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Origin and history

The church of St.Chrodegang of Althorn stands on the site of the former village of Horn, mentioned from 783 onwards as a dependency of the Abbey of Wissembourg. This village, destroyed in the 16th century, was rebuilt in 1594 under the name of Althorn, before being shaved in 1633 during the Thirty Years War. The ruins still remained in 1769, and the gradual restocking was based on Goetzenbruck's glassworks and the iron mines of the Plackenberg, exploited by the Mouterhouse forges.

In 1789, the 25 inhabitants of Althorn, mostly day-to-day and valet parking, wrote a book of grievances denouncing the abuse of the owner of the Mouterhouse forge, who was hindering their development. The village, attached to various communes (Mouterhouse, Sarreinsberg), became an independent parish in 1872 after the church was built in 1841. During the Second World War, local resistors considered a parachute of weapons near Althorn, which never occurred.

Althorn was definitively integrated into Goetzenbruck in 1947, marking the end of its autonomous administrative existence. The church, symbol of this turbulent history, remains a testimony of social struggles and successive reconstructions in this border region marked by industry and conflict.

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