FRONTIER PROBLEM
ATTENDING CHURCH ON GERMAN TERRITORY.
The inhabitants of the French village of Heining, near Metz, until recently had to cross the frontier into Germany to attend church. A new edifice, built at the expense of the State, has just been inaugurated in Heining,and the church bell is the personal gift of M. Edouard Daladier and M. Camille Chautemps, the French prime minister and his second in command.
When the new boundary between France and Germany was drawn in 1918 the village of Heining was cut in two. The church happened to be in the territory accorded to Germany, and for twenty years the inhabitants of the French part had to leave their country in order to worship, get their children baptised, celebrate marriage or bury their dead. Now the French inhabitants of Heining have their own church and one more Franco-German problem is solved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 3
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