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Guided tour of the lower part of Longwy: metal, water, art


The lower town of Longwy is all yours.



A guided tour lasting from two to two and a half hours, will take you through the rich history and heritage of this part of the city.



From the early days of the steel industry to social unrest, to Longwy's earthenware and enamels, the thermal adventure, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, you will read Longwy-Bas as an open book.

Useful information:

  • Duration: Lasting from 2-hour and 2.5-hour
  • Groups: Minimum 15 people


Prices:

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Get in touch:

  • Tel: +33 (0)3 82 24 94 54
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Romanesque church at Mont-Saint-Martin



The Romanesque church was built between the 11th and 12th centuries on the Saint Martin mount. The latter overlooks a wide valley open on to France, Luxembourg and Belgium.



There are two frescoes in the choir, one depicting the Annunciation and the other Saint Martin.



There is also a pietà and a tombstone embedded in the wall of the Priory. The bell tower is a later addition by the architect Reiners.



Today, this place of worship hosts high quality cultural events.

Useful information:

  • Group: Minimum 10 people
  • Period: from April to October, with advance booking


Prices:

  • Please contact us


Get in touch:

  • Longwy Tourisme - Place du Colonel Darche 54400 Longwy
  • Tel: +33 (0)3 82 24 94 54
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Saint Genevieve Church in Rehon



It contains a remarkable sculpture staging an entombment with 11 characters from the 16th



It has been classified as a Historic Monument since 1929.

Useful information:

Ask for the key at the Town Hall


Prices: please consult us


Get in touch:

  • Rehon Town Hall - 7 rue de Longwy 54430 Rehon
  • Tel: +33 (0)3 82 24 90 70
Amazing museums

The Ironing Museum



Longwy's Ironing Museum displays one of the largest iron collections in Europe, with almost 4,000 pieces. It stages the story of ironing from the 15th Century to the present day.


You will discover iron evolution over the centuries, the various types of irons, the materials used to make them and all the tasks they were used for



You can also discover all the artisan jobs related to ironing and the various heating systems.

Useful information:

  • Duration: 1-hour
  • Groups: Minimum 10 people


Prices:

  • Please contact us


Get in touch:

  • Tel: +33 (0)3 82 24 94 54
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Fillières’ Countryside Museum


At the heart of a village with a rich heritage, adorned with agricultural machinery and tools, the museum will take you back in time with a visit to an impressive collection of old farming equipment.



Introduction to rural life in the Lorraine countryside.


Exhibitions of paintings from May to October.

Useful information:

  • Duration: 1-hour
  • Group: Minimum 20 people / maximum 60 people
  • Period: from April to October, with advance booking


Prices: please call us


Get in touch:

  • Les Hasseus de Lorraine - 45 Grande Rue - 54560 Fillières
  • Tel. +33 (0)3 82 25 00 72

Musée archéologique de Cutry

 

 

Installé dans le château de Cutry, ce musée fait revivre une collection d’objets remarquablement mis en valeur, provenant des fouilles de la Nécropole gallo-romaine et mérovingienne de Cutry.

 

Non loin du château, rue de la Fontaine, se trouve un très beau « lavoir-tunnel » construit en 1754.

Informations pratiques :

 

• Durée : 1h

• Groupe : 20 personnes maximum

• Période : toute l'année sur réservation

 

Tarifs : nous consulter

 

Contact :

• Musée de Cutry - Château - Route de Longwy 54720 Cutry

• Tél. +33 (0)3 82 24 77 60 / +33 (0)3 82 24 30 36

In the footsteps of the Iron workers

The Majorelle Stained-glass windows

Maison de la Formation – Espace Jean Monnet – 54810 Longlaville

 

 

The former Head Office of the Longwy Steelworks, now the Maison de la Formation (Professional Training Center), is home to a priceless treasure: the "Majorelle Stained-glass windows".

 

Created in 1928 by Louis Majorelle, the Art-Deco style stained glass windows are classified as Historical Monuments.

 

The stained glass windows illustrate the steel industry theme: "the steel worker at work".

 

Discovery of the four levels respectively representing an overview of the plant, the steel mill and the rolling mill, the blast furnace and the plant fumes.

 

Discovery of a steel factory model.

 

Useful information:

 

  • Duration: 1h30
  • Groups: Minimum 10 people
  • Open year round with advance booking, at least one week before

 

Prices:

 

  • Price : 6 € per person

 

Get in touch:

 

  • Tel.  +33 (0)3 82 24 94 54
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Hussigny mines

 

You will discover the mining facilities and the equipment used at the time.

 

A re-enactment of the different phases of the mechanized work will be performed with machines that are still in good working order.

