Delme

Delme
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Coat of arms of Delme Coat of arms
Delme
Location within Lorraine region Delme
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton	Le Saulnois
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Saulnois
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Roland Geis
Area1	5.09 km2 (1.97 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	989
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	57171 / 57590
Elevation	208–280 m (682–919 ft) (avg. 130 m or 430 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.

Delme is a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France. It was the center of the canton of Delme until 2015. It had a population of 989 in 2010.

Geography

Delme is located in 31 km to the southeast from Metz and approximately at the same distance from Nancy. Next communes: Tincry and Prévocourt in the northeast, Viviers and Fonteny in the east, Donjeux, Laneuveville-en-Saulnois and Oriocourt in the southeast, Lemoncourt in the south, Puzieux, Alaincourt-la-Côte, Liocourt and Xocourt in the northwest.

Education

• College Andre Malraux

Famous natives

• Victor Lemoine (1823—1911). Famous French selector of ornamental plants who in particular created many grades of a lilac.

See also

• Communes of the Moselle department

External links

• http://www.delme.fr/
• http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/nomenclatures/cog/fichecommunale.asp?codedep=57&codecom=171&codecan=07
• http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/Pres-etab/CollAndreMalrauxDelme/
• http://www.cac-synagoguedelme.org/
• http://cassini.ehess.fr/cassini/fr/html/fiche.php?select_resultat=11688
• http://judaisme.sdv.fr/synagog/moselle/delme.htm