Saint-Amé
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Vosges | |
| Arrondissement | Epinal | |
| Canton | Remiremont | |
| Community association | Porte des Vosges Méridionales | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 2 ′ N , 6 ° 40 ′ E | |
| height | 385-773 m | |
| surface | 8.07 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,154 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 267 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 88120 | |
| INSEE code | 88409 | |
| Website | http://www.saint-ame.fr/ | |
 Mairie Saint-Amé |
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Saint-Amé is a French commune with 2,154 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Vosges department of the Grand Est region ( Lorraine until 2015 ). It is part of the Épinal arrondissement and the Porte des Vosges Méridionales municipal association .
geography
The municipality of Saint-Amé is located in the southwestern Vosges , about six kilometers east of the city of Remiremont .
In addition to sections of the Moselotte and Cleurie valleys, the municipality includes a part of the ridge west of the Cleurie valley, which reaches up to 773 meters above sea level. The eastern municipal boundary is the Cleurie, which flows into the Moselotte at the municipal boundary with Le Syndicat , which in turn defines the southern boundary of Saint-Amé. 482 hectares and thus more than half of the 8.07 km² community area are forested. These are parts of the large, contiguous forest of Forêt de Fossard located at a height of about 400 meters . In the valley areas on the Moselotte, arable farming (grain and fodder cultivation) predominates.
Together with the municipalities of Le Syndicat and Vagney , Saint-Amé forms an elongated, closed settlement pattern along the northern bank of the Moselotte.
Neighboring municipalities of Saint-Amé are Cleurie in the north, Le Syndicat in the east, Dommartin-lès-Remiremont in the southwest and Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont in the west.
history
The community was created by decree on November 12, 1789 from the hamlets and farms of Meyvillers, Autrive and La Nolle des Ban de moulin (mill ban) . This ban was part of the rule of the provosts of the Remiremont chapter and the abbesses of Remiremont. In 1594 the area of the Bann was part of the Bailliage of the Vosges and was under the provost of Arches , from 1751 Saint-Amé belonged to the Bailiwick of Remiremont. During the time of the French Revolution, the anti-religious national convention renamed the community La Nolle-sur-les-Sables .
The inhabitants were parish in the parish of today's district of Celles . The old parish church in Celles was demolished in 1727 and a new church was built on the territory of the neighboring parish of Le Syndicat .
The town hall with boys 'school ( Mairie -école) dates from 1848, a girls' school followed in 1869, and a first kindergarten in 1884.
For a long time, the livelihoods were agriculture, especially livestock farming as well as numerous granite quarries on the lower Cleurie and the Moselotte.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 | |
| Residents | 1553 | 1924 | 2101 | 2007 | 2033 | 2012 | 2111 | 2154 | |
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partnership
Saint-Amé has had a partnership with the Italian municipality of Schignano in the province of Como since 1988, which arose from many contacts between immigrants and their northern Italian home municipality.
Attractions
- Saint-Amé chapel dating from the 7th century; it goes back to Saint Amé (or Aimé), monk of the Abbey of Agaune and founder of the Remiremont monastery
Economy and Infrastructure
Today, Saint-Amé is a municipality with numerous craft and service businesses. The processors of granite, which is mined in nearby quarries, are outstanding. The largest commercial area is in the west of the municipality (Zone d'aménagement concerté Sous le Bois ). Agriculture today only plays a subordinate role; In the municipality there is still a full-time farm based.
The municipality of Saint-Amé is home to two primary schools ( Les Bruyères and Les Tilleuls ) and a kindergarten.
Saint-Amé is on Départementstrasse 417, which leads from Remiremont to Gérardmer and on over the Vosges ridge to Colmar in Alsace. Immediately east of Saint-Amé, Départementsstraße 43 branches off to Saulxures-sur-Moselotte and La Bresse and the Col d'Oderen . South of the Moselotte, the D 23 connects Saint-Amé with Vagney . The street name Rue de la Gare still reminds of the railway line from Remiremont to Cornimont , which was closed in 1992 .
supporting documents
- ↑ Entry on vosges-archives.com. (PDF; 24 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 16, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Saint-Amé on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Saint-Amé on insee.fr
