Longlaville
Longlaville ( Luxembourgish: Longsduerf ) is a commune with 2436 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Meurthe -et -Moselle in the Lorraine region. It belongs to the district Briey, the Canton Herserange and is a member of the Association of Municipalities Agglomà de Longwy.
Geography
The community Longlaville lies just to the northeast of Longwy on the border with Luxembourg. The municipal area stretches along the Chiers, a tributary of the Meuse. The Chierstal ( German: Korntal ) is almost 1000 m wide in the area Longlaville. To the southeast the land rises steeply and reaches 391 meters above sea level in the community forest ( Bois de Longlaville ) its highest point in the municipality. In the north- east of the village, near the border with Luxembourg, there is a quarry. Remnants of brownfield sites can still be found west and north of the village. In parts of the former Indistriestandorte new medium-sized businesses have been settled by now.
Neighboring communities of Longlaville are Pétange ( Luxembourg ) in the Northeast, Saulnes in the east, Herserange in the south, southwest, and Longwy in Mont -Saint -Martin in the northwest.
History
From the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, the area was recovering very slowly to Longlaville. From the years 1647 and 1649 there are reports of the abandoned village and its deserted lands.
1793 was the village of Long la Ville, which was incorporated on 22 June 1810 Herserange The village then had less than 200 inhabitants. The community Herserange - Longlaville existed until 1897, when Longlaville became independent again. The separation which was due to the rapid development of the population Longlavilles by the iron ore mining, years of controversy over the use of schools, church and parsonage was preceded. In 1906, the population Longlavilles had over 1810 more than tenfold.
Characteristic of Longlaville was long the iron ore mining and smelting. Mined the iron-rich minette rock. The Minette deposit was one of the most important iron ore deposits in the world. The reserves were estimated at 6 billion tons of ore with an iron content of 1.95 billion tons. The high phosphorus content of the Minette prevented long time industrial mining, then started after the introduction of the Thomas process. After the Franco-German War of 1870/71 were part of Lorraine to the German Empire. The limit was set so that large parts of the known Minettevorkommens were in German territory. For this purpose, among others, the geologist Wilhelm Hauchecorne had used, who was a member of the Border Regulatory Commission. Holes in the 1880s showed that the Minettevorkommen further extended to the west than previously thought, while increased with increasing depth in thickness and iron content. By 1909, so emerged in the French part of Lorraine, in particular in the Basin of Briey also several mines that promoted Minette in the shaft operation.
With the establishment of the first blast furnace in 1880, a long period of growth in Longlaville began. She went in the early 1980s to the end, as the dozen mining and steel factories were closed down due to cheaper competition from overseas. The decline of the iron and steel industry in the region Longwy was accompanied by sustained protests. In the years since 1980, slowly new industries could be located. This resulted in Longlaville on the border with Luxembourg the industrial area Pôle Européen de Développement.
Demographics
Coat of arms
The coat of arms on the right shows a golden fish on a blue background, a part of the crest of the Dukes of Bar, which once was under Longlaville. Left-hand flag is remembered with a stylized blast furnace to the industrial history of the community. Longlaville leads this coat since 24 October 1967.
Attractions
- Banquet Hall Jean Ferrat for up to 800 visitors in the park Duclos
- Church of Saint- Laurent, 1897/1898 built to replace a dilapidated chapel
- Art Deco glass window in the former administration building of steel plant Longlaville
Transport links
The Longlaville exit on the finished two-thirds Autoroute A30 is the last before the Belgian border. It connects the metropolitan area with Metz and Thionville, and Longwy to Arlon Belgium. More road connections are available to Luxembourg (municipality Pétange ) and in the neighboring communities Herserange and Mont -Saint -Martin. The nearest train station is three kilometers away in Longwy ( line Longuyon - Athus ).