Moval
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| local community | Meroux-Moval | |
| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Territoire de Belfort | |
| Arrondissement | Belfort | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 35 ' N , 6 ° 53' E | |
| Post Code | 90400 | |
| Former INSEE code | 90073 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Moval is a village and a former French community with 441 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department de Belfort Territoire in the Region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
With effect from January 1, 2019, the former municipalities of Meroux and Moval were merged to form Commune nouvelle Meroux-Moval and have the status of a Commune déléguée there . The administrative headquarters are in Meroux.
geography
Moval is located at 354 m above sea level, about six kilometers south of the city of Belfort (as the crow flies). The village extends in the plains of the Burgundian Gate , in a hollow of the village stream east of the Savoureuse valley , on the northern edge of the Bois Gros Jean forest.
The area comprises a section of the landscape in the area of the Burgundian Gate (Trouée de Belfort) with only weak relief. The central part of the area is occupied by the Moval basin, which is drained by the Dorfbach to the west to the Savoureuse. This valley basin is flanked by a plateau that averages 370 m. It is partly covered with arable and meadow land, partly with forest. At 381 m, the highest point in Moval is reached in Bois Gros Jean. Part of the commune déléguée land south of the village belongs to the Fougerais arsenal.
history
Moval is mentioned for the first time in 1196 under the name Menuval . In the middle of the 14th century the village came under the sovereignty of the Habsburgs. Together with the Sundgau , Moval 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. In 1972 Moval was merged with Meroux to form the dual municipality of Meroux-Moval, but on January 1, 1997, it regained its independence as a municipality. Ecclesiastically, Moval belongs to Meroux. Since 2000, Moval was initially part of the Communauté d'Agglomération Belfortaine , which was merged into the Communauté d'agglomération Grand Belfort in 2017 .
population
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 63 |
| 1968 | 84 |
| 1975 | - |
| 1982 | - |
| 1990 | - |
| 1999 | 250 |
After the population in the first half of the 20th century had always been in the range between 50 and 100 people, a significant increase in population has been recorded since the beginning of the 1960s. Since then, the population has quadrupled.
Economy and Infrastructure
Moval was a village dominated by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and livestock) well into the 20th century. In addition, there are now some local small businesses. In the meantime the village has turned into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who do their work in the agglomerations of Belfort and Montbéliard .
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is on the main road N19, which leads from Belfort to Delle . With the opening of the expressway from the A36 motorway to Delle, the town center was relieved of through traffic. The closest connection to the A36 is around three kilometers away. There are other road connections with Trévenans and Meroux. Moval owned a station on the railway line from Belfort to Delle. The now closed line is to be reactivated with the opening of the Rhin-Rhône TGV line . Moval is connected to Belfort by a bus line.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Territoire de Belfort. Flohic Editions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-037-X , pp. 118-119.
