Gélaucourt

Gélaucourt is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

Its inhabitants is called the Gillois .

Geography

Gélaucourt is a small village of the undulating countryside of the Saintois, to 9 km in the south-west of Vézelise and to 8 km in the west of the Colline of Sion. Rosières, brook come from Favières and running towards the Brénon, cross the commune.

History

The Saint-Florentin vault was destroyed in 1899; its bell-tower was drawn up on the roof of the town hall.

Administration

Demography

Inheritance

a sculpture of wood representing Holy Florentin and a Virgin with the Child of the same hand, gone back to approximately 1650, classified historic buildings and preserved in town hall.
Martyrdom Saint-Florentin cheese of the XVIIe century.
Habitat of XVIIe and XVI|IE centuries.

Flowered village

The common one obtained the national Grand Prix of Fleurissement in 2005 with the Concours of the cities and flowered villages. This distinction crowns the will of the Capdevielle mayor to embellish the streets of Gélaucourt at the point to create a true village-garden, but its administration interventionist is worth to him the hostility of part of the population. Several clochemerlesques conflicts mark out the recent history of the place.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Meurthe-et-Moselle

External bonds

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

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