Villerupt

Villerupt is a city of the North-East of the France, chief town of canton of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the south-east of Longwy.

Its inhabitants is called the Villeruptiens .

Geography

This commune was a village-border with Germany between 1871 and 1914.

The Germans had annexed the part of Lorraine corresponding to the current department of the Moselle not only for cultural and linguistic questions, but also to adapt the iron ores.

However, the geologists, by prolonging the geological known layers of the Moselle, whose dip goes down towards the west in this part of the Bassin of Paris, deduced from it that one should find the same more in-depth ores. Most accessible being the least deep, one excavated in priority on the city-border.

That explains the existence of mines with Villerupt.

Iron and steel industry

The first mention of the forging mills of Villerupt from XVe century, but is it dates really about a blast furnace? They know to the maximum four blast furnaces with the wood of which one which is maintained until the XIXe century. In 1831, documents announce the existence of the Forging mills of Holy-Claire Villerupt, which counted to four blast furnaces with wood. In 1866, these two establishment gather to form the Company of the Factories of Villerupt and Holy-Claire, who amalgamates in 1894 with the Company of the foundries of Aubrives to give rise to the Company of Aubrives-Villerupt. Right from the start, the production of this factory is directed primarily towards the production of cast iron. The day before the war of 1914, the factory exploits two blast furnaces. 1926, mark the repurchase of the factory of Laval-God, going back to 1882 and where two blast furnaces are in activity since 1899; destroyed after the First World War, it rebuilt forever. In 1930, the factory of Villerupt counts two blast furnaces; in 1955, they have a diameter of crucible of 4 meter and a production capacity of 125.000 tons foundry pig iron per annum. A new blast furnace is brought into service in 1960. In November 1968, the factory of Villerupt ceases any activity and the last blast furnace is extinct.

The factory of Micheville finds its origin in creation in 1872 of the Company Ferry and Co, which fires its first blast furnace in 1878. From 1881 to 1908, the factory passes gradually to six blast furnaces. The day before the war of 1914/1918, five blast furnaces are with fire and a sixth in rebuilding. They have an annual capacity of production of 390.000 tons cast iron. The factory is damaged during the first war, but rebuilding works are launched since 1918. In 1920, the blast furnace n° 1 is relit. In 1925, the factory counts six blast furnaces in operating condition again. The activity of the factory is stopped during the second world war. In the years 1950, the four blast furnaces existing have a volume ranging between 580 and 680 m/cube; a new blast furnace (1 (a)), of 7,05 m crucible, is lit on May 29th, 1957. In 1959, the factory includes/understands five blast furnaces, then four in 1971 (the n° 1,3,4 and 6). In 1974, the factory is definitively stopped, it is then the creation of the SVL (Company of the Rolling mills of Villerupt).

Population

Villerupt developed thanks to its mines of iron and with the development of the Sidérurgie and the Métallurgie. Its agglomeration, which also extends on the department from the the Moselle (Audun-le-Tiche) is only part of a vaster agglomeration which exceeds the borders, whose principal center is the Luxembourg city of the Esch-on-Alzette.

Because of the iron and steel crisis of the area, the population passed from almost 15 000 inhabitants in the Years 1960 with less 10 000. This population increased thanks to Italian immigration. Villerupt is, for this reason, undoubtedly one of the communes more " italiennes" from France, as one can note it with the reading of the directory, the very large majority of family names being there with Italian consonance.

Villerupt accommodates each year the festival of Italian film towards the end of October.

Anxious to develop its cultural side, Villerupt has also a MJC activates proposer various activities, but also a music school, a school of dance, a school of visual arts and a concert hall/Exposition " Cave". (http://www.mjcvillerupt.fr.st)

Administration

The canton of Villerupt is composed of the communes of Baslieux, Bazailles, Boismont, Bréhain-the-City, Dies, Laix, Morfontaine, Thil, Tiercelet, City-with-Mons, Villers-the-Mountain and Villerupt .

Heraldic

Of azure with two leant of gold, accosted bars of two crosses of Lorraine of the same and accompanied as a chief and by two money crosses recroisetées; semi party of gold to the sand blast furnace, bright burning coal of mouths on a sand terrace with a casting also of mouths.

Personalities related to the commune

Olivier Jacque, champion motorcylcist.
Rebecca Manzoni, radio journalist and stimulating and television.
Gilles Benizio, alias Dino of the comic duet Shirley and Dino.
Carlo Molinari, president of FC Metz.
Aurélie Filippetti, political woman and French novelist
Frederic Biancalani, footballer
Ludovic Biancalani, footballer
Stephan Borbiconi, footballer
Christophe Borbiconi, footballer
Franck Martin, pacifiquator

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