Autrechêne

Autrechêne is a town in the French department of Territoire de Belfort in the Franche -Comté. The municipality was created in 1973 by the merger of Eschêne - Autrage and Rechotte.

Geography

Autrechêne is located on 352 m, about nine miles southeast of the town of Belfort ( a straight line ). The village is located in the lowlands of the Burgundian Gate, on the northern edge of the wide valley of the Bourbeuse in which there is also the waterways of the Rhine- Rhone Canal, opposite Brebotte, on the southeastern edge of the plateau of Les Grands Bois.

The area of ​​2.96 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the weakly in relief landscape in the Burgundian Gate ( trouée de Belfort ). The southeastern border is always along the Bourbeuse, with the meanders meanders through a wide valley and provides drainage to Allaine. It receives inflow from the Praille and the Madeleine, which form the eastern boundary of the municipality Western respectively. From the Bourbeuse, the municipality's area extends north over the formerly swampy flood plain and a gently rising slope up to the adjacent plateau. This is an average of 360 m and is partly, partly covered with arable and meadow land with forest. Here the highest elevation of Autrechêne is achieved with 368 m. On the north west, the forest area Les Grands Bois.

The community Autrechêne is composed of the following districts:

• Eschêne ( 337 m) at the northern edge of the valley of the Bourbeuse
• Autrage (340 m ) in the valley of Bourbeuse
• Rechotte (352 m ) on the gently sloping northern flank of the Bourbeuse

Neighboring communities of Autrechêne are Novillard in the north, Montreux -Chateau and Brittany in the east, and Brebotte Froidefontaine in the south and Charmois in the West.

History

The first mention in writing Eschêne in 1105 under the name Quercubus in a deed of the priory Froidefontaine. Autrage and Rechotte (as Richemont ) find their first mention in the year 1345th middle of the 14th century came the villages under the suzerainty of the Habsburg dynasty. Together with the Sundgau they came with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the French crown. Since 1793, the villages were part of the Department of Haut -Rhin, however, remained in 1871 as part of the Territoire de Belfort as opposed to the rest of Alsace in France.

Since the time of the French Revolution Eschêne and Autrage formed the double municipality Eschêne - Autrage. This merged with effect on 1 January 1973 Rechotte the new church that bears the name of art Autrechêne.

Attractions

In the three villages there are several half-timbered houses from the 17th to the 19th century in the traditional style of the Sundgauvian.

Population

With 210 inhabitants (1999) Autrechêne one of the small communities of the department of Territoire de Belfort. After the population had decreased in the first half of the 20th century (1896 165 people were still counted ), a significant population increase has been recorded since the early 1970s again.

Economy and infrastructure

Autrechêne was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ) and the fish embossed village. Even today, the inhabitants live on the merits of the activity in the first sector. Outside of the primary sector, there are few jobs in the village. Many workers are also commuters who engage in the surrounding larger towns of their work.

The village is located off the major road links on a secondary road that leads from Belfort to Suarce. The nearest links to the A36 motorway is located at a distance of about ten kilometers. Further road links exist with Novillard and Charmois.