Buhl-Lorraine

Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Buhl-Lorraine

(2020–2026) Franck Klein^[1]Area

11.2 km² (4.3 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

1,196 • Density110/km² (280/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

57119 /57400

Elevation248–325 m (814–1,066 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Buhl-Lorraine (French pronunciation: [byl lɔʁɛn]; German: Bühl am Kanal) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Geography

The village is located in Lorraine, as its name suggests, more specifically in South Moselle.

Buhl-Lorraine is located 3 miles from Sarrebourg. Its elevation is about 260 meters.

The municipality is crossed by the Bièvre, tributary of the Saar.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	652	—
1975	768	+2.37%
1982	786	+0.33%
1990	817	+0.48%
1999	1,037	+2.68%
2007	1,118	+0.94%
2012	1,239	+2.08%
2017	1,214	−0.41%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Toponymy

The name of the village come from the germanic word, bühel or bühl, which means "hill"^[4].

Ancient names:^[5] Büle during the 15th, Buhel in 1525, Bill in 1526, Biel in 1751, Biel or Bihle in 1779, Bilh in 1790, Bille in 1793, Bühl between 1871-1918, Buhl-Lorraine in 1920, Bühl am Kanal between 1940-1944.

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.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Nègre, Ernest (1996). Toponymie générale de la France / 2. Formations non-romanes, formations dialectales (2. tirage ed.). Genève: Droz. ISBN 2-600-00133-6. OCLC 174640771.
^ Lepage, Henri (1862). Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.