Vionville | |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Vionville 57.svg |
Arrondissement: | Metz |
Canton: | Les Coteaux de Moselle |
Insee: | 57722 |
Postal Code: | 57130 |
Commune: | Rezonville-Vionville |
Coordinates: | 49.0928°N 5.9486°W |
Elevation M: | 291 |
Elevation Min M: | 240 |
Elevation Max M: | 307 |
Area Km2: | 9.65 |
Population: | 190 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Vionville (in French pronounced as /vjɔ̃vil/) is a former commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Rezonville-Vionville.[2]
The battle of Vionville (Rezonville or Mars-la-Tour) was fought here on 16 of August 1870 between the French and the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War.[3]