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Vellescot
Commune
Town hall
Location of Vellescot
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Coordinates: 47°34′22″N 7°00′54″E / 47.5728°N 7.015°E / 47.5728; 7.015
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Territoire de Belfort
Arrondissement	Belfort
Canton	Grandvillars
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Nicolas Bey
Area	3.55 km (1.37 sq mi)
Population	244
• Density	69/km (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	90101 /90100
French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vellescot (French pronunciation: [vɛlɛsko]) is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.

Geography

The village is located on the secondary road départementale D13 which connects Belfort to Suarce, 16 km (9.9 mi) from Belfort. Primarily agricultural, it is surrounded by forests and ponds whose formation is supported by the impermeable clay soil.

History

In the Gallo-Roman era, a minor road connecting Delle with Froidefontaine crossed Boron and Vellescot. A section of a hundred meters length was excavated around 1851. The first mention of the name of Vellecort is in the charter of equipment of the priory of Froidefontaine on 8 March 1105. The village then formed part of the town hall and the parish of Grosne and returned in 1125 to Frederic, count of Ferrette. In the Austrian period, which lasted from the middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name of the village was Germanized to Hanendorf. Before the Second World War a metric gauge railroad of local interest ran between Belfort and Réchésy, which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.

See also

• Communes of the Territoire de Belfort department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

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