Gironcourt-sur-Vraine
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Neufchâteau | |
| Canton | Mirecourt | |
| Community association | Ouest Vosgien | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 19 ′ N , 5 ° 56 ′ E | |
| height | 311-378 m | |
| surface | 7.51 km 2 | |
| Residents | 927 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 123 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88170 | |
| INSEE code | 88206 | |
 Mairie Gironcourt-sur-Vraine |
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Gironcourt-sur-Vraine is a French commune with 927 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the Arrondissement Neufchâteau and the municipality association Ouest Vosgien .
geography
The municipality of Gironcourt-sur-Vraine is located at about 320 meters above sea level in the south of Lorraine, halfway between Neufchâteau and Mirecourt , and about 45 kilometers south of Toul . The village extends in the transition area between the Bassigny as part of the plateau of Langres and the Xaintois .
The area of the seven and a half square kilometers large municipal area comprises a section of the gently undulating landscape in the area of the Vair tributary Vraine . The village is surrounded by the Vraine in a large curve to the east, in the northwest the Vernoue flows into the Vraine coming from the southeast. The municipality has an approximately 1500 hectare portion of the Bois de la Voivre forest in the south. Over half of the community area is used for agriculture.
Neighboring municipalities of Gironcourt-sur-Vraine are Morelmaison in the north, Biécourt in the northeast, Ménil-en-Xaintois in the east, Saint-vielle in the southeast, Dombrot-sur-Vair in the south and Houécourt in the west.
history
Gironcourt belonged before the French Revolution to the Bailiwick of Neufchateau .
In 1903 the suffix -sur-Vraine ( an der Vraine ) was introduced, probably to distinguish it more clearly from the south-east Girancourt in correspondence .
The history of the community has been inextricably linked to glass production since the beginning of the 20th century, which fundamentally changed the face of the former farming village. A group of industrialists from Nancy and the Vosges region, led by Jean Bouloumié , the long-time director of the spa town of Vittel and owner of the mineral springs, decided in 1901 to set up a glass bottle factory. Gironcourt was chosen as the location. The reasons were close to the quartz sand and coal deposits of Saint-Menge and Gemmelaincourt immediately south of Gironcourt, the proximity to the mineral springs of Vittel and Contrexéville and the location on the railway line from Neufchâteau to Épinal, which was opened in 1878 .
In 1903, 600 glass bottles were blown daily in each of the three ovens. For the workers who were initially recruited from northern Alsace and the Loire region, houses were built directly east of the factory and south of the marshalling yard. The workers' settlement was expanded again and again in later decades and thus grew together with the old village of Gironcourt. Between 1904 and 1930, new machines were purchased and production capacity expanded. In 1930, 47 million bottles were already being produced; at that time the company had 710 employees. Production collapsed during the Great Depression (26 million bottles in 1933). In June 1940 the plant was hit by Italian bombs and stood still until a furnace was able to go back into operation in January 1941.
After the end of the Second World War, the company went through a profound technological change. Thanks to new machines with a high degree of automation, it was possible to increase production to 100 million bottles in 1956, to 175 million in 1963 and to 460 million in 1968. A fourth glass furnace built in 1972 with a capacity of 200 tons of glass or 700,000 bottles per day was the largest in Europe at the time. The enormous increase was mainly due to the expansion and the high demand for beer bottles from the Kronenbourg brewery group .
In 1999 the company left the BSN - Danone group and merged with BSN Glasspack , which had 19 companies . BSN Glasspack was acquired in 2004 by Owens-Illinois , the world's largest glass container manufacturer. In 2010 around 450 people worked in the glassworks, the annual output was over 2 billion bottles (25 and 33 cl content).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 | |
| Residents | 863 | 1043 | 1136 | 1137 | 970 | 931 | 972 | 955 | |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
Attractions
- Church of St. Brictius ( Saint-Brice ) from the 18th century; the inventory includes two small statues from the 13th and 15th centuries, which are classified as monument historique
- two lavoirs
- Sundial at the new town hall
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture plays a minor role in Gironcourt today. Four farms are still located in the municipality (grain cultivation, dairy farming, cattle breeding).
The largest local employer is the OI-Glaswerk with its own rail connection to Neufchâteau station, 27 kilometers away .
Gironcourt-sur-Vraine is a kindergarten and primary school location.
The partly two-lane and crossing-free D 166 from Épinal to Neufchâteau bypasses the municipality of Gironcourt in the south. It crosses the A31 autoroute ( Toul - Dijon ) west of Houécourt . The motorway junction set up here is one of three connections in the Vosges department and an important regional transport hub. The railway line from Neufchâteau via Gironcourt to Épinal was shut down in 1989. The freight traffic on the 27-kilometer section from the Gironcourt glassworks to Neufchâteau is operated by SNCF .
supporting documents
- ↑ History of the glass factory on gironcourt.net. Retrieved July 3, 2011 (author :, luc, chaumont, french).
- ↑ Gironcourt-sur-Vraine on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Gironcourt-sur-Vraine on insee.fr
- ↑ Entry on culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved July 3, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Entry on culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved July 3, 2011 (French).
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
