Beaumotte-Aubertans

Beaumotte - Aubertans is a commune in Haute -Saône in the Franche -Comté.

Geography

Beaumotte - Aubertans situated at an altitude of 240 m above sea level, 8 km southwest of Montbozon and about 22 km south of the town of Vesoul (air line). The double municipality extends to the south of the department on the northern edge of the valley of Ognon, on the southern edge of the woods to the Grands Bois.

The area of ​​13:57 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the middle Ognon Valley. The southern boundary runs along the Ognon. This here flows with large meanders through about one kilometer wide alluvial plain, which is on average 230 m. From the plane, the municipality's area extends northward over a steep slope on the adjacent plateau, which is mainly consisted of arable and meadow land and is divided by the valley of the village of Bach's Beaumotte. Further north, the hills covered by extensive forests of the Grands Bois follow ( to 302 m), the Bois du Grand Bief and the Bois de Bellevaux, in the 328 m with the highest elevation of Beaumotte - Aubertans is achieved. This plateau consists of limestone of the Upper Jurassic time. North of the Grands Bois is the basin of Aubertans, which is crossed by the Quenoche, a tributary of the Linotte. In the north, the area extends into the Bois Lajus.

The double municipality consists of the following districts:

• Beaumotte (240 m ) at the edge of the valley of Ognon
• Aubertans (260 m) in the valley widening the Quenoche north of the Grands Bois
• Le Magny (262 m) on the plateau on the eastern edge of the Bois de Bellevaux

Neighboring communities of Beaumotte - Aubertans are Authoison and Villers- Father in the north, Loulans - Verchamp and Cenans in the east, Germondans, Blarians, La Barre and Vandelans in the south and Cirey and Ruhans in the West.

History

A church to Beaumotte is mentioned as early as 1120. She was under the cloister of Saint -Paul in Besançon. In the Middle Ages Beaumotte and Aubertans belonged to the Free County of Burgundy and in the territory of the Bailliage d' amont. Together with the Franche -Comté reached both villages with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 definitively to France. In the 17th century was largely depopulated Beaumotte before it was settled by refugees from Savoy again. Early on, sat down at the Ognon trade down, which was dependent on hydropower. Of regional importance was the forge, which was converted mid-19th century in a wire drawing.

To a field change occurred in 1807, when the previously independent Magny -les- Cirey (1806: 149 inhabitants) was incorporated into Beaumotte. To distinguish Beaumotte -lès- Pin the community since the 19th century bore the name Beaumotte -lès- Montbozon. 1972 merged municipalities Beaumotte -lès- Montbozon and Aubertans (1968: 94 inhabitants) to the new community Beaumotte -lès- Montbozon -et- Aubertans. The church name was changed to Beaumotte - Aubertans 1977. Since 2000 Beaumotte - Aubertans is a member of the comprehensive 21 villages municipal association Communauté de communes du Pays de Montbozon.

Attractions

The Church of Beaumotte which has no tower was rebuilt in the 19th century. For the rich interior includes an altar and a pulpit from the 18th century as well as remarkable statues of the Virgin and St. John from the 15th and 16th centuries. Additional area attractions include the Cave of Beaumotte which covered Fontaine- Lavoir in Beaumotte, as well as in Aubertans the church and some houses in the characteristic style of the Haute -Saône of the 18th century.

Population

With 383 inhabitants ( 1999) belongs Beaumotte - Aubertans to the small towns in the Haute- Saône. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1891 496 persons were still counted ), a continuous population growth was recorded since the mid-1970s again.

Economy and infrastructure

Beaumotte - Aubertans was early one industrially defined community. Today, based in Beaumotte an electronic business and operation of the sheet metal fabrication. In addition, there are several establishments of local small businesses. Thanks to the great community area to agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ) and forestry play a certain role. However, many of the working population commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.

The village is situated away from the larger passage axes on a secondary road that leads from Loulans - Verchamps after Cirey. Further road links exist with Traitiéfontaine, Quenoche, Authoison, Germondans and La Barre.

Authoison | La Barre | Beaumotte - Aubertans | Besnans | Bouhans -lès- Montbozon | Cenans | Chassey -lès- Montbozon | Cognières | Dampierre -sur- Linotte | Échenoz -le -Sec | Filain | Fontenois -lès- Montbozon | Larians -et - Munans | Loulans - Verchamp | Le Magnoray | Maussans | Montbozon | Ormenans | Roche- sur- Linotte -et- Sorans -les- Cordiers | Ruhans | Thief Frans | Thiénans | Vellefaux | Villers- Father | Vy- lès- Filain

• Commune in the department of Haute- Saône
• Place in Franche -Comté