The communauté de communes du Pays de Bitche (French for "Land of Bitche community of communes", German: Gemeindeverband Bitscherland) is a federation of municipalities (communauté de communes), located in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. Its seat is the town Bitche.[2]
Pays de Bitche | |
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Communauté de communes | |
![]() Situation in the Moselle department | |
Country | France |
Region | Grand Est |
Department | Moselle |
No. of communes | 46 |
Established | December 15, 2009 |
Seat | Bitche |
Government | |
• President | David Suck |
Area | 602.4 km2 (232.6 sq mi) |
Population (2019)[1] | 33,840 |
• Density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) |
Website | www |
The Pays de Bitche community of communes was established on December 15, 2009 by a prefectoral decree dating from December 2. It resulted from the merging of 3 of the 4 former Pays de Bitche communauté de communes : Bitche et environs, Volmunster et environs and Pays du Verre et du Cristal.
The last one of the four, the communauté de communes de Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, has merged on January 1, 2017. Since then, every commune of the Bitche canton has been part of the same intercommunality.[3]
The communauté de communes consists of the following 46 communes:[2][4]