Thionville , called in German Diedenhofen and Platt/Luxembourg Diddenuewen , east is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle. Its inhabitants is called Thionvillois.

Geography

Thionville is located on the the Moselle in a plain at the east of the Côtes of the Moselle. The commune has a Enclave along the the Moselle between the communes of Hettange-Large, Manom, Low-Ham and Cattenom, corresponding to old the common of Garche, annexed in 1970.

Demography

Thionville developed mainly thanks to the industry, which attracted an increasingly many population in the area since the Industrial revolution. Starting from the Years 1970 however, the economic difficulties were very large for Thionville and its surroundings. The city, and more still the common neighbors, started to see their population strongly decreasing. Thionville however could reconvert its activities and find a certain dynamism. In the Years 1990, its population increases again, like those of its suburbs north (Hettange-Large…) because of attractivity of Luxembourg; on the other hand, the west of the agglomeration continues to decline quickly, in particular around Hayange. With final, the agglomeration still loses inhabitants, but at intervals strongly slowed down by a recovery.

History

  • 753 : first written source mentioning the agglomeration of Theodonis villa at the time of the passage of Pip the Brief

  • December 24th 805: Charlemagne enacts the " Large châpitre of Theodonis Villa " like its political legacy (the divisio regnorum )
  • During the 10th century, Diedenhofen is attached to the Luxembourg.
  • 821 : marriage of Lothaire Ier
  • 930: Henri Ier de Germanie yields the church Saint Maximin to the Abbey of Trier
  • 939: Adalbéron 1 {{er}}, évèque of Metz, destroyed the city
  • 1308: installation of the Augustins
  • 1322: first appearance of the hospital of Thionville in the texts
  • 1477: the city becomes property of the Habsbourg of Austria
  • 1519: it is placed under the sovereignty of Charles Quint
  • 1552: Charles suffering Quint, it passes the autumn to Thionville during the head office of Metz
  • 1558: François de Guise takes Thionville which goes back to Spain the following year
  • 1625: the Capucins settle in Thionville
  • 1639: a seat of the city by the French Army fails
  • 1643: the large Cop besieges and takes Thionville
  • 1659: by the Treated of the Pyrenees, Spain is forced to yield Thionville to France
  • November 7th 1659: the French take again Thionville and begin the reinforcement from the fortifications
  • 1662: installation of a bailliage
  • 1673: completion of the first bridge crossing the Moselle
  • 1689: birth of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  • September 1755: beginning of work of the church St Maximin
  • 1759: completion of work
  • January 13rd 1760: blessing of the church St Maximin by Nicolas Thiersant, priest of parish
  • 1766: the mayor Charles de Gevigny is imprisoned
  • 1791: the city is again besieged, by Austrian troops reinforced by French battalions emigrated following the French revolution. Among them is the young person François-Rene de Chateaubriand who evokes this episode in his Mémoires of in addition to-fall . Defended by Georges Felix de Wimpffen, the city will hold two months before the seat is not raised.
  • 1792 : united besiege the city vainly. Convention will issue " Thionville deserved well of Patrie."
  • 1814 - 1815: the general Hugo, father of the poet, defends Thionville twice
  • 1854: inauguration of the railway line Thionville-Metz
  • 1870 - 1918: beginning of the Franco-German War of 1870 until the end of the First World War, Diedenhofen belongs to the German Empire.
  • 1878 : transfer of the station to the current site
  • 1886: installation of the running water
  • 1888: dedication of the temple protesting
  • 1902: beginning of the demolition of the fortifications
  • 1919: at the end of the war, Thionville becomes again French and takes again its name
  • Années 1930: Thionville is the center of the Secteur strengthened of Thionville, one of the most powerful sections of the Ligne Maginot
  • During the German occupation of the Second world war, the city takes again the name of Diedenhofen.
  • 1944 : release of Thionville by IIIe armed American
  • 1946: reception of Winston Churchill
  • 1948: visit Vincent Auriol, given of the Military Cross to the city
  • 1961: visit Charles de Gaulle
  • 1972: visit Georges Pompidou
  • 2007: visit Dominique de Villepin with the college Milliary the

Armorial bearings

The city carries: Of azure to the castle donjonné of three gold turrets, that of the medium higher, the built sand whole.

Economy

The economy of the frontier countries - Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany - makes it possible the town of remain dynamic. More than 40.000 crosses border dailies to work cross indeed, each day, the Luxembourg border where the wages are definitely higher than the French average at equivalent station.

