Boulay-Moselle (; german: Bolchen,
Moselle Franconian: ''Bolchin'') is a
commune in the
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Grand Est in northeastern
France.
[INSEE commune file]
/ref> The locality of Halling-lès-Boulay (German: ''Hallingen'') was incorporated in the commune in 1972.[ Until 2015, Boulay-Moselle was a subprefecture of the Moselle department.][Décret n° 2014-1721 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Boulay-Moselle, de Château-Salins, de Thionville-Ouest et de Metz-Campagne (département de la Moselle)]
/ref>
Population
See also
* Camp du Ban-Saint-Jean
The Camp du Ban-Saint-Jean is a former military camp near Boulay-Moselle in France. Totally abandoned today, it was used during World War II as a stalag (German POW camp).
During the Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refe ...
* Communes of the Moselle department
References
Communes of Moselle (department)
Duchy of Lorraine
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