Communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche
Federation of municipalities in Grand Est, France
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The communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche (French for "Land of Bitche community of communes", German: Gemeindeverband Bitscherland) is a federation of municipalities (communauté de communes), located in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. Its seat is the town Bitche.[2]
Pays de Bitche | |
|---|---|
Situation in the Moselle department | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Moselle |
| No. of communes | 46 |
| Established | December 15, 2009 |
| Seat | Bitche |
| Government | |
| • President | David Suck |
Area | 602.4 km2 (232.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2019)[1] | 33,840 |
| • Density | 56.18/km2 (145.5/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
History
The Pays de Bitche community of communes was established on December 15, 2009 by a prefectoral decree dating from December 2. It resulted from the merging of 3 of the 4 former Pays de Bitche communauté de communes : Bitche et environs, Volmunster et environs and Pays du Verre et du Cristal.
The last one of the four, the communauté de communes de Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, has merged on January 1, 2017. Since then, every commune of the Bitche canton has been part of the same intercommunality.[3]
Communes
The communauté de communes consists of the following 46 communes:[2][4]
- Achen
- Baerenthal
- Bettviller
- Bining
- Bitche
- Bousseviller
- Breidenbach
- Éguelshardt
- Enchenberg
- Epping
- Erching
- Etting
- Goetzenbruck
- Gros-Réderching
- Hanviller
- Haspelschiedt
- Hottviller
- Lambach
- Lemberg
- Lengelsheim
- Liederschiedt
- Loutzviller
- Meisenthal
- Montbronn
- Mouterhouse
- Nousseviller-lès-Bitche
- Obergailbach
- Ormersviller
- Petit-Réderching
- Philippsbourg
- Rahling
- Reyersviller
- Rimling
- Rohrbach-lès-Bitche
- Rolbing
- Roppeviller
- Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche
- Schmittviller
- Schorbach
- Schweyen
- Siersthal
- Soucht
- Sturzelbronn
- Volmunster
- Waldhouse
- Walschbronn