Villers-lès-Nancy

French commune|nomcommune=Villers-lès-Nancy
région=Lorraine
département=Meurthe-et-Moselle
arrondissement=Nancy
canton=Laxou
insee=54578
cp=54600
maire=Pascal Jacquemin
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté urbaine du Grand Nancy
time zone = CET (GMT +1)
lat_long = coord|48|40|23|N|6|09|16|E|type:city


x = 208
y = 79
alt moy=285 m
alt mini=224 m
alt maxi=381 m
hectares=995
km²=9.95
sans=15,694
date-sans=1999
dens=1,557
date-dens=1999

Villers-lès-Nancy is a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle "département" situated in the Lorraine region in France. Inhabitants are known as "Villarois".

Geography

Villers-lès-Nancy is localized in the north-east of the France, in the south-east suburb 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 Montet botanic garden 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.

Mayors list

* 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

See also

* Communauté urbaine du Grand Nancy (CUGN)
* Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle

External links

# [http://www.mairie-villers-les-nancy.fr/ Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy]
# [http://usan.ffspeleo.fr/id20.htm Nancy spéléodrome, localized on in Villers-lès-Nancy]

References

* Parts of this article come from the french version.