Floor-the-Mines

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

Geography

Communes bordering

in the canton of Champagney :
Floor-Low;
in the Canton of Mélisey (district of Lure) :
Belfahy, Fresse, High-of-Them-Castle-Lambert, Miellin and Servance;
in the Canton of Giromagny (department of the Territory of Belfort) :
Auxelles-Haut and Lepuix;
in the Canton of Thillot (District of Épinal, department of the the Vosges, Lorraine area ) :
the Saint-Maurice-on-Moselle.

History

Nested in a valley to 500 m of altitude to the foot of the the Vosges saônoises and at the end the village Is department knew one time plus ostentation with until 3 000 inhabitants at the beginning of the XXe century and sheltering processing industries of metals (Screw, bolts, casement bolts, locks, foundries, brush-factory).

Industrial rise at the 19th century finds its origin with XVIIe in the exploitation of mines of money, of Fer, Molybdène and Plomb.

Since the Années 1960 the formerly flourishing companies (up to 1.500 employment draining the active populations of 20 neighbouring communes) are declining because of progressive disappearance of strategic advantages:

Raw materials: the mines closed at the end of the XIXe century!
expert, modest and courageous Labor: the competition of Peugeot/Alsthom then the rural migration towards the cities reduced to nothing this characteristic. The village counts hardly than a hundred industrial employment. It is true that the entire country knew an evolution in the same direction (although less) since the rate of the industrial employment and passed from 30 to 15 % since 1960.

Today it is a village of reprocessed or dormitory. The houses for sale still find purchasers at Belfortains even of Mulhousians which do not hesitate any more to achieve 50 with 100 daily km to go to their work.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Museum of the Fun fair
the Cinema Sélect created in 1941 per Brace Foglia
Porphyry of Floor used in the Basilica of Fourvière to Lyon

Personalities related to the commune

Cyril Mennegun Scenario writer

See too

Common of the Haute-Saône

External bonds

Floor-the-Mines on the site of the national geographical Institute
Floor-the-Mines on the site of INSEE
Floor-the-Mines on the site of Quid
Localization of Floor-the-Mines on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Floor-the-Mines on Mapquest
the official site of the Sélect cinema of Floor-The-Mines

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