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92 unusual facts about Metz


2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship

Metz Palais des sports Saint Symphorien (cap. : 1800)

The competition was held in Metz and nearby Hagondange, France, from July 23 to August 2 and featured 16 teams.

2009 Open de Moselle

It was held at the Arènes de Metz in Metz, France, from September 21 through September 27, 2009.

Abbey of Saint-Arnould

The Abbey of Saint-Arnould, St. Arnold,Saint-Arnoult or Abbey of the Holy Apostles is a Benedictine abbey residing in Metz since the 6th century.

In 717, the Abbey took the name of St. Arnulf, due to the relics of Arnulf of Metz, Bishop of Metz being interred there in 641.

Albero de Montreuil

After acquiring some dignities in the churches of Toul and Verdun, he was made Archdeacon and Provost of St. Arnulf at Metz.

Alexandros Merentitis

In 1925 he returned to service, was promoted to Major General and appointed as Artillery Inspector of the Army, and studied in the French Army Artillery School at Metz.

Alfred Keller

While serving in Thorn, Keller became attracted to heavier-than-air aircraft, and made his first flight in the school at Metz, becoming an observer in 1912.

Alfred Perot

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (November 3, 1863 / Metz, France – November 28, 1925 / Paris, France) was a French physicist.

Alfred von Waldersee

He was present at the great battles around Metz, assigned to the staff of General Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; and later in operations against Chanzy's army on the Loire.

Alphabet für Liège

For example, they performed them in 1973 at the Metz Festival, in 1974 at both the Allgemeinen Deutschen Musikfest in Stuttgart and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, and in 1978 in Luxembourg.

Altfrid

In the years that followed it is possible to trace a great deal of travelling on Altfrid's part: in 862 he was in Asselt, later in Compiègne and Savonnières, in 864 in Pitres, in 865 at the Synod of Thousey and in 867 in Metz.

Anne-Marie Krumpholtz

Anne-Marie Steckler was the daughter of Christian Steckler, an instrument maker frequented by harpist and composer Johann Baptist Krumpholtz in Metz, France.

Antoine Deparcieux

Eventually, Deparcieux was elected pensionnaire-géomètre-surnuméraire on June 11, 1768, and also became a member of the academies of Berlin, Stockholm, Metz, and Lyon.

Anton Dunckern

Following the Allied invasion of Europe in the summer of 1944 Himmler placed Dunckern in charge of the SS and police in the defence section of Metz.

During the liberation of Metz by American troops of the 3rd US-Army in the night of November 19, 1944 Dunckern was taken prisoner.

Baldwin of Luxembourg

From 1324 to 1326, he was one of the four lords in the Four Lords' War against Metz.

Benignus von Safferling

In the rank of Major General he was transferred to Metz, where he served as commander of the Bavarian occupation brigade.

Bernhard Rawitz

He studied medicine at Kaiser Wilhlem Akademie in Berlin, afterwards serving as a military doctor in Metz (1880–83).

Bible translations in the Middle Ages

There is no evidence of any official decision to universally disallow translations following the incident at Metz until the Council of Trent, at which time the Reformation threatened the Catholic Church, and the rediscovery of the Greek New Testament presented new problems for translators.

A well-known group of letters from Pope Innocent III to the diocese of Metz, where the Waldensians were active, is sometimes taken as evidence that Bible translations were forbidden by the church, especially since Innocent's first letter was later incorporated into canon law.

Borg, Saarland

Over the years it belonged to St Alban's Chaterhouse in Trier, to the diosceses of Metz and Trier, and to the Duchy of Luxembourg.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

Butz-Choquin

The company was established in Metz; it remained there until 1951, when it was purchased by the Berrod-Regad company.

Cathróe of Metz

His life is recorded in a hagiography written soon after his death by a monk at the monastery of Saint Felix at Metz, where Cathróe was abbot.

Celtic circular wall of Otzenhausen

The first documented appearance of the circular ramparts happened within the Grimburger Salbuch, a geological register of 1589, the first picture of the enclosure in the Gazette de Metz from 1836.

CFL Line 90

The terminus at the north end is Luxembourg railway station, whilst the terminals at the south are the French towns of Metz and Nancy.

Charles Victor Woirgard

Charles Victor Woirgard (16 October 1764, Metz - 19 February 1810, Valverde), also known by the surname of Beaugard or Beauregard, was a French général de brigade of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Christopher Fratin

Today, Fratin's sculpture is on permanent display in the Louvre, the city museums of Metz, Lyon, and Nîmes; the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland; and the Georg Eisler archive in Vienna.

