Vézelois

Vézelois is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté. It depends on the Canton of Danjoutin.

Situation

The village is located at 10km in the east of Belfort. Its territory, which extends on 910 hectares, is skirted to north by the railway Belfort Mulhouse. The brook of Praille crosses it before going to throw in Muddy the , near Autrechêne. Average altitude is of 370m. In 1803 the population was of 101 inhabitants, in 1999, the inhabitants were 705.

The commune counted in 2005,782 vézeloisiens and vézeloisiennes.

History

At the time Roman a secondary way of importance, connecting Mandeure to Rougemont-the-Castle crossed the territory of the village, coming from Méroux and continuing towards Chèvremont. Vesiliaco , Latin term used to indicate the village in 1185 had a church then.

With the death of Jeanne of Montbeliard, her Ursule daughter, contess of Montfort, inherited Vézelois. This one sold the village in 1350 to Albert II, archduke of Austria and husband of his Jeannette sister of Ferrette. Vézelois and Meroux, by forming a new town hall whose Vézelois was chief town, were then attached to the Seigneurie of Rosemont already Austrian possession since 1347.

One of the dramatic episodes of the history of the village was held during the Guerre Thirty Year old, when the Swedish troops crushed a troop of 3000 armed peasants who had revolted. The massacre took place in a small valley located between Danjoutin, Perugia and Vézelois. An about sixty survivors took refuge in the tower of the destroyed church from where the roughneck soldiers sought to smoke out them. The legend tells that one of besieged left like a mad devil and made flee of fear the Swedes. This tower remained until in 1877. The nave of the church was repaired after 1633 and was rebuilt entirely in the years 1850. Leupe and Meroux belonged to the parish of Vézelois until in 1803, date on which Meroux was set up in autonomous parish; Moval remained attached to Vézelois until in 1819 then joined Meroux him too.

As in the surrounding villages, the Jurassic ground of the village conceals iron ore in grains which was exploited until the XIXe century.

The fort Ordener, of the name of a general of Empire, was built of 1883 with 1886 as an important link of the strengthened belt surrounding Belfort imagined by Séré de Rivières. It was designed to shelter about thirty air guns free charged to prohibit the approach of the fortified camp from Belfort by the railway and the roads coming from the east.

Of 1913 until worms 1938 the line with metric gauge track Belfort Réchésy of the Railroad of Local Interest of the Territory of Belfort served Vézelois. The competition of the lines of bus obliged it to cease any activity.

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See also the site of association '' the shelter '' devoted to the strengthened belt of the place of Belfort.

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