Now a shopping street, rue du Marché had almost no shops at the turn of the century. The ground floors were either stables or kitchens.
The Marcelin Maurel suburb or avenue occupies the site of the old ditches that separated the town from its suburb. The town's houses only opened up to the outside world around 1840. The trees that once adorned the suburb disappeared in 1910 to make way for the tramway.
On this side of the town, the houses were plastered around 1900 and nothing of the old ramparts is still visible. The pontis (or vaulted passageway) was not opened until 1863. In 1870, it was renamed Alsace-Lorraine in memory of the lost provinces.