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Zoufftgen

commune in Moselle, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ22011 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zoufftgen (French pronunciation: [zufgən]; German: Suftgen; Luxembourgish: Suuftgen [ˈzuːftɕən] ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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2006 rail crash

On the morning of 11 October 2006 a passenger train and a goods train collided head-on, killing six people.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Zoufftgen” as commune in Moselle, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Zoufftgen, commune and Moselle can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Moselle, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22011. VIAF identifies the subject as 245874901. Authority coordinates are 49.462, 6.133. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zoufftgen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.