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Longwy and the Pays-Haut — Longwy, Mont-Saint-Martin, Longuyon

Longwy, Mont-Saint-Martin, Longuyon. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1000–1480 Upper Lorraine and the Duchy of Bar no registers survive

Before registers. Longwy first belonged to Lotharingia, then to Upper Lorraine and the Duchy of Bar. It was ceded to Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg in 1368 and returned to Bar in 1378; Bar was annexed to the Duchy of Lorraine in 1480.
1480–1670 Duchy of Lorraine Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle · FamilySearch

Longwy was part of the Kingdom of France from 1648 to 1660 and then returned to Lorraine.
1670–1871 Kingdom of France — fortress town of Louis XIV Archives départementales de la Moselle · Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle · FamilySearch

Longwy became French again in 1670 and the Treaties of Nijmegen (1678) confirmed it; Vauban fortified the town. The Revolutionary civil registration began in 1792. Before 1871 Longwy belonged to the Moselle department.
1871–1914 France — Longwy a frontier town of Meurthe-et-Moselle Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle · Archives départementales de la Moselle · FamilySearch

After the Treaty of Frankfurt only one fifth of Moselle, including Longwy, escaped annexation by Germany. Longwy is now in Meurthe-et-Moselle, so records before and after 1871 may lie with different departmental archives.
1914–1918 German-occupied Longwy Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle · Arolsen Archives

After the Battle of the Ardennes the town was occupied by the German army from August 1914 until the Armistice of 1918; Lieutenant Colonel Darche held the German 5th Army for three weeks.
1918–2026 France — Meurthe-et-Moselle Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle · FamilySearch · Geneanet

The Longwy "ville neuve" was listed in 2008 as part of the Fortifications of Vauban.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

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118 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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