Serécourt

Serécourt is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.

Geography

The undulating territory, sprinkled by Sâle, flow right of the the Saone, culminates to 478 m with the Heuillon mount.

History

The area was attended formerly because a Roman way skirted the communal territory by the west.

The castle, in the south-east of the village, is quoted for the first time in 1124. Besieged, taken and dismantled twice by the duke of Bar in the current of XIVe century, it was definitively destroyed only during the Guerre Thirty Year old for the troops of the duke of Lorraine Charles IV in order not to be occupied by the free-Swedish troops.

Curiosities

Of the castle in ruin, only remains of beautiful arched cellars. One still distinguishes a very large farmyard, protected by a strong lifting from ground, and dry ditches, the whole preceding the castle strictly speaking, itself protected by a ditch cut in the rock.
the church of XVIe, built with hillside, is strengthened (keep, belfry, turn of guet, archères and bretèches).

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

External bonds

Serécourt on the site of the national geographical Institute
Serécourt on the site of INSEE
Serécourt on the site of Quid
Localization of Serécourt on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Serécourt on Mapquest

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