Xertigny

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

Its inhabitants is usually called Xertinois. The erudite name of Certiniaciens is uncommon today.

Geography

Xertigny is located on the plate of the Vôge at 17 km at the south of Épinal, at 19 km in the west of Remiremont and at 12 km in the North-East of Bath-the-Baths.

Transportation routes convergent towards the Center, but the habitat remains enough dispersed in the various hamlets: Moyenpal, Barns, Amerey, the Station, Charmois, Regingotte, Bozet, the Richard Barns. The territory not built is divided between meadows and forests, these last covering more than 1800 ha. The nine communes bordering are Charmois-l' Orgueilleux, Uzemain, Uriménil, Dounoux and Hadol in north, Bellefontaine in the east, Plombières-the-Baths and Clerjus in the south, and Vault-with-Wood in the west.

History

Xertigny was originally a Roman camping, Certinium , on the way connecting Bath-the-Baths to Baccarat. In 730, a holy nun, Walburge , would have made spout out a fountain; it became the owner of the parish.

In 1335, the community obtained a mayor. The War Thirty Year old, then the plague in 1642, were the causes of an important mortality.

The February 26th 1790, Xertigny was selected like one of the 60 chief towns of canton of the Vosges.

1865: the young person haut-marnais Victor Champion, come to fix itself at the place chief of Vôge after brewery studies at the Bavarian school of Weihenstephan founds the Brasserie Lorraine with the effigy of Jeanne d' Arc. Its succession returns to his/her son-in-law Henri Trivier and the company gathers through France, five breweries and of many taverns and deposits. Repurchased by the very powerful brewery meurthe-and-native of the Moselle region of Champigneulles, Lorraine closes definitively its doors, on September 30th 1966. ; Blasonnement: Gold to the band of mouths charged with three money anchor-ties.

This blazon was retained in November 1957, with the downstream of Misters Blaudez and Mathieu, heraldists Epinal-native. It takes again the Lorraine blazon of which alérions them are replaced by anchor-ties which represent initial X of the name of the commune.

Administration

Demography

Inheritance

  • Holy Church Walburge: the church was burnt during the German offensive in 1940. It was rebuilt in 1951. It has 8 stained glasses Gabriel the Loire, representing the Vosgean saints . Its bell-tower comprises seven bells of various sizes which have each one a godfather and a godmother. Largest of them is Walburge, and the smallest Therese.

According to the legend, holy Walburge would have let a wool ball be held and would have built the building at the place where this one would have finished its road.

  • the castle of the brewers: Built by the brewer Victor Champion on the foundations of the old presbytery of Orémus. It is a castle of Renaissance style builds according to the plans of the architect of the fine arts, François Clasquin. This building is now the town hall of Xertigny.

Curiosities

  • the railway viaduct
  • Every two years, a festival of the dandelions offers a flowered corso.
  • the locality is twinned with Lauf, quoted German of 4.000 hearts in Black Forest.

Personalities

; Born in Xertigny:

  • Jean-Georges Didier (known as “Jaugeot”). Priest. (° July 7th, 1822, Xertigny, † February 9th, 1896, Xertigny). It was ordered on June 5th 1852. Its entry with the seminar of Versailles, is late. Its ordination takes place in Paris region, because évêché of Versailles is very low in sacerdotal vocations. Also, the bishop of this diocese calls upon the Vosgean seminarists to pack his ministries. Eclectic priest, his life fertile in events and is especially sown obstacles. Cleaned Saint-Lambert (Versailles) during twenty-eight years, it returns in the Vosges to the parish of Domèvre-on-Avière in 1880, then with Ainvelle in 1892. Xertigny owes him the first idea of its Saint-Andrew old people's home, the construction of a school and the Sainte-Marie church of Aulnouzes located at Molieu close to Vault-with-Wood, started and continued among the greatest tribulations; the Didier abbot not having a permit building and especially the authorization of évêché Vosgean.

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