Avricourt (the Moselle)

Geography

History

; The partition of Avricourt: The old commune of Avricourt belonged to the department of the Meurthe, in the district of Sarrebourg and the canton of Réchicourt-the-Castle.
It was reached by the railroad in 1852 with the creation of a station éponyme, the startup in its totality of the Paris-Strasbourg line being the work of the company of the East. In 1864, Avricourt became a station of junction by the startup of the line with normal and single way of 18 km joining Dieuze (Meurthe) for the exploitation of saltworks (from where the name of “line of the saltworks”), exploited by the company of the East. In 1870 was brought into service (until 1969) the single-track line and normal of Avricourt at Blâmont and Cirey-on-Vezouze, exploited by the private company ABC.

In 1871, at the time of the annexation of the Alsace-Lorraine, the new border was to completely include the district of Sarrebourg (Meurthe) in the German Empire, including Avricourt and Igney. The station of junction and the railway line ABC (partly) were thus in Germany. Following the French complaints, the Germans agreed to modify the layout of the border, with the detriment of the surface of the common Frenchwomen of Raon-lès-Leau (Meurthe) and of Raon-on-Plain (the Vosges) to the foot of the Donon. The new border was thus going to be fixed on six kilometers the length even of the single railway ABC and that at double way of Paris-Strasbourg Lunéville side. The portions of ways above, the installations of the station of Avricourt remain French.

The commune of Avricourt was thus divided. The borough of Avricourt became German, that of Igney remained French. On the other hand the Germans required of the French construction, entirely at the expenses of the last, a station in territory German and called “Deutsch-Avricourt”.

In 1919, during the restitution of the Alsace-Lorraine in France, the creation of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle maintained this division by creating two communes coast-at coast, one in each department, in the Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle. “Deutsch-Avricourt” became “New Avricourt”.

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Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Events

November 7th, 2004, in Avricourt, the antinuclear militant Sebastien Briat (21 years) dies, a leg divided by an engine during an attempt at blocking of a rail-bound transport of radioactive waste (see Mouvement antinucléaire#En margin of the antinuclear movement in Europe).

See too

Common of the Moselle

External bonds

Avricourt on the site of the national geographical Institute
Avricourt on the site of INSEE
Avricourt on the site of Quid
Localization of Avricourt on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Avricourt on Mapquest

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