Audun le Tiche
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Location within Grand Est region
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| Coordinates: 49°28′27″N 5°57′30″E / 49.4742°N 5.9583°ECoordinates: 49°28′27″N 5°57′30″E / 49.4742°N 5.9583°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Thionville | |
| Canton | Algrange | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Lucien Piovano | |
| Area1 | 15.43 km2 (5.96 sq mi) | |
| Population (2009)2 | 6,152 | |
| • Density | 400/km2 (1,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57038 /57390 | |
| Elevation | 294–452 m (965–1,483 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Audun-le-Tiche (German: Deutsch-Oth, Luxembourgish: Däitsch-Oth) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Audun-le-Tiche is located adjacent to Esch-sur-Alzette, on the border with Luxembourg, and close to the borders of Germany, and Belgium.
Audun-le-Tiche is served by a railway station that is served by both French national railway and the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, on whose Line 60 it is located.
The name Audun comes from Awedeux, as a phonetical evolution of Latin Aquaeducta, and le Tiche is an evolution of Thieux, meaning "the German" — cf. Deutsch. The corresponding town Audun-le-Roman lies in the former Romance, or Latin-speaking area, where Audun-le-Tiche is the other side of the language border, in the Germanic-speaking area. Nowadays, these two cities are respectively named Deutsch-Oth and Welsch-Oth in German.
The town was long associated with the mining industry. The history of mining in Audun-le-Tiche and its decline has been described in the writings of Aurélie Filippetti. The Villeroy & Boch ceramic manufacturing company was founded in 1748 in Audun by François Boch. The company later moved to nearby Luxembourg, and in 1801 to Mettlach, Germany.
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