Dabo () is a commune in the

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) 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 joins at Koblenz. A sm ...

department in

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in north-eastern

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History

Previous names: ''Dasburch'' (1188), ''Dasburg'' (1189) ''Dagesburg'' (1227), ''Tagesburg'' (1239), ''Dagespurg'' (1313), ''Dachspurg'' (1576).
An informal Franco-German summit between President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl took place in Dabo July 19, 1983.

Population

Culture and main sights

Dabo Rock and Saint-Léon chapel

Dabo is mainly known for its rock, named "le Rocher de Dabo", in French. It is a pink

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

rock crowned by the Saint- Léon chapel. Before the building of this religious site, there was a medieval castle. This place used to be a celtic worship site. Nowadays, legends are still told about the rock. File:Rocher de Dabo portant la chapelle Saint Léon.jpg, The chapel on top of the rock File:Dabo-nature.jpg, A part of the rock, in the forest File:Dabo5.jpg, A medieval illustration of the castle File:Dabo 8.JPG, alt=

The troglodyte houses

Two troglodyte houses are still visible today in Dabo. They were inhabited until 1902. Nowadays, tourists and hiking enthusiasts can still visit this place. File:Dabo-troglodytique.jpg, alt=

References

External links

* Communes of Moselle (department) {{SarrebourgChâteauSalins-geo-stub