Noun
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Nancy | |
| Canton | Entre Seille et Meurthe | |
| Community association | Seille and Grand Couronné | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 ' N , 6 ° 14' E | |
| height | 179-340 m | |
| surface | 17.79 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,174 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 66 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 54610 | |
| INSEE code | 54400 | |
| Website | https://nomeny.wordpress.com/ | |
Nomeny is a French commune with 1,174 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
location
Nomeny is located between Metz and Nancy , about 15 kilometers east of Pont-à-Mousson , on the banks of the Seille .
history
First mentioned in a document in 609, Nomeny belonged for a long time to the bishops of Metz , who temporarily resided there. The bishops fortified the place with walls and towers and lived in a castle.
In 1548 Nomeny came into the possession of Nicolas de Lorraine, duc de Mercœur . Two influential children of this Nicolas were born in Nomeny:
- 1553 Louise , who through her marriage to Heinrich III. became French queen.
- 1558 Philippe-Emmanuel , Duke of Mercœur and Penthièvre , Peer of France , Governor of Brittany , Marquis ( Marquis ) of Nomeny, military leader during the Huguenot Wars .
Françoise de Lorraine-Mercœur , daughter of Philippe-Emmanuel, sold the Margraviate of Nomeny to her cousin, Duke Henry II of Lorraine in 1612 . Heinrich II's widow, Duchess Margarita Gonzaga , lived in Nomeny from 1624 to 1629.
In 1632 Nomeny suffered badly from the plague and the unrest of the Thirty Years' War . Richelieu had the towers of the city walls torn down. Forty years later, Louis XIV ordered the demolition of the fortifications and castle of Nomeny.
In 1766 the place became - like the entire Duchy of Lorraine - French. From 1790 Nomeny belonged to the Meurthe department , from 1871 to the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.
On August 20, 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , German troops destroyed large parts of Nomeny.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 924 | 944 | 917 | 1005 | 1069 | 1082 | 1135 | 1174 |
Worth seeing
- Gothic church of Saint-Étienne with remarkable sculptures (including a group of entombments with 10 figures) and windows, Monument historique
- Ruins of the Château de Nomeny, Monument historique
Broadcasting station
South of Nomeny is a medium wave transmitter of the French radio, which is operated on 837 kHz with 300 kW transmission power. Two 160-meter-high steel truss masts isolated from the ground are used as the transmitting antenna.
Personalities
- Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont , wife of the French King Henry III. , Born in 1553 in the castle of Nomeny.
- Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine , brother of Queen Louise, born in 1558 in the castle of Nomeny.
- Marguerite de Lorraine, sister of the aforementioned, born in 1564, married to Anne de Batarnay de Joyeuse (1581), later to François de Luxembourg, Duke of Piney-Luxembourg (1599).
- Jean-François Tapray , organist and composer, born in Nomeny in 1738, died after 1800.
- Alexandre-Anne Jardot, military and writer, officer of the Legion of Honor (1851), born in Nomeny on June 15, 1804, died in Paris on January 24, 1890.
literature
- Klaus Bernarding: Lothringer Passagen . Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken 2007. ISBN 978-3-936950-65-6 .
swell
- ^ Church of Saint-Étienne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Château de Nomeny in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
