Amnéville

Amneville ( German Amenweiler, 1902-1919 and 1940-1944 Steel Home, Lorraine Stolem ) is a commune with 10,090 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Moselle in the Lorraine region.

Geography

The community Amneville is about 15 kilometers south of Thionville on the German side of the former German - French language border that was only a few kilometers to the west, in the valley of the Orne. The district Malancourt La Montagne ( Malandshofen ) is located ten kilometers west of the village.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1075 as Amerellivilla, belonged until 1766 to the Duchy of Lorraine, and then to France. The village, however, was sunk in the late 19th century, only a part of the small community Gandrange.

The booming steel industry led but then practically to a reestablishment of the place that Rombacher smelting works erected in 1900 on the site of a workers' settlement, which became an independent municipality on June 15, 1902 under the name Stahlheim. After the return of the territory to France, the new municipal administration decided in January 1919, the town again to call Amneville.

Demographics

Facilities

Since 1986, the community site of national significance spa and leisure facilities, such as the thermal baths Saint Eloy, Thermapolis and Villa Pompeii, which is why the place is also called Amneville les Thermes. In the village there is a concert hall with 12,000 seats, an indoor ski slope with 650 m and a zoo. Furthermore, the community has an 18- hole golf course and a casino has to offer. The CSO Amneville is based in the city.

A history museum attempts to trace the history of Malgré - nous - occurred under duress in the army of Alsace and Moselle French, who were imprisoned in the Russian Tambov. Another museum is at 1600 m, a collection of 230 bicycles and motorcycles.

Structures

• Source is a work of art on four pylons of the power line of Amneville after Montoises.

Sons and daughters

• Eitel -Friedrich Kentrat (1906-1974), German naval officer comes from Stahlheim
• Patrick Battiston ( born 1957 ), former French footballer