Beauménil
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Epinal | |
| Canton | Bruyères | |
| Community association | Bruyères-Vallons des Vosges | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 11 ′ N , 6 ° 44 ′ E | |
| height | 429-686 m | |
| surface | 3.30 km 2 | |
| Residents | 125 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 38 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88600 | |
| INSEE code | 88046 | |
 Mairie and school building in Beauménil |
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Beauménil is a French commune with 125 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Épinal and the canton of Bruyères .
geography
The municipality of Beauménil is located in the Vosges at an altitude of 430 m above sea level, about halfway between Épinal and Saint-Dié .
The area of the 3.3 km² municipal area includes a section of the 1000 m wide valley of the Vologne river , which forms the northern municipal boundary. The tributaries Neuné and Ruisseau de Herpelmont flow into the Vologne at the Beauménil level . In the northern half of the municipality there is arable land and pasture land as well as little forest, the narrow, wide southern half is completely characterized by forests ( Malenrupt , partly Forêt Communale de Fiménil and Forêt Communale d'Herpelmont ). With 666 meters the highest point is reached in the municipal area in the south.
The hamlets and farms of Le Rond Champ, Champ le Minou and Faing du Sapin belong to Beauménil .
Neighboring municipalities of Beauménil are Champ-le-Duc in the north, Laveline-devant-Bruyères in the northeast (point of contact), Herpelmont in the east, Laveline-du-Houx in the south and Fiménil in the west.
history
Beauménil belonged to the bailiwick of Bruyères in the Ancien Régime . The village has never had a church to this day. The parish church of the Assumption of Mary ( Église de l'Assomption-de-Notre-Dame ) in the nearby Champ-le-Duc was and is responsible for the Catholics .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2013 |
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| Residents | 160 | 105 | 115 | 128 | 148 | 143 | 128 | 118 |
Attractions
Hermit grotto
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On the way from the southern end of the village to the 594 m high Col de la Vierge pass, the Grotte de l'Ermite is located below a rock overhang . The sandstone cave is three meters long, one meter wide and two meters high. Around 1775 a hermit lived here who is said to have walked barefoot every Sunday - in summer and in winter - to the church in Champ-le-Duc, six kilometers away. From the entrance of the grotto on the northern slope of a mountain you have a wide view of the Volognetal and the mountain landscape around Bruyères.
Economy and Infrastructure
The largest company in the area is the Novatissue SAS paper mill in nearby Laval-sur-Vologne , a subsidiary of the Italian Cartiere Luccese Spa (Lucart) just 1.5 kilometers northwest of the core town of Beauménil. The company produces cardboard boxes for food packaging as well as paper towels, toilet paper and handkerchiefs. He is continuing the more than 150-year-old paper processing tradition in the Volognetal . There are also smaller agricultural and service companies in the village.
Transport links
The road from Bruyères to Docelles (D 44) following the Volognetal leads north past Beauménil. The road forms one of the two direct connections between Épinal and Saint-Dié , the two largest cities in the department. The nearest train station is in the small town of Bruyères, 3.5 kilometers away, on the Arches- Saint-Dié line operated by TER Lorraine .
supporting documents
- ↑ Beauménil on vosges-archives.com. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 13, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Beauménil on histoire-patrimoine-vosges.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 14, 2013 ; Retrieved December 13, 2013 (French).
- ^ History of Cartiere Luccese with aerial photo of the Laval paper mill. Retrieved December 12, 2013 (Italian).