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{{Infobox French commune
|name               = Gorcy
|commune status     = [[Communes of France|Commune]]
|image              = Eglise Gorcy.jpg
|caption            = Gorcy church
|image coat of arms = Blason Gorcy 54.svg
|arrondissement     = Val-de-Briey
|canton             = Mont-Saint-Martin
|INSEE              = 54234
|postal code        = 54730
|mayor              = Bernard Fontaine<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}</ref>
|term               = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality   = [[Grand Longwy Agglomération]]
|coordinates        = {{coord|49.5356|5.6853|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m    = 235
|elevation max m    = 385
|area km2           = 4.1
|population         = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date    = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
|demonym            = Gorcéens
}}
'''Gorcy''' ({{IPA|fr|ɡɔʁsi}}) is a commune, located in the department of [[Meurthe-et-Moselle]] and the [[Grand Est]] region, [[France]].<ref>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/54234-gorcy Commune de Gorcy], INSEE</ref>
This village in the north of the Meurthe-et-Moselle is next to the [[Belgium|Belgian]] frontier, and about 10&nbsp;km from [[Longwy]], main city of the "Pays-Haut".
Its inhabitants are named ''Gorcéens'' and ''Gorcéennes'' in French.
==History==
Gorcy was part of the old [[Barrois]] province. The village Cussigny was attached to Gorcy in 1810.<ref name="CassiG"/>
{{Historical populations
|align=none
|cols=2
| 1793|129
| 1800|115
| 1806|121
| 1821|237
| 1836|408
| 1841|423
| 1861|668
| 1866|657
| 1872|654
| 1876|799
| 1881|1199
| 1886|861
| 1891|943
| 1896|1053
| 1901|1070
| 1906|1124
| 1911|1512
| 1921|1250
| 1926|1520
| 1931|1516
| 1936|1350
| 1946|1100
| 1954|1462
| 1962|2228
| 1968|2364
| 1975|2686
| 1982|2473
| 1990|2168
| 1999|2130
| 2007|2361
| 2012|2529
| 2017|2763
| footnote = 1962 to 2017: Official population without duplicates. Sources: 1793-1999 EHESS,<ref name="CassiG">{{Cassini-Ehess|15736 |Gorcy}}</ref> 1968-2017 INSEE.<ref>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-54234 Gorcy], Population en historique depuis 1968, [[INSEE]].</ref>}}
===Steel industry===
In 1832, Jean Joseph Labbé built a first blast furnace in Gorcy, on the Parivaux. From 1846 to 1848, two new blast furnaces were built. The factory, partially destroyed during the war of 1870, is rebuilt and set in rights. In 1877, the two blast furnaces were removed and replaced by two other more powerful. Before [[World War I]], the ''Société métallurgique de Gorcy'' still exploited two blast furnaces which disappeared in the 1930s.
==Places and monuments==
*Industrialist's castle known as ''Château du Parivaux'' (Parivaux' Castle), built from 1898 to 1900, for [[Georges Rolland]], husband of Marcelle Labbé, the "château du bas" were in this time inhabited by his brother-in-law Paul; bombarded in 1940, it was deleted{{clarify|date=February 2017}} in 1967, because there was too much renovation to do.
*Industrialist's castle known as ''Château bas'', built from 1880 to 1883, for Jean-Joseph Labbé, founder of the ''Forges de Gorcy'' in 1832; gravely damaged by a bombardment in 1940, it was deleted{{clarify|date=February 2017}} in 1955, because there was too much renovations to do.
*''Château de la Martinière'', built in the start of the 17th century, maybe in 1603, in accordance with a date today disappeared, for Claude des Bernards, founder of the branch of Des Bernards of Gorcy; he came in the De la Martinière's family with a marriage in 1725, it was renovated in 1740, date carried by the pedestrian door of the main part; the moat surrounding the castle was filled in during 1855 and baskets of fruit hung from the columns of the old entry gate from the old ''Château du Pulventeux'' in Longwy-Haut.
*Castle known as ''Château des Gorcy''. Strong house of the Gorcys maybe built in the 16th century, badly damaged in 1671 by the troops of Marshal De Créqui, renovated in the 18th century, extended toward south in the 19th century, and became a property of the Labbé's family. It was given to the commune completely redone in 1979, and is currently the town hall.
* The military cemetery, where the [[Ferdinand Foch|Maréchal Foch]]'s son is buried. It's near to the frontier. In this cemetery, is also buried René Viviani's son, Council president from 1914 to 1918
* The Cussignère marsh, a wood bridge cross it and link France to Belgium.
* The monument to the war dead
* The walk along of the river ''Coulmy''.
==Religious building==
* Parish church ''Saint-Jean-Baptiste''; the parish depended on the Musson's church (in Belgium) until 1785); since then, the exercise of the congregation is in the cadastral chapel of M. Maillard de la Martinière; became too little and too damaged, it was replaced in 1837 by a church, built with the Bauchet's plan, architect in [[Briey]]; it is extended and renovated in 1896 with the L. Lanternier's plan, architect in [[Nancy, France|Nancy]]. It was consecrated in 1898.
==Events==
* ''Fête de la Cussignère'' (latest October week-end) : international eco-fair of biological products
* Annual tournament of soccer.
==See also==
*[[Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/mairie.gorcy Internet site of the city]
{{Meurthe-et-Moselle communes}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle]]