Communauté de communes de la Haute Meurthe
The Communauté de communes de la Haute Meurthe was a communal union ( Communauté de communes ) of four municipalities in the east of the Vosges department in Lorraine .
The municipal association had 6,463 inhabitants (2008) on 111.55 km², which corresponded to a population density of 58 inhabitants / km².
The seat of the association was the municipality of Fraize . The eastern border of the community was formed by the Vosges ridge with the incision of the Col du Bonhomme as a transition to the Alsace region . The name Haute Meurthe (Obere Meurthe ) describes the location of the association area on the river with the exception of Mandray on a small tributary of the Meurthe.
The local authority association was founded on December 27, 1996 to pool the material resources of the local authorities and to coordinate economic development.
The area of responsibility of the municipal association included regional planning and cross-municipal economic development, with the main focus on promoting the industrial areas of Les Graviers, Le Moulin, Les Faulx, Zone de la Gare and Zone des Secs Prés . The Communauté de communes de la Haute Meurthe also set itself the goal of working closely together in the areas of tourism development (including financing and operating the tourist offices in Fraize and Plainfaing), environmental protection (including protecting mountain streams) and promoting culture and sports .
The association of municipalities dissolved on December 16, 2013 and merged with the municipalities of the Val de Meurthe association of municipalities, which had also been dissolved, on January 1, 2014 in the new association of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges .