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Commune of Thionville
Location
Coordinates	49° 21' 32" N 06° 10' 09" E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Moselle (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement	Thionville Est and Ouest
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality	Portes de France-Thionville
Mayor	Jean-Marie Demange (1995-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	147 m–423 m (avg. 150 m)
Land area¹	49.86 km²
Population² (1999)	(Thionvillois) 40,907
- Density	820/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	57672/ 57100
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Thionville (German: Diedenhofen, Luxembourgish: Diedennuewen, Dutch: Diedenhoven), is a town and commune in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine région, France. The city is located near the Moselle River.

Contents 1 Demographics 2 History 3 Industry 4 Administration 5 See also 6 Sources and external links

The population boomed in the Industrial Revolution, but economic slowdown of the 1970s affected Thionville and areas, causing a population decrease. The population rose again in the 1990s and in suburban Hettange-Grande in the east, although the population of the western part of the new agglomeration is decreasing around Hayange. The agglomeration is still losing population but the decrease has been slowed down. Due to Thionville's proximity to Luxembourg (15 kilometers from the border), the town's population and quality of life have both increased since the end of the 1990s.

The region after Antiquity was inhabited by the Germanic Alamanni. The Synod of Thionville was held from February 2, 835. It reinstated Emperor Louis the Pious and reversed his former conviction of crimes — none of which he actually committed — and deposed the Archbishop of Rheims, Ebbo. It was composed of 43 bishops. On February 28, 835 in Mainz, Ebbo admitted that Louis had not committed the crimes of which he had been indicted and for which he had been deposed as Holy Roman Emperor.

Eskil, Archbishop of Lund was imprisoned at Thionville (at the instigation of the Archbishop of Bremen?) on his return from his 1153 pilgrimage to Rome.

The Siege of Thionville in June 1639 occurred as part of the Thirty Years' War.

The writer François-René de Chateaubriand was left for dead during Condés military émigré expedition against Thionville in 1792

From 1870-1918, Thionville was part of the German Empire under its German name Diedenhofen.

• Iron and steel plant
• Chemical plant
• Cement factory

Incorporations:

• Veymerange, in 1967
• Volkrange, in 1970
• Garche (not continguous with the rest of the commune, Kœking and Œutrange in 1970

Thionville is divided into two cantons (districts). It belongs to Thionville Est (East), while the seat of the district of Thionville Ouest (West) which it does not form a part of Thionville:

• Thionville Est (East): 19,063 (46.6% of the total population)
• Thionville Ouest (West): 21,844 (53.4% of the total population)

• Merlin of Thionville

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. passim
• Thionville
• Fort de Guentrange
• Taxis de Thionville
• Site sur la culture et l'histoire de Thionville
• Le forum des thionvillois
• An other Thionville's web site
• Mapquest - Thionville
• Nombreuses photos de Thionville de 1900 a nos jours