Moyeuvre-Grande
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Thionville | |
| Canton | Hayange | |
| Community association | Pays Orne Moselle | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 15 ' N , 6 ° 3' E | |
| height | 168-330 m | |
| surface | 9.59 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,823 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 816 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 57250 | |
| INSEE code | 57491 | |
| Website | Moyeuvre-Grande | |
Moyeuvre-Grande (1871-1915 German wholesale moyeuvre , 1915-18 Großmövern and 1940-44 Mövern ) is a French municipality with 7823 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Moselle in the region of Grand Est (before 2016 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Thionville .
geography
The community of Moyeuvre-Grande is located 15 kilometers southwest of Thionville on the Orne and its tributary Conroy . The municipality borders on the Meurthe-et-Moselle department to the west .
history
The place was first mentioned in 871 under the name Modover and is located in the middle of the Lorraine ore region. Ore mining and associated forges have been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Although the place has always been on the French side of the historical German-French language border , it came to the German Empire in 1871 through the Peace of Frankfurt , since Germany insisted on the cession of the eastern half of the Lorraine ore region. Numerous residents then emigrated to France, but at the same time, with the onset of industrialization, an economic rise in the region began. From 1871 to 1915 the place had the official German name Groß-Moyeuvre , from 1915 to 1918 it was Germanized into Großmövern . In 1918 the town fell back to France with the Treaty of Versailles .
From 1940 to 1944 the place was once again under German control under the name Mövern , but because of its status as an industrial location, most of the inhabitants escaped the expulsion of the French-speaking Lorraine, which was carried out by the German civil administration in the autumn of 1940.
Until 2015, Moyeuvre-Grande was the eponymous capital of the canton of Moyeuvre-Grande, which was dissolved that year .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 15,146 | 14,568 | 12,523 | 10,287 | 9203 | 8994 | 8210 | 7823 |
The decline of iron ore mining in the early 1970s resulted in a wave of emigration in Moyeuvre-Grande, which continues to affect the population development today.
Saint-Gorgon Church
Protestant church
Chateau
German military cemetery 1870–1871
traffic
The Moyeuvre-Grande stop is on the Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple-Hagondange railway line .
Personalities
- Claus Selzner (1899–1944), National Socialist politician
- Françoise de Panafieu (* 1948), politician
- Jean-Luc Deganis (* 1959), basketball player
- Nicolas Engel (* 1854, † after 1918), mine director in Groß-Moyeuvre and member of the state parliament of Alsace-Lorraine
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 30, 1915, No. 54. Announcement No. 721, p. 350f.