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Origin and history

The house in Metz, in the Moselle department (Great East region), dates from the first half of the seventeenth century. This civil building illustrates the city's domestic architecture at a time marked by its status as a free imperial city, before its permanent attachment to France in 1648. Although the details of its first occupants or its original function are lacking, its inscription as Historic Monuments in 1929 underscores its heritage interest, notably for its doorway on the street of the Abbé-Risse, an architectural element protected by decree.

In Metz, in the 17th century, bourgeois or artisanal houses reflected the economic prosperity of the city, linked to its role as a commercial hub between France and the Germanic territories. The facades, often made of Jaumont stone, had sober but elegant decorations, such as carved lintels or doors in the middle of the hanger. This house is part of this urban context, where private housing was indicative of cross-stylistic influences, between local tradition and external inputs.

Its subsequent classification responds to a desire to preserve these traces of the Messin past, in a city deeply marked by conflicts and successive reconstructions.

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