- Location:
- Marthille The village is 46 km from Nancy, 45 km from Metz, 7 km from Morhange, 14 km from Château-Salins, 15 km from Delme.
- Canton of Delme, Community of Communes Saulnois in Moselle.
- Town:
- The name of the town come from both the Latin "tilium, was" synonymous with lime and the name Mary, the Blessed Virgin, to whom the church was originally dedicated. Thus, the first written mention "in villa vocabulo Til Situm pago salninse ecclesiain honors sanctae mariae virginis semper" which certifies the origins mentioned above, back to the year 952.
- In the following century, the term was reduced considerably, leaving only the suffix "tilium". In 1161 the Latin sounding disappeared in favor of "til" appellation. In the 16th century, the name "Mary" is added to the suffix to generate the "Marthille" name.
- The name not changed until the advent of "Marthil" in 1871, replaced by "Martnille" in 1919 and "Marten" during the German occupation in 1940. Marthille finally regaining its original French name for the release.
- Historical Background:
- "Marte" mentioned in a charter of donation made to the abbey of St. Arnulf of Metz in 717.
- Fief lords Chateau Bréhain.
- Burned by Metz in 1325.
- Devastated during the Thirty Years War.
- Prehistoric and ancient remains.
- Gallo-Roman Wood lords.
- Civil Architecture:
- Lorraine village with terraced houses.
- Old mills.
- Marthille the 19th and 20th centuries:
- At the end of the 19th century, the town of Marthille in the center of Lorraine plateau, the land of lakes, the source of the French Nied was purely agricultural vocation. Each family ensured extra income by raising one or two cows to enjoy dairy products, and some pigs. Ten farms average or important shared the majority of farmland.
- By 1930, cans of milk collected every night in the village, were taken to Mill High where they were refrigerated in the troughs continuously supplied with fresh water Nied. The next morning, they were transported by car drawn by two horses in the cooperative Bénestroff. A little later, the transfer was carried out in a van.
- At this time various craftsmen working in their workshop, namely: the stonemason who built the altar of the cave and carved marble book the altar Cooper maintained that the barrels and tanks, the wheelwright who built wagons (cars), the pantry who repaired the harness, two farriers who each had their shop, the barber who cut the hair of children, including the school year, the laundress ironing clothes who looked church, the tailor, who sewed costumes among other ...
- Two coffees hosted essentially the male in the evening after a hard day's work. One of the cafes also served as an inn, the tobacconist, post office and grocery store. A second store next to the school yard, it also allowed the housewives do their shopping and acted tobacconist. For many years, all the villagers came to buy their bread and pastries in a bakery unfortunately closed since 1979.
- The village women washing their clothes in the laundry or covered up the village or at the main fountain.
- From time to time, clerks and farmers bathed the horses in the ford at the mill located Nied.
- Two nuns of St. Jean de Bassel were housed in the girls' school (near the school course) and it provided education. As for the education of boys (33 students in 1930), he was assigned to a school giving the courses at a local at the site of the present town hall master.
- After the harvest, threshing ... In small farms, harvesters were driven by toothed wheels driven by horses on rides up in 1920-1930. About 1923, the steam engine (steam) was operating the harvester only in large farms with a large grain harvest to beat. The villagers were busy around the steam engine and thresher installed near a water source, either Sauvu or front of the fountain in the center of the village. In 1930, animal traction and the steam engine gave way to the electric motor.
- For many decades, Marthilloises Marthillois and led a healthy life but laborious. The village lived in self-sufficiency ... Many trades were in the service of the people.
- From 1939, when the opening of the mine Faulquemont, farmers gradually abandoned their way of culture, artisans closed their shops, traders lowered the curtain to try their luck in other places .. . Some committed culture and small farmers worked the coal ...
- In 2008, there is no longer any trade or craftsman working in the village.
