Montoy-Flanville

Montoy-Flanville is a common French located in the department of the the Moselle. It is formed by two common old Metz-native country: Montoy and Flanville. The inhabitants are Montévillois.

The commune does not have a church and depends on the Paroisse of Noisseville or Saint-Agnan. Flanville, commune independent before 1812, always depended on Saint-Agnan.

Geography

The commune is the first on the trunk road 3 by leaving Borny, the district in the east of Metz, in direction of Courcelles-Chaussy.

It is made up in the west of the recent district of Cugnot the years 1970, of the villages of Montoy in the center and Flanville in the east as well as ZAC of the High-Mons known as of the Small plank, an industrial park in the south of the territory of the commune, along the trunk road.

In top of the old sinuous, unutilised trunk road since the modification of the layout in 1994, one moved the last German monument of the “alley of Morts” of Colombey. One sees there the entry of the industrial park of Metz-Borny, in north the variation of Lauvallières; towards the North-East the bell-tower of Noisseville and the “laid down lion”, another German monument of 1870; towards the south the old village of Colombey.

While going down again the road one falls on the vestiges from the ruins from the inn “the Small plank” listed in 1817 per Mr. Viville. The name of the inn surely comes from its site at the bottom of this “slipping” basin rather where at the time a Marshal-shoeing dealt with the horses. The inn gave its name to this place close to where meet the brook crossing Flanville and Montoy and that of the Lady Sleeve-board of Coincy. Both affluent in the brook of Vallières.

Since the trunk road 3, the secondary road 69 master key in front of Cugnot and joined Montoy one further measures in kilometres dominated by its castle recently restored. Low in the heart of the old village the laundrette of 1858, by going up the new town hall then in top of coast the allotment of the Cap and the nursery school skirted by a large stone wall. The secondary road makes “half-turn” with the bottom of the village to go back to the North-West between Lauvallières and Noisseville.

In top of Montoy a road continues towards the east, to a few hundred meters is Flanville with its castle, its convent, the St. Lawrence hospital and a water tower. A small road goes down again to the south and joined the trunk road with Saint-Agnan, variation of Ogy, while passing by a small basin; a dirt track in north passes a bridge to the top of the Autoroute A4 and joined Retonfey.

History

Gallo-Roman Vestiges.

Flanville was a seigniory of the Metz-native High-Way had by Metz-native families.

Montoy is an old field of évêché given in stronghold to the patricians of Metz.

the name of the village of Montoy was spelled in various way through the ages:

1250 : Montoi
1276 : Mons
1635: Mons
In patois: Monteu

As of the XIII century the knights teutonic créérent in Montoy an old people's home intended for the beinfaisance.

the village was occupied by the Luxembourg troops in 1495, and was burned by Frederic de Sickingen in August 1518.

It was a place of refuge of the Protestants of Metz; Farel remained there in 1542.

the castle of the De Heu became a high place of the Réforme in Metz-native country thanks to a royal decree of 1571 allowing the exercise of the reformed worship. In 1572 the king confirmed Montoy like place of worship. The temple of Montoy remained until the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

Nickname: “Jans of Monteu dog early dreut.” (People of Montoy shit all upright). It towards, commonplace and rustic points out the memory of the epidemics of the years 1712,1766 and 1789 which extremely tested the population. In modern slang, shit-all-upright is a thin and emaciated individual who hardly holds on his legs.

a decree imperial of Slomensk of August 21st, 1812 definitively joined together the village of Flanville with Montoy under the name Montoy-Flanville.

the village acted as battle field to the war free-Prussian on August 31st 1870.

more recently, the allotment of Cugnot, located one kilometer at the west of Montoy, is a Cité-dortoir for the town of Metz.

the suppression of the dangerous turns of the Small plank in 1994 made it possible to update a portion of the Roman Voie energy from Metz at Mainz.

Armorial/Blasonnement

By decree of February 9th, 1948, the common door weapons of the family Grongnat, Paraige S of Metz, which had the seigniory:

fascé of gold and azure of eight parts with three vairy billets in the same way as a chief.

Associations

Perished sun: an extra-curricular association entitled by the Ministry for Youth and the Sports which accommodates the children from 3 to 12 years before and after the class.
Association Sport Leisures Culture ASLC: gym, baby gym, fight, tennis, first aid, theater, the dancing and outdoor centres.
FC Montoy: football team of the commune.
Rural household: animation of the village, gymnastics of maintains, jogging, floral art, painting on silk, goûters of old.
UNC: association of the war veterans, sorting of the drugs, demonstrations.

Administration

It is the mayor Jean-Louis Guir who gave in 1996 the name of Montévillois the inhabitants of Montoy-Flanville.

Demography

Places and monuments

the castle of Flanville: recently restored, it kept its high wall with crenels and its round tower. The owners were: the Lapointe family, the count Adolphe-Georges-Balthazard Lamberty (captain with the 2nd regiment of the royal guard), the baron de Joybert (until in 1849).
the hospital the St. Lawrence de Flanville: it was created by the wife of Doctor Legrand, a doctor considered in Metz, while following its volontées last. According to its will this hospital was to accommodate the patients of the neighbouring communes free. The direction was entrusted to the Sisters of All Saints' day of Strasbourg. It specialized in the care of the Tuberculose and ceased its activity in 1950. In addition to the sign “Hospital the St. Lawrence” it remains still the old hearse of XIX preserved intact. Mrs Legrand also devoted her fortune to the restoration of the church of Saint-Agnan.
the Castle of Montoy.
the laundrette in the middle of the village of Montoy, built in 1826. A second trough was used to wash the linen exclusively in order to keep the first characteristic to water the cattle. A roof dated May 25th 1838 covers the laundrette.
the monument of the 2 Hanseatic regiment of infantry n°76: it was axis of the alley of war memorial coming from Colombey and is today a little more in the east in top of the old portion of the RN3. It is a stone obelisk drawn up on a base, a cross of iron carved in the stone with a branch of palm tree and a laurel wreath. One reads: “Died for the fatherland, 13 officers, 31 warrant officers and 205 troops.” Then the list of the battles follows to which share the regiment took: Metz 4 September 9th; Toul September 13rd; Paris October 22nd; Loigny-Orleans December 2nd; Meug December 7th; Beaugency-Cravant 8 December 10th; Frédéval December 14th; Mans: 10 December 12th 1870 - 1871.
In 1999, the commune not having a war memorial, in memory of five martyrdoms of the commune, not died with Oradour-on-Glane on June 10th, 1944, the mayor Jean-Louis Guir made set up a stele in their memory, by associating all the victims of the wars with it.

Personalities related to the commune

Alphonse Laveran, Nobel Prize of medicine 1907 to have discovered in blood the parasite protozoon responsible for the Paludism, lived and married on October 5th 1885 with Montoy-Flanville with Sophie Marie Pidancet, an inhabitant of the village. An exposure was devoted to him from February in May 2007 at the time of the hundredth birthday of the Nobel Prize.

External bonds

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

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