Hampont | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason de la ville de Hampont (Moselle).svg |
Arrondissement: | Sarrebourg-Château-Salins |
Canton: | Le Saulnois |
Insee: | 57290 |
Postal Code: | 57170 |
Mayor: | Sylvain Scherrer[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC du Saulnois |
Coordinates: | 48.8364°N 6.5828°W |
Elevation M: | 200 |
Elevation Min M: | 207 |
Elevation Max M: | 321 |
Area Km2: | 11.23 |
Hampont (pronounced as /fr/) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke (1892–1943), second commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, was born here in 1892.
The town was formally known by the German name Hudingen between 1871 and 1918 and Hüdingen between 1940 and 1944.