Bourogne

Bourogne is a commune of the Territoire of Belfort attached to the canton of Grandvillars since 1970, before it was attached to the canton of Delle. It is located at 11 km in the south-east of Belfort on the road Belfort Delle near the junction point of the Canal of the Haute-Saône coming from Ronchamp and that of the Canal of the Rhone in the Rhine, still in service. The river which sprinkles Bourogne is “the Bourbeuse”.

The history and the development of Bourogne are related to its geographical position which in made a crossing point attended since the oldest times. The presence of the prehistoric man is attested and the Gallo-Roman vestiges of which a fragment of mosaic having belonged to a villa . A junction connected the site of Bourogne to the Roman way passing by Mandeure and Augst (Augusta Rauricorum). The time which left the most interesting traces is the Early middle ages, with vast the barbarian cemetery (known as also burgonde or mérovingien ) dating from VIIe and VIIIe centuries which was excavated of 1907 with 1909. Spring 2004, preventive excavations, carried out at the request of the municipality before the extension of the cemetery, made it possible to discover important vestiges of a defensive habitat dating from Ve or Life century. The foundations of two workshops of craftsmen and three lime kilns as of the traces of occupation dating from the Bronze Age were put at the day. First mention of the name of the village Boronia date of 1150. Until 1347, the village is divided between the county of Montbeliard and that of Ferrette, the Muddy one forming limit between the two fields. At that time would have existed a castle with Boringen name germanized of this stronghold of Brinighoffen, vassal of the count de Ferrette. In September 1676 the army of the general Duplessis-Dressing stationed in Bourogne before the catch of Montbeliard on November 8th.

At the end of the Hundred Days, on July 2nd 1815, the troops of the 8th Body of observation of the Jura, ordered by the general Lecourbe, faced the Austrian armies.

During the war of 1870, the Prussian general headquarter was established in Bourogne.
The Saint Martin's day church, already quoted in 1222 was rebuilt in 1735.

The borough started to gently develop all starting from the startup of its river port on the channel of the Rhone in the Rhine started under the First Empire and opened in 1833 and of the way of railroad Belfort-Delle towards 1876 but it is the creation of the industrial park, with the beginning of the year 1970, which made agricultural village a rich small town of its industry. From 606 inhabitants in 1803, the population passed to 891 inhabitants in 1962 then to 1422 in 1999.

The Multi-media Space Gantner (EMG), which is a center dedicated to the cultures multimedia, numerical and with sensitizing with the contemporary art, was created, at the origin, in an old farm renovated to shelter the collection of lithographies whose painter Bernard Gantner made gift with the commune of Bourogne.

Bourogne is a small dynamic commune which has a blazon, it is “of azure to a money sheep” surmounted by the letter B. It was ratified by the commission of heraldic of January 24th, 1959. It refers to the influence that the importance of the breeding of the sheep covered formerly on the territory of the commune.

Administration

External bonds

Bourogne, official site of the commune

multi-media Space Gantner

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