Thulay
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Doubs | |
| Arrondissement | Montbeliard | |
| Canton | Maîche | |
| Community association | Pays de Montbéliard agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 25 ' N , 6 ° 52' E | |
| height | 394-541 m | |
| surface | 2.23 km 2 | |
| Residents | 218 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 98 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 25310 | |
| INSEE code | 25562 | |
Thulay is a French municipality with 218 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Thulay is located at 505 m, about eleven kilometers south-southeast of the city of Montbéliard (as the crow flies). The village extends in the northern Jura , on a foothill of the Blamont Table Jura plateau , west of the Gland valley section .
The area of the 2.23 km² large municipality covers a section of the northern French Jura. The main part of the area is taken up by a broad ridge that gradually rises towards the southwest to the high plateau of Blamont. At 541 m, the highest point in Thulay is reached at the edge of the forest above the village. This height is flanked in the west by a valley basin that extends down to Seloncourt, but does not show any surface flowing water, and in the east by the valley cut of the Gland and its short side valleys. To the north, the community area extends over the predominantly wooded ridge to the Mouterot .
Neighboring municipalities of Thulay are Seloncourt in the north, Hérimoncourt in the east, Roches-lès-Blamont in the south and Bondeval in the west.
history
Thulay is first mentioned in a document in 1170. It formed an outer courtyard of the Belchamp monastery . Thulay has belonged to the Blamont rule since the Middle Ages. After the village came under the sovereignty of the Counts of Montbéliard in 1506, the Reformation was introduced. As part of the Blamont dominion, which formed one of the four dominions of the Principality of Montbéliard and was annexed by France in 1699, Thulay finally came under contract to France in 1748. Today the village belongs to the municipality of the Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération .
population
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| 1962 | 93 |
| 1968 | 95 |
| 1975 | 105 |
| 1982 | 119 |
| 1990 | 140 |
| 1999 | 172 |
| 2016 | 219 |
With 218 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) Thulay is one of the small communities in the Doubs department. After the population had decreased in the first half of the 20th century (133 people were still counted in 1911), a significant increase in population has been recorded again since the beginning of the 1970s. Since then the number of inhabitants has doubled.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until well into the 20th century, Thulay was primarily a village characterized by agriculture (arable farming, fruit growing and cattle breeding) and forestry. In addition, there are now some local small businesses. In the meantime, the village has turned into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many workers are therefore commuters who do their work in the Montbéliard agglomeration.
The village is located off the main thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Hérimoncourt to Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans . The closest connection to the A36 motorway is around 13 kilometers away.
