Étival-Clairefontaine

See also: Clairefontaine

Étival-Clairefontaine is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine. Its inhabitants is called Stivaliens.

Geography

Étival-Clairefontaine is located at the confluence of the Meurthe, the Rabodeau and the Valdange.

It is distant of 13 km the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, of 76 km Nancy and 90 km Strasbourg by the Col of Hantz (641 m). It belongs to the Agglomération of Moyenmoutier.

History

Attended during average Halstatt, with the Life century, then in Tène, IIIe and IIe centuries before J. - C., the site of Pierre d' Appel in Étival - headland of a plate overhanging of 200 meters the valley of Meurthe and controlling the ford of a strategic way - is occupied starting from Ier century before J. - C., perhaps because of the destruction of the village by the army of Auguste. The objects found at the time excavations of Pierre d' Appel in the dwellings occupied with Tène and at the time Gallo-Roman are with the museum of Saint-Dié.

The monastery of Étival ( Stivagium ) is founded at the 7th century for the men by Bodon (or holy Leudin), future bishop of Toul. It founds Bonmoutier for the women towards 650. To the 9th century, Charles the Large gives the abbey to the empress Richarde. At the 10th century, the abbey is devastated by Huns. Sainte Odile would have been baptized in Étival. In 1146, the Prémontrés adopt the monastery. In 1309, Thiébaut II, duke of Lorraine, grant the rights of high, average, and low justice in all the round of applause. The abbot of Étival is made bishop in partibus , which gives him quasi episcopal rights in its territory and some parishes of its dependence.

  • See List of the prémontrés abbots of Étival

The history of the commune is also related to that of paper industry. As of 1512, a prémontré monk created a first papellery . In 1858, Jean-Baptiste Bichelberger founds the Papeteries of Clairefontaine which will be characterized at the 20th century by their stripped cover.

Remarkable sites

  • Rock of Pierre d' Appel (492 m) at the end of the coast of Repy which sheltered a Celtic camp.
  • Celebrates abbey rested by the bishop of Toul, holy Leudin, at the 7th century.
  • Romance Church with three naves, of the 12th century, altered with the XIVe. Dynamited by the occupant in 1944, it was rebuilt, but its single turn was placed on the other side of the frontage with a stage of less.
  • Ruin of the mill with paper going back to 1512 on banks of Valdange.
  • Many ponds, of which the Lake Beaulieu bordered of a camp-site.
  • Until worms end of the Years 1970, tourist railroad with vapor of the Valley of the Rabodeau.

Demography

Administration

Famous characters

Internal bond

  • Station of Étival-Clairefontaine

External bonds

  • Official site of the city
  • abbeys of Étival, Moyenmoutier and Senones
  • Étival-Clairefontaine with the wire of time

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