Lebetain
Lebetain is a commune of the Territoire of Belfort, small department of the East of the France. It belongs to the canton of Delle. The village is built on a Jurassic calcareous plate which prolongs towards north the chain of Lomont. Luckier than its neighbors of Croix and Villars-the-Dryness, Lebetain is crossed by a small brook the Beater which perhaps gave its name to the village, if it is not the opposite. The brook is thrown in Allaine, in Delle. The territory of the village (485ha) is bordered in the east by the border with the Suisse. In 1803 the population was of 195 inhabitants; it gathered of them 406 with the census of 1999, increase due for much to the industrialization of Delle, located at three kilometers only.
The history of Lebetain is closely associated with that of Delle and Saint-Dizier-the Bishop. The village is quoted for the first time in 1150 under the name of Libeten , although the site was inhabited a long time before. Thereafter the documents compiled in German mention also Liebthal ( Tal meaning valley in German). The inhabitants of Lebetain were parish of Saint-Dizier until the construction of the Saint-Gerard church in 1959. October 1st 1972, Joncherey Delle and Lebetain had amalgamated but association lasted only a few years, the population of each commune attached to Delle having wished to find its independence.
On the photograph some witnesses of the history of the village are gathered:
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