Villers-lès-Nancy
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Villers-lès-Nancy
|commune status = Commune
|image = Chateau remicourt.jpg
|caption = The Remicourt chateau in Villers-lès-Nancy
|image coat of arms = Blason Villers-les-Nancy.svg
|arrondissement = Nancy
|canton = Laxou
|INSEE = 54578
|postal code = 54600
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Métropole du Grand Nancy
|coordinates = {{coord|48.6731|6.1547|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 285
|elevation min m = 224
|elevation max m = 381
|area km2 = 9.95
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
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Villers-lès-Nancy ({{IPA|fr|vilɛʁ lɛ nɑ̃si}}, literally Villers near Nancy) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
Inhabitants are known as Villarois.
Geography
Villers-lès-Nancy is a suburb on the southwest of Nancy. The commune goes from Nancy to the Haye forest.
It is composed of three quarters :
- the Mairie-Placieux quarter, which is the closest to Nancy,
- the Botanique-Village quarter, which goes from the Jardin botanique du Montet to the Brabois plateau,
- the Clairlieu quarter, in a large opening of the Haye forest, beyond the A 33.
The neighbourhood communes of the Grand Nancy are : Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-54578#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
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|graph-pos = right
|1968 |7811
|1975 |14084
|1982 |16120
|1990 |16515
|1999 |15694
|2007 |15115
|2012 |14386
|2017 |14415
}}
Points of interest
File:Villers st fiacre.JPG|Church of Saint-Fiacre.
File:Villers st therese.JPG|Church of Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'enfant-Jésus.
File:Villers st bernard.JPG|Church of Saint-Bernard (Clairlieu).
File:Villers orthodoxe.JPG|Orthodox chapel of the Gauls.
File:Villers seminaire.JPG|Major Seminar of l’Asnée.
File:Villers abbaye clairlieu.JPG|Ancient Cistercian abbey of the place-dit Clairlieu.
Mayors
- François Villard, 1791
- Jean Claude Charbonnier, 1791
- François Villard, 1792
- Dieudonné Pierson, 1794
- François Villard, 1794
- Dieudonné Pierson, 1799
- François Houard, 1816
- Lefebvre, 1821
- Jean Claude Clement, 1831
- François Pierson, 1848
- Amédée Lefebre de Monjoie, 1871
- Hubert Simon, 1875
- Louis Valet, 1888
- Anatole de Scitivaux de Greische, 1900
- Louis Porry, 1912
- Louis Pierson de Brabois, 1915
- Charles Oudille, 1919
- Hyppolyte Briot, 1927
- Albert Cattenoz, 1935
- Martial Mourot, 1942
- Maurice Andre, 1944
- Raymond Villaume, 1945
- James Moisson, 1947
- Paul Muller, 1965
- Jean Bernardaux, 1980
- Pascal Jacquemin, 2001
Twin towns
- {{Flagicon|GER}} Oerlinghausen, Germany, 1988
Events
- Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest celebration that occurs at the end of August/beginning of September
- Faites du solaire, another feast that occurs each year in October
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
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- [http://www.mairie-villers-les-nancy.fr/ Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy]
- [http://usan.ffspeleo.fr/id20.htm Nancy spéléodrome, localized on in Villers-lès-Nancy]
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