commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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** Communes of ...
Grand Est
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Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administra ...
in northeastern
France
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.
Location and rail links
Audun-le-Tiche is located adjacent to
Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (; lb, Esch-Uelzecht ; german: Esch an der Alzette or ''Esch an der Alzig'') is the second city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's second-most populous commune, with a population of 35,040 inhabitants, . It lies ...
, on the border with
Luxembourg
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, and close to the borders of
Germany
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, and
Belgium
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.
Audun-le-Tiche is served by a railway station that is served by both the French national railway and the
Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois
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The name Audun comes from ''Awedeux'', as a phonetical evolution of Latin ''Aquaeducta'', and le Tiche is an evolution of ''Thieux'', meaning "the German" — cf. ''Deutsch''. The corresponding town Audun-le-Roman lies in the former
Romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
, or Latin-speaking area, where Audun-le-Tiche is the other side of the language border, in the Germanic-speaking area. Nowadays, these two cities are respectively named ''Deutsch-Oth'' and ''Welsch-Oth'' in German.
The town was long associated with the mining industry. The history of mining in Audun-le-Tiche and its decline has been described in the writings of Aurélie Filippetti.Aurélie Filippetti, 'Les derniers jours de la classe ouvrière', Éditions Stock, 2003
The
Villeroy & Boch
Villeroy & Boch (, ) is a German manufacturer of ceramics, with the company headquarters located in Mettlach, Saarland.
History
The company began in the tiny Lorraine village of Audun le Tiche, where the iron master François Boch set up a pott ...
ceramic manufacturing company was founded in 1748 in Audun by François Boch. The company headquarter later moved to nearby
Luxembourg
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, and in 1801 to
Mettlach
Mettlach (Saarlandic dialect:Mettlich) is a municipality in the district Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany, situated on the river Saar, approximately northwest of Merzig, and south of Trier. The headquarters of Villeroy & Boch are in Mettlach ...
, Germany.
Audun sister town is
Gualdo Tadino
Gualdo Tadino (Latin: ''Tadinum'') is an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Monte Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is NE of Perugia.
History
Gualdo has a long history and was o ...
in Italy, from which immigrants came working in mining industry during the 19th century.