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Longwy
Longwy (; older , ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, administrative region of Grand Est, northeastern France. The inhabitants are known as ''Longoviciens''. In 2008, the ''ville neuve'' ("New Town") was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the "Fortifications of Vauban" group for its contributions to the development of military architecture and engineering. Economy Longwy has historically been an industrial center of the Lorraine (province), Lorraine iron mining district. Factories lined the river in historic postcards. The town is also known for its artistic faience, produced there since 1798. It is produced today by the Société des faïenceries de Longwy et Senelle, often in cooperation with artists and ceramists. Overglaze decoration, Overglaze enamel decoration, known as ''émaux'' and often in a manner similar to cloisonné, has been produced in Longwy ceramics since 1872. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Longwy Agglomération
Grand Longwy Agglomération (before September 2021: ''Communauté d'agglomération de Longwy'') Meurthe-et-Moselle, p. 11. is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunal structure, centred on the Communes of France, town of Longwy. It is located in the Meurthe-et-Moselle departments of France, department, in the Grand Est regions of France, region, northeastern France. Created in 1960, its seat is in Longwy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Longwy
The Château de Longwy is a ruined castle, incorporated into the town's fortifications, in the '' commune'' of Longwy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle ''département'' of France. History Dating probably from the 11th century, the castle passed at the end of the 12th century from the possession of the Counts of Bar to the Dukes of Lorraine. The Bars regained it in 1292 and held it until its destruction, making it the northernmost stronghold of their lands. It was taken by the French in 1646 and destroyed in 1672, at the same time as the rest of the town's fortifications, to permit the future construction of Longwy's stronghold. All that is left are remains of a tower which had probably been reconstructed in the 15th century (possibly the ''tour de'' (tower of) ''Malcouvert'' or ''Maucouvert'' mentioned in 16th century texts) situated at the extreme north of the site. The castle comprised 11 towers, a keep and two gates. It was constructed from limestone. Longwy: Château Fort The remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longwy Station
Longwy station is a railway station serving the town Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle department, northeastern France. It is situated on the Longuyon–Mont-Saint-Martin railway. The station is served by regional trains towards Luxembourg, Charleville-Mézières and Nancy.Le réseau TER Fluo TER Grand Est, accessed 25 May 2022. |
Route Nationale 52
The Route Nationale 52 is a French trunk road (Route nationale) between Marange-Silvange and Aubange (Belgium). This road is a dual carriageway between Rombas and Fameck and between Crusnes and Aubange (Belgium), but it is also a two-way road between Marange-Silvange and Rombas and formerly between Metz and Marange-Silvange and between Fameck and Crusnes. This road has an essential place in the Pays Haut (north of Meurthe-et-Moselle) as it serves as an essential access to the cities of Longwy in the northwest and Thionville Thionville (; ; ) is a city in the northeastern French Departments of France, department of Moselle (department), Moselle. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle (river), Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz. History Thionvi ... and Metz in the southeast. Junctions (Rombas to Fameck) Junctions (Crusnes to Aubange) References External links N52 Highway on Saratlas {{DEFAULTSORT:052 052 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s, through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including clothing, fashion, and jewelry. Art Deco has influenced buildings from skyscrapers to cinemas, bridges, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects, including radios and vacuum cleaners. The name Art Deco came into use after the 1925 (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris. It has its origin in the bold geometric forms of the Vienna Secession and Cubism. From the outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bright colors of Fauvism and the Ballets Russes, and the exoticized styles of art from Chinese art, China, Japanese art, Japan, Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortifications Of Vauban
The Fortifications of Vauban is a UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the borders of France. They were designed by renowned military architect Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707) during the reign of King Louis XIV. These sites include a variety of fortifications, ranging from citadels, to mountain batteries and sea fortifications, to bastion walls and towers. In addition, the site includes cities built from scratch by Vauban and communication towers. These sites were chosen because they exemplify Vauban's work, bearing witness to the influence of his designs on military and civilian engineering on a global scale from the 17th century to the 20th century. The network of major sites of Vauban is an association of cities created on 30 March 2005 at the initiative of the city of Besançon. It includes the twelve sites which best represent the fortification system erected by Vauban. The application file was selected on 5 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine
