Frotey-lès-Lure
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Haute-Saône | |
| Arrondissement | Lure | |
| Canton | Lure-2 | |
| Community association | Pays de Lure | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 39 ′ N , 6 ° 33 ′ E | |
| height | 292-332 m | |
| surface | 7.21 km 2 | |
| Residents | 691 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 96 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 70200 | |
| INSEE code | 70260 | |
 Mairie Frotey-lès-Lure |
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Frotey-lès-Lure is a commune in the French department of Haute-Saône in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Frotey-lès-Lure is located at an altitude of 323 m above sea level, five kilometers southeast of Lure and about 30 kilometers east of the city of Vesoul (as the crow flies). The village extends in the eastern part of the department, on a plateau between the rivers of Rahin in the west and Rognon in the east, west of the heights of the Chérimont .
The area of the 7.21 km² municipal area includes a section in the gently undulating landscape south of the Lure plain. The central part of the area is occupied by the Frotey plateau, which is an average of 320 m. It consists of an alternating layer of sandy-marly and calcareous sediments that were deposited during the Lias ( Lower Jurassic ). Muschelkalk from the Middle Triassic emerges in the southern part . The plateau is mainly made up of arable and meadow land.
The plateau is bounded in the east by the hollow of a side stream of the Rognon. Here are two larger fish ponds , including the Étang de Chaudoz . To the north, the municipality extends into the La Noye Jeannin forest , in which the highest point of Frotey-lès-Lure is reached at 332 m. The northern boundary marks the course of the Ruisseau des Prés Besançon . To the west, the municipality extends over the Le Petit Bois forest with various fish ponds to the Rahin lowland. This flows with numerous windings along the southern edge of the alluvial plain of Lure and provides drainage to the southwest to the Ognon .
Neighboring communities of Frotey-lès-Lure are Roye in the north, Palante and Lyoffans in the east, Moffans-et-Vacheresse in the south and Lure in the west.
history
The municipality of Frotey-lès-Lure was populated very early. During excavations in 1989, the remains of a Gallo-Roman settlement (well shaft and coins) as well as an ax, which presumably dates from the Neolithic , were discovered. Frotey is first mentioned in 1178 under the name Frostier . The names Froustier (1295), Frostey (15th century) and Frostel (1572) have been handed down from a later period . The place name is derived from the old French word frost (undeveloped land). In the Middle Ages Frotey belonged to the Free County of Burgundy and in it to the area of the Bailliage d'Amont . The local rule was held by the Lure monastery, while a small part (Cubry) was owned by the Granges rule. Together with Franche-Comté , the place finally came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Today Frotey-lès-Lure is a member of the community association Communauté de communes du Pays de Lure, which comprises 22 villages .
Attractions
The single-nave Saint-Laurent church originally dates from the 13th century, but was extensively restored and enlarged between 1734 and 1764. The interior decoration includes a bas-relief (18th century), furniture from the 19th century and a wooden statue of Saint Lawrence. The Mairie (community center), a small manor house and the lavoir, which once served as a wash house and cattle trough, were built in the 19th century.
- Saint Laurent Church
population
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 361 |
| 1968 | 413 |
| 1975 | 433 |
| 1982 | 464 |
| 1990 | 504 |
| 1999 | 502 |
| 2006 | 591 |
With 691 inhabitants (January 1, 2017), Frotey-lès-Lure is one of the medium-sized communes in the Haute-Saône department. After the population in the first half of the 20th century had always been in the range between 280 and 340 people, a continuous population growth has been recorded since the beginning of the 1960s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Frotey-lès-Lure was mainly a village characterized by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding), forestry and fish farming. Today there are some local small businesses. In the last few decades the village has transformed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who go to work in the larger towns in the area and in the Belfort-Montbéliard agglomeration.
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is located near the D438 departmental road, which leads from Lure to Montbéliard and which has been developed into a four-lane expressway in this area. Further road connections exist with Moffans, Lyoffans, Palante and Roye.