Vomécourt

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

Its inhabitants is called Vomécourtois.

Geography

The village is located at 4 km in the south of Rambervillers in direction of Padoux and Épinal. It is crossed by two rivers: the Padozel, affluent left bank of the Mortagne, and the modest brook of Padaine, itself flow left bank of Padozel. The relief is marked little, altitude remains close to 300 Mr.

The center is built on the standard diagram of the Lorraine Village-street: the dwellings are distributed on both sides way connecting Rambervillers to Epinal, thus forming the main axis of the village. These dwellings are often joint.

This historical lane is the current secondary road 46. Other villages (Padoux, Sercœur) are crossed by this RD46 and a project of deviation is under development under the control of work of the General advice of the Vosges: Vomécourt belongs to the villages which will profit from this deviation.

History

The village was built near a Roman way which passed to the locality Haut of Zrail .

In 1003, in a diploma of the king Henri II of Germanic, it bore the name of Valmaricurt (the field - cortem - of Walma).

In XIIe century, or perhaps in XIIIe, the Ordre of the Temple installed there a house, just like with Destord, Hardancourt, Moyemont, Hadigny-the-Glass Ortoncourt and .

Concerned with the imperial chapter of the abbesses of Remiremont, the village was integrated gradually into the Duché of Lorraine…

Curiosities

Vomécourt had, in front of the main entrance of its church, southern part, an old remarkable oak of more than three hundred years. It was cut down on February 17th, 2007 on decision of the municipality for safety reasons. A disease (mushroom) weakened the tree by the interior: the mechanical resistance of the tree decreased and this one was likely to fall in the event of strong blow from wind. At the time of the bicentenary of the French revolution in 1989, and whereas the tercentenary oak established in the south of the church was already sick, the common one planted a young oak of with dimensions north, called to replace its veteran.

Administration

Demography

Personalities

celebrates It Lahalle doctor was born to with it in 1776 (he will die in 1843).

External bonds

Vomécourt on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Vomécourt on the site of INSEE
Vomécourt on the site of Quid
Localization of Vomécourt on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vomécourt on Mapquest

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