Celles-sur-Plaine

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Celles-sur-Plaine
Coat of arms of Celles-sur-Plaine
Celles-sur-Plaine (France)
Celles-sur-Plaine
region Grand Est
Department Vosges
Arrondissement Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Canton Raon-l'Étape
Community association Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Coordinates 48 ° 27 '  N , 6 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '  N , 6 ° 57'  E
height 300-831 m
surface 20.09 km 2
Residents 821 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 41 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 88110
INSEE code

Town hall of Celles-sur-Plaine

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Celles-sur-Plaine is a French commune with 821 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the canton of Raon-l'Étape in the arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges .

geography

Location of Celles-sur-Plaine in the Vosges department

Celles-sur-Plaine is a municipality in the Vallée de la Plaine in the Vosges Mountains . It is a settlement on the Meurthe tributary, the Plaine, flanked by the Forêt domaniale des élieux and the Forêt domaniale de Celles . The river forms the border with the Meurthe-et-Moselle department . The municipality is connected to the national road network by the 392a department road. To the southwest of the town center is the Lac de Celles-sur-Plaine , a reservoir created in 1983. There are two prominent elevations in the municipality: the Pain de Sucre (671 m) and the Tête du Coquin (837 m).

history

Celles-sur-Plaine belonged to the County of Salm from 1594 and to the Duchy of Lorraine and the Principality of Salm from 1710 to 1790. Then the settlement passed to the Saint-Dié district.

In 1950, the Nicolas Bourbaki group met in Celles-sur-Plaine .

The Lac de Celles-sur-Plaine was created in 1983 in connection with the Lac de Pierre-Percée reservoir . It serves to regulate the Moselle and thus to cool the Cattenom nuclear power plant .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 900 961 1,030 934 843 840 851 847

Web links

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