Vescemont
Vescemont is a common French, located in the department of the Territoire of Belfort and the area Franche-Comté.
The commune, populated of 742 people in 2004 (695 inhabitants in 1999), is administratively attached to the Canton of Giromagny.
Vescemont is located at the foot of the the Vosges south, with the entry of a glaciated valley in which its source Rosemontoise takes.
The commune of Vescemont is located on a very old crossing point.
Time of the Romans, the valley of Rosemontoise was the only point of passage to join Lorraine since Belfort Gap. Many medals of Trajan (Roman Emperor from 98 to 117) were discovered in Vescemont and the popular tradition places a Roman camp at the site of the fort of Giromagny.
Dice the 11th century, Vescemont belongs to the Seigneurie of Rosemont. One can still see some vestiges of the castle of Rosemont which was drawn up on a rock in extreme cases of the commune of Riervescemont. The castle of Rosemont was built about 1050 by one of the first counts de Montbéliard. It is composed of a square tower of two or three stages built out of rough stones, measuring 10m of with dimensions with walls of 1,50m thickness, and an outer work which remains in the east. The lord of Rosemont exerted his authority on a great number of localities and the castle was a long time the most prestigious stronghold of the area.
First appearance of the name Vescemont in a written document gone back to 1347. The seigniory of Rosemont passed to the crown of Austria (after having belonged to the count de Ferrette) and the village of Vescemont appears then, in the German titles, under the name of Wessemberg (French Wissemont): it is the name which the invested family of the stronghold took. This name could go back to Hesson de Vesinberg which was killed at the time of a battle in 1111. Vescemont then forms part of the parish of Rougegoutte, except the part located on Right Bank of the brook of Louvière which depends on the parish of Giromagny.
One does not know with certainty the end of the castle. Two assumptions prevail:
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the castle of Rosemont loses its strategic role about 1469 and is abandoned.
- the castle was besieged and destroyed by the Swedes in 1632 during the Thirty year old war
In 1577, Vescemont was the chief town of a town hall of Rosemont and undoubtedly included/understood the hamlets which formed with the 17° century the commune of Riervescemont.
With the 18° century, the village depended on the parish of Rougegoutte and the bailliage of Belfort; it was a town hall of Haut-Rosemont pertaining to the county of Belfort, field of Mazarin. Reinach and Riboutet had there also goods
In 1882 the village counted 610 inhabitants who shared their activity between agriculture and exploitation of the forest.
Pierre Written
A site is classified with the historic buildings, by order in Council, dated April 15th, 1911: Pierre known as " Pierre écrite". It is with the highest site of the commune, with 975m, with the commune of Riervescemont.In its work " The Vosges before Histoire" , Voulot, conservative of the museum of Epinal in 1870, are expressed thus about Pierre Ecrite: " I have just found the material proof of the unit from my beliefs on the presence of the prehistoric people of Asia in our Vosges. It is precisely on a escarpée summit that I met it: a simple rock, in the shape of table, at the top of a collar proximity of the collar of Chantoiseau between Lepuix and Riervescemont preserved the name of Pierre Ecrite. The Middle Ages appears to have venerated it and to have covered it with the symbol of the Christianity which côtoie oldest hiéroglyphes. I believe to have distinguished large a ascia particular which makes of it a tomb and the name of a divinity, sometimes in combination, of another time only, such as it is reproduced there on oldest hiéroglyphes medoscythic. The inscription alone in our mountains of an inscription of this kind, the only one in Europe, it is the certainty of a new world to discover, it is the seal even of Pélasges that they bequeathed us to testify, of the thousands of years after their death, their imperishable work due to their faith inébranlable in the avenir".
Ascia: Italian word which gave the name chops Wood-working tool in the beginning, it is used as funerary symbol to indicate that the tomb is devoted to the beginning of its construction. Pelasges: Pélasges are recognized as one of the most former prehistoric people proto European which would have developed the first forms of human civilization in Europe: Italy, Balkans, Crete, Minor Asia and all the basin of the Mediterranean
Opinion of Mr. Philippe Shepherd, member of the Institute and president of the Company Belfortaine d' Emulation, in 1892 " Certain people believe to recognize characters phenicians and even wedge-shaped, others see there only recreation of shepherds mislaid in the mountain. It is certain that more one of the signs which recover the rock are or a play of the chance, or the work the practical joker which do not have fears to profane an ancient monument. The history of the one of them is known, it is that of the square on the hypotenuse which traced, in 1839, by manner of derision, a professor of Besancon. And yet, other figures do not have the same origin and give to those which are accustomed to consulting the vestiges of the past, the impression of high a antiquité"
In 1902, Mr. Jacques Flasch, professor of compared legislation, believe to notice, in the signs engraved on Pierre Ecrite, certain representations relationships with that of the dolmens and the menhirs, in particular a star directed exactly and framed in a vaster square. The aspect even of the rock, its position with the extreme point of the top, where it was used to some extent as observatory, makes think of the old crowned stones.
wedge-shaped C-W communication (of Latin cuneus: corner, nail), born in Sumer in 2800 av JC: the lines curved, difficult to trace on soft clay, are broken up into straight lines that the scribe does not engrave any more, but prints using a stem of reed with triangular end, leaving prints in the shape of corners or nails.
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