Mandeure

Mandeure is a common French, located in the department of the Doubs and the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

Sprinkled by the river the Doubs, Mandeure is attached to the Communauté of agglomeration of the Country of Montbeliard. It is integrated in the urban Aire Belfort-Montbeliard-Héricourt-Delle.

Origin

With the Roman epoch, Mandeure named Epomanduodurum , name which can have an origin as well Celtique as Roman:

  • of Celtic the Epona (goddess of the horses)

  • of Celtic the man (well)
  • of Celtic the tueddre (to draw up)
  • but also Latin suffix - durum (strengthened place)

One can also give another decomposition of the name Epomanduodurum : Epo (horse), manduo (small), durum (fortress). The name would then mean “fortress of the small horses. ”

History

The settlement goes back to the Gallic period.

At the time Roman, Epomanduodurum was an important city. Many vestiges remain about it today: theater leant with , hillside (the larger second of Gaulle) thermal baths, dwelling.

See also: ancient Theater of Mandeure

Starting from the XIIe century, the territory is divided between the Archevêché of Besancon and the count of Montbeliard (later, princes of Wurtemberg and Montbeliard).

The Réforme is introduced in Mandeure in 1583. Starting from the July 25th, there exist two communities with Mandeure:

  • the Catholique S (approximately 300 people), which depend on the archbishop's palace

  • the Luthérien S (approximately 30 people), which depend on the princes of Montbeliard.

Successively, the two communities see themselves granting a certain political autonomy and economic:

  • the February 16th 1518, Antoine de Vergy, the archbishop of Besancon, gives franknesses to the inhabitants, which places them in situation of self-management.

  • the June 24th 1656, Léopold Frederic, prince of Montbeliard, gives the same rights to the Lutherans.

In 1792, Monseigneur de Durfort, the archbishop of Besancon, prince de Mandeure, dies whereas it was exiled in Suisse following the French revolution.

Mandeure then constitutes in independent republic, founded the April 15th 1792. The city takes the currency aquilla not capit muscas (the eagle does not take the flies), currency which it preserves still today.

But Mandeure is definitively annexed by France the October 10th 1793, at the time of an operation carried out in the country of Montbeliard by the conventional Bernard the Holy ones. It is then attached to the department of the Haute-Saône, then Mount-Terrible in 1797, Haut-Rhin in 1800 and finally of the Doubs in 1816.

Economy

Mandeure is an industrial center, because in particular of the establishment of two factories of the group Automobile PSA: Faurecia (automobile equipment) and Peugeot Motor bicycles (manufacturer of Scooter S). It is besides in Mandeure that the first workshops of the company Peugeot were born at the end of the 19th century. Automobile S then bicycles Peugeot were manufactured in Mandeure until in the Années 1980.

Old site of the mark to the Lion then of its subsidiary company Faurecia, the factory of columns steering is the property of the group of the Japanese group Fuji Autotech, which announced in 2007 the enlarging of the site (350 paid into 2007,200 of in the long term).

A Papeterie of the group Clairefontaine is installed in Mandeure, at the edge of the Doubs.

A company of and surface treatment Zinking, with national vocation, exists since 1964.

Some small farms remain.

The town of Mandeure is equipped with a ground of Camping located on the edges of the Doubs.

Administration

Demography

At the time Roman, certain sources attest of a population going to 30.000 inhabitants. The recent fluctuations are the following ones:

Personalities related to the commune

  • Frederic Battles (1850-1946), poet and mycologist
  • Grégory Gaultier (born in 1982), professional player of Squash (4 times champion of Europe, vice world champion 2006, French n°1)

See too

External bonds

  • Web site of the town hall of Mandeure

  • Mandeure on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Mandeure on the site of INSEE
  • Mandeure on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Mandeure on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Mandeure on Mapquest

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