Communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche

The communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche (French for "Pays de Bitche community of communes", German: Gemeindeverband Bitscherland) is a federation of municipalities (communauté de communes), located in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France.

Pays de Bitche
Communauté de communes
Situation in the Moselle department
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
No. of communes	46
Established	December 15, 2009
Seat	Bitche
Government
• President	Francis Vogt
Area
• Total	602.4 km^2 (232.6 sq mi)
Population  (2017[1])
• Total	34,317
• Density	57/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Website	www.cc-paysdebitche.fr

History

The Pays de Bitche community of communes was established on December 15, 2009 by a prefectoral decree dating from December 2. It resulted from the merging of 3 of the 4 former Pays de Bitche communauté de communes : Bitche et environs, Volmunster et environs and Pays du Verre et du Cristal.

The last one of the four, the communauté de communes de Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, has merged on January 1, 2017. Since then, every commune of the Bitche canton has been part of the same intercommunality.[2]

Communes

The communauté de communes consists of the following 46 communes:[3][4]

1. Achen
2. Baerenthal
3. Bettviller
4. Bining
5. Bitche
6. Bousseviller
7. Breidenbach
8. Éguelshardt
9. Enchenberg
10. Epping
11. Erching
12. Etting
13. Goetzenbruck
14. Gros-Réderching
15. Hanviller
16. Haspelschiedt
17. Hottviller
18. Lambach
19. Lemberg
20. Lengelsheim
21. Liederschiedt
22. Loutzviller
23. Meisenthal
24. Montbronn
25. Mouterhouse
26. Nousseviller-lès-Bitche
27. Obergailbach
28. Ormersviller
29. Petit-Réderching
30. Philippsbourg
31. Rahling
32. Reyersviller
33. Rimling
34. Rohrbach-lès-Bitche
35. Rolbing
36. Roppeviller
37. Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche
38. Schmittviller
39. Schorbach
40. Schweyen
41. Siersthal
42. Soucht
43. Sturzelbronn
44. Volmunster
45. Waldhouse
46. Walschbronn

See also

• Communes of the Moselle department
• Canton of Bitche
• Pays de Bitche

Notes

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on August 16, 2016.

References

1. "Comparateur de territoire Intercommunalité-Métropole de CC du Pays de Bitche (200069441)". INSEE (in French). Retrieved 21 July 2020.
2. "Bilan communal de l'année 2015 à Soucht" (PDF). soucht.fr (in French). p. 35. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
3. BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 2017-06-28.
4. INSEE