Territory of Belfort

The Territoire of Belfort ( 90 ) is a department French depend on the area Franche-Comté.

History

The Territory of Belfort was born in 1871 from the Traité from Frankfurt which put an end to the war 1870. Whereas the Germany annexed by this treaty most of the Alsace and a big part of the Lorraine, the extreme south-west of the Haut-Rhin, around Belfort, was left in France, and thus separated from the Alsace. There were three main reasons with this decision:

the population of the surroundings of Belfort was French-speaking;
the town of Belfort had shown a heroic resistance under the command of Colonel Pierre Denfert-Rochereau at the time of the seat of the German troops, and it had been inconceivable to attach the city to Germany after the war;
with the loss of Alsace and its fortified towns, Belfort constituted an effective bolt against a possible invasion.

After preservehaving preserved a special statute a long time, the Territory of Belfort became officially the 90e French department in 1922.

Geography

The Territory of Belfort belongs to the area Franche-Comté. It is bordering on the departments of the Doubs, of the Haute-Saône, the the Vosges and the Haut-Rhin, as well as Swiss canton of the the Jura. They are the smallest French department after Paris and the departments the small crown (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and the Valley-of-Marne).

Climate

Economy

See also: Economy of the Territory of Belfort

Demography

The inhabitants of the Territory of Belfort are the Belfortains , like the inhabitants of Belfort itself.

Transportation routes

See also: Roads in the Territory of Belfort, Railroads of the Territory of Belfort

By its geographical location, the Belfort Gap was always a crossing point, a kind of collar at low altitude between two river basins: that of the Rhine and that of the Rhone. These two rivers are connected besides since 1832 by the Canal of the Rhone to the Rhine. After 1871 the project of Channel of the Haute-Saône, although unfinished, made it possible to bring to the doors of Belfort of the barges charged with weighty goods.

Culture

For a very long time, the general advice of the Territory of Belfort, like the Municipal council of the town of Belfort, supports the access to the culture of more many people by subsidizing institutions or demonstrations in all the fields of art, the culture and the leisures. In particular, through the annual organization of the festival of the Eurockéennes of Belfort.

Tourism

See also: Tourism in the Territory of Belfort

The department has an enormous diversity of worked landscapes all and sundry by historical and geological influences: the Balloon of Alsace, the Massive of the Vosges, the lake of Malsaucy, which have impressive authentic and generous nature to us. “The road of the flowered villages” borrows the layout of an antique sees Roman which curved in the Under-Vosgean Country. The south of the Territory, rich person of ponds and rivers, offers some of the most beautiful view-points of the area. Since the plate of Croix the panorama extends from the Mounts of Ajoie in Suisse, with those of the the Jura, while passing by the Black Forest, the plain of Alsace and of course the Vosges.

Hundreds of kilometers of marked out paths square the department and make it possible to discover of it the landscapes, fauna and the flora but also the history thanks to circuits with topic: fortifications, terminals, mines, channels, castles, churches… For example the tow path of the Canal of the Haute-Saône makes it possible to go Essert to Montbeliard foot, horse or in the bicycle.

Each year in autumn, the '' Trans-Territory '', attracts several thousands of amateur of VTT of all ages and all levels.

The " House of Environnement" , at the edge of the lake of Malsaucy, presents to the public the flora and the fauna of the area but allows all, large and small, to include/understand the relations which we live with our environment.

Policy

See also: Political of the Territory of Belfort

List of the deputies of the Territory of Belfort
List of the senators of the Territory of Belfort
List of the general advisers of the Territory of Belfort

Administration

See also: Administration of the Territory of Belfort

List of the prefects of the Territory of Belfort

Others

List of the 102 communes of the Territory of Belfort
List of the historical modifications of the communes
List of the cantons of the Territory of Belfort

Bonds and documentation

Bonds

Prefecture
General advice
History of the territory of Belfort
Tourist office of the Territory of Belfort
Genealogy and Patrimoine in Franche-Comté
FCzoom.fr Diary of the demonstrations into Frank County and in the Territory of Belfort

Books

the Territory of Belfort by V. - has. Malta-Brown with the Editions of the Bastion 1882 republished in 1982.
the Inheritance of Communes of the Territory of Belfort to the Editions Flohic 1999.
Belfort and its Territory by J. Liblin with the Editions of the Tower Gile 1877 republished in 2000.
Geography of the Territory of Belfort per G. Schouler and P. Filbert 1979.
parishes of the Territory of Belfort by R. Fiétier and Mr. Colney, Books of Studies Comtoises n° 50 - 1993
Vauban and its successors in the Territory of Belfort published by Association Vauban 1992
History of Belfort, the origins at our days by Y. Baradel… with the Editions Horvath 1985
the Door of Burgundy and Alsace (Belfort Gap) by A. Gibert with the Editions Gerard Montfort 1930 republished in 1982.
picturesque and anecdotic History of Belfort and its surroundings by A. Corret 1855 republished by the Editions of the Gile Tower in 1991. More particularly interesting for the first part of the 19th century.
Department of the Territory of Belfort by Adolphe Joanne, Hatchet 1888 republished in 1994.
Belfort formerly 1871-1914 per Andre Larger, ED. Horvath 1987

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