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Metz is a member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with Luxembourg, Saarbrücken and Trier (neighbouring countries: Luxembourg, France, and Germany). [171] Metz has a central place in the Greater Region and of the economic SaarLorLux Euroregion. Metz is also twin town with: [172] Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, from 1957
Metz, the capital and the prefecture of the Moselle department in France, [1] has a recorded history dating back over 2,000 years. During this time, it was successively a Celtic oppidum, an important Gallo-Roman city, [2] the Merovingian capital of the Austrasia kingdom, [3] the birthplace of the Carolingian dynasty, [4] a cradle of Gregorian chant, [5] and one of the oldest republics of the ...
The Battle of Metz was fought during World War II at the French city of Metz, then part of Nazi Germany, from late September 1944 through mid-December as part of the Lorraine Campaign between the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lieutenant General George Patton and the German Army commanded by General Otto von Knobelsdorff. [1]
Robert Schuman (1886–1963), Luxembourgish-born French statesman regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe, and NATO, member of the municipal council of Metz during the interwar period. Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), Foreign Minister of Germany, lived and studied in Metz between 1904 and 1908.
Metz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG was a German consumer electronic manufacturer, [2] Besides Loewe and TechniSat, Metz was the only remaining TV manufacturer which developed and produced their devices in Germany.
10 May: Metz becomes part of Germany per the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871). [10] Metz becomes part of the Alsace-Lorraine imperial territory. 1872 – Kriegsschule Metz (military school) established. 1877 – Lérouville-Metz railway begins operating. 1878 – Train station built. 1881 – Temple de Garnison (church) built. [4]
The fortifications of Metz, a city in northeastern France, are extensive, due to the city's strategic position near the border of France and Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the area was annexed by the newly created German Empire in 1871 by the Treaty of Frankfurt and became the Reichsland Alsace–Lorraine .
The forts of Metz are two fortified belts around the city of Metz in Lorraine. [note 1] Built according to the design and theory of Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières at the end of the Second Empire—and later Hans von Biehler while Metz was under German control—they earned the city the reputation of premier stronghold of the German reich. [1]