Foussemagne
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Territoire de Belfort | |
| Arrondissement | Belfort | |
| Canton | Grandvillars | |
| Community association | Grand Belfort | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 38 ′ N , 7 ° 0 ′ E | |
| height | 338-376 m | |
| surface | 5.10 km 2 | |
| Residents | 921 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 181 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 90150 | |
| INSEE code | 90049 | |
| Website | http://www.foussemagne.com/ | |
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Foussemagne (German earlier Fuchsmeng or Fiessenen ) is a French commune in the Territoire de Belfort department . It belongs to the arrondissement of Belfort and the canton of Grandvillars and is a member of the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort .
geography
Foussemagne is 354 m above sea level, about twelve kilometers east of the city of Belfort and 20 kilometers west of the Alsatian town of Altkirch (as the crow flies). The village extends in the Burgundian Gate , on the plateau in the foothills of the Vosges , in the wide valley of the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas .
The area of the 5.1 km² municipal area comprises a section of the landscape with only weak relief in the area of the Burgundian Gate (Trouée de Belfort). The central part of the area is crossed in a north-south direction by the valley level of the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas, which has a width of around two kilometers. The stream drains the area via the Bourbeuse to the Allaine . The plain in the Vosges foothills is on average 360 m above sea level. It is mainly covered with arable and meadow land, but also shows some forest areas. To the east, the municipality reaches as far as the Loutre stream , which partially marks the border with Alsace. In the west, the community area extends into the forest le Grand Bois . Here, at 376 m, Foussemagne's highest point is reached. The Étang des Cratsch, which is dammed up at the edge of the forest, is one of several ponds in the community area and the surrounding area.
Neighboring communities of Foussemagne are Fontaine in the north, Chavannes-sur-l'Étang in the east, Montreux-Vieux in the south-east, Cunelières and Petit-Croix in the south-west and Frais in the north-west.
history
Before the French Revolution , the place appeared on maps as Fuchsmeng . Initially under the influence of the lords of Montbéliard, Foussemagne came under the sovereignty of the Habsburgs in the mid-14th century. The village belonged to the dominion of Montreux , which from 1560 was owned by the Reinach family.
Together with the Sundgau , Foussemagne came to the French crown in 1648 due to the Peace of Westphalia . Since 1793 the village has belonged to the Haut-Rhin department , but in 1871 it remained as part of the Territoire de Belfort, unlike the rest of Alsace, in France.
From 1871 to 1918 Foussemagne was the border town and customs post of the German Empire . Six of the 4056 boundary stones of the former German-French border stood on the parish of the municipality.
Foussemagne belonged to the local association Bassin de la Bourbeuse , which was founded in 1997 and which was merged into the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort in 2017 .
Attractions
- Foussemagne is the only parish in France that has a synagogue but no church. The journalist André Frossard mentions this fact in his book Dieu existe, je l'ai rencontré , published in 1969 . The Foussemagne synagogue was inaugurated in 1865 and served the parishioners as a place of worship until 1940 when it was closed, looted and robbed after the German invasion. In 2007 the local council decided to buy the building, renovate it and set up a museum. The synagogue is classified as a monument historique .
- The small chapel of St. Anne dates from the 19th century.
- The 25 m high and 120 m³ water tower, which is still in operation today, was completed in 1937.
- Pont d'Arromanches is the name of the bridge over the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas on the road to Cunelières . The bridge, consisting of a “whale pier” element, spanned the Bourbeuse after the war in Bourogne and was moved to its current location in 1952 and renovated in 1997.
population
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
| Residents | 414 | 465 | 384 | 517 | 509 | 602 | 932 | 923 |
With 921 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) Foussemagne is one of the small communities in the Territoire de Belfort department. After the population showed a decreasing tendency in the first half of the 20th century and reached its lowest point of 284 in 1936 and 1946, particularly since the 1990s, population growth has been recorded again, which can be attributed to the creation of many jobs on a former airfield site is.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Foussemagne was a village dominated by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding) and forestry. From 1872 to 1918 the function as a border and customs station was added on the Belfort - Altkirch road . In the north of the municipality was the location of the Belfort-Fontaine airfield, which was opened in 1914 and abandoned in 1986. A large industrial and commercial zone has been built on the site of the Aéroparc since 1992 . Numerous companies in the transport industry, apparatus engineering, the automotive industry, logistics companies and distribution centers as well as the metal and plastics processing industry have settled here.
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on Departementsstrasse 419, which leads from Belfort via Altkirch to Basel . The closest connection to the A36 motorway is around six kilometers away. Further road connections exist to Cunelières and Fontaine. The train station in the southern neighboring town of Montreux-Vieux is on the Paris – Mulhouse railway line .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X , pp. 150-152.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved October 31, 2011 (French).
Web links
- Community presentation (French)
- Foussemagne Synagogue (French)
- Foussemagne on cc-bassin-bourbeuse.fr (French)
- Aerial views of Foussemagne