The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges is a common the North-East of the France, sub-prefecture and chief town of district in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.

Previously called Saint-Dié , it officially took its current name as from the December 29th 1999, more to differ from Saint-Dizier that of Saint-Dier-in Auvergne, but the short name is largely employed. The inhabitants of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges are called Déodatiens, Deodatus (Dieudonné) being the Latin name of the monk éponyme.

Geography

The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges is located at the center of the Vosgean basin of the Meurthe, called Déodatie. The city developed between the junctions of this river with the Fave, coming from Holy-Marguerite, and with the Taintroué resulting from Taintrux. She is surrounded of the solid masses of pink sandstone of the Kemberg , of the Ormont , the Frieze and of the Madeleine . Each solid mass proposes its batch from point of view and rocks carved by erosion, easily accessible to the walkers by well marked out paths. Most accessible of the view-points is that of the Roche Saint Martin's day . Altitudes spread out of 310 m to 901 m, culminating with the Roche of the Dry Fir tree .

Topography is at the origin of a microclimate marked by the scarcity of the winter fogs in comparison with the valley downstream.

The city is the point of meeting of two road axes, Nancy towards Colmar and of Épinal towards Strasbourg. The opening of TGV Is in June 2007 put the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges at 2:20 of Paris.

History

Place of a Celtic settlement dispersed as the elevated camp to it to the Frieze testifies inhabited by the Gallic tribe of the Leuques, dominating the antique loader-gate of salt (road of Salates), the city was fixed as from the 7th century around the monastery founded by holy Déodat. Its foundation is considered, indeed, to date from the year 669.

In 1026, Leon IX was named, before its rise with the papal throne, large-provost of the chapter of Saint-Dié. He visited the city after the Concile of Mainz and filled favors the collegial one.

Pierre d' Ailly, author of the Imago Mundi (which was used as reference to the voyages of Christophe Colomb) was large provost of Saint-Dié.

In 1507, a named erudite assembly Vosgean Gymnase joins together around the canon Vautrin Lud his own Nicolas nephew, the cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, humanistic the Mathias Ringmann and the Latinist Jean Basin. Together they published in Saint-Dié the first chart naming " America" - in homage to very meticulous descriptions of Amerigo Vespucci - the continent lately discovered, as well as an explanatory booklet, the Cosmographiae Introductio . This initiative is worth since at the city the nickname of “Godmother of America” .

July 27th then on September 6th 1757, the city was the prey of the flames: 123 houses were destroyed. The duke of Lorraine Stanislas Leczinski rebuilt the town of 1758 with 1761 by equipping it with a coherent town-planning developing the facilities of circulation.

With died of Stanislas, in 1766, the Lorraine was joined together in France. Thus, as of 1775, the city became episcopal see. It is the Lorraine évêché first, Toul, Metz and Verdun not having never been possessions of the dukes of Lorraine. Already in 1721, at the time of independence, it had been question of creating in évêché Saint-Dié one. The duke Léopold and the pope having concluded an agreement, France was opposed to it firmly and the project was given sine die .

In 1793, the council of district débaptisa the city with the name too not very laic and issued that it would become Ormont . The silhouette of this close solid mass replaced even during some time the Cross of Lorraine on the blazon of the city.

Near to the borders, the city had often to suffer from the armed struggles. The Guerre Thirty Year old it had already seen put at bag by the Swedes in 1633 and 1639. In 1815, it was held to ransom hard. Occupied of October 19th 1870 at August 2nd 1873, it saw its inhabitants subjected to many fines and requisitions. Again invaded, from August 26th to September 11th 1914 by the Germans who shot several inhabitants and set fire to part of the district of Bolle, Saint-Dié was released by the combat of Chipotte and the Bataille of Large Crowned. It was to remain until the armistice, near the lines (combat of Fontenelle and the Spitzemberg during the years 1914 and 1915) and to undergo many bombardments by planes and guns. It accepted the Military Cross on behalf of the president Raymond Poincaré.

Occupied starting from the August 22nd 1940, the city partially burnt and was dynamited by the German troops committed in the combat of the Bataille of Heathers in November 1944. The reconstruction project suggested by Le Corbusier was however not followed an effect. Only the factory Claude and Duval, quay of the Torrent, what shows could have been the new face of the city.

