Les Voivres
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Epinal | |
| Canton | Le Val-d'Ajol | |
| Community association | Epinal | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 2 ' N , 6 ° 18' E | |
| height | 280-422 m | |
| surface | 12.81 km 2 | |
| Residents | 310 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88240 | |
| INSEE code | 88520 | |
 Mairie Les Voivres |
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Les Voivres is a French commune with 310 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Épinal and the municipal association Épinal .
geography
Les Voivres is located at an average altitude of 370 m above sea level, three kilometers north of Bains-les-Bains and 23 kilometers southwest of Épinal in southern Lorraine.
The community area of 12.8 km² borders in the west on the Côney , a tributary of the upper Saône ; the Canal des Vosges runs immediately west parallel to the Côney in a narrow valley. The Ruisseau Jeandin in the north and the Ruisseau de Bagnerot in the south-east form the boundaries of the communal area that extends over the Vôge plateau . In the west of the municipality, forest areas ( Bois la Chèvre, Le Faing Martin ) determine the landscape, in the rest of the area there is a mix of pastures, fields and smaller forest islands, of which the 100 hectare forest Le Grand Bois is to be emphasized.
The settlement structure of the municipality of Les Voivres is loose. In addition to a small village center with a church and a combined Mairie and school building, the residents are spread over numerous hamlets and individual farms. The hamlets named include La Grande Fosse, La Basse des Orges, Le Chaudiron, Le Ban Saint-Pierre, Le Beaulieu, Le Grand Bois and La Tranchée .
Neighboring municipalities of Les Voivres are La Chapelle-aux-Bois in the east and La Vôge-les-Bains in the south-west, west and north-west.
history
The place has been known under the name Les Voivres since 1711. There are several theories about the origin of the name. The historian Auguste Longnon assumes that the Latin vevra (for wasteland with bushes) was the inspiration; the name researcher Ernest Nègre also supports this interpretation in his work Toponymie générale de la France , referring to the French etymological dictionary by Walther von Wartburg refers. As with the place names Vabre and Vabres, the Romanists Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing see the Gallic vobero or vabero (for a hidden river) as the origin.
The area around Les Voivres has been populated for a very long time. At a bend in the Côney , there are traces of a Gallo-Roman settlement ( Le Pont-des-Fées ). In the Middle Ages, the area that is now the municipality of Les Voivres was part of the communal possessions of Bains-les-Bains .
Population development
After a long lasting downward trend due to a lack of job opportunities, the population of Les Voivres has stabilized again since the 1990s. This is due to an initiative by the municipality that bought and renovated old abandoned land and buildings and rented them cheaply to young families who were approached through advertisements in local newspapers. From the original minimal goal of avoiding the closure of the primary school in the community, over the years a nationally recognized and award-winning initiative emerged over the years, which, in addition to the relocation of families, also focused on economic development (new bakery, installation of a fish farm) .
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 | |
| Residents | 296 | 258 | 227 | 222 | 210 | 301 | 313 | 310 | |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
Attractions
- Church of St. Remigius ( Église Saint-Remy ) with an altar made of wood and stone, side altars, hexagonal pulpit, confessionals and wooden statues from the 18th century. Several objects are marked as Monument historique .
- Chapel of Good Hope ( Chapelle de Bonne-Espérance )
St. Remigius Church
Le Pont-des-Fées, remains of a Gallo-Roman settlement on a bend in the Côney
Chapel of Good Hope
Economy and Infrastructure
The residents of Les Voivres are mainly employed in agriculture, forestry and small service companies in the village or the surrounding area. The Zone d'Activités des Bouleaux is one of the two business parks of the Val de Vôge municipal association in Les Voivres. Nine farms are located in the municipality (vegetable growing, dairy farming, cattle breeding, fish farming).
The nature association L'eaudici has its seat in the municipality . Les Voivres is the location of a primary school and a kindergarten.
The municipality of Les Voivres is away from the national traffic flows. The D 434 ( Bains-les-Bains - Xertigny ) and the D 4 pass through the municipality of Les Voivres. The nearest train stations are in Bains-les-Bains and Xertigny on the Blainville-Damelevières-Lure railway line .
supporting documents
- ↑ Auguste Longnon: Les noms de lieu de la France: leur origine, leur signification, leurs transformations , Auguste Longnon, ed. Champion, Paris, 1920.
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France (3 vol. Droz 1990-1998, French etymological dictionary (Dictionnaire étymologique du français, DEF) n) XIV, p. 92a.
- ^ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing: Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France , Librairie Guénégaud 1979. p. 692.
- ^ Création de logements communaux pour l'accueil de nouvelles familles. (pdf; 119 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 17, 2008 ; Retrieved December 18, 2011 (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.
- ↑ Les Voivres on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Les Voivres on insee.fr
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