Eduard Deisenhofer

Deisenhofer commanded the division during the heavy fighting against the Americans on the Moselle and in the subsequent withdrawal to Metz.

Erich von Brückner

Erich Wilhelm Ludwig Josef von Brückner was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, on 2 September 1896.

Explorers We

Explorers We is a thematic precursor to A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, and was reprinted as a limited edition booklet to commemorate Dick's appearance at the Second International Festival of Science Fiction at Metz, France, September 1977.

Ford C3 transmission

In February 2009, Ford confirmed its intent to sell the Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant for an undisclosed sum to a French company, HZ Holding France SAS, which owns a steel forging operation near Metz.

François Achille Bazaine

The Prussian army of 200,000 men now besieged the city of Metz, where 3 French Marshals, 50 Generals, 135,000 men and 600 guns were encircled.

The question was one of extricating the army and the government from a disastrous adventure, and Bazaine's solution of it was to bring back his army to Metz.

Franz Jakob Clemens

After spending some time in an educational institutional at Metz, he entered, at the age of sixteen, the Jesuit College of Fribourg, Switzerland, attended the Gymnasium at Koblenz, and thence passed to the University of Bonn.

Franz Mattenklott

On 25 July 1940, he was temporarily detached as commander of Metz for five weeks, but returned to the 72nd Infantry Division on 4 September 1940.

Fritz Otto Bernert

He transferred to Kampfeinsitzerkommando Metz, a temporary grouping of pilots mostly from FFA 71, for his initial assignment to a fighter unit.

Funke v. France

They were investigating tax evasion claims raised by government authorities in Metz.

Gershon Ashkenazi

The ritual inquiries directed to him while rabbi of Metz from western Germany and Alsace-Lorraine show that after his advent in that city he was really the spiritual and intellectual authority for the Jews of those countries.

Gorze Abbey

In 933 the premises, by then semi-derelict, were given by Adalbero, Bishop of Metz, to John of Gorze and Einald of Toul so that they could restore observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.

Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

From 1879 he headed the military history department of the general staff, and from 1890-1903 he was General of the Cavalry and head of the XVI Army Corps in Metz.

Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie

In March 1794, Dode was promoted to lieutenant and sent to the Military School of Engineers in Metz.

Hans Ritter von Adam

Hans Adam entered the Royal Bavarian Army as a one-year volunteer (Einjährige-Freiwilliger) on 1 October 1906, serving in the 4th Infantry Regiment in Metz.

Hans-Martin Leidreiter

After the surrender of France Meyer and his men were quartered in Metz where the creation of the Aufklärungsabteilung LSSAH started in August.

Hermann Kretzschmar

In 1876 he became theatre orchestra conductor in Metz, and undertook research expeditions in England and Italy for the study of musical history; from 1877 to 1887 he was an academic and state music director in Rostock.

Institut de recherche de la sidérurgie

The Institut de recherche de la sidérurgie (IRSID) is the old name of ArcelorMittal Maizières Research SA, a private research center related to the siderurgical society ArcelorMittal (originally (Usinor, then Arcelor)), situated at Maizières-lès-Metz, in Lorraine.

Itai Maggidi

His personal best time is 8:24.14 minutes, achieved in July 2008 in Longeville-lès-Metz.

Jacques Babinet

A graduate of the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1812 for the Military School at Metz, he was later a professor at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France.

Jan Claus

In 1669 with Steven Crisp (1628-1692), a Friend from Colchester, who from 1663 onwards would every year visit Amsterdam, he travelled on a preaching tour to a series of towns along the Rhine: Cologne, Bonn, Metz, Bingen, Bacharach and Kriegsheim.

Jean Charles Abbatucci

The son of the general Jacques Pierre Abbatucci, Jean Charles was born in Zicavo, Corsica, and studied at the military school in Metz, leaving it in 1787 aged 16 to join the 2nd regiment of foot artillery as a sous-lieutenant.

Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy

Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (September 7, 1819 in Metz, France – 1897) was a French stage actress.

Joachim Degener

Born on 28 November 1893 in Metz, Joachim Degener joined the German military straight from school in 1912, and in the First World War, he was an Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant).

Joachim-Friedrich Lang

Born on 14 September 1899 in Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, Joachim-Friedrich Lang joined the German Army before the Second World war.

Johannes Polyander

Johannes Polyander van den Kerckhoven (28 March 1568 in Metz – 4 February 1646 in Leiden) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, a Contra-Remonstrant but considered of moderate views.

Johanniskreuz

Whilst the most important historic link from Speyer to Metz ran from east to west and the area around Johanniskreuz was also part of the northern route of the Palatine St. James' Ways, today the main transport axis is the B 48 federal highway from Annweiler to Hochspeyer which runs from north to south.

