Villers-lès-Nancy
Commune in Grand Est, France
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Villers-lès-Nancy (French pronunciation: [vilɛʁ lɛ nɑ̃si], literally Villers near Nancy) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
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The Remicourt chateau in Villers-lès-Nancy | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Villers-lès-Nancy | |
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| Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 6°09′17″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle |
| Arrondissement | Nancy |
| Canton | Laxou |
| Intercommunality | Métropole du Grand Nancy |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | François Werner[1] |
Area 1 | 9.95 km2 (3.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 14,718 |
| • Density | 1,480/km2 (3,830/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (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. | |
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
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Points of interest
Church of Saint-Fiacre.
Church of Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'enfant-Jésus.
Church of Saint-Bernard (Clairlieu).
Orthodox chapel of the Gauls.
Major Seminar of l’Asnée.
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
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
