Vigy


Vigy is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Geography

Situated from Metz, Vigy lies on the border of Germany and Luxembourg. The village of Vigy is located in a sector recognized for its landscape qualities. Vigy enjoys a privileged location on the edge of a forest.
Part of village belongs to an Important Bird Area

Etymology

The name of the village may come from a man of Gallo-Roman origin, Vigius.

History

Founded as a city by the Romans or Gallo-Romans, Vigy was given to the Abbey of Saint-Arnould on June 23, 715. In 1365, the people of Vigy were placed under the protection of Luxembourg. In 1635, on September 12, almost the entirety of the village was burned by the Spanish. It was reattached to France in 1648.
Vigy has been the seat of a canton since the French Revolution.
During World War I, the residents of Vigy were resettled in Mussidan in the Dordogne.

Economy

Initially, the village grew on agriculture.
The early prosperity of the village was largely due to the nearby iron and steel industries. Many of these industries have since disappeared. Nowadays, industry consists of vehicle manufacturing and logistics.

Demography



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Sights

The region, with its rich and varied historical heritage, lends itself to eco-tourism.

Field Maze

As a family or with a group of friends, your challenge is to find your way through the corn maze, decoding the key to puzzles you will find signposted along the way.
There is a field maze, which is open from July to September. Each year there is a new field Maze.

Steam train

This line was linked to the former SNCF Vigy to Hombourg-Budange one. In 1985, the local authorities had stopped supporting the line. ALEMF operated in this line with the definition of a "touristic" railway since 1986.
On April 1, 1908 was put in regular circulation the first engine at vapor. The line celebrated its centenary on May 24, 2008.
It is open from April to October.

Rail-cycle (Velorail in French)

Rail-cycle with 4 wheels. A single bicycle may also be modified with an outrigger and locating wheels to operate upon rails
It is open from April to October.

Notre-Dame-de-Rabas

As the legend says: Once upon a time a group of hunter was following a deer in the forest of St. Hubert. It was a very very hot day and the people were very thirsty. They have been suffering when suddenly their horses found a spring. To thank it for the nature they built a little chapel next to the spring.
The chapel is linked in legend to Charlemagne and may have existed as early as 806.
In 1049, the Pope Leo IX would have come to devote the church. During the centuries the church of St. Arnold had the authority above the chapel.
Unfortunately, during the French Revolution the chapel was destroyed. Later the chapel
has been rebuilt.
In 1884, the reconstruction of the chapel started by Abbé Cazin and the Vicomte de Coetlosquet offered three windows for
the chapel. It got the shape we can see now.
Today, there are a new small church in the middle of forest. On the Monday of Pentecost and Corpus Christi pilgrims come to the chapel.

Adeppa

In 1961, associations and federations of popular education of the Moselle, mobilized around common values. In 1963, the association ADEPPA of which the goal was to become a training centre of the actors of community life, with the possibility of accommodating, in its houses of lodging, of many groups in the middle of an exceptional landscape
Adeppa is located at Vigy. Adeppa is a popular resort on the edge of a forest.

Others

Vigy is known for its dynamism and its strong associative fabric with more than forty associations.

Sports

Battery brass band “the Jeanne of Arc”
.

Civil heritage

The Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence was founded by John Martin Moye, who with the assistance of Mademoiselle Marguerite LeComte, opened the first school of congregation at Vigy in 1762. After the French Revolution, all sisters was transferred to St. Jean de Bassel in Lorraine.

Films & documents

You can watch few minutes in Vigy in these French films
others documents on TV on radio

Education

The Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence was founded by John Martin Moye, who with the assistance of Mademoiselle Marguerite LeComte, opened the first school of congregation at Vigy in 1762. After the French Revolution, all sisters was transferred to St. Jean de Bassel in Lorraine.
Today there are three public schools.

Infrastructure

There are networks

Access

Vigy is located at the intersection of two majors axes: A4 motorway and the A31 motorway
The nearest railway station is in Metz, about away.
The nearest airports are ETZ - Metz Nancy Lorraine south, LUX - Luxemburg Luxembourg north, ENC - Nancy Essey south, SCN - Saarbruecken Saarbrücken east
Vigy is one of the principal nodes of communication in Metz Country. Vigy is the meeting place of associations, of sporting…

Energy

The 400,000 volt line connecting Marlenheim to Vigy entered service on April 30, 2009 is the fruit of a consultative
process initiated back in 1998. Other line connecting Germany, and Luxembourg.
The dispatching of Vigy reinforcing the electricity transmission capacities of France’s greater eastern area.

Notable people