Villers-lès-Nancy




Commune in Grand Est, France
































































Villers-lès-Nancy
Commune


Villers-lès-Nancy is located in France

Villers-lès-Nancy

Villers-lès-Nancy





Location within Grand Est region


Villers-lès-Nancy is located in Grand Est

Villers-lès-Nancy

Villers-lès-Nancy





Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 6°09′17″E / 48.6731°N 6.1547°E / 48.6731; 6.1547Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 6°09′17″E / 48.6731°N 6.1547°E / 48.6731; 6.1547
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement Nancy
Canton Laxou
Intercommunality Métropole du Grand Nancy
Government
 • Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}
(2014–2020)
François Werner
Area1
9.95 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population (2014)2
14,224
 • Density 1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET (GMT +1))
 • Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)

INSEE/Postal code
54578 /54600
Elevation 224–381 m (735–1,250 ft)
(avg. 285 m or 935 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villers-lès-Nancy is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.


Inhabitants are known as Villarois.




Contents






  • 1 Geography


  • 2 Points of interest


  • 3 Mayors


  • 4 Twin towns


  • 5 Events


  • 6 See also


  • 7 External links





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.



Points of interest


  • Jardin botanique du Montet



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



  • Germany 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


  • Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department


External links







  1. Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy

  2. Nancy spéléodrome, localized on in Villers-lès-Nancy











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