Offroicourt

Offroicourt
region	Grand Est
Department	Vosges
Arrondissement	Neufchâteau
Canton	Vittel
Community association	Terre d'Eau
Coordinates	48 ° 19 ′ N , 6 ° 2 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ N , 6 ° 2 ′ E
height	293-402 m
surface	9.33 km 2
Residents	152 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	16 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	88500
INSEE code	88335
	; Mairie Offroicourt

Offroicourt is a French commune with 152 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in Grand Est ( Lorraine until 2015 ). It is part of the Neufchâteau arrondissement and the Terre d'Eau community association founded in 2017 . The residents call themselves Offroicuriens .

geography

The municipality of Offroicourt is located on the southern edge of the Xaintois landscape , about 40 kilometers northwest of Épinal . The area around Offroicourt is characterized by hills and the wide floodplain of the Val d'Arol , a left tributary of the Madon . In the northwest, the municipality has larger shares in the forests of Bois de la Haye and Bois Pransieux , further forest areas are in the southeast ( Bois de la Malhaye ) of the municipality. The two striking hilltops Haut de Beaumont ( 364 m ) and Haut de Roussel ( 353 m ), some of which are covered with vines, are characteristic of the surrounding area . The highest point in the municipality is a nameless elevation 402 m above sea level in the far west. The Ruisseau de la Blanche flows through the village of Offroicourt, which flows over the Val d'Arol and the Madon to the Moselle and belongs to the catchment area of the Rhine , while the Ruisseau du Puits de Haye in the northwest of the municipality is part of the catchment area of the Meuse .

Offroicourt's neighboring communities are Rouvres-en-Xaintois in the north, Remicourt in the east, Estrennes in the south, Viviers-lès-Offroicourt in the southwest, Gemmelaincourt in the west and Ménil-en-Xaintois in the northwest.

history

The name Offroicourt is made up of the Germanic personal name Alfred / Olfred and the Latin suffix cortem for yard or field .

The place name Olfrodecurte has been handed down from the 10th century . Other spellings were Offroicort (1204), Offroicore (1208), Offreicort (1233), Offricourt (1255), Offroicour (1298), Offracourt (1322), Juxta Offroicuriam (1402), Offraucourt (1478) and Hoffroicour (1656). During the Ancien Régime , Offroicourt was the capital of a barony . Nothing is left of the Sommièvre family's castle, built in 1515 . Only one street, the rue du château , still reminds of the manor's existence. In 1594 the village belonged to the Bailiwick of the Vosges. The provosts of Mirecourt and Remoncourt also had properties in Offroicourt. In 1751 the village was part of the Bailiwick of Mirecourt, from whose territory the canton Rouvres-en-Xaintois also formed in 1790, to which Offroicourt belonged until 1801. In the past, Offroicourt was an annex to the parish of Saint-Martin-sous-Montfort. The later separate parish belonged to the diocese of Toul and to the deanery of Porsas. The town hall and school building were built in 1830 (restored in 1880). In 1854 a Chiolera epidemic claimed 33 victims out of a population of 500. Heavy rain and subsequent floods in 1839 and 1873 led to the destruction of the stone bridges.

Population development

Offroicourt had more than 400 inhabitants until the second half of the 19th century.

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2017
Residents	152	137	129	149	146	121	154	152
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Church of the Assumption

The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady ( Église de l'Assomption-de-Notre-Dame ) from the 15th century consists of a pentagonal choir - as an extension a single-nave castle chapel (some tombstones bear the year 1525) with a tower on a veranda. The nave was rebuilt in 1739 at the expense of the Remiremont chapter above the previous building. In the church there are some statues worth seeing from the period between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture still plays a role in Offroicourt and the surrounding area. There are six farms in the municipality (dairy, goat and sheep breeding). Some residents are commuters to the industrial estates of the nearby towns of Vittel and Mirecourt .

The partly two-lane expressway D 166 from Épinal via Mirecourt to Neufchâteau runs five kilometers north of Offroicourt. There are also road connections to the neighboring communities of Remicourt and Viviers-lès-Offroicourt.