Mirecourt

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Mirecourt
Mirecourt Coat of Arms
Mirecourt (France)
Mirecourt
region Grand Est
Department Vosges
Arrondissement Epinal
Canton Mirecourt (main town)
Community association Mirecourt Dompaire
Coordinates 48 ° 18 '  N , 6 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '  N , 6 ° 8'  E
height 261–378 m
surface 12.12 km 2
Residents 5,246 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 433 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 88500
INSEE code 88304
Website www.mirecourt.fr

Location of Mirecourt in the Vosges department

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Aerial view

Mirecourt is a French town with 5246 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 is the main town (chef-lieu) of the canton of Mirecourt .

geography

The small town of Mirecourt is located on the Madon , a tributary of the Moselle , about 50 km south of Nancy near the French A31 motorway ( Beaune - Luxembourg ).

Neighboring municipalities of Mirecourt are Poussay and Mazirot in the north, Villers in the east, Vroville in the southeast, Mattaincourt in the south, Domèvre-sous-Montfort and Remicourt in the southwest, Thiraucourt in the west and Domvallier and Ramecourt in the northwest.

history

The Latin spelling Mercurii curtis , which emerged in the 18th century, is said to indicate a Roman cult site of Mercury , but there is no evidence for this. Instead, Mirecourt was named after a landowner named Muricus . The place was first mentioned in a document dated June 13, 960, in which King Otto I of Bouxières Abbey confirmed: "Urso donated a piece of land in the Muricus estate " ( Urso dedit praedium in Murici curte ). Later the area belonged to the domain of the Counts of Toul . From 1284 Mirecourt belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine until it fell to France in 1766 after the death of Stanislaus I. Leszczyński according to the Peace Treaty of Vienna .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 8572 8804 8649 7940 6900 6384 5956 5246

economy

  • Regional business parks with 400 companies
  • Epinal-Mirecourt Airport
  • Wood processing
  • The clappers of tips has a long tradition here.
  • The area has been a center for violin making since the 17th century. In 1970 the well-known violin maker Étienne Vatelot founded a school for budding violin makers here , and the École Nationale de Lutherie is in Mirecourt .
  • The department's psychiatric center ( Center hospitalier spécialisé de Ravenel ) is the largest employer in the city with around 1000 employees.

Attractions

Oultre Chapel
  • Old town
  • Violin making museum "Musée de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie Françaises"
  • Museum of mechanical musical instruments "Maison de la Musique Mécanique"
  • Hospital chapel
  • Saint Vincent Chapel
  • Oultre Chapel
  • Nativité-de-Notre-Dame church ( Church of the Nativity )

Town twinning

There has been a town partnership with Bonn-Beuel since 1969 . The starting point was the bell “St. Michael ”, which was moved from the Schwarzrheindorf district of Beuel to Mirecourt during Napoleon's time . It was returned by Mirecourt in the 1960s, for which the city received a new bell as a donation from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Mirecourt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Henri Bautier: Les origines de l'Abbaye de Bouxières-aux-Dames au diocèse de Toul. Nancy 1987, 97.