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Coordinates: 49°12′16″N 6°17′54″E / 49.2044444444, 6.29833333333

Vigy
Location
Time Zone	CET (GMT +1)
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Moselle (57)
Intercommunality	Communes du haut chemin
Mayor	Alain Vanzella (2008-2014)
Statistics
Population¹ (1999)	1,274
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	57716/ 57640
1 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Vigy is a village and commune in the Moselle département of north-eastern France.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Natural spaces 1.2 Hydrography 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Leisure and sights 4.1 Vegetable labyrinth 4.2 Steam train 4.3 Velorail (Rail-cycle) 4.4 Notre-Dame-de-Rabas 4.5 Adeppa 4.6 others 5 Films 6 Transport 7 Motorway 7.1 others 7.2 Twinnings 7.3 See also 7.4 Notes 7.5 External links

[edit] Geography

Situated 15km from Metz, in a little town on the border with Germany and Luxembourg. Vigy is located on north-eastern of France

[edit] Natural spaces

An area of cereal fields, deciduous woodlands, wet meadows, bocages and rivers. Vigy is located in a protect sector

• Beautiful landscape (Protected by government)

• Bird ^[1]

• Flora: CIRSIUM CANUM(L.)

[edit] Hydrography

The Canner is a small French river at the confluence of the Moselle and the Rhin

[edit] History

Originally founded as a city by the Roman or Gallo-Roman around 671 BC

Vigy is chief town of canton since the French Revolution

During the war of 1914-1918, people of Vigy were expelled in Mussidan in the Dordogne country (France)

[edit] Demographics

As of the 1999 census, there were 1,278 inhabitants in the commune of Vigy

[edit] Leisure and sights

The region, with its rich and varied historical heritage, lends itself to eco-tourism, as well as to those interested in industrial, cultural and military sites^[2]

[edit] Vegetable labyrinth

There are natural maze

Only open from July to September ^[3]

[edit] 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.^{[4] [5]}

Only open from April to October

[edit] Velorail (Rail-cycle)

• Forest outing^[6]
• Booking recommended ^[7]

Only open from April to October

[edit] Notre-Dame-de-Rabas

The story is " Charlemagne makes the wish then build a churche if 'jesus' came to help. Suddenly, under the feet of its horse spouts out a fresh and limpid source "

In 1049, the pope Leon IX would have come to devote the churche. Today, there are a new small churche.

[edit] Adeppa

Adeppa enjoys a privileged location on the edge of a forest.

• Lodging, restoration, animations, hiring of rooms

^[8]

[edit] others

• Arboretum
• "Église Saint-Léger" (churche - 1868)
• Sisters of Divine Providence (Soeurs de la divine providence) in Vigy (Hessange)

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.^{[9] [10]}

[edit] Films

You can watch few minutes in Vigy in these French films

• Life and Nothing But ( "la vie et rien d'autre" French title, French film, French director : Bertrand Tavernier)
• Je m'appelle Victor (French film, French director : Guy Jacques)

[edit] Transport

[edit] Motorway

Vigy is ideally located at the intersection of two majors axes: A4 motorway (going from Paris to Strasbourg) and the A31 motorway (going to Luxembourg at the North and towards Nancy)

• A4 - Number 37 - Ennery-Argancy
• A31 - Hauconcourt

[edit] others

• by train : Metz station : about 15 km
• by plane  : More nearby airports include ETZ - Metz Nancy Lorraine 24.5 km south, LUX - Luxemburg Luxembourg 47.9 km north, ENC - Nancy Essey 56.7 km south, SCN - Saarbruecken Saarbrucken 59.0 km east
• by bus  : Going to Metz city or Hagondange station. There are only one bus by day (daily : Monday to Saturday)

[edit] Twinnings

Mussidan, France; since 1990.

[edit] See also

• Communes of the Moselle department

• Everything you always wanted to know about the Frankisch toponymie of Saarland, Moselle and Luxembourg

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Bazoncourt-Vigy (Important Birds Areas of France)
2. ^ untitled
3. ^ http://www.vigy-labyrinthe.org Vegetable labyrinth (Official Website - French language)
4. ^ FACS-UNECTO: Fédération des Amis des Chemins de fer Secondaires
5. ^ http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr30/pdf/a35_duf.pdf
6. ^ Recreation In Lorraine, France
7. ^ exe_guide_CRTL GB.indd
8. ^ untitled
9. ^ Sisters of the Divine Providence of San Antonio, Texas
10. ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sisters of the Institute of Charity of Providence

[edit] External links

• Official Website of the city of Vigy
• Maps

Coordinates: 49°12′N 6°18′E / 49.2, 6.3