Thionville
Location
Longitude	06° 10' 09" E
Latitude	49° 21' 32" N
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Moselle (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement	Thionville Est and Ouest
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality	Portes de France-Thionville
Mayor	Jean-Marie Demange (1995-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	147 m–423 m (avg. 150 m)
Land area¹	49.86 km²
Population² (1999)	(Thionvillois) 40,907
- Density (1999)	820/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	57672/ 57100
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Thionville (German: Diedenhofen, Luxembourgish: Diedennuewen), is a town and commune in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine région, France. The city is located near the Moselle River. Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda),[1][2] describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter phi, , gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... France is divided into 26 régions, further subdivided into départements. ... Location Administration Capital Metz Regional President Jean-Pierre Masseret (PS) (since 2004) Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle Meuse Moselle Vosges Arrondissements 19 Cantons 157 Communes 2,337 Statistics Land area1 23,547 km² Population (Ranked 11th)  - January 1, 2005 est. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ... Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ... The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ... The canton is an administrative division of France. ... The commune is an administrative division of France. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... Luxembourgish, Luxemburgish, or Luxembourgian (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuergesch, French: , German: , Walloon: ) is a West Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Moselle is a département in the northeast of France named after the Moselle River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Location Administration Capital Metz Regional President Jean-Pierre Masseret (PS) (since 2004) Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle Meuse Moselle Vosges Arrondissements 19 Cantons 157 Communes 2,337 Statistics Land area1 23,547 km² Population (Ranked 11th)  - January 1, 2005 est. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... The Moselle (French Moselle, German Mosel, Luxembourgish Musel, Dutch Moezel, from Latin Mosella, little Meuse) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg and Germany, joining the Rhine river at Koblenz. ...

Demographics

The population boomed in the Industrial Revolution, but economic slowdown of the 1970s affected Thionville and areas, causing a population decrease. The population rose again in the 1990s and in suburban Hettange-Grande in the east, although the population of the western part of the new agglomeration is decreasing around Hayange. The agglomeration is still losing population but the decrease has been slowed down. Due to Thionville's proximity to Luxembourg (15 kilometers from the border), the town's population and quality of life have both increased since the end of the 1990s. A Watt steam engine in Madrid. ... Hayange is a town (pop. ...

History

The region after Antiquity was inhabited by the Germanic Alamanni. The Synod of Thionville was held from February 2, 835. It reinstated Emperor Louis the Pious and reversed his former conviction of crimes — none of which he actually committed — and deposed the Archbishop of Rheims, Ebbo. It was composed of 43 bishops. On February 28, 835 in Mainz, Ebbo admitted that Louis had not committed the crimes of which he had been indicted and for which he had been deposed as Holy Roman Emperor. Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD... area settled by the Alamanni, and sites of Roman-Alamannic battles, 3rd to 6th century The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Main, land that is today part of Germany. ... The Synod of Thionville was an important synod (or council) of ecclesiastic dignitaries of the Carolingian Empire in 835. ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Ragnar Lodbrok rises to power (approximate date) The celebration of All Saints is made an obligation throughout the Frankish Empire and fixed on November 1. ... Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. ... The Archdiocese of Reims was founded (as a diocese) around 250 by St. ... Saint Mark from the Ebbo Gospels. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events Ragnar Lodbrok rises to power (approximate date) The celebration of All Saints is made an obligation throughout the Frankish Empire and fixed on November 1. ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ...

Eskil, Archbishop of Lund was imprisoned at Thionville (at the instigation of the Archbishop of Bremen?) on his return from his 1153 pilgrimage to Rome. Eskil () is a district of Aksaray Province of Turkey. ... The Diocese of Lund is the southernmost diocese in the Church of Sweden. ... The Archbishopric of Bremen was an ecclesiastical state in the Holy Roman Empire. ...

The Siege of Thionville in June 1639 occurred as part of the Thirty Years' War. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Thionville

The writer François-René de Chateaubriand was left for dead during Condés military émigré expedition against Thionville in 1792 Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2168x1970, 561 KB) Author: http://lb. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2168x1970, 561 KB) Author: http://lb. ... François-René de Chateaubriand, painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, beginning of 19th century. ... Condé is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Condé, in the Indre département Condé-sur-lEscaut, in the Nord département Condé-sur-Ifs, in the Calvados département Condé-sur-Marne, in the Ardennes département Condé-sur-Noireau, in the...

From 1870-1918, Thionville was part of the German Empire under its German name Diedenhofen. Motto: Gott mit Uns (German: God with us”) Anthem: Heil dir im Siegerkranz (unofficial) Territory of the German Empire in 1914, prior to World War I Capital Berlin Language(s) Official: German Unofficial minority languages: Polish (Posen, Lower Silesia,Upper Silesia, Masuria) French (Alsace-Lorraine) Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor  - 1871...

Industry

• Iron and steel plant
• Chemical plant
• Cement factory

General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... For other uses, see Steel (disambiguation). ... A Chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures chemicals, usually on a large scale. ... In the most general sense of the word, cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. ...

Administration

Incorporations:

• Veymerange, in 1967
• Volkrange, in 1970
• Garche (not continguous with the rest of the commune, Kœking and Œutrange in 1970

Thionville is divided into two cantons (districts). It belongs to Thionville Est (East), while the seat of the district of Thionville Ouest (West) which it does not form a part of Thionville:

• Thionville Est (East): 19,063 (46.6% of the total population)
• Thionville Ouest (West): 21,844 (53.4% of the total population)

See also

• Merlin of Thionville

Antoine Christophe Merlin (September 13, 1762 - September 14, 1833), was a member of several legislative bodies during the era of the French Revolution. ...

Sources and external links

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• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. passim
• Thionville
• Fort de Guentrange
• Taxis de Thionville
• Site sur la culture et l'histoire de Thionville
• Le forum des thionvillois
• Town council website (French)
• Mapquest - Thionville