Grandvillars

Grandvillars (90600) is a chief town of canton of the Territoire of Belfort, department French of the north of the Franche-Comté, in the East of the France. The city, which gathered 2.963 inhabitants with the census of 1999, is located on trunk road RN19 and way the SNCF connecting Belfort to Delle and the Suisse near. It is sprinkled by the river Allaine . Its surface is of 1517 ha.

History

At the time Roman, Grandvillars was already an inhabited crossing point since a junction of the Roman way Mandeure - Augst and connecting Bourogne to Delle crossed its territory. A Gallo-Roman establishment would take place even occupied where the city developed if one believes of them the vestiges found towards 1850. One finds mention of the name of the village in 1147 in connection with the vaults of Sainte-Marie and Holy-Ursanne which the priory of Lanthenans had. May 15th 1226 was signed in Grandvillars the peace treaty reconciling the count Frederic II of Ferrette and the count Richard III of Montbeliard. The stronghold of Grandvillars was then the object of a litigation between Renaud of Burgundy, count de Montbéliard and the bishop of Basle. Disagreement which degenerated into conflict when Renaud had attacked the possessions of évêché. The emperor Rodolphe de Habsbourg had to intervene to bring back the count of Montbeliard to the reason. The stronghold of Grandvillars thus was shared between évêché and Henri de Grandvillars, vassal of the count de Montbéliard. It is at that time that the borough was strengthened and the castle construit.
Hands of Jeanne of Montbeliard, countess of Ferrette, Grandvillars passed in 1347 to Ursule, second girl of Jeanne and Ulrich III of Ferrette. One finds then a Guillaume then Thiébaut, lords de Grandvillars. In 1444 the borough was devastated by the Écorcheurs. After 1648, Grandvillars, become French, is the chief town of a town hall also gathering Thiancourt and Morvillars. The family of old the barons of Grandvillars did not have a direct descendant. A branch junior by the family had settled with Delémont in Suisse and gave several notable like François Conrad de Grandvillers, knight of court and baillif chief of Saint-Ursanne, Saint-Imier and of the Ajoie. The 18th century saw the expansion of the family in the area of Basle, whose members were known under various names such as Granwiller and Grauwiler. It is at that time that would have been destroyed the feudal castle. On its site was built towards 1787 in the fields of the architect Jean-Baptiste Kléber, the future general of the First Empire, a castle (see photo) sold like national good with the Révolution.

In 1828, the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Migeon installs a factory of screws and bolts there. The industry, which developed in the current of the 19th century, caused a clear increase in the population which passed from 761 inhabitants in 1803 to 1954 in 1872. The arrival the many Alsatian ones fleeing the germanisation of their province changed to 3072 the number of inhabitants in 1911. The railway and the station were brought into service in 1867.

The Saint Martin's day church, which initially goes back to 1700, was increased in the years 1840. Touched by the bombardment of 1944, it was restored.

The canton

Il gathers the communes of:
  • List of the cantons of the Territory of Belfort

See also

External bonds

  • Arts center of Grandvillars
  • INSEE

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