The Room (the Vosges)

See also: the Room

the Room is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.

Its inhabitants is called the Sallois .

Geography

The village is stretched in length along the secondary road carrying out of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges to Rambervillers by the collar Top of Wood (470 m). The Valdange sprinkles the center in the direction south-north.

History

During one millenium, from the VI E at the 4th century, one extracted the Rhyolite in the careers from Fossottes and manufactured grinding stones to grind the grain. The Roman presence is attested, it directed the evolution of the shape of the grinding stones but the Romans then contributed to the abandonment of the Vosgean rhyolite for the benefit of basalt.

The village forever have church, it depends with spiritual on Bourgonce.

Inheritance

  • Monument of the combat of 1870.

; The archeological site of Fossottes: The volcanic layer of Permian Rhyolite , exploited for its abrasive qualities, provided grinding stones to grind in Lorraine and part of Alsace during a whole millenium. On a field of 22 hectares, one counts ten truncated, deep circular pits of two meters and a diameter ranging between seven and twenty meters. The first grinding stones were quadrangular and were used with the hand with a simplistic process of to and from. These rudimentary tools were then replaced by the first manual rotary grinding stones of Celtic tradition, whose diameter (30 to 40 cm) was increased to 60 cm during the Roman epoch, starting from the II E. At the 4th century, the production was stopped for the benefit of the Basalte coming from the solid mass of the Eiffel. The site, forgotten a long time, aroused the recent interest of the archeologists and of the excavations are in hand; an archaeological project of path is set up to allow the visit of the careers.

Demography

Administration

Famous characters

  • Charles Alban Baker (1842-1904), doctor of medicine, writer

External bonds

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

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