Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines (German Saargemünd ) is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle and the basin of life of the Moselle-is.

Its inhabitants is called Sarregueminois.

Geography

Sarreguemines is located at the German Frontière , with the confluence of the the Saar and the Blies. This configuration is confirmed by the etymology place, the German word gemund meaning junction is found in the German name of the city, Saargemünd .

Its agglomeration extends on both sides from the border. The urban Surface account: 42077 inhabitants for his French part.

Since 1997, Sarreguemines is served by the Tramway (Tram-train) of Saarbrucken.

Variations and localities

  • Neunkirch

  • Welferding
  • Folpersviller

History

In 1297 Sarreguemines passed from the County of the Double-deckers to the Duchy of Lorraine, which stays joined together in France into 1733/66.

Economy

  • Foundries
  • Pneumatic Mechanical engineering
  • Iron work
  • Hosiery
  • Ceramic
  • Faience manufacture

Industry of earthenware

The reputation of the Faïence of Sarreguemines is not any more to make. In two centuries, small family industry born with the Revolution made way. Many amateurs of these merry and coloured parts are disseminated a little everywhere in the world. Paul Utzschneider and Paul of Geiger, true one-man bands, propelled the small town to the very first row of faience industry: as of XIXe century, Sarreguemines proposes in the whole world a vast earthenware collection, vases, cover, mural frescos, chimneys… The activity begins in 1790. Nicolas-Henri Jacobi and two others associated install the first manufacture. However, the economic situation is hardly favorable. Jacobi then buys a mill with oil which it transforms into mill of ballasting located in edge of river, but its good will is not enough: the difficulties of supply raw materials, the hostility and the mistrust of the inhabitants, the competition of English and French manufactures and the disorders of the Revolution push Jacobi to yield the place…

  • Paul Utzschneider and the beginning of the expansion

This dynamic Bavarois young person takes again manufacture in 1800 and rectifies quickly it. Napoleon i becomes one of his best customers and places several orders to him. The young man, inventive, introduced novel methods of decoration. The expansion is such as it must open new workshops. It thus makes the acquisition of several mills. The protests caused by deforestations bring it to the use of the Houille in substitution of wood, but it should be waited until 1830 so that the first furnaces with coal are built.

  • the time of industrialization

In 1836, Utzchneider entrusts the direction of manufacture to his/her son-in-law, Alexandre of Geiger. This last makes build new constructions by respecting the harmony of the landscape. The Mill of Blies is built in 1841 in this spirit. In 1838, Alexandre of Geiger had approached Villeroy & Boch. This agreement contributed to the growth of the activity. The industrial revolution beats full sound, a new architecture appears, with the appearance of roofs in saw-teeth and high chimneys with round section avoiding the repercussion of smoke on the close dwellings. The new factories built in 1853 and 1860 run thus only on the vapor. In the workshops, modernization relates primarily to energies necessary to the machines.

  • consolidation and change of century

In 1871, following the annexation of the the Moselle in Germany, Alexandre of Geiger leaves Sarreguemines and withdraws itself in Paris. His/her son, Paul of Geiger, ensure the direction then. Two new factories are built with Digoin and Vitry-le-François… Paul of Geiger dies in 1913, year when Utzschneider & Co are divided into two companies, one managing the establishment of Sarreguemines, the other French factories. In 1919, after the First World War, the unit is reconstituted under the name of Sarreguemines-Digoin-Vitry-the-François and is managed by the Cazal family. During the Second world war, the faience manufacture was put under sequestration and its management entrusted of 1942 to 1945 to Villeroy & Boch.

  • the Lunéville years:

In 1978, following a tender offer, manufacture is repurchased by the Lunéville-Badonviller-St-Clement group. It is the decisive turn of the history of earthenware with Sarreguemines: the manufacture of crockery is abandoned in 1979 and the factory concentrates on that of tiling, walls and grounds. The site of the mill of Blies is abandoned. In 1982, the faience manufacture takes the name of Sarreguemines Bâtiment.
  • end:
In 2002, following a recovery plan of 19 paid and frameworks become shareholders, the company takes the Ceramics name of Sarreguemines. There remain 130 workmen who try to maintain the production equipment. In 2005, the company is placed in compulsory liquidation. The production continues with an about sixty workmen. January 9th, 2007, the court orders the liquidation and the end of the activity at February 1st, 2007. The faience manufacture of Sarreguemines does not exist any more.

Lunéville-St Clement continuous to produce certain models which had made the fame of it.

Administration

Sarreguemines absorbed some common neighbors during her history: Neunkirch-lès-Sarreguemines and Welferding in 1964, and Folpersviller in 1971.

Sarreguemines is chief town of two cantons:

Famous characters

  • Sarreguemines is the town of birth of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, count de Montalivet (1766 - 1823), Pair of France and statesman, which was Minister of Interior Department under. The street of the Count de Montalivet is named in its honor.
  • Hassli Alain, Champion of Europe of Fight Greco Roman (in 2000 Sofia has) was born in Sarreguemines on July 7th, 1981.
  • Sophe Hubert, Member of the relay 4*200 NL (swimming), 3rd with world of Melbourne 2007

Tourist monuments and places

  • the Museum of the Faience manufacture of Sarreguemines and the circuit of earthenware.
  • the museum of the faience techniques to the Mill of Blies with reconstitution of workshops.
  • the extent and the originality of the place make a single museum in Europe of it.
  • the furnace, only survivor of his type in Europe beside the Town hall.
  • the Casino at the edge of water, it is not a gaming room but a cultural center containing a theater.
  • working cities.
  • ruins of the castle overhanging the center town.

Teaching

Colleges

  • College Nominated Henri
  • College Jean de Pange
  • College Simon Lazard
  • Christian Holy Institution

Colleges

  • College of Fulrad
  • College of Himmelsberg
  • College Jean Jaurès
  • Christian Holy Institution

Higher education

Sarreguemines accommodates an Training institute in Care Male nurses and an antenna of the Technological Academic institute of Metz, Logistic Gestion department and Transport. Moreover, one Droit department was created, and a professional license " Assisting in Management and Logistic Transfrontalière" allows to acquire a very specific higher training.

  • IUT of Metz with Sarreguemines

  • Faculty of Law
  • Academic institute of Training of Masters (IUFM)
  • Training institute of the Care Male nurses

References

“2000 Jahre Sarregueminer Geschichte” History of Sarreguemines written in local dialect: the “platt”, by Robert Doegé (1910-1978), Editions Pierron 1979,392 pages.

Sporting life

• Fight: Club founded in 1896, the club of Fight of Sarreguemines is oldest of France. The club knew its hours of glory in the Seventies, then it known a bad patch of about fifteen year which almost saw it disappearing. However, in 1987, Eric CIRK his current trainer took again the activity of the Club. In a few years it knew to make best France of it, indeed since about fifteen year the Club of Sarreguemines truste all the national podiums and that in all the categories of age.

• Football: The Association sarregueminoise of football 93 (club senior founded in 1919), the RC Sarreguemines and the ACE Neunkirch are the clubs of the city, accompanied by the ACE Welferding, the CS Folpersviller and the FC Istanbul.

External bonds

  • the site of the town of Sarreguemines
  • Museum of the ceramics of Sarreguemines
  • * The Community of Agglomeration Sarreguemines Junctions
  • Festival to mir redde platt
  • Festival of St Paul
  • the market of Christmas
  • Mozenix the GUL of Sarreguemines
  • the College of Nominated the Henri Trades of Sarreguemines
  • Sarreguemines on the site of the Countries of Bitche and the Saar
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