Kœnigsmacker

Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Kœnigsmacker

(2020–2026) Pierre Zenner^[1]Area

18.4 km² (7.1 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

2,260 • Density120/km² (320/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

57370 /57970

Elevation148–306 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.

Kœnigsmacker (French pronunciation: [kœniksmakəʁ]; Lorraine Franconian: Maacher/Kinneksmaacher; German: Königsmachern) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est 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.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,439	—
1975	1,556	+1.12%
1982	1,603	+0.43%
1990	1,722	+0.90%
1999	1,893	+1.06%
2007	2,010	+0.75%
2012	2,155	+1.40%
2017	2,244	+0.81%
Source: INSEE^[3]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE