Montreux-Château
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Territoire de Belfort | |
| Arrondissement | Belfort | |
| Canton | Grandvillars | |
| Community association | Grand Belfort | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 ' N , 7 ° 0' E | |
| height | 336-366 m | |
| surface | 4.66 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,181 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 253 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 90130 | |
| INSEE code | 90071 | |
 Montreux-Château town hall |
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Montreux-Château (German earlier Münsterol the castle and castle-Münsterol ) is a French commune in the department Territoire de Belfort in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Montreux-Château is 340 m above sea level, about twelve kilometers east-southeast of the city of Belfort (as the crow flies). The village extends in the plains of the Burgundian Gate , in the wide valley level of the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas , into which the Suarcine flows, north of the waterway of the Rhine-Rhône Canal .
The area of the 4.66 km² municipal area comprises a section of the landscape in the area of the Burgundian Gate (Trouée de Belfort) with only weak relief. The area is bordered in the east and south by the approximately one kilometer wide valley floor of the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas, which provides drainage to the Allaine . The Suarcine flows south of the village from the left. In the valley floor is the waterway of the Rhine-Rhône Canal, which at Montreux-Château overcomes the difference in altitude with a lock. From the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas, the community area extends northwest over the floodplain to the adjacent plateau, which is only around 10 to 15 m higher than the valley floor. It is mostly covered with arable and meadow land. At 366 m, the highest point in Montreux-Château is reached on the northern municipal boundary. The western boundary runs in the valley basin of the Madeleine, a right tributary of the Ruisseau de Saint-Nicolas.
Neighboring municipalities of Montreux-Château are Cunelières in the north, Montreux-Vieux and Montreux-Jeune in the east, Brittany and Autrechêne in the south and Novillard and Petit-Croix in the west.
history
At the beginning of the 12th century, the Counts of Pfirt had Montreux Castle built. The surrounding villages of Bretagne, Chavannes-les-Grands, Chavannes-sur-l'Étang, Cunelières, Fontaine, Lutran, Magny, Montreux-Jeune, Montreux-Vieux, Romagny and Valdieu belonged to the dominion of Montreux. Through purchase, the rule came under the sovereignty of the Habsburgs in 1350. After the Montreux family died out around 1560, rule fell to the Reinach family, who moved the headquarters to Foussemagne. Together with the Sundgau , Montreux came to the French crown with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
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. With this demarcation, the three Montreux were politically and administratively separated: Montreux-Château was henceforth part of the Territoire de Belfort, while Montreux-Vieux and Montreux-Jeune remained in Alsace (Haut-Rhin). From 1999 to 2013, Montreux-Château was the administrative seat of the Communauté de communes du Bassin de la Bourbeuse , which was merged into the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort in 2017 .
Attractions
The Notre-Dame de la Paix church, in the style of modern architecture, was inaugurated on August 30, 1953. The grave slabs of the Reinach family can be found in the Sainte-Catherine chapel, which was built in the 16th century.
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Montreux-Château
Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix church
Parish hall
Lock on the Rhine-Rhône Canal
population
| year | Residents |
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| 1962 | 917 |
| 1968 | 891 |
| 1975 | 942 |
| 1982 | 1018 |
| 1990 | 927 |
| 1999 | 971 |
| 2016 | 1181 |
With 1181 inhabitants (January 1, 2017), Montreux-Château is one of the smaller municipalities in the Territoire de Belfort. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (in 1911 there were still 1317 people counted), various fluctuations have been recorded since the early 1960s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Montreux-Château was a village dominated by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding). In addition, there are now various small and medium-sized businesses, including a construction company. In the meantime the village has turned into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who go to work in the larger towns in the area and in the Belfort agglomeration. Montreux-Château is the location of a college.
The village is located off the main road connections on a department road that leads from Delle to Fontaine . The next connection to the Autoroute A 36 is about ten kilometers away. There are other road links with Montreux-Vieux, Petit-Croix and Chavannes-les-Grands. Montreux-Château has a train station on the railway line from Mulhouse to Belfort.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X , p. 156.
