Haute-Saône department

Haute-Saône
region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
prefecture	Vesoul
Sub-prefecture (s)	Lure
Residents	236,659 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	44 inhabitants per km²
surface	5,360.45 km²
Arrondissements	2
Community associations	19th
Cantons	17th
Communities	539
President of the Department Council	Yves Krattinger
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-70
Location of the Haute-Saone in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté

The Haute-Saône [ otsoːn ] (officially Département de la Haute-Saône ) is the French department with the atomic number 70. It is in the east of the country in the Region Bourgogne Franche-Comté . Its name is derived from the Saône river .

geography

The department borders in the north with the department Vosges in Lorraine , in the east with the Territoire de Belfort , the part of Alsace that remained French in 1871 , in the south with the departments Doubs and Jura , also from Franche-Comté , in the south-west with the department Côte -d'Or , part of the former Burgundy region , and to the north-west of the Haute-Marne department , part of the Grand Est region .

The southern foothills of the Vosges occupy the northern part of the department . This is where the Saône rises , giving the department its name and flowing through it in a south-westerly direction.

• landscape
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  The area of Lure and the Vosges in the east of the department.

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  Landscape in the southeast

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  Ray-sur-Saône in the west of the department

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  Planche des Belles Filles ( Tour de France ), mountain in the northeast

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  Landscape of the Plateau des Mille Étangs

history

The department was formed on March 4, 1790 from the north of the former Free County of Burgundy .

The department was also affected by the Franco-Prussian War with the battles of Héricourt and Villersexel , but also by the proximity of the siege of Belfort . The department took in Alsatians who fled from the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine .

• The Franco-Prussian War in Haute-Saône
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  Battle of the Lisaine

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  Battle at Villersexel

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  View of the destruction of Villersexel

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  German artillery in front of the ruins of Villersexel Castle

The department has a significant mining and industrial past (coal, salt, iron, lead-silver-copper mines, bitumen slate, stationery, spinning, weaving, forging, foundries, tiles, mechanical factories).

• Emblematic industries of Haute-Saône
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  Arthur de Buyer shaft (1,010 m), the deepest coal mine in France between 1900 and 1910

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  The Gouhenans saltworks was one of the most important saltworks in France in the 19th century

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  Interior view of the Varigney factory ( Dampierre-lès-Conflans ), the iron industry was developed until the middle of the 20th century

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  Bitumen shale distillation plant Creveney between the two world wars

From 1960 to 2015 it was part of the Franche-Comté region, which in 2016 became part of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

coat of arms

Description: In blue a golden lion with a crown, red tongue and claws between sown golden shingles , above a red wave shield head with a silver wave bar .

Cities

The most populous communes in the Haute-Saône department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Vesoul	14,916	Vesoul
Héricourt	10,601	Lure
Lure	8,207	Lure
Luxeuil-les-Bains	6,722	Lure
Gray	5,512	Vesoul

Administrative division

The Haute-Saône department is divided into 2 arrondissements , 17 cantons and 539 communes :

Communes and arrondissements in the Haute-Saône department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Lure	10	193	108,803	1,906.22	57	701
Vesoul	11	346	127,856	3,454.23	37	702
Haute-Saône department	17th	539	236,659	5,360.45	44	70

See also:

• List of communes in the Haute-Saône department
• List of cantons in the Haute-Saône department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Haute-Saône department

economy

The department is characterized by agriculture, almost half of its area is used as arable land and pasture land, another third is covered by forest. Well-known dairy products in the region are Comté cheese and Morbier cheese with the famous ash stripe.

Web links

Commons : Haute-Saône department  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Haute-Saône (French)
• Prefecture of the Haute-Saône (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ haute-saone.fr accessed on May 1, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '  N , 6 ° 8'  E