Yutz

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Yutz
Yutz coat of arms
Yutz (France)
Yutz
region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Thionville
Canton Yutz (main town)
Community association Portes de France-Thionville
Coordinates 49 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 11 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 11 ′  E
height 147-217 m
surface 13.97 km 2
Residents 16,537 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1,184 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 57970
INSEE code

Church of St. Ursula in Yutz

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Yutz ( German Jeutz , Lorraine Jäitz ) is a French commune with 16,537 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The inhabitants call themselves Yussois and Yutzois . Nickname: "The Muertentrippler", those who trample on carrots.

geography

Yutz is on the Moselle opposite the city of Thionville .

history

The area was already inhabited by Celts in the La Tène period , as the discovery of the Basse-Yutz pots shows . The place was first mentioned in 830 as Judich . Today's municipality was created in 1970 by merging the two municipalities of Basse-Yutz (Niederjeutz) and Haute-Yutz (Oberjeutz).

The two Basse Yutz jugs are ceremonial vessels from the Iron Age (middle of the 5th century BC). They were discovered under poorly documented circumstances in the 1920s. When they were purchased by the British Museum, they were described as "great masterpieces combining most of the key features of early Celtic art". In many ways they are similar to the Kanne from Dürrnberg in Austria .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 10,565 11,327 17,029 15,444 13,920 14,687 16,019 16,537

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Yutz  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Yutz  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Passé-Présent, La Moselle dévoilée, n ° 6, Juin-Juillet-Août 2012. [1] PDF file, p. 14
  2. Monika Buchmüller-Pfaff: settlement names between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The -iacum name of the Roman province of Belgica Prima. 1990, page 690.