Vesoul, Haute-Saône Département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

History | Geography | Neighborhoods | Sectors  | Commercial areas | Industrial areas | Spaces  | Sport | Education | Monuments and tourist attractions | Festival | Library

🇫🇷 Vesoul is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department. The Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul covers 20 municipalities and the Urban area of Vesoul includes 78 municipalities.

Built on top of the hill of La Motte in the first millennium under the name of Castrum Vesulium, the city gradually evolved into a European commercial and economic center. At the end of the Middle Ages, the city experienced a challenging period beset with plagues, epidemics, and localized conflict.

Main urban centre of the department, Vesoul is also home to a major PSA parts manufacturing plant and to the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. It was immortalized by Jacques Brel in his 1968 song "Vesoul".

The town is the capital of the department of Haute-Saône.

History Vesoul is first mentioned in a document dated 899. That document speaks about an elevation with a fortified watchtower. The document speaks about "Castrum Vesulium". Castrum is a fortification, and "Vesulium" has the syllable ves which meant hill or mountain in a language that was spoken before the Celts. Today, there is a castle that forms the centre of the city. The first houses were built inside the walls of the castle. Newcomers who found no place settled outside the city walls, on the flanks of the hill. Growing wine was popular.

The town was severely affected by the plague in 1586. It became part of France in 1678.

In 1814, after the fall of the empire, a buffer state was created, with Vesoul as capital. The principality was that of Free County, of the Vosges and of Porrentruy.

Today, one of the main factories of PSA Peugeot Citroën is near Vesoul.

Geography Vesoul is located in the easter part of France, about 100 km away from the Germany and the Switzerland's border and between the Jura and the Vosges's mountain ranges. Vesoul is also situated in the centre of the Haute-Saône, which is in the nord of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Inside of this region, Vesoul is included in the Pays de Vesoul et du Val de Saône, a geographical region composing of the Vesoul's area and the northern part of the river Saône.

By the road, Vesoul is 32 km (20 mi) from Luxeuil-les-Bains, 30 km (19 mi) from Lure and 59 km (37 mi) from Gray, that are the main towns close to Vesoul. About the biggest cities in the French East region, Vesoul is located 50 km (31 mi) from Besançon, 64 km (40 mi) from Belfort and 105 km (65 mi) from Dijon and 156 km (97 mi) from Nancy. Situated at the equidistance of Dijon and Mulhouse, Vesoul is 370 km (230 mi) from the city of Paris. The town of Vesoul is located at the intersection of national roads N19 and N57. Vesoul station is on the SNCF Paris–Mulhouse railway line, and has connections with Paris, Belfort, Mulhouse and Chaumont.

The area of Vesoul is also included in the Pôle métropolitain Centre Franche-Comté which is a government structure unifying the biggest areas of central Franche-Comté. There are nine communes that are bordering the town of Vesoul.

Vesoul is crossed by four watercourses: two rivers (Durgeon and Colombine) and two streams (Vaugine and Méline). All of them are tributaries and sub-tributaries of the Saône, the fourth longest river in France with 473 km long and flowing about ten km from the western side of Vesoul.

Neighborhoods • Rêpes-Pontarcher • Grand Montmarin • Vesoul Ouest • Vesoul Centre Nord-Saint-Ferjeux • Grand Grésil • Stade • Vesoul Centre Sud • Jean Jaurès-Petit-Banque.

Sectors : • Vieux-Vesoul • Les Bains • Pontarcher • Taillevanne • Haberges • Saint-Martin • Grand Miselot • Saint-Maur • Luxembourg.

Commercial areas : • Espace de la Motte • Pôle Santé de Vesoul • Oasis • Kennedy • Halles de Vesoul • Paul-Morel.

Industrial areas : • Vesoul Technologia • PSA • Poincaré • Les Saussis

Spaces : • La Motte • Jardin anglais • Plateau de Cita • Les Rives du Lac • Sabot de Frotey.

Sport • Vesoul Haute-Saône, football club • Stade René Hologne • Cercle de Judo de Vesoul, Judo club with a competitors section.

Education Vesoul has schools of higher education. The city has 1,200 students divided between an IUT, an IUFM, an Institute of Nursing Training, a School of Management and Commerce and BTS.

A Council of Student Life (CVE), led by the Officer in charge of Higher Education, was established in 2011. It offers activities to stimulate student life. In all, Vesoul has 10,000 students.

• IUT (University Institute of Technology) • IUFM (University Institute of Teacher Training) • IFSM (Institute of Nursing Education) • CGE (School of Management and Commerce).

Monuments and tourist attractions • Vieux Vesoul (Old Vesoul) (buildings from the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries and Garret Museum) • Site of Vesoul's Motte • Site of the Sabot de Frotey • Lake of Vesoul - Vaivre • Vesoul-Vaivre Vélo-rail • Convent of the Ursulines (17th century) • St. George's Church, Vesoul • Gare de Vesoul • PSA Vesoul Plant • Synagogue of Vesoul • Musée Georges-Garret • Notre-Dame-de-la-Motte • Paul Morel Hospital • Lac de Vesoul - Vaivre.

Festival • Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema

Library The first public library of Vesoul opened in 1771. The abbé (abbot) Bardenet, superior of the Saint-Esprit hospital in Besançon, gave his book collection to the town. There were 1772 books. The collections became a lot larger with the Revolution. At that time, the revolutionaries (people who led the French Revolution) took the books from the monasteries of the town (capucins) and even of the region (Luxeuil and Faverney monasteries). Around 20,000 books were added to the library this way, including some 11th century manuscripts. The Mayor's office was responsible for keeping the books.

In 1981, the municipality decided to build a new building to encourage the public to read. The library was recently equipped with computers. There are around 200 manuscripts and 150 incunables.

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Vesoul has a population of over 15,212 people. Vesoul also forms the centre of the wider Vesoul Arrondissement which has a population of over 127,683 people. It is also a part of the larger Haute-Saône Département. Vesoul is situated 53 km north of Besançon.

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