commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...
Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administra ...
in northeastern
France
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.
Inhabitants are called ''Nonzevillois''.
Geography
Nonzeville is the smallest commune by area in the department. It is situated at the confluence of several very minor roads to the south of
Rambervillers
Rambervillers () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Inhabitants are called ''Rambuvetais''.
Geography
The town is built on the banks of the Mortagne, some to the west of Saint-Dié and to the north-e ...
and to the north-west of Bruyères, being about from each. The commune contains the source of a spring called the Soie which joins up with the Arentèle in the neighbouring commune of Pierrepont.
History
The earliest surviving record of the village dates from the tenth century when it was named as Nuntiavilla,''Mémoires de la société d'archéologie lorraine'', 1897, 3éme série / 25éme volume, page 36 Liens vers l'ouvrage dans la bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France /ref> which might be translated from Latin as the foretelling town or the town of the annunciation ''(ville annonciatrice)''.
Later versions of the name that turn up include Lonzéville or indeed Nonzéville. Long before the
French Revolution
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the village was part of the Vaudicourt territory (ban de Vaudicourt), owned by the Abbey of Remiremont. The main street indeed continued to be called the Rue du ban de Vaudicourt until the nineteenth century.
Population probably peaked in the middle of the sixteenth century, when an estimate based on the number of homesteads implies a population of 193. However, by the end of the
Thirty Years War
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it had declined to an estimated level of just 29 in 1648 thanks, presumably, to the triple war induced evils of that time, massacres, famine and plague. The village population never recovered during the
ancien regime
''Ancien'' may refer to
* the French word for "ancient, old"
** Société des anciens textes français
* the French for "former, senior"
** Virelai ancien
** Ancien Régime
** Ancien Régime in France
''Ancien'' may refer to
* the French word fo ...
period. The population returned to 195 registered at the time of the 1831 census, but thereafter the pattern of population decline has mirrored the experience of many Lorraine villages, as commercial opportunities, factory wages and overseas emigration attracted villagers of working age away from the countryside, a trend exacerbated by the decline in farm incomes that followed the agricultural depression of the 1870s.
The commune does not have its own church. For church matters it depends on the parish of
Saint Rémi
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