Thionville

Thionville is a commune in the northeastern French department of Moselle. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.

Government
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Moselle
Canton	Thionville, Yutz
Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Cuny (DVD)
Area¹	49.86 km² (19.25 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)	40,701
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)

Economy

steel industry ;
chemistry ;
cement plant ;
river port of Thionville-Illange ( 7 ^e of France);
branch of the Moselle Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

These industries are aging and no longer meet economic needs ( cf. steel crisis of 1970). No solution having been proposed. This reinforces the European character of this city, but underlines its inability to create stable jobs (almost no services) which make it very dependent on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .

The economy of neighboring countries – Luxembourg , Belgium , Germany – allows the city to remain dynamic. In 2019, more than 100,000 cross- border workers cross the Franco-Luxembourg border every day, where wages are significantly higher than the French average for an equivalent position.

Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau nursery school;
La Garenne nursery school;
downtown nursery school;
La Petite Lor nursery school;
nursery and primary school The poppies;
Raymond-Poincaré primary school
Hélène-Boucher college and high school ;
Saint-Pierre-Chanel college and high school ;
institute Notre-Dame-de-la-Providence;
Thionville University Institute of Technology, etc.

Transport

The Gare de Thionville railway station offers connections with Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, Brussels, Zürich, and several regional destinations. The A31 motorway connects Thionville with Luxembourg and Metz.

Local Culture and Heritage

The town is the capital of the eponymous country .

Sobriquets

In the vicinity of Yutz , the Thionvillois were nicknamed d’Stader (the townspeople), in the sense of “proud” or “pretentious”. The bourgeois Thionville passed indeed for very proud people, because they considered high villagers from the surrounding villages.

Concerning the pretty Thionvilloises, they were given the nickname of D’Stader Boken (the Thionville carnival masks).

Places and monuments

Castle of the Counts of Luxembourg

The castle of the Counts of Luxembourg, in Thionville center, has been listed as a historical monument. The sector of the “Court of the castle”, first nucleus of the city of Thionville, seems to correspond to the site of a Carolingian domain, palacio publico , mentioned in 770, where Charlemagne and his successors stayed on several occasions.

From the x ^th century, Thionville Luxembourg passes under domination and the counts of Luxembourg are building a castle in one place. The tower Flea, powerful polygonal tower at two sides, built in the xi ^th and xii ^th century, was probably the dungeon. The 140 by 80 meter enclosure, defended by several towers (of which only the “twin towers” and the tower at the back of the court yard remain) is still visible on the city map. This castle of Thionville including barns to store the royalties of the count’s domain and a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicolas (whose location is unknown today) becomes from 1292 the residence of the provost. At the same time, a city developed outside this first enclosure.

From the end of the xiv ^th century or the beginning of the xv ^th century, noble families have the right to build a house inside the castle (hotel Raville-Septfontaine, hotel Créhange-Pittange , Eltz hotel).

Belfry

The old belfry has been registered as a historical monument since May 27, 1980. The franchise charter granted by the counts of Luxembourg to the bourgeois of Thionville in 1239 authorizes the latter to build an enclosure with a watchtower where there is a lookout (mentioned in 1315). In the xiv ^th century, construction of the first belfry, symbol of communal liberties. It is then a set made up of a tower (belfry strictly speaking) and an annexed municipal building, on the street of the old Town Hall, housing among others a courtroom and a hospital.

Other:

Paleolithic Iron Age sites and surface stations ;
Milliary Danubian pits;
Traces of Roman road ;
Gallo-Roman pottery and coins;
Picturesque houses of the xv ^th to the xviii ^th centuries;
Courthouse , former provost house and former Eltz hotel.
Old hotel lords of Créhange-Pittange
Hotel called Maison Nels. Hotel between courtyard and garden built in 1781 (date extended) whose garden was leaned against the rampart. One of the rare hotels built in Thionville, destroyed at the same time as the whole block (odd numbers) around 1970 during the construction of a large complex. There remains a photographic cover and surveys carried out by the technical services of the city just before demolition.
Hôtel de Saint-Rémy also known as Hôtel de Gargan. Hotel built on the site of the former Hôtel des Gouverneurs de Thionville (transferred around 1660 to the north of the city). The current building seems to date back to 1741 (date carried by a clip on the left body). It was transformed into post-horses in 1808 and restored in the xix ^th century.
Hôtel du Lieutenant du Roi.
Rue de la Tour houses turret staircase xvi ^th century, dating back to the Spanish occupation;
Place Anne-Grommerch (former market square), lined with arcades ;
Group of houses xviii ^th century high roofs of slate , in the old town;
Metallurgy monument;
The altar of the fatherland , Place Claude Arnoult has been classified as historical monuments since theSeptember 15, 1995. It is a rare monument of the Revolution , with that of Fontvieille , erected on 1 ^st Vendémiaire Year V (1796);
the museum of the Tower Flea ;
Château known as “ Le Hof ” in Guentrange; xviii ^th century.
Lever press, at Crève-Cœur;
Thionville town hall , former Poor Clare convent (1629): late Renaissance facade with arches.
Volkrange Castle
Flea Tower
Fortification of Thionville

Military cemetery

Thionville Military Cemetery (Russo-Franco-German cemetery).

Books military

Thionville enclosure
Fort de Guentrange , 1899-1905 built by the Germans.
Former castle of Gassion, its real name: Château Neuf-Bourg.
Porte du Couronné d’Yutz , known as the Porte de Sarrelouis.
Gate said town of Saarlouis monument built in 1746 by Louis Cormontaigne at the end of Crowned Yutz then transformed into bunkers in the last quarter of the xix ^th century under the German occupation.

Civil buildings

Hôtel de Raville

The Hôtel de Raville has been listed as a historical monument since May 27, 1980. Double corbelled staircase turret, mullioned windows; Hôtel de Raville, currently annexed to the town hall. The noble families were allowed to build a house inside the castle, captains lords of the city. Contrary to popular opinion the most common, the left part of the hotel contemporary looks from the rest but heavily reworked in the xviii ^th century. the building has been “restored” to the German era, it is difficult to understand all the steps, the provisions interior are no longer readable after conversion into offices, the polygonal tower overhanging the end of the xv ^th century, is a very rare model in Lorraine, apparently imported from Flanders.

Theater

The municipal theater, located near the Place de la Liberté, was designed by the architect Édouard Lardillier and inaugurated in 1960. Closed for some time due to dilapidation, it was restored and reopened during the 2012-2013 season.