Étupes

Étupes is a common French, located in the department of the Doubs and the area Franche-Comté. The inhabitants of Étupes are called Erbatons .

Geography

Located ideally between the towns of Belfort and Montbeliard Etupes from its situation to make evolve/move its industrial park of technoland benefits fully. 3 Mount overhang the city the mountain, the cemetery and the large suburb

History

The origins of Etupes go up at the time Gallo-Roman, date on which Via Agrippa connecting Mandeure (Epomanduodurum) to Strasbourg passes by the village. Archeologists find even the traces of a wood bridge spanning Allan.

A few centuries later, Etupes again marks the History thanks to its sumptuous castle, built in 1770 with the site of the current allotment of the castle and dismounted stone by stone in 1801 to erase any symbol of the Old mode. This residence of summer of the duke Frederic-Eugene of Wurtemberg was surrounded by several hectares of greenery. Given up after the fastening of the Country of Montbeliard in France, it is sold with the biddings. A model of the building now disappeared is exposed to the Museum of the dukes of Wurtemberg to the castle of Montbeliard.

Until the explosion of the industrial activities in the Country of Montbeliard at the XIXe century, Etupes is a commune primarily turned towards agriculture. On its territory, in the Seventies, Technoland, the zone of activities become most important today of the agglomeration develops. Etupes is also the fatherland of Jules-Andre Peugeot, known under the name of Caporal Peugeot, killed on August 2nd, 1914 with Joncherey (Territory of Belfort), that is to say more than thirty hours before the official declaration of war.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

  • Eugen von Maucler (1783-1859), politicking Wurtembergois and famous bibliophile, born in Étupes

  • Jules-Andre Peugeot, born in Étupes on June 11th, 1893, killed with Joncherey on August 2nd, 1914: the first dead of the war of 1914 - 1918, which is officially declared the following day.

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