; Blasonnement:

1°) Of azure, with a cross of Lorraine of gold côtoyée of a S and a D in the same way, bound of a ribbon of mouths stitching on the whole.
(Malta-Brown, illustrated France , volume V, 1884)

2°) Of azure to gold a crenelated tower, summoned of three gold pivots.
(Malta-Brown, illustrated France , volume V, 1884)

Demography

Economy

Transport

See also: Déobus, Connex

The resumption of the STAHV (Shipping company of the High-Vosges) by Connex in 2004 upset the landscape of the networks of Urban transport of the Vosges. The networks of Épinal, the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges and Remiremont knew these last months of many modifications. In the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, urban network before called TUD (Urban transport Déodatien) became Déobus. It is exploited by BusEst, a joint venture of Connex and Piot which manages many networks in the east of France. New lines were created and the park of Autobus was extended and modernized with the startup of minibus and bus with flattened floor (Mercedes Sprinter and Irisbus Agora Line). The vehicles have the news Livrée DéoBus.

  • a deviation of RN 59 by the buttresses of the solid mass of Kemberg made it possible to unchoke the downtown area.
  • a Aerodrome (Code ICAO: LFGY) located on the commune of Remomeix.
  • Saint-Dié belongs to the destinations of TGV Is European since the June 10th 2007. With this occasion, the line between Nancy and the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges were electrified and the station was renovated (installation of a Système of online information, adapted quays, space of sale the SNCF rebuilt, etc).

See also: Station of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

Administration

The old Town hall, rebuilt after the fire of 1757, was located at the angle of the street Thiers and the street Stanislas. Its old pediment is always visible in the Jean-Mansuy park, close to François-Mitterrand Space. The new building makes from now on vis-a-vis the Tour of Freedom.

The mayor of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges east Christian Pierret since 1989. Between 1997 and 2002, having exerted governmental functions, it was replaced by Robert Bernard (deceased the April 20th 2002).

See also: Mayors of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

See also: Elections in the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

See also: Municipal councils of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

; Cantons of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges is divided into two cantons of which it is the chief town:

Famous characters born in the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

Inheritance and tourism

The city is classified “tourist resort” since 1998, and the valorization of its patrimonial assets - in complement of the natural attractions of the Vosgean solid mass - fact from now on started from its priorities.

  • Second archeological site of the department of the the Vosges, the Celtic Camp of the Frieze dominates the city over a surface of 3 ha. This Castellum was inhabited permanently before until the 4th century after J.C. The ditch, the ramparts, the posterns, the basins, but also the objects now exposed to the Museum Pierre-Christmas, testify to the activity of this fortified camp until the arrival from the Alamans in 352.

  • the medieval Art, that of the Rebirth, then the Classicism, are in particular illustrated by a together cathédral in pink sandstone including/understanding the Notre-Dame church of Galileo, the cathedral itself and its cloister. Tested by several fires and especially by the Second world war, the cathedral, restored, also profits from a furniture and contemporary stained glasses signed from the great names from the French absence of representation.

See also: Saint-Dié Cathedral of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges

  • Built as from the 15th century, the vault of Small-Saint-Dié rises at the place even where holy Déodat establishes its oratory towards 660. In the vicinity, two ferruginous water fountains recall the passion for hydrotherapy at the end of the 18th century.

  • to accommodate the pestiferous ones outside the city, the canon Vautrin Lud built towards 1500 a farm as well as the vault Saint-Roch , which shelters a retable of the Assumption, works of the Vosgean painter Claude Bassot and gone back to 1625.

  • Set fire to, then rebuilt in 1902, the church Saint Martin's day is of style néo-novel. A series of stained glasses, of which several illustrating the life of holy Martin, resisted the destruction of 1944 well.

  • the Musée Pierre-Christmas is dedicated to the life in the High-Vosges (popular fauna, flora and traditions). It also presents an archaeological collection related to the Celtic Camp of the Frieze. The decorative fine arts and arts are well represented there, and of the specific sections are devoted to Jules Ferry, with the aviator Rene Fonck, the couple Claire and Yvan Goll, as with the project of town planning that Le Corbusier conceived for the town of Saint-Dié after the war.

  • too daring Jugé, this project was not carried out, but the architect built nevertheless here his only industrial building, the Usine Claude and Duval , always in activity, and that visitors of the whole world come to contemplate.

