Borny

Old commune of the the Moselle, Borny is today one of the districts of the sector is town of Metz located at approximately three kilometers of the downtown area. It counts nearly 6.000 residences including 4.000 social housing. The population rises with approximately 18.000 inhabitants, a sixth of the Metz-native population, with a high proportion of young people, many households in unstable situation, an important foreign population (24%). Unemployment touches 30% of the population in particular less than 25 years and one counts 1.000 recipients of the RMI. The delinquency and the security issues constitute a recurring concern which gives to the district an negative image. Community life is dense and the level of equipment is overall satisfactory.

Zip code: 57.070.

Short history

It is at the 10th century that one finds for the first time the traces of the village, named Burnen, and who will become Borny with his Bellecroix appendices, Belletanche and them Bordes. With the Middle Ages, the Metz-native abbeys, the chapter cathedral and the knights of Midsummer's Day had goods, properties and rights seigneuriaux on the commune. Devastated by the war of 1444, the occupied castle, the village was partly destroyed. At the end of the 17th century one counts 44 families, before a new devastation in 1712 by a Flemish detachment. The revolution makes of it a common and even a Chef-lieu of canton in 1790. The economic activities of the village are varied with production of cereals and 12 hectares of vines. At the end of the XIXe century, small workshops, joineries, trades of structural timber, lime kilns, settle in Borny. Borny is the theater of the battles Free-Prussian of the August 14th 1870.

January 6th, 1960, a Urban development zone is created on the territory of the commune. The architect Jean Dubuisson is named town planner as a chief of the zone. 6000 residences are built until 1973, essentially in the current district Tops of Blémont. The commune amalgamates with Metz the December 9th 1961 (OJ of the December 8th 1961).

In 1982 the district of Borny was classified in zone of priority education (ZEP). The Tops of Blémont is an disadvantaged urban area (ZUS) since the November 14th 1996. In 2002, a great project of city (GPV) there was launched, it made it possible to shave 388 decayed residences. 836 other apartments are promised with the demolition from here with 2008.

Geography

Districts of Borny (nonexhaustive list): border, the Tops of Blemont, Bridoux, Actipole, ZAC Sébastopol,…

Buildings

Catholic churches

Monument

  • Fort of Border buried since construction of fast track (RN 233) in 1968. The few vestiges are still a little visible street of the Bridge of Border.

See too

Districts of Metz

Other bonds

  • Metz
  • Peugeot - Citroen Metz, the large factory of the district
  • GéoMetz, interactive plan of the Town of Plane Metz
  • of district of Borny remote loading .pdf on GéoMetz
  • Local plan of Town planning of Borny
  • two belts of fortifications of the town of Metz (1867-1916) by François Hoff
  • Card of the Great project of city (GPV) of the district of Borny, in remote loading .pdf on the site of the government.
  • GPV2 Borny

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