Farébersviller (;

Lorraine Franconian Lorraine Franconian ( native name: or ; or '; ) is an ambiguous designation for dialects of West Central German (), a group of High German dialects spoken in the Moselle department of the former northeastern French region of Lorraine (See ...

: ''Fareewerschwiller''/''Ewerschwiller''; ) 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

Grand Est Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...

in north-eastern

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. It is located only 3 km from the German border.

Location

Farébersviller lies at the heart of the coalfield between 3 major cities that are

Forbach Forbach ( , , ; ) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est. It is located on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the center of Saarbrücken, Germany, with which it constitutes a ...

, Sarreguemines and

Saint-Avold Saint-Avold (; ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Sänt Avuur'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is situated east of Metz, France and southwest of Saarbrücken, Germany. History The Saint-Avold area ha ...

. The municipality consists of 2 very different entities that are the village, the original place to the south and the city, created from 1954 by the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL) to accommodate a large number of miners working in the Valley the Rosselle nearby.

Administration

Since 1989 the mayor of the municipality is Laurent Kleinhentz.

Demography

Sites and monuments

Religious Buildings

* The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste * The church of Sainte-Thérèse * The chapel of Saint-Antoine * El-Hijra Mosque with minaret

Cultural structures

* Good Fountain Square and the local art house in the village * Social Center St-Exupery * Center François Rabelais

Sports equipment

* Complex Marcel Cerdan * COSEC * Small Gym * Tennis Stadium * Soccer Stadium * Archery

Personalities associated with the municipality

* Gennaro Bracigliano (1980- ), Goalkeeper at l' ASNL

Twinnings

* Mercato San Severino -

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Notes and references

External links

Site de la mairie
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