Dent
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Territoire de Belfort | |
| Arrondissement | Belfort | |
| Canton | Dent (main town) | |
| Community association | South Territoire | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 ' N , 7 ° 0' E | |
| height | 353-443 m | |
| surface | 9.20 km 2 | |
| Residents | 5,690 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 618 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 90100 | |
| INSEE code | 90033 | |
| Website | www.delle.fr | |
 Dent with the Saint-Léger church |
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Delle ( German (outdated / uncommon) Dettenried or Dattenried ) is a French commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . It is the capital of the canton of Delle in the arrondissement of Belfort and has 5690 inhabitants (January 1, 2017).
geography
Delle is 364 m above sea level, 14 kilometers east of the city of Montbéliard (as the crow flies) on the border with Switzerland . The community extends in the valley of the Allaine , which enters the flatter area of the Burgundian Gate from the northwestern Tabular Jura of the Ajoie .
Neighboring communities of Delle are Thiancourt and Joncherey in the north, Faverois in the northeast, Florimont in the east, Boncourt (Switzerland) in the south, Lebetain in the southwest and Fêche-l'Église in the west.
history
The place goes back to Gallo-Roman times. At that time there was a Roman villa on the right bank of the Allaine . Since the 6th century, the settlement spread on the other bank. In 728, Count Eberhard, a son of Duke Adalbert of Alsace, gave the area to the Benedictine abbey of Murbach . Dattenried passed from Murbach Abbey in 1231 as a fief to King Heinrich (VII) , who wanted to turn the place into a fortified city. Later the city belonged to the county of Pfirt and came with this in 1324 to the Habsburgs . Between 1232 and 1235, the Counts of Pfirt and the Counts of Mömpelgard had a dispute over the property of Dattenried. In 1358 Dattenried received the rights of Colmar from Duke Rudolf IV the Stifer of Austria with the approval of his father-in-law, the Roman-German Emperor Charles IV . In 1636 Delle moved to France and was given to Cardinal Mazarin in 1659.
In 1871, as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the city was detached from the Alsatian department of Haut-Rhin along with other places and, after a transition phase, was defeated to the Territoire de Belfort.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Delle
- Church of St. Leodegar ( Église Saint-Léger ) with swiveling organ
- Maison Feltin, today town hall
- Maison des Cariatides with Justitia figure
- Maison des Remparts (oldest part from 1576)
Others
In Delle there is a tombstone that commemorates Albert Mayer , the first German fallen in the First World War .
traffic
On June 29, 1868, the Compagnie Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) opened the Montbéliard – Audincourt – Morvillars – Delle line , which was connected to Switzerland on September 23, 1872 through the Chemin de fer Porrentruy – Delle (PD). On August 13, 1877, the Compagnie de l'Est (EST) opened the Belfort – Morvillars (–Delle) line . With the completion of the Delémont – Porrentruy line , Delle station became the northernmost and most important border station between Switzerland and France.
After the Second World War, rail traffic shifted to the railway lines through Alsace to Basel, in September 1992 continuous passenger traffic and in 1993 all freight traffic was discontinued. Operation from the Swiss side, from nearby Boncourt , was discontinued in May 1995.
Since December 8, 2006, SBB trains have been running again between Boncourt and Delle. After the reactivated line from Delle to Belfort was opened on December 6, 2018, scheduled trains have been back on the line since December 9 of that year. A connection to the future LGV Rhin-Rhône is planned in Belfort .
Personalities
- Barthélemy-Louis-Joseph Schérer , Revolutionary General and Minister of War (1747–1804)
- Jean-Baptiste Schacre , architect (1808–1876)
- Claude-Max Lochu , painter (* 1951)
- Jacques Santini , football player and coach (* 1952)
- Maurice Feltin , Archbishop (1883–1975)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X , pp. 129-134.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Heinrich Gottfried Gengler : Regesta and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages , Erlangen 1863, pp. 725–728, online.
- ^ Ernst Theodor Gaupp : German city rights of the Middle Ages, with legal historical explanations . Second volume, Breslau 1852, pp. 169-184, online.
- ↑ Article ( 10 things you do not know about monuments ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) in Süddeutsche Zeitung online, August 21, 2009.