 

Useful information:

 

  • Duration: 2-hour
  • Groups: Minimum 30 people
  • Period: year round with booking - depending on guides’ availability

 

Prices: please consult us

Get in touch:

 

  • Hussigny Town Hall - 1 rue Maréchal Foch 54590 Hussigny
  • Tel. France:  +33 (0)3 82 44 40 16 / +33 (0)3 788 177 585
  • Tel. Luxembourg: +352 621 149 700 / +352 691 714 764
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  • Internet: http://mine-hussigny.de
  • GPS location: 49°29'51.10''N - 5°52'16.00''E

 

World-renowned enamels

Longwy City Museum of Enamels and Earthenware

 

Located in the former military bakery, the Enamel and Earthenware Museum of of Longwy exhibits the most famous creations of the city's factories. There are two large collections: earthenware, produced from 1798 on and enamels, their production started in the early 1870s.

Regarding earthenware, in addition to the standard tableware that made the Faience Factory's fame, you will discover decorative works from the 19th and 20th centuries (sculptures, majolica, barbotine).

The collections of enamel on faience will let you appreciate the richness and complexity of a unique know-how. Through these works, you will discover Longwy's links to the major European artistic trends, from the 1870s to this day and you will see how this heritage is cherished and nurtured.

The Museum is also home to works of the sculptor Jean-Paul Aubé (Longwy 1837 - Capbreton 1916) and the painter Paul-Georges Klein (Longwy 1909 - Arles 1994).

 

Useful information:

  • Duration of the tour: 1.5-hour
  • Open year round with advance booking

 

Prices:

  • Please Get in touch

 

Get in touch:

  • Musée Municipal des Émaux et Faïencerie de Longwy (Longwy Municipal Museum of Enamels and Earthenware) - Porte de France 54400 Longwy-Haut
  • +33 (0)3 82 23 85 19
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  • Facebook: facebook.com/museedesemaux
  • Internet: museedesemaux.wordpress.com

Longwy’s Enamel Factory – 1798

Famous for its powerful influence on the ceramics industry, the Boch family was instrumental in the founding of the Longwy earthenware factory in 1798.

The faience production became famous after Napoleon visited the site and ordered tableware for the Imperial Homes of the Legion d’Honneur.

Taken over by the d'Huart family in 1835, the earthenware factory expanded over the years: creation of the cloisonné decoration, Art Deco style, participation in the “Art Deco” exhibition of 1925.

Over the last 25 years, the Faiencerie has worked on a major project to update the style and design of its products. Collaborations with contemporary artists opened a new era for the Factory. For more than a Century, Longwy has held the exclusive rights to “cloisonné enamels” on earthenware.

In 1998, the factory entered its third Century of existence. You are invited to discover our House, our work, our know-how and the different phases of enamel production:

design of the molds, pouring of the clay, smoothing the rough pottery by hand, piece by piece

production of our enamel made of a mixture of metallic oxides with a range of rich colors,

silkscreen printing, laying of the black line with precision, filling of our enamels, applying gold with dexterity and finesse, and finally the cracking of our enamels.

Maybe you'll even have the chance to hear "enamel singing" as it comes out of kilns...

Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy (Longwy Enamels Manufacture) - 1798 - 3 rue des Emaux 54400 LONGWY - Tel: 03.82.24.30.94
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Useful information:

  • Monday to Friday, departure 9:30 am - 10:30 am - 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm. Advance booking required.
  • Duration: 45 minutes

 

Prices:

  • Please contact us
  • Groups: Minimum 10 - Maximum 30 people

Get in touch:

  • Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy (Longwy Enamels Production Site) - 1798 - 3 rue des Emaux 54400 Longwy
  • Tel. +33 (0)3 82 24 30 94
  • Fax. +33 (0)3 82 23 53 52
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  • Internet: www.emauxdelongwy.com

Saint-Jean l'Aigle Earthenware factory in Longwy-Herserange

 

Located in a castle previously owned by a steelworks owner, the factory produces 100% handcrafted Longwy enamels, barbotines and majolica, under the supervision of a “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” (Best Worker of France).

The National Living Heritage Company Label certifies excellence in tradition and innovation with classic one-off pieces, modernist decorative series and monumental works.

Its private museum shows ceramic masterpieces by painters and sculptors like Picasso, Mucha, Majorelle, Mougin, Rodin, Gallé and the great Longwy creators inspired by China and Japan.

 

 

 

 

Discovery tour: factory, shop and museum. (Découverte : magasin d’usine, fabrique et musée)

Useful information:

 

  • Duration: 1.5-hour
  • Period: year round from Monday to Friday. Booking three weeks in advance for Saturdays and Sundays (mornings)
  • Closed the first three weeks of August and from December 24th to January 1st.

