Audun-le-Tiche
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Thionville | |
| Canton | Algrange | |
| Community association | Pays Haut Val d'Alzette | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 ' N , 5 ° 57' E | |
| height | 294-452 m | |
| surface | 15.43 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,846 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 444 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57390 | |
| INSEE code | 57038 | |
| Website | www.audun-le-tiche.fr | |
 Tomb of the Merovingian necropolis |
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Audun-le-Tiche ( German Deutsch-Oth , also Deutschet or Deutsch Altheim , Luxembourgish Däitsch-Oth ) is a French commune with 6,846 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ) . The inhabitants call themselves Audunois . Besides Audun-le-Tiche there is also Audun-le-Roman . The two names stand for the former language border between German-Lorraine and Welsch-Lorraine. The former name "Audun-le-Thieu" means like the current name that this Audun (or Oth or Altheim) belonged to the German-speaking area, as conversely the Audun-le-Roman, only a few kilometers away, belongs to the Romance-speaking area (e) . With these names, the pairs of opposites "tiche" and "roman" represent an exceptionally rare and apparently very old designation for "German" and "French" in the French language, because "Allemand" has long been used in the French language for "German" and for "Welsch (" Romanisch ")" Français "enforced, as is the case with the Saar tributary Nied , which has two upper reaches" Nied Allemande "and" Nied Française ".
geography
The municipality is located in the north-west of the Moselle department, on the border with Luxembourg and the Meurthe-et-Moselle department . Not far from Audun-le-Tiche is the source of the Alzette .
history
The history of the place is shaped by the iron industry. In particular, the German mining industrialist Adolph Kirdorf invested heavily in the construction and takeover of several blast furnace plants and collieries from 1892 onwards. 1944 was sub-camp German-Oth of the Natzweiler-Struthof for underground mining. In 1964 the last blast furnace was shut down. After that, the number of inhabitants decreased continuously from formerly over 8500. In 1997 the last iron ore mine in France was closed in Audun-le-Tiche.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 |
| Residents | 8,522 | 7,698 | 6,831 | 6,391 | 5,959 | 5,757 | 6.152 |
Attractions
The Merovingian necropolis from the 7th century is worth seeing .
Town twinning
Audun-le-Tiche has been twinning with the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Birkenfeld (Nahe) since 2010 . In addition, partnerships have existed since 1979 with Gualdo Tadino in Umbria (Italy), since 1996 (renewed in 2011) with Duszniki-Zdrój in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Poland) and since 2007 with the French Loudun in the Vienne department .
Personalities
Born in the place
- Raymond Cicci (1929–2012), French football player
- Jules Sbroglia (1929–2007), French football player, coach and official
- Sébastien Rémy (* 1974), football player
Have worked in the place
- François Boch (1700–1754), founded the porcelain manufacturer "Jean-François Boch et Frères" in Audun-le-Tiche in 1748, later " Villeroy & Boch Ceramic Works "
- François Fick (1862 - after 1918), wholesale merchant, member of the state parliament and mayor of Deutsch-Oth
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ List of camps , Struthof - The site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp, accessed on March 22, 2015