Essegney

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Essegney
Essegney Coat of Arms
Essegney (France)
Essegney
region Grand Est
Department Vosges
Arrondissement Epinal
Canton Charms
Community association Epinal
Coordinates 48 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 19 ′  E
height 270-358 m
surface 8.41 km 2
Residents 754 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 90 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 88130
INSEE code 88163

Mairie Essegney

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Essegney is a French commune in the Vosges department in the region of Grand Est (2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Épinal and the municipal association Agglomération d'Épinal, founded in 2017 .

geography

The municipality of Essegney with 754 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) is located on the Moselle , about 25 kilometers northwest of Épinal .

The Moselle flows in a south-east-north-west direction through the municipality, the core town of Essegney is on the right bank of the Moselle. In the extreme south-west, the Canal des Vosges, built parallel to the Moselle, runs through the municipality. The next bridges lead downstream in Charmes and upstream in Portieux over the Moselle.

Essegney also includes a six-kilometer-long finger-shaped bulge of the community area to the northeast, which consists of dense forest ( Bois d'Essegney ).

The built-up settlement area has merged with the town of Charmes in the northwest and with the parish of Langley in the southeast . Other neighboring communities are Saint-Rémy-aux-Bois ( Département Meurthe-et-Moselle ) in the northeast, Damas-aux-Bois in the east and Vincey in the south.

history

The place name of Essegney is derived from the Gallo-Roman Ausiniaca Villa , which first appeared in writing in the 12th century. The village developed around a hospital founded by nuns from Nancy ( Soeurs-Grises ) in 1438. The village of Essegney was part of the Bailiwick of Châtel from 1594 until the French Revolution . The Saint-Pierre church was built around 1720, it was and is still responsible for the neighboring parish of Langley. She belongs to the deanery of Jorxey in the diocese of Toul .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 509 566 649 739 651 622 676 754
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre church
  • Lavoir
  • British war cemetery from the First World War
  • An ensemble of farmhouses and workers' houses from the 18th and 19th centuries
Saint-Pierre church

Economy and Infrastructure

There are five livestock farms in the municipality.

The D 32 trunk road from Charmes to Rambervillers runs through the municipality of Essegney . In the nearby town of Charmes there is a connection to the motorway-like RN 57 from Nancy to Épinal . Charmes station, one and a half kilometers from Essegney, is on the Blainville-Damelevières-Lure railway line .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Essegney on vosges-archives.com. (pdf;) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 22, 2015 ; Retrieved April 6, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vosges-archives.com
  2. ↑ Essegney on cassini.ehess.fr
  3. ↑ Essegney on insee.fr
  4. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved April 6, 2016 (French).
  5. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

Commons : Essegney  - Collection of Images