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Hamlet Of La Houillère
The Hamlet (place), hamlet of La Houillère is located in the Communes of France, French communes of Ronchamp and Champagney, Haute-Saône, Champagney, in the heart of the mining region, in the Haute-Saône département of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It was created after the discovery of the Ronchamp coal mines and became the center of mining operations from the second half of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century. It was designed to be independent of neighboring villages. The hamlet quickly lost interest in the course of the 19th century, as mining operations moved further and further south of the Ronchamp and Champagney coalfields, coalfield. Despite this, certain company buildings such as the infirmary, stable and château de la Houillère continued to operate until the mines closed in 1958. At the beginning of the 21st century, few traces of the mining installations remain, but the hamlet is still inhabited. All eight workers' houses are listed in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections of December 2015, electing 100 members to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region covers an area of and eight departments; it had a population of 2,811,423 in 2017. Its prefecture and largest city is Dijon, although the regional council sits in Besançon, making Bourgogne-Franche-Comté one of two regions in France (along with Normandy) in which the prefect does not sit in the same city as the regional council. Toponymy The text of the territorial reform law gives interim names for most of the merged regions, combining the names of their constituent regions separated by hyphens. Permanent names would be proposed by the new regional councils an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
