Briey
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| local community | Val de Briey | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Briey | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 15 ′ N , 5 ° 56 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 54150 | |
| Former INSEE code | 54099 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.ville-briey.fr | |
 Town Hall ( Mairie ) |
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Briey is a town and commune déléguée in the French commune of Val de Briey with 5,729 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The people of Briey are called Briotins .
location
Briey is located in an industrial region northwest of Metz . The basis of the industrial settlements were the iron ore deposits in the Briey basin . The industrial region of Hagondange -Briey had over 130,000 inhabitants in the 1970s, but the number fell to 112,000 by 1990.
The medieval upper town, Briey-Haut, towers over the lower town, Briey-Bas, which lies on the banks of the Woigot . Both quarters are connected by the garden-lined Grand Rue . The Woigot is dammed up here to the Plan d'Eau de la Sangue , around whose water surface a leisure center was created. The Briey-en-Forêt district was laid out in the 1960s around the Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier .
Briey is a major transport hub. From here major roads lead to Metz, Jarny , Longwy and Longuyon , Verdun , Thionville as well as to Luxembourg and the Ardennes ( Sedan , Charleville-Mézières ).
history
The name of the city has its origins in the Celtic word briga (fortress). The castle of the Counts of Bar was first mentioned in 1076. City rights were granted in 1263.
Briey was set on fire by the butchers in 1369, taken by Charles the Bold in 1475 , ravaged by the Protestants in 1591 and by the Swedes in 1635.
From 1800 to 1871 Briey was a sub-prefecture (administrative seat of an arrondissement) in the Moselle department . The arrondissement stayed with France when the rest of the département came to Germany through the Treaty of Frankfurt and was incorporated into the Meurthe-et-Moselle département.
The municipality of Briey merged with Mance and Mancieulles on January 1, 2017 to form the new municipality of Val de Briey. The municipality was the administrative seat of the Arrondissement Briey , capital of the canton Briey and seat of the municipality association Pays de Briey . Briey is a district of the municipality of Val de Briey .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Residents | 5391 | 4966 | 5352 | 4357 | 4514 | 4858 | 5220 |
Attractions
- Church of Saint-Gengoult (12th century) with the Calvaire by Ligier Richier , a group of six carved wooden figures in natural size, Monument historique
- Bell tower (1722), Monument historique
- Town Hall (1750), Monument historique
- Cité Radieuse , built in 1960 based on plans by Le Corbusier
- Sangsue reservoir
- Moyeuvre-Grande State Forest
Saint-Gengoult church
Bell tower
Town twinning
- Niederaussem (Germany); since 1958.
- Szczawno-Zdrój (Poland); since 1991.
swell
- ↑ Saint-Gengoult Church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Bell tower in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Town Hall in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
