Suarce
Suarce ( formerly Schwerz German ) is a town in the French department of Territoire de Belfort in the Franche -Comté.
Geography
Suarce is located at 380 m above the sea, nine kilometers north-east of Delle and about 18 km east-southeast of the town of Belfort ( a straight line ). The village is located in the lowlands of the Burgundian Gate, in a wide opening on both sides of the creek Suarcine.
The area of 11.81 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the gently undulating countryside in the Burgundian Gate ( trouée de Belfort ). The central part of the area is traversed in southeast-northwest direction from the trough of the Suarcine, which provides for the drainage to Allaine. This trough is flanked on both sides by a plateau, which is on average 390 m. It is mostly covered with arable and meadow land, but also shows some of larger forest areas. West of the village, the forest area of the Banbois expands. With 407 meters, the highest elevation of Suarce is achieved on the southern boundary of the municipality. In hollows and valleys there are numerous ponds that were created for fish farming. To the east, the municipality's area extends over the plateau up to the stream of Lutter (right tributary of the Suarcine ) and on the edge of the upper forest.
Neighboring communities of Suarce are Chavanatte and Altenach in the north, Saint -Ulrich, Strueth and Hindlingen in the east, Lepuix -Neuf and Courtelevant in the south and in the southwest Flori Mont.
History
It is first mentioned in writing Suarce in the year 823 under the name Suerza in a document in which King Louis the Pious held the possessions of the monastery Masevaux. Even at this time there was a church in Suarce. In the first half of the 14th century the village came under the suzerainty of the Habsburg dynasty. It was part of the reign Florimont. Together with the Sundgau Suarce came with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the French crown. Since 1793, the village belonged to 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.
Through a railway line that ran from Belfort to Réchésy, the village was in 1913 connected to the French railroad network. The operation, however, was reinstated in 1948. In November 1944 Lepuix -Neuf and Réchésy were in the area and Suarce discharged fierce fighting between the Allies and the German troops, with whom the church and several houses were destroyed.
Attractions
The modern concrete building of the church of Notre -Dame de l' Assomption in the form of a cylinder with free-standing bell tower was inaugurated in 1971 after since the Second World War, a wooden chapel had served as a house of worship. The oldest crossroads of Suarce is from 1776. In the old town several half-timbered houses in the traditional style of the Sundgauvian are obtained. Worth seeing is the further the memorial of the fallen in the First and Second World War soldiers.
- Church of Notre- Dame de l' Assomption
Population
With 450 inhabitants (1 January 2011 ) Suarce one of the small communities of the department of Territoire de Belfort. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1891 529 persons were still counted ), a continuous population growth was recorded since the early 1980s again.
Economy and infrastructure
Suarce was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ), fish farming and forestry embossed village. In addition, there are today some of the local small business enterprises. Meanwhile, the village has been transformed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who do their work in the larger towns in the area and in the agglomeration Belfort.
The village is located off the major road links on a secondary road that leads from Delle by Danne Marie. Further road links exist with Vellescot, Chavanatte, Strueth and Lepuix -Neuf.