Hussigny-Godbrange

Hussigny-Godbrange is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

Geography

Hussigny is a village border with Luxembourg. It marks the triple point between the current Franco-German border and the border between 1871 and 1914.

History

Hussigny was one of the centers of the Mines de Fer de Lorraine (Basin of the Lorraine iron ore (Lorraine Minette)).

Hussigny was one of the centers of Italian immigration in Lorraine. Formerly one also spoke about “Low-Italy” of Hussingy. In Italian-American English, Hussigny is known like “Little Italy” Frenchwoman. Until the end of the years 1950, the dialect Romagnol was still practiced in Low-Italy de Hussigny, because most of the inhabitants was originating in Romagna.

the Boxing ring Jean Claude Bouttier d' Hussigny has form and continuous to train large boxers who allow to emphasize the local city and sponsors at the national and international level.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Low-Italy , district of Hussigny-Godbrange, owes its name with its situation in the village as with the population which composed district. Low-Italy is a district below located the village and at 500 m of the Luxembourg border. After the Second world war, the iron and steel and mining activity of the North-East of France knows a spectacular growth and foreign labor settles in mass to ensure this growing activity partly. Hussigny-Godbrange accommodated a strong immigrant population Italy in order to work the iron mine of the village. This population occupied a whole district close to the mine. From there appeared in this district coffees, hotels, houses of mine and other hutments hardly attracting but it was the only solution for many coldly made families and without great economies. Today the district of Low-Italy changed well, certainly a strong Italian population there still remains and cohabits with new Nord-Africains immigrants, French, and well of others, with the image of France ambassadress of a multicultural world.

the Nord-Africaine community was made up as a large majority of the community Chaoui of Algeria. These Berber comes mainly from the towns of Oranem, Ouarka and Amontan of the area of Aurès. Aurès form the part Is PreSaharian Atlas whose culminating point is Djebbel Chelia (Mount-Chelia) with 2.328 meters of altitude.

Personalities related to the commune

Evelyne Marie France Nave born Migliori, political woman Franco-German, of Italian origin, was born in Hussigny. E. Nave is one of the rare Frenchwomen decorated with the Bundesverdienstkreuz. Its family, of origin Migliori, was a familie of Low-Italy.

Jean Claude Bouttier godfather of the Boxing ring Jean Claude Bouttier d' Hussigny and director of the Sports of Canal+.

See too

Common of Meurthe-et-Moselle

External bonds

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

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