Bethonvilliers
Bethonvilliers is a commune of the department of the Territoire of Belfort belonging to the canton of Fontaine. The village extends on 190 hectares and account 237 Bevillois . It is surrounded in the east by Lagrange, the west by Menoncourt and is located a little at the variation of the RN83, 10 km in the east of Belfort in direction of the Alsace. This common belongs to the Communauté of communes of the Lime.
In 1295 disappears Richard from Belfort. His/her Houdiennette daughter inherits the dîme and the mill of Bethonvilliers. The village is located on the river the Madeleine who kills from the the Vosges all close relations after having crossed the villages of Etueffont and of Anjoutey. This situation however banal caused until 1630 the partition of the village in Bethonvilliers-bank-right-hand side (dependant of prévôté on Belfort) and Bethonvilliers-bank-left (attached to the seigniory of Rougemont-the-Castle. This distinction is also found at the religious level since the inhabitants depending on Rougemont was to go to the church of Phaffans while those which lived on other bank were regarded as parishioners of Saint-Germain-the-Châtelet. In 1785, the baron DE DIETRICH, in its inventory of the lodgings and ores High and Low-Alsace speaks thus about the “Furnace of Bettonvilliers” ( orthography of the time ): “ In addition to these furnaces (those of Belfort and Châtenois), it, located one of them there at Bettonvilliers, two miles of Belfort, close to the road of Colmar; since eighteen to twenty years, the food shortage of the mines prevented it from rolling ”. The iron ore used came from the mines very close to Roppe and Eguenigue.
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