in the Moselle département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

With Germany, it manages the Warndt forest.

History[]

The town was formed in 1810, by the merging of the three villages of La Croix, La Houve, and Wilhelmsbronn. It continued to be known as Creutzwald-la-Croix until 1961, when the name was simplified. Until that point, it had been redundant, as the German word Kreuz, and French Croix both mean "cross".

Creutzwald was the last town in France to have a working coal mine, in , which closed on 23 April 2004.

Administration[]

Together with the municipalities of Bisten-en-Lorraine, Guerting, Ham-sous-Varsberg and Varsberg, it forms the Communauté de communes of Warndt.^[2] Since 2015, it is part of the canton of Boulay-Moselle.

See also[]

• Communes of the Moselle department

References[]

External links[]

• Creutzwald Webzine (News media)

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