Rougegoutte

Rougegoutte is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté.

The commune is administratively attached to the Canton of Giromagny.

Rougegoutte was populated of 911 inhabitants in 1999.

Like the villages close to Grosmagny and Giromagny, Rougegoutte developed with the foot of the southern slope of the solid mass of the the Vosges, along an old Roman way which connected Langres with the Alsace by circumventing the mountain. Today this way is that of the villages flowered of Country-under-Vosgean, Rougegoutte received besides the Grand Prix of fleurissement to reward its efforts. The village owes its name with the drop (word indicating a torrent of under-Vosgean Piedmont) which dug its bed in the red sandstone which levels in the sector.

As of the 11th century, the village belonged to the Seigneurie of Rosemont. The lime, which opens out on the place with the foot of the church, would have more than four hundred years. The population of Rougegoutte was of 824 inhabitants in 1881.

In 1196 existed already a church which constituted the center of a parish including/understanding, at least partly, Éloie, Giromagny, Grosmagny, Lepuix known as Lepuix-Gy , Riervescemont, Rougegoutte and Vescemont.

The village of Giromagny had developed so much as from the 16th century that it was made up in independent parish in 1569.

Currently the parish of origin gathers nothing any more but the inhabitants of Rougegoutte, Éloie, Vescemont and some families of Riervescemont, closer to Rougegoutte. The current building partly goes back to 1724, it is devoted to Saint Georges.

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