Bavilliers

Bavilliers is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté.

Its inhabitants is called Bavillierois and Bavillieroises.

The commune depends on the Canton of Châtenois-the-Forging mills.

The village is located at the western periphery of Belfort, on the driving RN83 with Héricourt (Haute-Saône), road established on the traces of a secondary Roman way which, coming from the south by Argiésans, went up towards Danjoutin and Belfort while skirting the hillock of the Châtelet . Bavilliers is sprinkled by Soft the, a small river which takes its source with Châlonvillars, disappears partly in the Hole-the-Lady to re-appear two hundred meters lower, right in the middle of the village.

History

Gallo-Roman vestiges, whose fragment of mosaic and many tiles, were put at the day on the territory of the commune. Probably, the medieval castle replaced a Roman castellum . The village is quoted for the first time in 1140 in the form Basvyllis . One meets also thereafter Baveler or Basvelier . The stronghold of Bavilliers belonged to the county of Montbeliard and of the town hall of Cravanche until in 1347 then was attached to the crown of Austria until in 1642. In 1573 the village sheltered a little more than one hundred of inhabitants.

July 11th 1815 was signed by Claude Jacques Lecourbe and the Austrian invader an armistice which put makes with the second head office of Belfort (see Histoire of the Territory of Belfort).

The parish of Bavilliers gathers the inhabitants of Argiésans and Urcerey in the church Saint-Ambroise built towards 1850 and which replaced a construction which existed already in 1603.

Administration

Demography

In 1803, the village counted 265 inhabitants and developed during the 19th century to reach 854 inhabitants in 1872. In 1911 its population had almost doubled with 1682 inhabitants; a spinning mill and a mechanical weaving employed 350 people in 1882. With its 4582 inhabitants listed in 1999, Bavilliers is more important than its chief town of canton. It owes this rapid development with the presence of industries and the town of Belfort, now with narrow within its territorial limits.

External bond

Site of Bavilliers

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