Créhange | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason de la ville de Créhange (Moselle).svg |
Arrondissement: | Forbach-Boulay-Moselle |
Canton: | Faulquemont |
Insee: | 57159 |
Postal Code: | 57690 |
Mayor: | François Lavergne[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC District urbain de Faulquemont |
Coordinates: | 49.0636°N 6.5828°W |
Elevation M: | 325 |
Elevation Min M: | 232 |
Elevation Max M: | 388 |
Area Km2: | 10.46 |
Créhange (in French pronounced as /kʁe.ɑ̃ʒ/; Lorraine Franconian: Krischingen, German: Kriechingen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The writer Joël Egloff (born 1970) was born in Créhange.
Until 1793, Créhange was the capital of the County of Kriechingen, a state of the Holy Roman Empire.