Offemont

Offemont is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté. It is the Chef-lieu Canton of Offemont. Its code INSEE is 90075, it is located at the following geographical coordinates:

Longitude: 06° 52 ' 42" Is
Latitude: 47° 39 ' 51" North

Its surface is of 555 hectares. Altitude is staged from 362 to 494 meters. In 1803 the population of the village was only of 325 inhabitants, it was listed by it 3976 in 1999.

History

The site of Offemont was already attended with the Neolithic but it is undoubtedly for the Gallo-Roman period that the activity in this place was most important as testifies several very interesting vestiges discovered to them starting from 1839 in a sector ranging between the school complex and the cemetery.
The workshop of potter, which manufactured not only crockery, sigillée pottery, but also of the tiles, bricks, was relatively important and would have employed ten people between the end of Ier century and that of the 2nd century. A villa , occupied at least to Ier until IVe century, a rectangular sanctuary of form (a fanum dated from Ier century) whose foundations are visible at the edge of street A. Briand, testify with other more modest vestiges to the importance to the site in the Antiquité. A portion of Roman way, of a width of more than 4 meters, was put at the day. It is a section of a minor road which, coming from Belfort, made it possible to join in the sector of Rougemont-the-Castle the main road Langres - Strasbourg which curved with the foot of the Vosges. As in much of similar establishments of the East of France, the prosperity of the colony was put at evil by the cruel invasions which followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
Apart from these material traces, the most former witness of passed from the village in the files is gone back to 1324, year of the death of Ulrich II, count of Ferrette. In 1350 the village, like Belfort, passed under the domination of the house of Austria. Offemundt , thus indicated in the acts written in German, then forms part of the town hall of Perugia. In 1553 the faithful ones of Offemont depended on the parish of Belfort and attended a vault dedicated to Saint Quirin who was destroyed with the Révolution. The current church, dedicated to Saint Augustin, was built before 1846. Offemont became autonomous parish in 1847. On the territory of the village careers were which provided during several century the pink sandstone necessary for the construction of buildings in all the area, the cathedral Saint-Christophe of Belfort, for example. On the top culminating with 494m of the range of wooded hills located at the north of the village an element of the belt of forts surrounding was built Belfort: the fort of the Rudolphe Mount. Of 1913 with 1948 circulated in Offemont the trains of the local Railroad connecting Belfort to Rougemont-the-Castle.

The city today

The western part of the city east integral part of the urban landscape belfortain. On the other hand, is city evokes a village rather, with its church and its town hall. At the edge of the pond of the Forging mills, several houses and buildings are built. Once this completed work, the urban junction between Belfort and Offemont will be marked even. In Offemont, one finds the fire station of Belfort, as well as the center of sorting of the post office.

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