Lesseux

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

Geography

The commune of Lesseux is located in Déodatie in the valley of the Fave, in the middle of the Regional natural park of the Balloons of the Vosges. It belongs to the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Galileo. The village occupies a valley in cul-de-sac, directed East-West, opening on the valley of North-South Fave directed.

History

The village was built on grounds cleared by the monks of Saint-Dié following the example other villages of the valley. The commune of Lesseux was extended before the French revolution since it was plain with the village of Lusse.

At the end of the 19th century, the village was almost frontier with Germany (by thatches of Read). Before the First World War, the village lived agriculture, breeding and wood. There were important potato cultures which provided starch works located in the valley, in particular with Frapelle (for the manufacture of starch intended to manufacture adhesive and used in the textile). The village was the seat of important combat during the First World War (coast 607). The troops were stabilized on the heights of the village (Germans in the North-East (coast 607) and the French (Chapis) in south-west).

The elementary school, with single class, counted to about thirty pupils in 1900. It was closed in 1980 (with 6 pupils the last year). Today the village belongs to the Intercommunity association of the Schools of Read.

The landscape was deeply modified following the storm of 1999. The peaks timbered at the end of XXe century are today stripped and partly found their face of the end of XIXe where the fields dominated.

Curiosities

the village lays out like the villages close to many martyrdoms and typical well renovated farms to the settlement rural Vosgien (pink sandstone facings, lintels of door with Latin inscription).
the village has beautiful points of view on the valley of Fave and the solid mass of Ormont. One finds many vestiges of the War of 14-18.
an old Roman camp would have been established on the southern peak between Lesseux and Combrimont.

Famous characters

Administration

Demography

Internal bond

Station of Lesseux-Frapelle

External bonds

Personal site of an inhabitant of Lesseux
Lesseux on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lesseux on the site of INSEE
Lesseux on the site of Quid
Localization of Lesseux on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lesseux on Mapquest

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