Saint-Dizier-the Bishop

Saint-Dizier-the Bishop 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 Beaucourt.

The village is located at 560 m of altitude on the edge of the Jurassic plate forming the extreme south of the department. It is in 1937 that the term “the Bishop” was assistant in the name of Saint-Dizier to indicate the village by avoiding the homonymy with other Saint-Dizier of France.

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History

With the site of the current village was, according to the legend of saint Dizier, an oratory dedicated to Martin saint. It is there that was buried Desiderius, holy future Dizier and its deacon Regenfroid (or Reinfroid), after being assassinated with Croix by brigands, in the years 670. Towards 736, the count Eberhard, wire of the duke of Alsace, fact gift with the abbey of Murbach (created in 728) of the villa Datira (Delle) as well as the church where the body of Dizier is. A church thus existed already at the time mérovingienne and the tomb of Dizier was the subject of important pilgrimages where the mentally ills were brought; the therapy consisted in between-other making crawl the patient in a narrow passage located under the sarcophagus of the saint. This church was rebuilt at the beginning of XIe century and was inaugurated in 1041. The parish which it symbolized then covered the villages of Villars-the-Dryness, Fêche-l' Église, Lebetain and part of Beaucourt and Montbouton. At a certain time, it also included/understood Bure (the Jura) (currently in Suisse) and Croix. The rebuilding of the church was the occasion for the monks of Murbach to transfer in their abbey the remainders and relics from Dizier saint and Regenfroid saint. The village, which had developed in XIe century thanks to the fame of the saint, had become the chief town of a town hall whose extent was that of the parish.

The stronghold of Saint-Dizier raised of the Saint Worsens (abbey of Murbach, county of Ferrette) until in 1648, after the Guerre of Thirty Years, and its fastening in France. In the acts written in German the name of the village was germanisé in Sanct Sthörgen or Sanct Stoeringen .

The church of Saint-Dizier is one of oldest of the area. Of course there undoubtedly remain nothing any more the oratory of Saint Martin's day where Desiderius itself celebrated the mass towards 670. Church built at the beginning of VIIIe century would remain a absidiole and the lower part of the bell-tower-porch. The construction of 1041 preserves only some walls and the plan of the preceding building. Towards 1575, new construction where the horizontal ceiling is replaced by vaults in intersecting ribs, which obliges to add external buttresses. At the beginning of the XVIIIe century, the roof is entirely modified. Several installations one carried out at the XIXe century, in particular towards 1853, 1875 and 1881. The bell-tower was elevated in 1875 and the orientation of the ridge of its roof with two sides was turned of 90 degrees.

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Site of an inhabitant of Saint-Dizier-the Bishop
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