Fortified hearth
from the village of Onville

Originally, Saint-Rémi, a secular foundation, was a private state chapel. But the main family from Onville, heirs to the estate's founder, had to content themselves, after the year 1227, with serving as local attorneys for Gorze. In XNUMX, the knight Walter d'Onville established a will entirely in favor of the Gorze abbey and the parish of Saint-Rémi. The modest original chapel was probably enlarged for the first time in the XNUMXth century. The atre must have already resembled what it remains today, at least for the inhabited part. The eastern part of the atre consisted solely of winegrowers' houses, whose basement cellars are very often uninhabited today. The atre was apparently under construction during the XNUMXth century, which would have led to the need to temporarily remove the small houses located at the rear. Built at the expense of the community, the rectangular and imposing bell tower is a fine example of what a fortified bell tower could have been like in the Middle Ages.