Gironcourt-sur-Vraine
Gironcourt -sur- Vraine is a commune with 977 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Vosges in the Lorraine region. It belongs to the district Neufchâteau, for Canton Châtenois and founded in 1994, Local Government Association, Pays de Châtenois.
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Geography
The community Gironcourt -sur- Vraine lies at about 320 meters above sea level in the south of Lorraine, halfway between Neufchâteau and Mirecourt, more widely seen about 45 kilometers south of Toul. The village is located in the transition zone between the Bassigny as part of the plateau of Langres and the Xaintois.
The area of seven and a half square kilometers of the municipal area includes a portion of the gently undulating landscape in the area of Vair Creek Vraine. The village is circled east of the Vraine in a large arc, in the northwest of the Vernoue southeast flows coming into the Vraine. For a municipality about 1500 ha large proportion of the forest Bois de la Voivre in the South. Over half of the municipal area is used for agriculture.
Neighboring communities of Gironcourt -sur- Vraine are Morelmaison in the north, Biécourt in the northeast, Menil -en- Xaintois in the east, Saint-Menge in the southeast, Dombrot -sur- Vair in the south and Houécourt in the West.
History
Giro Court was before the French Revolution to the Bailiwick Neufchâteau.
In 1903 the name extension- sur- Vraine was introduced (at the Vraine ), probably to more clearly differ in the correspondence from the southeast, Girancourt.
The history of the village is connected since the beginning of the 20th century is inseparable from the glass production, which changed the face of the former farming village fundamentally. A group of industrialists from Nancy and from the Vosges region under the leadership of Jean Bouloumié, the longtime director of the city of Vittel and owner of the mineral springs, decided in 1901 to build a glass bottle manufacturing. As the site Giro Court has been selected. The reasons lay in the vicinity of the quartz sand and coal deposits of Saint-Menge and Gemmelaincourt immediately south of Giro Court, close to the mineral springs of Vittel and Contrexévillenear as well as its location on the railway line opened in 1878 from Neufchâteau according to Epinal.
Daily 600 1903 glass bottles were blown on each of the three furnaces. For the workers you initially recruited from the Northern Alsace and the Loire area, houses were directly east and south of the marshalling yard of the factory built. The workers' settlement was extended again and again in later decades and grew so together with the old village Giro Court. Between 1904 and 1930, new machines were purchased and expanded production capacity. 1930 47 million bottles have been produced, the operation at that time had 710 employees. In the time of global economic crisis, the production dropped (26 million bottles in 1933 ). In June 1940, the work of Italian bombs was hit and stood still, until in January 1941 a furnace was put into operation again.
After the end of World War II, the operation went through a profound technological change. With new machines with a high degree of automation, production was increased in 1956 to 100 million in 1963 to 175 million in 1968 to 460 million bottles. A 1972 erected fourth glass furnace with a capacity of 200 tons of glass or 700,000 bottles per day was the then largest in Europe. The huge increase was mainly due to the expansion and the high demand for beer bottles to the brewery group Kronenbourg.
1999, the company left the group BSN - Danone and went on in a comprehensive 19 farms BSN glass pack. BSN Glasspack was taken over by the world 's largest glass container manufacturer Owens- Illinois, 2004. In 2010 worked in the glass factory about 450 employees, the annual output was over 2 billion bottles (25 cl and 33 content ).
Demographics
Attractions
- Church of St. Brictius ( Saint -Brice ) from the 18th century; the inventory includes two small statues from the 13th or 15th century, which are classified as a monument historique
- Two Lavoirs
- Sundial at the new City Hall
Economy and infrastructure
Agriculture today plays a minor role in current Court. By far the biggest employer in the region is the OI glass factory.
Gironcourt -sur- Vraine is kindergarten and primary school location.
Transport links
The partial two-lane and intersection- free -developed D 166 of Epinal by Neufchâteau bypasses the community Giro Court in the south. They crossed to the west of the Autoroute A31 Houécourt ( Toul -Dijon ). The furnished here motorway junction is one of three ports in the department of Vosges and an important regional transport hub. The railway line from Neufchâteau on current Court after Epinal was shut down in 1989. The freight traffic on the 27 km long section from the glass factory Giro Court after Neufchâteau is operated by the SNCF.