Roches-lès-Blamont

Roches- lès- Blamont is a commune in the French department Doubs in the Franche -Comté.

Geography

Roches- lès- Blamont is located on 549 m, ​​about 12 km south of the town of Montbéliard (air line). The village is located in the northern Jura, at the edge of the plateau of the Jura Plateau north of the Lomont above the valley section of the Combe de Vau.

The area of ​​5.44 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the northern French Jura. The main part of the territory occupied by the slightly corrugated board Jura plateau consisting of Sequan and Kimmeridgekalken, which is on average 540 m. With 573 m is reached on the hill north of the village is the highest elevation of Roches- lès- Blamont. The plateau is mainly consisted of arable and meadow land. There are no surface watercourses, because the rainwater seeps into the karst underground. The western boundary runs above the slope, which leads on to the valley system of the Combe de Noye.

The eastern part of the municipality comprises more than 100 m deep cut into the high valley areas of the Combe de Vau and their short side valleys. Below Roches- lès- Blamont the steep slope is crowned by a resistant rock band that gave the place its name. The Combe is drained east to England. Is flanked to the south of the valley cut by the Bois de Châtel, in the north of the Bois de la Lochière. To the north- east, the municipality area extends into the wooded area of Sévralon where another tributary of England begins.

At Roches- lès- Blamont addition to the actual site include several hamlets and isolated farms:

• Champs Vanny ( 558 m) on the plateau of Blamont
• It Combe Benoit (550 m) on the plateau of Blamont

Neighboring communities of Roches- lès- Blamont are Bondeval and Thulay in the north, Hérimoncourt, Meslières and Glay in the east, the south and Blamont Autechaux -Roide and Écurcey in the West.

History

The territory of Roches- lès- Blamont was inhabited very early. During excavations traces of a settlement site were found, which was used from the Middle Neolithic to the early Bronze Age.

Roches is first mentioned in the year 1040, when the Archbishop of Besançon Abbey Baume- les -Dames, leaving 14 Churches in the Ajoie. Since the Middle Ages Roches formed its own government, which came to rule Blamont the late 13th century. The local noble family became extinct 1474th After the village had come in 1506 under the suzerainty of the Counts of Montbéliard, the Reformation was introduced. As part of the rule Blamont, which formed one of the four gentlemen of the Principality of Montbéliard and was annexed in 1699 by France, Roche's 1748 contract came finally to France. To avoid confusion with other communities of the same name, Roches was officially renamed in 1961 in Roches- lès- Blamont. Today, the village belongs to the municipality of Communauté de communes Association des Balcons du Lomont.

Attractions

The Reformed Church of Roches- lès- Blamont was built in the 19th century. In the old town several farmhouses are preserved in the characteristic style of the Franche -Comté from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Population

With 624 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) Roches- lès- Blamont is one of the small communities of the department of Doubs. After the population had decreased in the first half of the 20th century (1901 408 persons were still counted ), a striking population growth was recorded since the early 1970s. Since then, the population has more than doubled.

Economy and infrastructure

Roches- lès- Blamont was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ) embossed village. In addition, there are today some of the local small business enterprises. Meanwhile, the village has changed thanks to its attractive location into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who do their work in the agglomeration Montbéliard.

The village is located off the major thoroughfares on a secondary road, leading from Audi Court after Blamont. The nearest links to the A36 motorway is located at a distance of about 13 km. Further road links exist with Hérimoncourt, Meslières and Autechaux -Roide.