Longlaville
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Briey | |
| Canton | Villerupt | |
| Community association | Longwy | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 32 ' N , 5 ° 48' E | |
| height | 255-391 m | |
| surface | 3.17 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,486 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 784 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 54810 | |
| INSEE code | 54321 | |
Longlaville ( Luxembourgish Longsduerf , German Longsdorf ) is a French commune with 2,486 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Briey and the Longwy community association .
geography
The municipality of Longlaville is located immediately northeast of Longwy on the border with Luxembourg . The municipality extends along the Chiers , a tributary of the Meuse . The Chierstal (German: Korntal ) is almost 1000 m wide in the Longlaville area. The terrain rises steeply to the southeast and reaches its highest point in the municipality at 391 m above sea level in the municipal forest ( Bois de Longlaville ). There is a quarry in the northeast of the municipality, near the border with Luxembourg. The remains of industrial wasteland can still be found to the west and north of the village. In the meantime, new medium-sized companies have settled on parts of the former industrial sites.
Neighboring municipalities to Longlaville are Pétange (Luxembourg) in the northeast, Saulnes in the east, Herserange in the south, Longwy in the southwest and Mont-Saint-Martin in the northwest.
history
The area around Longlaville recovered only very slowly from the devastating destruction of the Thirty Years' War . From the years 1647 and 1649 there are reports about the abandoned village and its deserted lands.
In 1793 the village was called Long la Ville , which was united with Herserange on June 22, 1810. At that time the village had fewer than 200 inhabitants. The municipality of Herserange-Longlaville existed until 1897, when Longlaville became independent again. The separation, which occurred due to the rapid population growth of Longlaville through iron ore mining, was preceded by years of dispute over the use of schools, church and rectory. In 1906 the population of Longlaville had increased more than tenfold compared to 1810.
For a long time, iron ore mining and smelting were characteristic of Longlaville. The iron-bearing minette rock was mined . The Minette deposit was one of the most important iron ore deposits on earth. The reserves were estimated at 6 billion tons of ore with an iron content of 1950 million tons. The high phosphorus content of the minette prevented industrial mining for a long time, which then began after the introduction of the Thomas process . After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, parts of Lorraine fell to the German Empire. The limit was set in such a way that large parts of the well-known Minette occurrence were in what was now the German Alsace-Lorraine . The geologist Wilhelm Hauchecorne , who was a member of the border regulation commission, had campaigned for this. Drilling in the 1880s revealed that the Minette deposits extended further west than previously thought, increasing in thickness and iron content with increasing depth. By 1909 several mines were built in the French part of Lorraine, especially in the Briey basin , which mined minette.
With the construction of the first blast furnace in 1880, Longlaville began a long period of growth. It came to an end in the early 1980s when a series of mining and steel operations closed due to cheap competition from overseas. The decline of the iron and steel industry in the Longwy area was accompanied by sustained protests. In the years since 1980, new industries have slowly been established. This is how the industrial area Pôle de Développement Européen was created in Longlaville on the border with Luxembourg .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 | |
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| Residents | 3057 | 3355 | 2943 | 2625 | 2305 | 2377 | 2481 | 2486 | |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
coat of arms
The coat of arms on the right shows a golden fish on a blue background, half of the coat of arms of the Dukes of Bar , to whom Longlaville was once subordinate. On the left, a stylized blast furnace commemorates the industrial history of the municipality. Longlaville has had this coat of arms since October 24, 1967.
Attractions
- Jean Ferrat event hall for up to 800 visitors, in Duclos Park
- Saint-Laurent church, built in 1897/1898 to replace a dilapidated chapel
- Art Deco glass windows in the former administration building of the Longlaville steelworks
Economy and Infrastructure
Longlaville has three grocery stores, two bakeries, two electrical appliance stores, a shoe store, a bookstore, a butcher's shop and a clothing store.
The Longlaville exit on the two-thirds completed Autoroute A 30 is the last before the Belgian border. It connects the Longwy conurbation with Metz and Thionville as well as the Belgian Arlon . There are further road connections to Luxembourg (municipality of Pétange ) and the neighboring municipalities of Herserange and Mont-Saint-Martin . The nearest train station is in Longwy, three kilometers away ( Longuyon - Athus line ).
supporting documents
- ^ Helmut Frühauf: Iron industry and hard coal mining in the Neunkirchen / Saar area. (= Research on German Regional Studies , Volume 217) Central Committee for German Regional Studies, Trier 1980, ISBN 3-88143-010-5 , p. 56.
- ↑ We're sitting here on a powder keg . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1979 ( online ).
- ↑ Longlaville on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Longlaville on insee.fr
- ↑ Description of the coat of arms on genealogie-lorraine.fr
- ↑ Une nouvelle salle de spectacle pour Longlaville . In: l'essentiel , November 17, 2011
- ↑ Shops on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
