Audun-le-Tiche
commune in Moselle, France
Audun-le-Tiche (French pronunciation: [odɛ̃ lə tiʃ]; German: Deutsch-Oth; Luxembourgish: Däitsch-Oth) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Location and rail links
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 only served by the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, on whose Line 60 it is located.
History
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.
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