Créhange

Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Créhange

(2020–2026) François Lavergne^[1]Area

10.46 km² (4.04 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,799 • Density360/km² (940/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

57159 /57690

Elevation232–388 m (761–1,273 ft)
(avg. 325 m or 1,066 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Créhange (French pronunciation: [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.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,569	—
1975	3,355	−0.88%
1982	4,017	+2.61%
1990	3,854	−0.52%
1999	3,891	+0.11%
2007	3,974	+0.26%
2012	4,010	+0.18%
2017	3,868	−0.72%
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