Mons-the-Mountain

Mons-the-Mountain is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle.

Geography

The commune is located at 4 km of the Meurthe-et-Moselle and at 32 km of Metz.

History

Mons-the-mountain, located on the edge of the Metz-native high plateau, a long time remained a village surrounded by the forest.

Holes of posts, hearths, silos dating from the Final Neolithic era (- 4000 to -2500 years) were found with the locality the Oboe. Other traces of human occupation dating from Protohistoire (- 1800 years) were located with the Fodiche localities and In front of-the-Forest.

The archaeological surveys also revealed the presence of many ways and ways dating from the Gallo-Roman period, of a villa (Ier - IVe centuries), of which depended on the farms and forest, as well as several necropoles in particular with the localities the Patriot and the Cross Jacob.

One finds then trace of village community only in XIe century, with in particular the abbey of Saint-Pierremont who had some grounds with Montois. The abbeys and canons are at the origin of the rebirth of the village until its plundering by the Luxembourgers in 1266 at the time of the feudal war of Ligny. The strongholds and seigniories follow one another then until the destruction of the village in 1636, during the Thirty Year old War.

The village little by little was repopulated and rebuilt, until reaching 200 inhabitants at the end of the XVIIIe century.

At the XIXe century, the farms dedicated to the mixed-farming developed, as well as the forestry developments, the careers and the craft industry. In the middle of the century, Mons account approximately 550 inhabitants and Malancourt becomes his appendix since 1811. Following the annexation in Reich of 1871, Montois empties its population, until construction with Rombas into 1889-1890 of a large German iron and steel plant. The introduction of the Pauline mine in 1903 causes a demographic explosion with Montois. In 1930, Mons account 1700 inhabitants.

In 1962, Montois reaches its maximum population, that is to say 3050 inhabitants. In January 1969, the firm Pauline mine, but thanks to a policy of residential urbanization, Mons account still 2700 inhabitants in 2003.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Site of climbing with more than 100 ways.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • Mons-the-Mountain on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Mons-the-Mountain on the site of INSEE
  • Mons-the-Mountain on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Mons-the-Mountain on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Mons-the-Mountain on Mapquest
  • Web site of the commune

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