Guided discovery of a village and its heritage

Name: Descubrimiento guiado de un pueblo y su patrimonio
Start: 2022-09-18T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Rue du Théâtre

On the occasion of this heritage weekend, the Office de Tourisme du Pays du Saulnois offers a guided tour to discover the town’s heritage.

Domingo 18 septiembre 2022, 16:30Passed

©Office de Tourisme du Pays du Saulnois

The visit will make you discover Tarquimpol, peninsula on the pond of Lindre and its church, small architectural jewel of the Saulnois country.
The visit will continue at the Castle of Alteville, property of the Barthélémy family with an architectural reading of the two monuments.

About the location

Rue du Théâtre

Rue du Théâtre, 57260 Tarquimpol

Moselle
Grand Est

Having named(appointed) Decempagi during Gallo-Roman period, he(it) was located on the Roman way from Metz to Strasbourg. He possessed a temple and a theatre that can welcome about 10 000 people, what made one of the biggest(greatest) of all East of the Gaul.
In July 356 the Battle of Tarquimpol took place where Alamans attacked(affected) suddenly Julien, the future Roman emperor. They will be pushed away(repelled) out of Gaul in 357\. The city(estate) will be demolished(destroyed) in Ve century. Germen then came become established on the place and took advantage of materials of the ancient city to build within its fortress a village which they called Teichenphul. In Middle Ages, seigniory passed to the Lorraine in 1418; she(it) was a member(part) of the bailiwick of Germany in the provostship of Dieuze.
Tarquimpol is an old(former) municipality of the department of the Meurthe. Annexed in Bezirk Lothringen by the treaty of Frankfurt, it takes the German name of Taichenphul. She(It) was included into the department of the Moselle when she(it) became again French after the World War I.
The castle of Alteville is established(constituted) of two facing each other buildings. The first one(night) is built by Étienne Toupet in 1564 when he(it) obtains the fief of Alteville of the duke Charles IV of Lorraine. It is a typical strong house with a turret, of murderesses and of two-light frames. The second, built in 1698 by Charles Palléot, a cavalry officer, is a square detached house(flag) of two floors flanked(thrown) by two wings.