Lamadeleine-Valley-of-Angels
Lamadeleine-Valley-of-Angels is a commune of the Territoire of Belfort belonging to the canton of Rougemont-the-Castle since 1984.
This whole small village (34 inhabitants in 1999) is nested at the bottom of a narrow valley notching the southern slope of the solid mass of the Vosges to approximately 650 meters of altitude. Its territory (652 ha) is mainly covered with forests.
Its name is already mentioned in 1350, to indicate a hermitage, if not a priory, and a vault dedicated to Sainte Marie-madeleine. At the beginning of the 17th century, the vault is still a place of pilgrimage; the village then formed part of the parish of Etueffont, it is only in 1775 that it was detached from it to belong to the parish of Anjoutey lately created. At the time of the intensive exploitation of the mines and forest, the village was populated much more (it counted 148 more inhabitants in 1882).
The brook of the Madeleine, who takes her source with 800m altitude at the bottom of the valley, with the foot of Baerenkopf, joined the river Saint Nicolas's Day 25km more in the south.
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