John of Gorze

In 933, Bishop Adelbero of Metz (929-962) had asked John and Einald to restore and reform the decayed monastery of Gorze.

John's parents were able to provide for his education, and he studied at the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Mihiel in Metz.

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

Jonathan Joubert

A tall goalkeeper, the French-born Joubert started his career at the reserves of local side FC Metz before joining CS Grevenmacher for the 1999/2000 season.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets.

Julius von Bernuth

Julius Hans Camillo Friedrich Leo Ludwig von Bernuth was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, on 12 August 1897.

Karl Bodenschatz

Bodenschatz was born in Rehau, Bavaria and in 1910 he enlisted in the 8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment and was a cadet at the War Academy in Metz until 1912.

Klara Löbenstein

Afterwards Löbenstein worked as a high school teacher in Metz and Landsberg.

Leo Weisgerber

Johann Leo Weisgerber (February 25, 1899, Metz – August 8, 1985, Bonn) was a Lorraine-born German linguist who also specialized in Celtic linguistics.

Louis-Amédée Humbert

Louis-Amédée Humbert (23 June 1814, Metz - 6 February 1876) was a French republican politician.

Maizières-lès-Metz

Preserving the name of their original home up to the present, prominent members of the family include Lothar de Maizière, last Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic, the politician Thomas de Maizière and the general Ulrich de Maizière.

Metz-Frescaty Air Base

In 1927, the 3d Group of the 12th Aviation Regiment was also assigned, moving from Neustadt an der Weinstraße, also in the Occupied Rhineland.

Musée National d'Art Moderne

Since 2010, the museum displays also unique, temporary exhibitions in its provincial branch, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, in a 10,000 square meters space divided between 3 galleries.

Nathalie Griesbeck

She was formerly a lecturer in public law at the University of Metz, and has also served as deputy mayor of Metz, with responsibility for finance and economic development, vice-chair of Metz Council, with responsibility for economic development, a member of the Moselle Council, and chair of Transcité (2001–2003).

Neume

There is evidence that the earliest Western musical notation, in the form of neumes in campo aperto (without staff-lines), was created at Metz around 800, as a result of Charlemagne's desire for Frankish church musicians to retain the performance nuances used by the Roman singers.

Order of Penitents

Only those of the most edifying lives were chosen as members, and rules were drawn up which were approved for their dioceses by the Bishops of Metz and LePuy en Velay.

Orlando Ortega

He competed on the European indoor circuit in early 2012, highlighted by a runner-up finish at the XL Galan and a 60 metres hurdles best of 7.57 seconds in Metz.

Otto IV, Count of Rietberg

Count Otto IV of Rietberg (d. 5 or 6 January 1553 outside Metz) was Count of Rietberg from 1535 until his death.

Otto Könnecke

In 1913, he applied for pilot training and as an NCO, trained with FEA 4 at Metz and received his pilot's wings.

Peace of Passau

In the ensuing Princes' War, Charles was driven out of Germany into Italy by the Protestant alliance, while Henry captured the fortresses of Metz, Verdun and Toul.

Pope Gregory IV

Gregory was also asked by emperor Louis’s representative, Amalarius of Metz, to provide an Antiphonary for use at church services at Metz, to which Gregory was forced to admit that he had none suitable for the emperor, as he had already given a number to Wala of Corbie, which he had already taken to Francia.

Prussian P 2

The engines were initially intended for services on the so-called Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) from Berlin to Wetzlar and Metz.

Ralph Waldo Tyler

In 1918, a committee overseen by Emmett J. Scott, who was then serving as the Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of War, selected Tyler to be stationed in the northeast Metz region of France along with General John J. Pershing's brigade.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Pontoise

Bishop Stanislas Lalanne was born on August 3, 1948, in Metz, France, the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz.

Rosie MacLennan

She came in 4th place for individual trampoline in the 2009 Trampoline World Championships in St Petersburg and 3rd place for individual trampoline in the 2010 Trampoline World Championships in Metz.

Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

After Rudolf I died on 12 March 1356, Rudolf II asked the imperial court in Metz on 27 December 1356 to reaffirm the rights of the Saxe-Wittenberg line of the House of Ascania, against opposing claims from the Saxe-Lauenburg line.

Rudolf Schmundt

Schmundt was born in Metz and served as a Lieutenant for the German Army during World War I.

