Hampont

Hampont
Commune
The church in Hampont
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°50′11″N 6°34′58″E / 48.8364°N 6.5828°E / 48.8364; 6.5828Coordinates: 48°50′11″N 6°34′58″E / 48.8364°N 6.5828°E / 48.8364; 6.5828
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton	Le Saulnois
Intercommunality	CC du Saulnois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sylvain Scherrer[1]
Area 1	11.23 km2 (4.34 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	183
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	57290 /57170
Elevation	207–321 m (679–1,053 ft) (avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Hampont is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

History[]

SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke (1892–1943), second commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, was born here in 1892.

The town was formally known by the German name Hudingen between 1871 and 1918 and Hüdingen between 1940 and 1944.

See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hampont.

• Communes of the Moselle department
• Parc naturel régional de Lorraine

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