Anould

Anould is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.

Its inhabitants is called Aulnois.

Geography

It is located in the valley of the Meurthe at 12 km upstream of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, at 16 km of Gérardmer by the Col of the Ceiling (621 m) and at 43 km of Colmar by the collar of the Catch (949 m). The altitude of the commune culminates with 933 meters with the Rock of the Fairies.

The majority of the population concentrates along the main roads of circulation, but many variations are counted: Chalgoutte, the Chain, Déveline, Gerhaudel, Drops, Barns, Hardalle, the High Fountain, Anoux, Mangoutte, the Pair, Raingoutte, the Stock and Vanchère.

History

The origin of the name of Anould has two versions:
  1. Anould draws its name from Latin anoldium , “with the nodes” , because of crossroads bordered of shrubs which united the vault with the hamlets;
  2. Anould comes from the old Latin word alnus meaning Aulne or ell. The place would have been planted alders, as Fraize ( fraxinus in Latin) would be the place where ashes are, Saulcy (of Latin salix ) the place where willows push.

The church, the town hall and the school complex were destroyed by the Germans in 1944. The paper mills of the Stock, among most important of the Vosges, were destroyed. The common one suffered considerably: on the 551 houses which it counted pre-war period, the Germans destroyed 490 of them, by fire or dynamite, from November 15th to 18th 1944. The number of disaster victims was of 1725. Anould is titular Military Cross 1939-1945.

; Blasonnement: Quartered with the first of gold with three sinople mountains coupled charged each one with a net in money band, and surmounted by a peregrine falcon of sand; with the second of mouths to the issuant gold sun of the sinistral canton accompanied by three flowers the colchiques ones of money posed 1 - 2; with the money third with two sand fir trees put in band; with the fourth of azure with four trouts the 1° and the 4° out of stake and faced, the 2° and the 3° in fasce and leant.

By this blazon, the commune of Anould wanted to symbolize the mountains which surround it, with the galleries of mines and the Faucon in the sky, the meadows by the Colchique S gilded with the sun, the Sapin S of the Vosgean forests and the Truite S of the torrents.

Curiosities

  • Rock of the Sphinx: one reaches the panorama on the valley while following a botanical path. A course of health is also traced in its vicinity.
  • Ruins of a castle-extremely to Pre locality the “of the castle”.
  • Museum “the Barn with the birds”.
  • Track multi-activities between Anould and Fraize on the influence of the old railway.
  • Skate park.

Twin town

, city of the Land of Hesse.

Administration

Demography

Economy

  • paper mills of the Stock, last Paper mill S of the valley High-Meurthe. They employed to 850 people and ensured the development of the village.

Characters related to the commune

  • Jean-Baptiste Lemire (Colmar, Haut-Rhin 1867 it Arrow, the Sarthe 1945): leader (of the Paper mills) in this commune and type-setter.

External bonds

  • municipal Site
  • Site on the organ of the area: organ of Anould
  • Anould on the site of the National Geographical Institute
  • Anould on the site of INSEE
  • Anould on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Anould on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Anould on Mapquest
  • Anould on the site of HAJAS

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