 

Prices:

 

  • Please contact us
  • Groups: Minimum 12 - Maximum 100 people

 

Get in touch:

 

  • Faïencerie Saint-Jean l'Aigle (Saint-Jean l'Aigle Earthenware factory), direct access via Longwy, 98 rue de la Chiers - 54400 Herserange
  • Tel. +33 (0)3 82 24 58 20
  • Fax. +33 (0)3 82 24 43 76
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  • Facebook: www.facebook.com/Emaux-de-Longwy-Saint-Jean-lAigle-Officiel

Handcrafted Earthenware

 

The workshop is located at the heart of Longwy-Bas.

 

Enamels are made by hand, the traditional way, just like in the old days.

 

Drawings are made by hand like the enameling of each piece, certified "made in Longwy".

Useful information:

 

  • Period: advance booking is required
  • Groups: maximum 5 people

 

Prices: Admission is free, but visitors can give money to a charity.

 

Get in touch:

 

  • Handcrafted Earthenware - 16 rue Labro 54400 Longwy
  • Tel: +33 (0)6 38 67 99 11
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Longwy Art Enamels 

 

In a large retail space, you will discover the exclusive creations of Christian LECLERCQ, Master Ceramist & Meilleur Ouvrier de France ("Best Worker of France"): Art Enamels of Longwy

 

Contemporary or classic, the collections are numerous and offer art lovers high quality, carefully crafted pieces that reflect all the know-how and manual skills of a House committed to these values.

 

Les Émaux d'Art de Longwy has been awarded the EPV State Label (Living Heritage Company) rewarding the excellence of a French know-how that tops up an already well-established fame.

 

Our shop offers a large choice of antique objects to complement the Longwy and Lorraine heritage product range.

 

A unique experience.

Useful information:

 

  • Duration: 40 minutes.
  • Period: advance booking is required
  • Groups: from 1 to 10 people

 

Prices: Please contact us

 

Get in touch:

 

  • Emaux d'Art de Longwy (Longwy Art Enamels) - Place Salvador Allende (Gare Routière) 54400 Longwy
  • Tel. +33 (0)3 82 25 71 46
  • Fax. +33 (0)3 82 23 19 61
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“Military Heritage tour”

The Crypt and the Mine of Thil

 

The Thil concentration camp was opened in March 1944 and abandoned y the Germans in early September 1944. The camp housed deportees working in a V1 missile factory in the mine of the Syndicat de Tiercelet.

Today, you can still visit the Crypt, which includes the crematory oven, and walk along the Memory Trail. To this day, it remains the only concentration camp with a crematorium oven in non-annexed French territory.

Part of the mine can be toured.

 

Useful information:

 

  • Duration: to be defined
  • Prices: please call us
  • Open year round with advance booking
  • Get in touch: +33 (0)3 82 24 94 54
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The A5 structure of the Bois du Four

 

The A5 structure of the Bois du Four in Villers-la-Montagne, with a monolithic design and powerful reinforcement, is built on two levels.

It is an infantry structure staffed by a crew of 137 men from the 139th RIF (Fortress Infantry Regiment) and 152nd RAP (Position Artillery Regiment)

This fort is the only one in the North and East of France to display a firing chamber under a lower casemate equipped with two 81 mm mortars.

Other high points of the tour: the manually operated eclipse machine-gun turret, the fully refurbished and working kitchen and the artillerymen's quarters.

 

Useful information:

  • Duration: 2-hours
  • Prices: please check with us
  • Group tours: Minimum 10 - Maximum 40 people
  • All year on request

 

Get in touch:

  • Association Ouvrage A5 Bois du Four - 122 bis rue Emile Curicque 54920 Villers-la-Montagne
  • Located 1 500 m south-east of Villers-la-Montagne, access via the RN52, exit at "Morfontaine - Tiercelet - Z.I. Villers" interchange, direction Morfontaine-Cités, then right-hand path at 500m.
  • Tel. +33 (0)3 82 26 12 10
  • Internet: virtual site visit:  http://www.a5ouvragemaginot.org

Fermont, the undefeated Fortress – A large structure that was part of the Maginot Defense Line

 

The Fort de Fermont and its museum are the best places to discover the Maginot Line.

 

Fermont is a 2-hour tour, 30 metres underground, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a vintage electric train. You will discover an artillery structure of the Maginot Line completely preserved with its equipment, its underground organization and its armament.

 

Don’t forget to take:

  • Warm clothes and hiking boots (temperature in the bunker: 13°C)

 

Prices: please ask us

  • Open year round with advance booking

 

Get in touch:

  • Association des Amis de l'Ouvrage de Fermont et de la Ligne Maginot (Association of Friends of the Fermont Works and the Maginot Line) - 9 rue A. Lebrun 54260 Longuyon
  • phone : 06 43 57 89 19
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  • Internet: www.fort-de-fermont.fr

 

Opening hours


Grand Longwy Tourist Office

Opening Days and Hours

 

Monday : 14h/17h30

Tuesday to Friday : 10h/12h30 - 14h/17h30

Closed during bank holidays

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