Haute-Saône

The department of the Haute-Saône ( 70 ) is a department French.

History

The department was created with the French revolution by the law of the December 22nd 1789, starting from part of the province of Franche-Comté, old the Bailliage d' Amont.

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Geography

The Haute-Saône belongs to the Région Franche-Comté. It is bordering on the departments of the Coast-with Or, of the Haute-Marne, the the Vosges, the Territoire of Belfort, the Doubs and the the Jura.

The department of the Haute-Saône presents a lengthened form of North-eastern South-western orientation. It is a territory of transition, between depressionary areas of the east of the France, the European dorsal (blue Banane) which of London to Genoa while passing by the valley of the the Rhine concentrates a maximum of richnesses and services, and centers it development of the valley of the the Rhone.

In Haute-Saône, when one crosses the department of West in Is, one can distinguish 5 great geographical units:

  • a zone of plain crossed by the the Saone coming from the the Vosges;
  • a horseshoe zone of plates limestones touching in North with the plate of Langres and separate in the South-east of the first steps of the Jurassic solid mass by the valley of the Ognon;
  • a zone of sandy hills developing towards North;
  • under-Vosgean depression;
  • crystalline convexities of the the Vosges of the South which mark the North-eastern limit of the department.

In extreme cases Southern of the the Vosges, the Belfort Gap is the traditional way of passage towards the Alsace, between this solid mass and that of the the Jura.

The forests occupy 2250 km ², including 1220 km ² of communal forests.

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Climate

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Economy

Very rural department, it is however not an agricultural department. It is a department of industrial tradition and in particular of old metallurgical tradition.

Economic activity:

  • agriculture 4  919 employment
  • construction 4  504 employment
  • industrial sector 18  747 employment
  • tertiary sector 44  865 employment

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Demography

The inhabitants of the Haute-Saône are the haut-saônois and haut-saônoises .

It is a rural department, whose urban population accounts for only 44% of the total (101  078 inhabitants). Only 15 communes have more 2  000 inhabitants (adding up 81  003 inhabitants), while 457 communes have some less than 500 (adding up 82  322 inhabitants). The density of 43 inhabitants per km ² does not reach half of the national average.

Like the majority of the rural departments, he knew a strong fall of his population. Of almost 350  000 inhabitants in the middle of the 19th century, then 272  891 in 1896, the figure of the population fell to 250  000 the day before the First World War, and hardly more 200  000 the shortly after the Second world war. The population then increased a little until the end of the Années 1970, reaching 229  891 in 1999 (- 1,04% between 1982 and 1990,0% between 1990 and 1999). Today the majority of the cities, already little populated, see their population decreasing. Only the North-East of the department, close to Belfort, still knows a certain demographic dynamism.

At the first January 2004 INSEE estimated the population of the Haute-Saône at 234  000 inhabitants.

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Personalities

Culture

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Tourism

The Haute-Saône is especially a place of peace and pastoral spaces favourable with the walk in forest, in particular in summer when the temperature remains pleasant.

This department has a rich person inheritance, in particular built with XVIIIe and XIXe centuries, period ostentation for this territory (churches with their traditional retables and baroques, buildings and works public, castles and residences). Eleven boroughs and villages belong to the network of the “Small cities comtoises of character” (Vauvillers, Faverney, the Scey-on-Saone, Villersexel, Fondremand, the Ray-on-Saone, Champlitte, Bucey-lès-Gy, Gy, Marnay and Pesmes).

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Policy

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  • List of the deputies of the Haute-Saône

  • List of the senators of the Haute-Saône
  • List of the general advisers of the Haute-Saône

Administration

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Others

Internal bonds

External bonds

Institutional sites

  • Prefecture of the Haute-Saône

  • General advice of the Haute-Saône
  • ''' Action 70 ''' - the economic development agency of the Haute-Saône targets the companies and the local government agencies
  • ''' Emploi70 ''' proposes with the companies of Haute-Saône to deposit their job offers, to anticipate their recruitments, car-to diagnose their function Human Resources
  • ''' Destination 70 ''': tourist development agency of the Haute-Saône.

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