Meroux - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Meroux is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté. The commune depends on the Canton of Danjoutin. Its code INSEE is 90068.

The official designation is Meroux . But one often meets, although it has only one character of use, the C-W communication Méroux , in conformity with the local pronunciation.

Situation

The village is located at 6 km in the South-east of Belfort, at an average altitude of 360 m. Its territory of a surface of 885 Hectare S is crossed by the railway line connecting Belfort to Delle. The project of line of TGV the Rhine-Rhone (brought into service envisaged in 2011) envisages construction with Meroux of a new station (Belfort-Montbeliard TGV) serving the agglomeration Belfort Montbeliard. This vocation of crossroads does not go back to yesterday since to the Roman epoch the village was crossed by a minor road connecting Mandeure to the north of the Alsace.

History

Weapons dated from the Bronze Age and age of the iron discovered on the territory of the village attests the presence of one human activity at the place where was going to develop Merodurum well later. This name is that given to Meroux in a title written in Latin and going back to 1166. It is the oldest quotation of the village which one meets in the files. In the acts written in German one finds the orthography of Moerlingen . In 1442, after the devastations perpetrated in the area by the Armagnacs, the priory Benedictine Saint Nicolas's Day de Meroux, which existed already in 1210, is attached to the chapter of Belfort.

As many other villages of the area, Meroux was devastated by the Swedish troops during the Guerre Thirty Year old, towards 1632. The vault of the priory, dedicated to Saint Nicolas's Day, is used as place of worship depend on the parish on Vézelois, rebuilt towards 1682, restored in 1768, it is replaced in 1824 by a church which will be rebuilt in its turn towards 1885. Meroux becomes an autonomous parish in 1803 gathering the faithful ones of Moval and the hamlet of Leupe. In 1803 the population of the village was of 421 inhabitants. Of 1908 with 1913 was built (out of reinforced concrete) the fort of Meroux, one of the links of the strengthened belt surrounding the fortified town of Belfort according to the recommendations of the general Séré de Rivières.

The July 15th 1972, Meroux absorbed the common neighbor of Moval (code INSEE 90073), to form the new commune of Meroux-Moval (with code INSEE 90068). This total fusion of common was cancelled for purpose of with the 1997.

Battumagny

Before the Guerre Thirty Year old existed very close to Meroux a village which was destroyed by the Swedish troops. The population at this point was decimated for this period of great misery that all the villages and hamlets could not be rebuilt (Oye) or survived the state of localities.

See also the site of association '' the shelter '' devoted to the strengthened belt of the place of Belfort.

External bonds

Official site of new line TGV the Rhine-Rhone

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