Bouxurulles

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

Geography

Bouxurulles is crossed by Rulles, a tributary of a tributary of the Madon. Village-street surrounded by hills, it opens on its chief-leu of canton, Charmes, to 7 km in the North-East.

History

Bouxurulles comes from Latin " buxere" meaning boxwood.

Curiosities

Organ of XVIIIe in function in the Saint-Maur church.
Stele of the aviators: a plane of the Royal Air Force was crushed during the Second world war.
Statue of the Virgin Mary, set up in 1968 after the floods. July 30th, 1955, a terrible storm falls on the top from the village which is wedged between two hills. It carries all on its passage, the agricultural tools, the sewers, etc Certaines houses of the medium of the village count two meters of water in the dwelling. No death is to be regretted, but of the damage are considerable. Following this catastrophe, a lady and children of the village collect stones in the surroundings and build a virgin with an aim of entreating the fate. The leniency of the floods of 1968 justified the erection of a statue.
Walks in forest, in the wood of Logeotte. This forest was partially destroyed at the time of the storm of December 26th, 1999. 18 harvest years of wood one be lying in a few minutes. Good number of the beeches which had survived the storm did not resist the dryness of 2003.

Administration

Demography

External bonds

Bouxurulles on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bouxurulles on the site of INSEE
Bouxurulles on the site of Quid
Localization of Bouxurulles on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bouxurulles on Mapquest

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