History of the Iron and steel industry in Thionville

The factory of Thionville is created in 1898 by the Röchling firm with four blast furnaces of which the two first ignite in 1899… After the First World War, the factory is repurchased by the Mining and Metallurgical Lorraine Company, then taken again by the Steel-works of Longwy. The blast furnace n° 1 undergoes an important repair of 1925 to 1928; the HF 2, built in 1930, is given to fire after repair supplements in 1947. At the end of 1950, one decides the rebuilding of the HF 4 which was stopped since 1931, with an aim of ensuring walk three blast furnaces. In 1955, the Lorraine-Scheldt exploits four blast furnaces. In 1955, the Lorraine-Scheldt exploits four blast furnaces in Thionville, then three as from 1964. March 9th, 1964, new HF 1, 8 meters in diameter of crucible and able to run 60.000 tons of cast iron per month, is fired. It is intended to replace the two old blast furnaces arrived in end of a career: the old HF 1 (decree on November 8th, 1955), demolished in 1960, and the second put except service at at the beginning of March 1964. The new blast furnace and its important appendices constitute a complete cast iron factory, practically autonomous. In 1970, Usinor has three blast furnaces (n° 1,3 and 4) in operating condition; the unit has a monthly production capacity of 85.000 tons Thomas cast iron. Put in day before, HF 1 is definitively stopped in December 1977.

Real estate market

The market of the real estate is in full rise consequently. The villages attached to the commune of Thionville like Metzange, Garche, Volkrange enjoy the proximity of the highway A31 which connects Thionville to the Luxembourg and are the example even of this rise of the prices on the sector thionvillois.

Administration

The mayor of Thionville is the Dr. Jean-Marie Demange since 1995, re-elected in 2001 vis-a-vis the socialist Bertrand Mertz (current vice-president of the district council of Lorraine). He succeeded Paul Souffrin. This communist mayor took down its first mandate in 1977 by taking a " revenge " on the local line. Later, he will be also elected regional adviser and senator, two stations which have since escaped him. During its 3 mandates, actions were mainly carried out in favor of the public reading and for the development of the libraries.

The city increased much while amalgamating with common neighbors:

  • Veymerange in 1967
  • Volkrange-Beuvange-Metzange in 1969
  • Garche (which is not contiguous with the remainder of the commune), Kœking and Oeutrange in 1970.

Thionville is divided into two cantons, which belong to the district of Thionville-Is. The city is also the chief town of the district of Thionville-West, although it does not form part of it.

  • the canton of Thionville-Is account 19.063 inhabitants;
  • the canton of Thionville-West counts 21.844 inhabitants. It is curiously included in the district of Thionville-Is!

Evolution of the population

  • Population in 1990: 39.712 hab

  • Population in 2005: 41.600 hab

Colleges, colleges, schools and universities possible

  • College Milliary the
  • College Paul-Valery
  • College Colbert
  • College Briquerie
  • College Malgrange
  • College Sophie-Germain
  • College and Lycée Charlemagne
  • College and Lycée Helene Butcher
  • College and Lycée Saint-Pierre Chanel
  • Institute (school/college/college) Notre-Dame of Providence
  • IUT

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

  • the Museum of the Tower to the Chips
  • the furnace bridge of the Fatherland
  • the church Saint Maximin
  • the belfry
  • the castle of Volkrange
  • the town hall of Thionville
  • the bridge-locks
  • the Extremely of Guentrange, old German strengthened whole ( Feste ) of the beginning of the 20th century

Twinning

The municipality of Thionville wishing to develop relations between twinning and a city of the South, an exploratory visit in Mali was undertaken in 1986. From this will, with the assistance of Quoted Plain France , a twinning of co-operation was born with Gao, city of the same importance than Thionville.

This twinning was celebrated with the town hall of Gao the November 2nd of the same year, in the presence of the respective mayors Ibrahima Aroualo Maiga and Paul Souffrin and of the presidents of joint committees. The June 19th 1987, the same ceremony took place in Thionville. It was decided on this occasion the construction of the first six classes of a school complex, “the School of Thionville”, in a district of Gao inhabited by many Tuaregs victims of the dryness.

Close cities

Algrange, Angevillers, Entrange, Cattenom, Hettange-Large, Florange, It, Manom, Terville, Yutz.

Others

  • the Head office of Thionville is a lyric part in two acts, presented in 1793 in Paris.

  • Thionville is the garrison of the 40e regiment of transmissions.

References

External bonds

Official sites:

  • Official site of the city
  • Site of the tourist office
  • Site of the inn of youth
  • Official site of the theater of Thionville
  • Official site of the Tower to the Chips of Thionville
  • the Community of agglomeration “Doors of France - Thionville”

Simple: Thionville

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