Heining-lès-Bouzonville

Heining-lès-Bouzonville (French pronunciation: [ɛnɛ̃ lɛ buzɔ̃vil], literally Heining near Bouzonville; German: Heiningen bei Busendorf) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is just 500m from the border with Germany.

Heining-lès-Bouzonville
Commune
The church in Heining-lès-Bouzonville
Coat of arms
Location of Heining-lès-Bouzonville
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Coordinates: 49°18′36″N 6°35′22″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Forbach-Boulay-Moselle
Canton	Bouzonville
Intercommunality	Bouzonvillois - Trois Frontières
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Astrid Lemarchand[1]
Area 1	6.03 km2 (2.33 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	485
• Density	80/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	57309 /57320
Elevation	223–336 m (732–1,102 ft) (avg. 366 m or 1,201 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It takes its name from the Abbey of Bouzonville. It was variously in the ownership of the Abbey at Bouzonville and the Abbey of St Maximin in Trier.

From 1815 it was a border town. In the 1930s, the border between France and the Saarland was closed; the French government funded a new church for Heining, the church of Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc de Leiding.^[3]

See also

• Communes of the Moselle department