Halanzy (
Gaumais
Lorrain is a language (often referred to as patois) spoken by now a minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in Gaume in Belgium. It is a langue d'oïl.
It is classified as a regional language of France and has the ...
: ''Halazi''; lb, Hueldang;
[Zesummegestallt vum Henri Leyder-Lëtzebuerger Marienkalender 1997-iwwerschaft 3/2011.] german: Holdingen) is a village of
Wallonia
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and a district of the municipality of
Aubange
Aubange (; german: Ibingen; lb, Éibeng; wa, Åbindje) is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
On 1 January 2012 the municipality, which covers 45.6 km2, had 16,042 inhabitants, giving a popu ...
, located in the
province of Luxembourg
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,
Belgium
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.
The history of Halanzy is connected to the mining of iron ore in the area. A memorial of its past as a mining town is the preserved early steam locomotive in the town centre. The village church dates from 1844, and there is also a chapel built in 1725 in gratitude for the village being spared from the cholera epidemy in 1720. Similarly, a
calvary group in the village was erected to celebrate that the village was spared destruction during
World War I
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.
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Former municipalities of Luxembourg (Belgium)