Mortagne (Vosges)

Mortagne
region	Grand Est
Department	Vosges
Arrondissement	Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Canton	Bruyères
Community association	Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Coordinates	48 ° 16 ' N , 6 ° 45' E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ' N , 6 ° 45' E
height	341-654 m
surface	22.20 km 2
Residents	170 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	8 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	88600
INSEE code	88315
Website	http://www.mortagne88.fr/
	; Mairie Mortagne

Mortagne is a French commune with 170 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the Vosges department in north-eastern France.

It shares the name with the eponymous river , which flows along the southern boundary of the district.

geography

The municipality is spread over the undulating foothills of the Vosges over various hamlets, the most important of which are l'Orme, Bout du Dessus, Bout du Milieu and Bout du Dessous. The small river Mossoux , a tributary to the right of the Mortagne, flows through the municipality . Much of the valley here remains wild and uncultivated: The last farm on the way to the forest is called The End of the World .

Mortagne extends over 2,222 hectares of land, most of it is forest, there are only 280 hectares of arable land and 100 hectares of meadows.

Neighboring communities

Mortagne borders in the north on the commune of Autrey and La Bourgonce , in the east on Saint-Michel-sur-Meurthe and Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , in the south-east on the commune of Taintrux , in the south on Bois-de-Champ and Les Rouges- Eaux , and to the west at Brouvelieures and Fremifontaine .

history

The oldest document related to the community dates from 1578 and refers to a common pasture.

Mortagne Church was built in 1840 and completed in 1843; it is consecrated to Saint Matthias . The school building dates from 1842.

etymology

The name "Mortagne" in the Vosges department probably comes from the Celtic name of the river. Earlier spellings were Mortesna , Mortennam and a patois version, Moutone , with the word meaning hill, mound of earth or eminence.

So the name is derived quite differently from other places with the name Mortagne ; there the name is attributed to Roman origin and refers to " Mauritania " or more precisely to a camp of a Moorish regiment during the last centuries of the Roman Empire . But excavations near Mortagne in 1823 also revealed the existence of a stationary Roman camp.

For a time, from 1831 to 1836, Mortagne and the neighboring village of Les Rouges-Eaux were merged on royal orders.

Demographic data

The population development can be read from the censuses since 1793. Since the early 2000s, the population of the municipalities has been published annually, with a full census taking place every five years.

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2014
Residents	177	146	118	112	119	151	164	160

Saint-Mathieu church

Web links

Commons : Mortagne - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Association d'Étude pour la Coordination des Activités Musicales (ASSECARM): Orgues Lorraine Vosges . Ed .: Editions Serpenoise. Metz 1991, ISBN 2-87692-093-X , pp. 401-402 (677 pp.).
^ History of Mortagne (French)

[1] Association d'Étude pour la Coordination des Activités Musicales (ASSECARM): Orgues Lorraine Vosges . Ed .: Editions Serpenoise. Metz 1991, ISBN 2-87692-093-X , pp. 401-402 (677 pp.).

[2] History of Mortagne (French)