Dieulouard
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Nancy | |
| Canton | Entre Seille et Meurthe (main town) | |
| Community association | Bassin de Pont-à-Mousson | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 50 ′ N , 6 ° 4 ′ E | |
| height | 177-307 m | |
| surface | 17.69 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,763 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 269 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 54380 | |
| INSEE code | 54157 | |
| Website | http://www.dieulouard.fr/ | |
Dieulouard is a French commune with 4,763 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). Since 2015, the municipality has been the capital of the newly created canton Entre Seille et Meurthe .
According to a legend , the place name comes from the exclamation of a bishop "Dieu le garde" ( German God protect him ).
geography
The municipality of Dieulouard is located in northeastern France on the left bank of the Moselle, about halfway between Nancy and Metz . The next larger town is Pont-à-Mousson about six kilometers north. The Côtes de Moselle ridge runs parallel to the west of the Moselle and is interrupted for a few hundred meters right here. A crossing of the river has always been particularly advantageous at this point.
Dieulouard has a train station that is served by the TER Lorraine with route 1 (Nancy – Luxembourg) every hour. Furthermore, the place is on the D657 (north-south direction) and the D10 (east-west direction) with a bridge over the Moselle and Moselle side canal. There are some fish ponds between the side canal and the Moselle.
history
In the center of the village right next to the church is the old Dieulouard castle , which was built at the end of the 10th century, redesigned in the 15th and 16th centuries and has been a listed building since 1927 . Originally, a fortified house from the Gallo-Roman period, which stood on the Roman road , was built on the site of the castle . From the 9th century it was the ancestral seat of the Scarponnois family and Scarponnois ' cultural and political center . The oldest ascertainable progenitor of the count dynasty is Richwin (Scarpone) († 1028).
The origins of the castle, which can still be seen today, go back to the Bishop of Metz, Adalbero II, from the Wigeriche family and formerly Bishop of Verdun , who had a fortification built there in 997 to protect the inhabitants of the village near the ruins of Protect Scarpone. The first written mention can be found in a letter from Emperor Conrad II from 1028, in which the founding of the monastery of Gellamont , which was very close, is mentioned. Over the centuries, the castle and the place have been the scene of devastating battles several times; in the 12th century the castle was almost razed to the ground but rebuilt. In the 14th century the castle was expanded into an imposing fortress . It received a single, 100-meter-long driveway from the east with a drawbridge , a polygonal floor plan and seven round towers . Only the eighth tower in the west was square. The walls received battlements and were raised to 20 meters in the 16th century.
In 1660 the castle was razed and sold to interested citizens as national property with the French Revolution . Dozens of families moved in, broke new window openings and laid out gardens.
Today the castle houses a hotel and a museum with traces of settlement from the ancient city of Scarpone as well as weapons from the last three wars.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 4854 | 5332 | 5372 | 5212 | 4903 | 4771 | 4568 | 4763 |
Industry
About a kilometer south upstream is from the center of a commodity work of Saint Gobain and the dam to generate electricity Barrage d'Autreville sur Moselle .
Parish partnership
Dieulouard has been a partner municipality in Hofheim (Lampertheim) since October 1993 .
literature
- Lucien Geindre: Le château de Dieulouard - Histoire & description, in: Le Pays lorrain , 34th year 1953, No. 4, pages 153-159
- Gerold Bönnen: The episcopal city of Toul and its surrounding area during the high and late Middle Ages, Trier Historical Research Publishing House, 1996, ISBN 9783923087242 , page 179f.
- Reclam's art guide: France, Volume 3, Reclam-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 9783150103197 , page 124f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Wipper: The Way of St. James from Trier to Le Puy; DuMont Reiseverlag, 2010; ISBN 978-3-7701-8012-7 , page 48.
- ^ Entry at the Ministry of Culture
- ↑ Dieulouard - jumelage website ( memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
