Lembach

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Lembach
Commune
The town hall in Lembach
Coat of arms
Location of Lembach
Lembach Location within France Show map of France Lembach Location within Grand Est Show map of Grand Est
Coordinates: 49°01′N 7°47′E / 49.01°N 7.79°E / 49.01; 7.79
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Reichshoffen
Intercommunality	Sauer-Pechelbronn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christian Trautmann
Area 1	48.89 km2 (18.88 sq mi)
Highest elevation	551 m (1,808 ft)
Lowest elevation	177 m (581 ft)
Population  (2023)	1,490
• Density	30.5/km2 (78.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67263 /67510
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lembach is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

Etymology

The toponym Lembach is of Germanic origin, cognate to modern German Lehm, denoting clay. The Germanic hydronym *-bak(i) entered the French language via High German, and took on two forms: the Germanic form -bach and Romantic -bais.

Geography

Lembach lies in the Sauer valley, surrounded by the woods and sandstone cliffs of the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve. It is located on Departmental Road 3 which runs from Wissembourg, 12 km to the east of Lembach, to the north-western tip of Bas-Rhin and the onward route to Bitche in the department of Moselle. The German frontier lies some 5 km to the north.

The commune, which covers an extensive land area, much of it uninhabitable owing to the topography, also includes the small village of Mattstall and the hamlet of Pfaffenbronn.

History

In September 1972 the commune of Lembach was merged with the neighbouring village of Mattstall to the south. Mattstall retains the semi-independent status of an associated commune.

Notable people

• Author and doctor Paul Bertololy lived in Lembach and died there in 1972. (At the time of his birth at Frankenthal in 1892, Lembach was a part of Germany, and German was the mother tongue in which Bertololy wrote.)
• Claude-Hélène Perrot (1928-2019), historian and Africanist

Landmarks

• Fleckenstein castle
• Frœnsbourg castle
• Maginot line fortifications, known as Ouvrage Four-à-Chaux

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

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