  • It is undoubtedly the white silhouette of the Tour of the Freedom which incarnates best the town of today. Space meetings and exposures, it permanently presents an important collection of jewels that Heger de Loewenfeld created according to the work of Georges Braque.

  • Since 2005, a tourist complex of great scale was creates in the meadow of Hellieule, Géoparc. This tourist, open center each day and all the year, is in particular equipped with a center of road safety and training of driving of a car on ice.

Teaching and culture

  • Four private public lycées and two colleges
    • College Jules-Ferry
    • Colleges professional and technical Georges Baumont
    • Vocational school Jacques-Augustin
    • private College of the Beautiful Garden
    • private Vocational school Notre-Dame of Providence
  • Three public colleges and two private colleges
    • College Jules-Ferry (it divides the buildings with the college)
    • Collège Joseph-Wish
    • Collège Vautrin-Lud
    • private Collège Notre Dame of Providence
    • Institution Sainte-Marie
  • an antenna of the University of sciences and technologies of the engineer de Nancy: CIRTES
  • a Academic institute of technology, IUT Saint-Dié of the Vosges
  • a school of engineers, the Institute of higher learning of engineering of design (INSIC)
  • an Training institute with the care male nurses (IFSI)

Festivities and events

Each year since 1990, the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges accommodates, the 1st weekend of October, the International festival of geography (FIG) during which is decreed, the price " Vautrin Lud ", highest international distinction as regards geography, discipline for which there does not exist Nobel Prize.

Every years, from July 7th to 13rd, takes place the Semaine of the Freedom articulated around more than 80 demonstrations in the streets of the city.

For the second consecutive year, the site of Géoparc accommodates, June 1st, th and 2nd 2007, the Festival Drop' N Rock.