Sisters of the Holy Childhood of Jesus and Mary

At the invitation of bishop Jauffret of Metz, Mme Méjanes and her community went from Argancy to Metz and took up their abode in the Abbey of St. Glossinde, where, on 20 April 1807, they bound themselves by vow to follow the statutes drawn up for them by the bishop.

Solange Bertrand

Born in Montigny-lès-Metz, Bertrand studied art for four years to the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, and then attended the Beaux–Arts in Paris.

For the artist many other single person exhibitions followed, mostly in Paris and Metz, but also in the other French departments and abroad (i.e. Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, etc...).

Her work is today in public collections (Museums of Metz, Nancy, Picasso Museum in Antibes, Chéret Museum in Nice, etc...), as well as many private collections.

Suzanne Giraud

Suzanne Giraud was born in Metz and grew up in Strasbourg, where she began to study music for piano, violin, viola and music theory before entering the Paris Conservatoire.

Synod of Thionville

On 2 February, 835, Ebbo appeared at the Synod of Thionville, where in the presence of the emperor and forty-three bishops he solemnly declared the monarch innocent of the crimes of which he had accused him at Soissons, and on 28 February, 835, made a public recantation from the pulpit of the cathedral of Metz.

Tessy

Metz-Tessy, commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France

Virginie Morel-du Verger

Virginie Morel was born in Metz, and studied with Louis Adam at the Paris Conservatoire in 1814 where she received first prize in piano.

William I of Baux

In 1215 when the Emperor Frederick II sought to make his power effective in the Kingdom of Burgundy, he granted to William at Metz the whole "Kingdom of Arles and Vienne", probably referring to the viceroyalty of the kingdom.


2008 Qatar Open

The men's singles field was led by ATP No. 4, US Open semifinalist and Moscow champion Nikolay Davydenko, Metz titlist Tommy Robredo, and St. Petersburg winner and 2007 Doha runner-up Andy Murray.

Abbo of Metz

Goeric of Metz (also known as Abbo I of Metz), bishop from 627 to 643 AD

Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg

It is very likely that this legend is the source of the urban myth surrounding the death of the French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose family originated from Metz.

Ashley Sestanovich

He headed south and joined French side Metz on a trial period but failed to earn a contract.

Brian Solis

He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).

Charles Auguste Frossard

After this he took part in the battles around Metz, and was involved with his corps in the surrender of Bazaine's army.

Château de Gerbéviller

He was made bailey of Nancy in 1541, and in 1543 represented the duke at the conference of Pont-à-Mousson concerned with the introduction of Lutheranism in Metz.

Edmond Le Bœuf

Leboeuf took part in the Lorraine campaign, at first as chief of staff (major-general) of the Army of the Rhine, and afterwards, when Bazaine became commander-in-chief, as chief of the III Corps, which he led in the battles around Metz.

Fort de Plappeville

The occasion was the presentation of a new standard to the SS formation, organized for the visit of the Reichsführer to Metz at the request of General Sepp Dietrich.

Fortified Sector of the Crusnes

The Crusnes sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

Fortified Sector of Thionville

The Thionville sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

François Achille Bazaine

Two days later, while the French actually retreated on Metz (taking seven hours to cover 5 to 6 miles) the masses of the Germans gathered in front of Bazaine's Army at Gravelotte, intercepting his communication with the interior of France.

Gabriel Lippmann

His father, Isaïe, a French Jew born in Ennery near Metz, managed the family glove-making business at the former convent in Bonnevoie.

Leon Claire Metz

Metz has penned 17 books, most notably John Selman: Texas Gunfighter and a biography of Old West lawman Pat Garrett.

Lorraine Campaign

The Third Army, lacking gasoline, was unable to swiftly take both Metz and Nancy, unlike the actions that characterized the rapid advance across France.

Metz–Luxembourg railway

The line leaves Metz in a northern direction, downstream along the river Moselle.

Moneen

Moneen's original bass player, Mark Bowser, was replaced by Chris Slorach (Nu Chris), who left the band after the release of The Theory of Harmonial Value.

Patrimonium Sancti Petri

Pepin in turn sent Abbot Droctegang of Jumièges to confer with the pope, and a little later dispatched Duke Autchar and Bishop Chrodengang of Metz to conduct the pope to the Frankish realm.

Poncelet wheel

The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz.

University of Lorraine

Six libraries including three in Metz, Thionville-Yutz, Sarreguemines and Saint-Avold were attached to the University of Metz, housing approximately 280,000 books, 880 periodicals and 26,650 online journals.

Wilhelm Michel

Wilhelm Michel (born in Metz on 9 August 1877; died in Darmstadt on 16 April 1942) was a German writer who won the 1925 Georg Büchner Prize.