Padoux
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Epinal | |
| Canton | Bruyères | |
| Community association | Epinal | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 17 ' N , 6 ° 34' E | |
| height | 296-366 m | |
| surface | 19.35 km 2 | |
| Residents | 514 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 27 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88700 | |
| INSEE code | 88340 | |
 Town hall and school building in Padoux |
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Padoux is a French commune with 514 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region ( Lorraine until 2015 ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Épinal and the Épinal municipal association, founded in 2017 . The inhabitants call themselves Padoselliens .
geography
location
Padoux is located about nine kilometers southwest of Rambervillers and about 17 kilometers northeast of the departmental capital Épinal in gently undulating terrain between the river valleys of the Moselle and Mortagne .
Neighboring municipalities of Padoux are Moyemont and Romont in the north, Bult in the northeast, Destord in the east, Girecourt-sur-Durbion in the southeast, Dompierre in the south, Sercœur and Villoncourt in the southwest and Badménil-aux-Bois in the northwest.
topography
Half of the 19.35 km² communal area is communal forest ( Forêt de Padoux ). This forest area is only a small part of the 100 km² Forêt de Rambervillers . The Padozel , a left tributary of the Mortagne, has its source in Padoux . The terrain is only slightly embossed; only in the wooded northwest there are heights of more than 300 m above sea level. At 366 m, the highest point in the municipality is reached here in the Haut de Bransémont .
history
The village of Padoux (former spellings: Padua, Padoz ), like the neighboring villages of Pierrepont, Sainte-Hélène and Bult, was owned by the chapter of Saint-Dié . The rights then passed through marriage to a branch of the chapter in the more centrally located village of Destord .
In the 17th century several lordships shared estates in Padoux, Bult and Vomécourt: the chapter of Saint Die, the provost of Epinal, and the lords of Parroy and Lenoncourt . Between 1594 and 1710 Padoux was part of the Bailiwick of the Vosges, from 1751 part of the Bailiwick of Châtel . With the formation of the municipalities, Padoux first came to the canton of Rambervillers in 1793 .
Ecclesiastically, Padoux was initially a branch of the parish in Deyvillers , with two thirds of the tithe going to the Saint-Arnould Abbey in Metz . Padoux only received its own parish in 1848 with the construction of the Sainte-Libaire church. The town hall and school building was built in 1880. Around 1710 the village had 61 inhabitants, while in 1866 the population reached its peak with 812 inhabitants.
In 1940 the French novelist, playwright, philosopher and publicist Jean-Paul Sartre was captured by the Germans in Padoux.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 | |
| Residents | 393 | 383 | 376 | 397 | 429 | 435 | 446 | 514 | |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
Attractions
- Church of Sainte-Libaire, built from 1847 to 1850 in neo-Gothic style, with a church organ by Jean-Nicolas Jeanpierre from 1851 to 1853
- Lavoir (wash house)
- Fountain and crossroads
Gargoyles on the church
presbytery
Fire station
former girls' school
Economy and Infrastructure
Eight farms are located in the municipality of Padoux (cereal growing, dairy farming, gardening).
Padoux is on the trunk road that connects Épinal in the Moselle valley with Rambervillers and Baccarat . Other road connections lead from Padoux to Bult , Destord , Girecourt-sur-Durbion , Dompierre and Badménil-aux-Bois . The next connection to the motorway-like N57 is about 15 kilometers away.
supporting documents
- ↑ Padoux on vosges-archives.com ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF 200 kB); French; accessed on August 1, 2015
- ↑ Padoux on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Padoux on insee.fr
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
