Heining-lès-Bouzonville

Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Heining-lès-Bouzonville

(2020–2026) Astrid Lemarchand^[1]Area

6.03 km² (2.33 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

483 • Density80/km² (210/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

57309 /57320

Elevation223–336 m (732–1,102 ft)
(avg. 366 m or 1,201 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Heining-lès-Bouzonville (French pronunciation: [ɛnɛ̃ lɛ buzɔ̃vil], literally Heining near Bouzonville; German: Heiningen bei Busendorf) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is just 500m from the border with Germany.

It takes its name from the Abbey of Bouzonville. It was variously in the ownership of the Abbey at Bouzonville and the Abbey of St Maximin in Trier.

From 1815 it was a border town. In the 1930s, the border between France and the Saarland was closed; the French government funded a new church for Heining, the church of Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc de Leiding.^[3]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ fr:Heining-lès-Bouzonville