- His situation :
- At the heart of the Regional Natural Park of the Northern Vosges, Lembach is in the Sauer Valley, at the confluence of two rivers: the Sauer and Heimbach. The village is surrounded by hills whose altitude reaches 450-500 m (Riegeisberg northeast, Kraehberg west, Hochwald east).
- Lembach is approximately 15 km of Wissembourg, 25 km from Haguenau and six kilometers from the German border.
- This town has the distinction of covering a very large and territory rich in history with its castles (the most famous: the Fleckenstein), the Maginot line (structure of the lime kiln), its brickworks, its mills and wash houses.
- His history :
- If the Gallo-Roman remains bear witness to an ancient occupation of the site Lembach, the first written mention of the village dates from 754.
- In the Middle Ages, Lembach knows a very complex administrative situation. Sauer makes border between two territories with different statuses: on the right bank, the Flecken, a fief granted by a lord to a vassal; and on the left bank, the village (Dorf), a set of free land from liability. At that time exist Lembach two mills on the Sauer: one located on the right bank (the High Mill, current mill) and the other on the left bank (Lower Mill).
- Several lords followed one another as owners of the fief (right bank): the Ettendorf (the thirteenth century), the bishop of Strasbourg (from 1399-1409), the Fleckenstein (from 1409-1720) who also acquired the village (left bank) and Vitztum von Egersberg (from 1721 until the French Revolution).
- The history of Lembach was marked by a succession of periods of prosperity and decline. In 1899 opened a small railway line that connects Lembach to Walbourg, and the great line-Wissembourg Strasbourg. This line marks the beginning of tourism in the high valley of the Sauer. The line is operated by the Alsace-Lorraine network. It is removed and dismantled at the end of World War II.
- Between 1930 and 1935 the construction of the work of the Maginot Line, the Four à Chaux, marks the last great period of economic prosperity. In 1939, at the outbreak of war, the people of Lembach are evacuated in Haute-Vienne. At the end of the war, the village is freed twice: first time December 14, 1944, a second time March 19th, 1945.
- From the 1970s, people see shops close one after the other, victims of mass distribution located in nearby towns. The village with hardly working, Lembach can not contain the departure of young people, and undergoes extensive aging population.
- On 1 September 1972, the town merged with the village that becomes associated Mattstall common.
- In 1993, the town of Lembach is a founding member of the Community of Municipalities of the Valley of Sauer, who becomes Sauer-Pechelbronn Community of Municipalities in 2008.