Lorraine, also , ; ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; ; ; is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est. Its name stems from the medieval kingdom of Lotharingia (855–959 AD), which in turn was named after either Emperor Lothair I or King Lothair II. Lorraine, originally the southern or "upper" part of this kingdom, came to be ruled by the Holy Roman Empire as the Duchy of Lorraine before the Kingdom of France annexed it in 1766. From 1982 until January 2016, Lorraine was an administrative region of France. In 2016, under a reorganisation, it became part of the new region Grand Est. As a region in modern France, Lorraine consisted of the four departments Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges (from a historical point of view the Haute-Marne department is also located in the region), containing 2,337 communes. Metz is the regional prefecture. The largest metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Est
Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (; ACAL or, less commonly, ALCALIA), as a result of territorial reform which had been passed by the French Parliament in 2014. The region sits astride three water basins (Seine, Meuse and Rhine), spanning an area of , the fifth largest in France; it includes two mountain ranges (Vosges and Ardennes). It shares borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. As of 2021, it had a population of 5,561,287 inhabitants. The Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city is Strasbourg. The East of France has a rich and diverse culture, being situated at a crossroads between the Gallo-Romance languages, Gallic-Latin and Germanic languages, Germanic worlds. This history is reflected in the variety of languages spoken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Route E411
European route E411 is a European route in Belgium and France connecting Brussels to Metz via Namur and Arlon. The E411 starts in the municipality of Auderghem alongside the Beaulieu metro station, crosses the municipality on a viaduct, then crosses the Brussels Ring and leaves Auderghem to enter Flanders in Overijse. When it leaves Overijse, the route enters Wallonia in Rixensart Rixensart (; ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2018, Rixensart had a total population of 22,401. The total area is 17.54 km2 which gives a population density of 1,277 inhabitant .... It has an interchange with European route E42 near Namur and with European route E25 near Neufchâteau. At this point and up to Arlon, the two routes use the same road. In Arlon, route E411 continues to Aubange in Belgium, Longwy in France and on to Metz where it connects to the A31-E25 near Uckange. In Belgium, the route E411 has the national desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, Moselle and Bas-Rhin and it borders the Belgian province of Luxembourg and the country of Luxembourg by the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette to the north. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle INSEE History Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the from the parts of the former departments of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destruction Of Longwy France 1914
Destruction may refer to: Concepts * Destruktion, a term from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger * Destructive narcissism, a pathological form of narcissism * Self-destructive behaviour, a widely used phrase that ''conceptualises'' certain kinds of destructive acts as belonging to the self * Slighting, the deliberate destruction of a building * Final destruction, the end of the world Comics and gaming * Destruction (DC Comics), one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series ''The Sandman'' * Destructoid, a video-game blog Music * Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band * '' ''Destruction'' (EP)'', a 1994 EP by Destruction * "Destruction" (song), a 2015 song by Joywave * "Destruction", a 1984 song by Loverboy featured in Giorgio Moroder’s restoration of the film ''Metropolis'' * "The Destruction", a song from the 1988 musical '' Carrie'' Television and film * "Destruction" (UFO), a 1970 episode of ''UFO'' * ''Destruction'' (film), a 1915 film starring Theda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XIV Of France
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reigning monarchs, longest of any monarch in history. An emblem of the Absolutism (European history), age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's legacy includes French colonial empire, French colonial expansion, the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War involving the Habsburgs, and a controlling influence on the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, style of fine arts and architecture in France, including the transformation of the Palace of Versailles into a center of royal power and politics. Louis XIV's pageantry and opulence helped define the French Baroque architecture, French Baroque style of art and architecture and promoted his image as absolute ruler of France in the early modern period. Louis XIV began his personal rule of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
