La Bruyère, Haute-Saône
La Bruyère is a commune in Haute -Saône in the Franche -Comté.
Geography
La Bruyère situated at an altitude of 357 m above sea level, 8 km east of Luxeuil -les- Bains and about 34 km northeast of the town of Vesoul (air line). The village is located in the northern part of the department, in the western foothills of the Vosges, a slight increase on the southern edge of the Talniederung Breuchin.
The area of 6.32 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the plateau landscape criss-crossed by valleys on the western edge of the Vosges. The northern boundary runs along the Breuchin, the multiple turn it flows through Alluvialniederung to the west. The flood plain is on average 340 m and has a width of approximately one kilometer.
From the river, the municipality's area extends southward over the Talniederung and over a steep slope up to the plateau of the adjacent skin of the Sombres. It is constructed from crystalline bedrock. With 426 m find the highest mountains of La Bruyère is achieved. The plateau is bounded on the west by a tributary of the Breuchin. With a narrow edge of the municipality floor extends further south to the edge of the plain of Luxeuil. This part is drained by the Ruisseau du Vay de Brest and its headwaters west to the Lanterne. He is a loose structure of meadow and woodland. At several places there are ponds that were created for fish farming. The entire municipality is part of the Regional Natural Park of Ballons des Vosges.
At La Bruyère addition to the actual site include the following settlements:
- La Bouloye (342 m) in the flood plain of the Breuchin
- Les Piquards (332 m) at the edge of the plain of Luxeuil
- Le Bois Joffroy ( 355 m) to the east in a slightly elevated position of the plane of Luxeuil
Neighboring communities of La Bruyère are Amage in the north, La Proiselière -et- Langle to the east, La corbière and Magnivray in the south and Esboz -Brest and Breuchotte in the West.
History
The place name derives from the old French word Bruiera and the Late Latin name Brugera and means as much as raw land or pasture. In the Middle Ages La Bruyère belonged to the Free County of Burgundy and in the territory of the Bailliage d' amont. The local government had held the abbots of the monastery of Luxeuil. Together with the Franche -Comté reached the village with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 definitively to France. Today, La Bruyère is a member of the 16- villages municipal association Communauté de communes des Mille Étangs.
Population
With 206 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) La Bruyère is one of the small towns in the Haute- Saône. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1881 366 persons were still counted ), only relatively small fluctuations were recorded since the early 1970s.
Economy and infrastructure
La Bruyère was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ), forestry and fish farming embossed village. The water power of the streams was used for the operation of mills. Today, there are some establishments of local small businesses. In recent decades the village has been transformed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore 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 Breuchotte to La Proiselière. Further road links exist with Magnivray, Esboz -Brest and La corbière.
Amage | Amont -et- Effreney | Beulotte -Saint -Laurent | La Bruyère | Corravillers | Esmoulières | Faucogney -et -la -Mer | Les Fessey | La Longine | La Montagne | La Proiselière -et- Langle | Raddon -et- Chapendu | La Rosiere | Saint- Bresson | Sainte -Marie- de - Chanois | La Voivre
- Commune in the department of Haute- Saône
- Place in Franche -Comté