Rodemack

Rodemack
Commune
The church and surroundings in Rodemack

Coat of arms
Rodemack
Location within Grand Est region
Rodemack
Coordinates: 49°28′11″N 6°14′13″E / 49.4697°N 6.2369°E / 49.4697; 6.2369Coordinates: 49°28′11″N 6°14′13″E / 49.4697°N 6.2369°E / 49.4697; 6.2369
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Thionville
Canton Yutz
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de Cattenom et environs
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Gérard Guerder
Area1 9.96 km2 (3.85 sq mi)
Population (1999)2 804
 • Density 81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 57588 /57570
Elevation 154–242 m (505–794 ft)
(avg. 180 m or 590 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.

Rodemack (German: Rodemachern, Lorraine Franconian: Ruedemaacher/Roudemaacher) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Localities of the commune: Esing, Faulbach, Semming.

  • Jean-Marie Pelt (1933-2015), French botanist-ecologist, founder of the European Institute of Ecology (Metz).
  • The barons of Rodemack, lineage of the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, which has its roots in Rodemack.
  • Pierre Hemmer (1950-2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland.

See also

Communes of the Moselle department

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