Raon-sur-Plaine
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | |
| Community association | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 31 ' N , 7 ° 6' E | |
| height | 405-744 m | |
| surface | 3.54 km 2 | |
| Residents | 146 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 41 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88110 | |
| INSEE code | 88373 | |
 Town hall and school building in Raon-sur-Plaine |
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Raon-sur-Plaine is a French commune with 146 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and the municipality of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges .
geography
The municipality of Raon-sur-Plaine is located in the upper Plaine Valley at an altitude of about 430 meters. The northernmost municipality of the department, together with the municipality of Raon-lès-Leau immediately to the northeast, is almost completely enclosed by the Bas-Rhin department (former Alsace region ). On the Alsatian side, three kilometers west of the municipality of Raon-sur-Plaine, rises the 1008-meter-high Donon , which marks the highest point in the northern Vosges .
Raon-sur-Plaine has an area of 353 hectares , of which more than 85% was forested before the storm Lothar moved through in 1999. The forest area around Raon is part of the Forêt des Bois Sauvages and consists mainly of conifers .
Neighboring communities of Raon-sur-Plaine are Raon-lès-Leau in the north, Grandfontaine in the east and south, Luvigny in the south-west and Bionville in the west.
history
The separation of the two immediately adjacent villages of Raon-sur-Plaine and Raon-lès-Leau by the course of the Plaine has its origins in the marriage of Christines zu Salm, who inherited half the principality of Salm , with Francis II , Count of Vaudémont .
The location of both villages on a "tongue", which is framed in the north, east and south by Alsatian territory, can be traced back to the Treaty of Frankfurt in May 1871. Raon-sur-Plaine and Raon-lès-Leau then initially belonged to the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . Through border adjustments, which mainly resulted in the Vosges ridge as a demarcation line, the villages came back to France, but at the price of leaving the 1,800 hectares of timber-rich surroundings in German Alsace. The German defeats in 1918 and 1945 changed nothing in the demarcation of the border, despite protests from the locals.
In Article 2 of the Treaty of Frankfurt, residents of the ceded territories were allowed to move to France. This led to a large flow of refugees who reached the Franco-German border via the Bruchetal and the Col du Donon and first arrived in Raon-sur-Plaine. For this reason, the memorial for war refugees and prisoners of war was erected in the village center.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 | ||
| 194 | 168 | 141 | 148 | 143 | 143 | 157 | 146 | ||
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Attractions
- Memorial to war refugees
- Saint-Mansuy church in neo-Gothic style from 1860
Economy and Infrastructure
Raon-sur-Plaine has a grocery store, a post office and two restaurants. A sawmill still works on an old water mill. There are three farms in the municipality (dairy, goat and sheep breeding). In addition, the rental of holiday homes is important.
The settlement of Raon-sur-Plaine essentially follows the former route nationale 392 , which leaves the Plaine Valley here and climbs towards Schirmeck (Alsace) to the 718 meter high Col du Donon .
supporting documents
- ↑ Raon-sur-Plaine on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Raon-sur-Plaine on insee.fr
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
