Heathers

See also: Heathers (homonymy)

Bruyères is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.

Its inhabitants is called Bruyérois.

Geography

Heathers is located in the Vosgean solid mass at 27 km of Épinal, at 26 km of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges and at 23 km of Gérardmer.

The city occupies a plate between the valleys of the Vologne in the south and the Mortagne in north. It is dominated in the east by the first eminence of the solid mass of the Vosges, Avison, which is used to him sometimes as symbol.

History

The site of Heathers knew an occupation on the top of the hill of Avison as of the 3rd century or 4th century. Heathers is the typical case of the old borough castral, as one finds of them many examples in Lorraine. The castle was based by the duke of Lorraine at the 10th century on the essartées grounds of the field of Champ, after this one became dedicated chapter of Remiremont, which ordered these clearings in the valley of the Vologne. The city then developed the hill below supporting the castle; there is of it a first mention in the files of the chapter romarimontain towards 1189 under the name of Brueriis with the mention of a donation made with a Lorraine abbey by " Gerardus de Brueriis ". The emperor Henri VI remained with the castle in 1196, as well as the duke Mathieu II of Lorraine in the years 1230 -40, but the borough starts to take truly importance about the middle of the 13th century when the duchess regent Catherine de Limbourg establishes a Tonlieu there; it becomes a true city when the duke Ferry III, wire of the latter, the met, with Arches under the blow of the Loi of Beaumont.

From October 26th to 30th 1944, Bruyères was the theater of combat which opposed the 442 RCT ( 442nd Regimental Combat TEAM ), American body made up of nippo-American originating in Hawaii, and the German troops. This unit had received for mission of releasing an American battalion encircled since October 24th. At the end of the battle, one counted in this unit 800 victims, that is to say almost half of manpower. In remembering these combat and release the city, the towns of Heathers and Honolulu were twinned in 1961. The city was decorated with the Military Cross 1939-1945.

See also: Battle of Heathers

Anecdote: during the Second world war, the current school Holy-Jeanne-with Arc sheltered a hospital where François Mitterrand was neat.

; Blasonnement:

  • Of azure, with the money tower notched, accompanied with the dextral canton of a house with two of the same signs, and with sinistral of a church with its bell-tower, also by money, as a chief three money stars.
  • It is written in the Livre of Hérauderie perhaps that these armorial bearings refer to the tower of Cabée or constructions that the duke Ferry III of Lorraine made set up in Bruyères. The three stars symbolize the capacities of the chief town of prévôté: monk, soldier and policy.
  • the first weapons of Heathers, authenticated under Henri II of Lorraine, were Of azure, with the surmounted mountain of a city surrounded by walls; in the center, a church and its bell-tower; with dextral and sinistral, houses; as a chief, two stars; the money whole.

Administration

Inheritance

  • ruins of old the castle

  • Turn of Avison
  • Old synagog built thanks to the financing of Daniel Osiris, become today the Museum Henri Mathieu. One presents to it various collections like the old pharmacy of the hospital and some works of Jean Lurçat.
  • the Stanislas Place dating from the 18th century
  • the hospital built at the 18th century thanks to the count of Girecourt, Jean-François Humbert, originating in this city.
  • the church Our-Lady-in-the Assomption

Famous characters of Heathers

; Born in Bruyères:
  • Varin Doron
  • Jean-François Humbert, count de Girecourt (1663-1754), Lorraine Secretary of State and Chef of the Council of Finances of
  • Abbot Jean-François Georgel (1731-1813), which one of both provicaires general was named in 1803 in the Diocèse of Nancy.
  • Monseigneur Jean-Claude Miche (1805-1873)
  • Gaston Butt, (1890-1954)
  • Jean Lurçat (1892-1966)
; Died or buried in Bruyères:
  • Marine Louis, philosopher and statesman, buried in Bruyères

Demography


Others

; Education: The city counts two nursery schools and primary, two colleges - a public and private - and two colleges - the public LEGT Jean-Lurçat and a private college.

; Twinning: Heathers is twinned with the following cities:

; Transport:

  • Station of Heathers

Sources

  • Site of the town of Heathers
  • Heathers between mountain and Lorraine plate - Act of the days of Vosgean studies of the 28, October 29th, 30th and th 2005 , 2006
  • MARCHAL (Claude), prévôté of Heathers at the 16th century and 17th century , Thesis of Doctorate of the Nancy University 2,1997

External bonds

  • Site of the town of Heathers
  • Heathers on the site of the National Geographical Institute
  • Heathers on the site of INSEE
  • Heathers on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Heathers on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Heathers on Mapquest

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