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# Rue Marie Tilman

Dudelange

Manager, brickmaker

Name
                
Marie
 
Tilman

Birth year
                
1867

Year of death
                
1923

Places of residence
                
Courcelles ¦ Belgium, Bonnevoie, Dudelange

## Who is she?

Marie Tilman married coal miner and brickmaker Emile Tassin in Courcelles in 1891. At that time, women played a fundamental role in brick manufacturing. Girls were involved in the process from a young age, acquiring their skills in the domestic environment. Adult women carried out all the tasks: digging for clay, loading wooden wheelbarrows, transporting their heavy loads to the moulding tables, shaping the bricks and stacking them.

Marie Tilman, a mother of four, took over the management of the brickworks in Hollerich following her husband's fatal accident at work in 1910. With a small team, mainly composed of women, she produced one million bricks each year in the Bonnevoie and Dudelange factories.

On 9 November 1923, the enterprising woman died at the age of 56.

Sources:

- Mémorial du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, 5 November 1910
- LW, 1 January 1910
- LW, 9 November 1923
- LW, 26 June 2023: Gesichter migrierter Frauen und stolzer Ukrainerinnen
- https://www.cdmh.lu/resources/pdf/\_base\_4/1476789136480-Brochure\_Expo\_Zillebacker.pdf?ac=1586331481
- Town of Dudelange – Equal Opportunities Department

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