Kœnigsmacker

Kœnigsmacker
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Coat of arms of Kœnigsmacker Coat of arms
Kœnigsmacker
Location within Lorraine region Kœnigsmacker
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Thionville
Canton	Metzervisse
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de l'Arc mosellan
Government
• Mayor (2009–2014)	Pierre Zenner
Area1	18.4 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,996
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	57370 / 57970
Elevation	148–306 m (486–1,004 ft) (avg. 150 m or 490 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Kœnigsmacker (Lorraine Franconian: Maacher/Kinneksmaacher; German: Königsmachern) is a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Kœnigsmacker was the birthplace of Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (1858–1940), a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist, who was one of the discoverers of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. The area was the scene of fighting during World War II when the U.S. 90th Infantry Division assaulted the nearby Fort de Koenigsmacker, one of the German Moselstellung fortresses.

See also

• Communes of the Moselle department

External links

• Monuments of Kœnigsmacker (French)