Coulevon

Coulevon is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Saône and the area Franche-Comté.

The inhabitants are the Coulevonais .

Geography

Coulevon is located at the North-East of Vesoul, to 4 km of the center of the Chef-lieu of department.

Hung with an abrupt slope of about thirty meters in height, the village is drained by the Durgeon and its affluent the Bastard one. We are in a Jurassic landscape, making the during the Mound of Vesoul, and Sabot of Frotey.

Coulevon counts three bridges, including one on Durgeon which separates the village from the hamlet of the Montciel ; the work which spans the Bastard one, and gives access to the Rêpes , is very narrow.

The valley is particularly boxed, and the passage of the line of Railroad Paris-Basle required a perforated several hundreds of meters in the compact Calcaire .

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

A Cave of 20 meters length, 5 to 6 meters broad and 3 to 7 meters in height extends, in a private field, under the Falaise; it was used as cellar with Fromage during the last world war.

Small a church contains Bas-relief and Rétable.

A statue of the Vierge overhangs the village since 1800; it required 6 Bœuf S to transport it in top of the coast.

A Château is drawn up at the edge of the Bastard one.

Personalities related to the commune

Jules-Alexis Muenier, painter, Photographer, called the minor artist of Coulevon .

Jean-Leon Gérôme, painter, remained a time with Coulevon.

See too

Common of the Haute-Saône

External bonds

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

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