Heining-lès-Bouzonville

Heining-lès-Bouzonville

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Heining-lès-Bouzonville

Coordinates: 49°18′36″N 6°35′22″E / 49.31°N 6.5894°E / 49.31; 6.5894Coordinates: 49°18′36″N 6°35′22″E / 49.31°N 6.5894°E / 49.31; 6.5894
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
Canton Bouzonville
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Bouzonvillois
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Barthélémy Lemal
Area1 6.03 km2 (2.33 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 496
  Density 82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 57309 / 57320
Elevation 223–336 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.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Heining-lès-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.[1]

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