- His story:
- The origin of Lorquin is unclear. The first written mention in the form of Launarigo back to the year 699. This date appears in the cartulary of the abbey of Wissembourg who owned property.
- Developed in the 12th century around a Benedictine priory of the abbey of Vosges Senones Lorquin in 1499 became the headquarters of a rival lordships castellany neighboring Sarrebourg and Dabo.
- At the same time, Haussonville, lords of Turquestein, granted the first franchise to residents of Lorquin and they built the castle Zufall or Hazard. Probably destroyed during the Thirty Years War, it was purchased in 1720 by Marc de Beauvau Craon Prince, to which Leopold had donated the baronies of St. George and Turquestein. Rebuilt in 1785, burned in 1946, all that remains of this building, the gate of the property (on the road Abreschviller) and a rare and curious sundial sandstone, formed a column supporting a dodecahedron inscribed on all sides and reassembled at the College of Saarland Lorquin 2.
- The town of Lorquin boasts being the birthplace of strong personalities who marked their time:
- The Generals Empire Charles Nicolas Brice, his brother Joseph and Nicolas Marie Nicolas Christmas Thiry.
- Jules Nicolas Crevaux, naval doctor, an explorer in South America.
- Charles Sebastien Marchal, doctor, archaeologist, bequeathed his property to create a hospice at the beginning of the century.
