Saint-Hippolyte (Doubs)

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Saint-Hippolyte
Coat of arms of Saint-Hippolyte
Saint-Hippolyte (France)
Saint-Hippolyte
region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department Doubs
Arrondissement Montbeliard
Canton Maîche
Community association Pays de Maîche
Coordinates 47 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E
height 360-760 m
surface 11.01 km 2
Residents 898 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 82 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 25190
INSEE code 25519
Website www.ville-saint-hippolyte.fr

City Hall ( Hôtel de ville )
Side altar in the church with a shrine in which the Turin shroud was kept from 1418 to 1452

Saint-Hippolyte is a French municipality with 898 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté . The place is at the confluence of the Dessoubre river in the Doubs .

geography

The border with Switzerland ( Canton Jura ) is about six kilometers northeast of the municipality. Morteau is 35 kilometers southwest of Saint-Hippolyte . Downstream, i.e. to the north, the urban area around Montbéliard begins after about ten kilometers .

history

Long ago people settled at the confluence of the two rivers Doubs and Dessoubre, which come from the Jura . The strategic importance of the place only grew in the 11th century with the construction of walls.

Count Johann II had a collegiate church built at the beginning of the 14th century . The Turin shroud was kept here for 34 years, from 1418 to 1452, which is documented (document of July 6, 1418 signed by Canons von Lirey and Count Humbert la Roche from the Faucogney family ). In 1452 it came into the hands of Duke Louis of Savoy and his wife Anna of Cyprus and thus to Chambéry . In 1532 there was a fire in the castle chapel of Chambéry, which the cloth survived with still visible burn marks. When the Dukes of Savoy moved their residence to Turin in 1578 , the cloth came to Turin, where it is still kept today.

Anne de Xainctonge founded the Society of St. Ursula of Anne de Xainctonge , a Catholic women's order in Dole in 1606 .

Saint-Hippolyte has belonged to France since one of the Treaties of the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678.

After the French Revolution , Saint-Hippolyte was named Doubs-Marat and Hippolyte, among others . The place received the prefix Saint- between 1799 and 1816. In the course of the 19th century tanneries , mills , forges and spinning mills were built .

= Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2016
Residents 1244 1277 1216 1179 1128 1045 1045 904
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

  • On the banks of the Doubs

  • Town center

  • Rue de Sainte-Ursanne

  • Notre-Dame-du-Mont chapel

  • Interior view of the Notre-Dame-du-Mont chapel

  • The church

  • former pen

  • Bridge over the Doubs, 2009

  • lower bridge

Partner municipality

There are partnerships with the municipality of the same name in Alsace .

Personalities

  • Jacques Courtois (1621–1675), French-Italian battle and history painter, later Jesuit
  • Guillaume Courtois (1628–1679), French-Italian painter and engraver, brother of Jacques Courtois

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Doubs. Volume 2, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-087-6 , pp. 1261-1266.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Hippolyte  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: S. Ipolite in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saint-Hippolyte on the Insee website