In 2008, will be held with the GEOPARC, from June 21st to 22nd, the third edition of the AEROFOLIES. Air demonstration which gathers more than 13000 people. FFVB]], the city regularly lodges the team of female France of [[volley ball]] for international matches and tournaments. The city accommodated in particular in [[2005]] the tournament of qualification for World the Féminins seniors of [[2006]] and organized, in partnership with the city of [[Metz]], the final stage of the Championship of Europe Female Junior 2006. Each year, during the weekend of [[Easter]], proceeds one [[Open]] International of [[Failures]]. The " trail of the roches" , test of marathon at made uneven forts, borrows each year in May a wooded course traced in the paths surveying the sandstone hills girdling the city. == Jumelages == The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges is twinned with the following cities: * [[Image: Flag off Belgium.svg|20px]] [[Arlon]] ([[Belgium]]) * [[Image: Flag off Italy.svg|21px]] [[Cattolica]] ([[Italy]]) * [[Image: Flag off Croatia.svg|21px]] [[Crikvenica]] ([[Croatia]]) * [[Image: Flag off Germany.svg|21px]] [[Friedrichshafen]] ([[Germany]]) * [[Image: Flag off the United States.svg|21px]] [[Lowell (Massachusetts)|Lowell]] ([[the United States]]) * [[Image: Flag off Senegal.svg|21px]] [[Meckhe]] ([[Senegal]]) * [[Image: Flag off Canada.svg|21px]] [[Lorraine (Quebec)|Town of Lorraine]] ([[Canada]]) * [[Image: Flag off Poland.svg|21px]] [[Zakopane]] ([[Poland]]) Along [[the Meurthe (river)|Meurthe]], a wooded and arranged course bears the name of " Walk of the jumelées" cities;. ==Bibliographie== * '' America. America was born in the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges in 1507 '', catalogs exposure to the Museum of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges (May 9th - August 30th, 1992), municipal Imprimerie of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, 1992,99 p. * Fernand Baldensperger, '' Images and outlines of Old Saint-Dié '', Loos, 1947 * Georges Baumont (photographs of Jean Blaire), '' Saint-Dié. Burned ground '' (documents to be used with the history of the fire as Saint-Dié by the Germans, 13 November 18th, 1944, Paris, the Book of history, coll “Of the facts and the men”, 2006 (1 {{Re}} ED. 1946), 123 p. {{ISBN|2-84373-842-3}} * Georges Baumont, '' Saint-Dié of the Vosges. Origins and development '', Paris, the Book of history, coll “Monographs of the cities and villages of France”, 2006 (1 {{Re}} ED. 1961), 460 p. {{ISBN|2-84373-873-3}} * Nicolas-François Gravel, '' Histoire of the episcopal city and the district of Saint-Dié, department of the Vosges/under the theocratic government of four monasteries in opposition with the dukes of Lorraine and the constitutional princes of Salm '', Épinal, Impr. from Gerard, 1836,400 p. * François Jodin, '' the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, a history of freedom '', Ludres, a Page with the other, 2000,175 p. {{ISBN|2-914366-01-9}} * Albert Ohl of the Marshes, '' chronological Histoire of the city and the Valley from Saint-Dié '', Saint-Dié, Loos, 1947,383 p. * Albert Ronsin, '' the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges, 13 centuries of history (669-1969) '', Saint-Dié, Loos, 1969,173 p. * Albert Ronsin, '' It was once the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges '' (selection of old postcards), Paris, Citédis, 1998,90 p. {{ISBN|2-911920-15-5}} * Bulletins of [[Vosgean philomatic Company]] (since 1875), in consultation with the Victor-Hugo media library of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges * Guy Cabourdin, illustrated Encyclopedia of Lorraine, ED. Serpenoise, University Press of Nancy, 1991 == external Liens == {{Commons|Category: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges|The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges}} * [http://www.ville-saintdie.fr/ Site of the city] * [http://www.fig-saintdie.com/ Site of the International festival of geography] * [http://www.ville-saintdie.fr/site_web/pages/tourisme/index.php Site of the Tourist bureau of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges] * [http://www.deodatie.com/ Site of the Country of Déodatie]: virtual discovery of the district. * [http://www.philomatique-vosgienne.org Site of the philomatic company of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges] * [http://vosges.orgues.free.fr Site on the organ of the area: organ of Saint-Dié] * [http://www.orgue-saintdie.org Site of the Academy of the Organ of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges] * [http://usine.duval.free.fr/ Saint-Dié, Le Corbusier and the Duval factory] * [http://deobus.fr.nf/ Site of Déobus, urban transport of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges] * [http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087&CommuneId=94972 the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges on the site of the national geographical Institute] * [Saint-Dié-of-Vosges http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=88413&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE on the site of INSEE] * [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=22681&req=saint%20di%E9&style=fiche the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges on the site of Quid] * [http://www.lion1906.com/Pages/ResultatLocalisation.php?InseeVille=880413 Localization of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges on a chart of France and communes bordering] * [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=48.285&longitude=6.95&zoom=8 Plan of the Saint-Dié-of-Vosges on Mapquest] {{Multi stringcourse|Lorraine gate|Gate the Vosges}} [[Category: Commune of the Vosges|The Saint-Die-of-Vosges]] [[Category: Sub-prefecture]] [[Category: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges|*]] [[Category: City decorated with the Legion of honor]] [[af: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[als: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[year: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ang: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[rear: سينتدي]] [[ast: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[az: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Br: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[bs: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Ca: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ceb: Saint-Dié]] [[Co: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Cs: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[csb: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[cy: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[da: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[of: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[in: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[eo: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[be: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[and: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[have: The Saint-Die-of-Vosges]] [[fi: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[fiu-vro: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[fo: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[frp: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[fur: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[fy: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ga: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[gl: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[hr: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[HT: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[hu: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ia: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[id: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ilo: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[io: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[is: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[it: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ja: サン = ディエ = デ = ヴォージュ]] [[jv: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ksh: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[kw: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[it: Sancti Deodati Fanum]] [[stable-lad: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[lb: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Li: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[lmo: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[lt: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[lv: Sendjēdevoža]] [[Mg: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ms: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[MT: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[nap: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[nds: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[nds-nl: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[nl: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[N: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[No: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[oc: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[pdc: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[pl: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Pt: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[rm: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[ro: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Ru: Сен-Дье-де-Вож]] [[Sc: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[SNA: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[sco: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[simple: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[sk: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[SSL: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[sq: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Sr: СенДиједеВогез]] [[sv: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[sw: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[Tl: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[tr: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[tt: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[the U.K.: Сен-Дьє-де-Вож]] [[vec: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[VI: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[vo: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[wa: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[war: The Saint-Dié-of-Vosges]] [[zh: 孚日圣迪耶

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