Coordinates: 48°01′03″N 6°35′26″E / 48.0175°N 6.59055555556°E / 48.0175; 6.59055555556

Commune of Remiremont
Location
Remiremont
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Vosges
Arrondissement	Épinal
Canton	Remiremont
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Porte des Hautes-Vosges
Mayor	Jean-Paul Didier
Statistics
Elevation	379–762 m (1,240–2,500 ft) (avg. 400 m/1,300 ft)
Land area1	18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Population2	8,538  (1999)
- Density	474 /km2 (1,230 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	88383/ 88200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Remiremont is a town and commune in eastern France, in the département of Vosges. Population (1999): 8,538 (Romarimontains).

[edit] Geography

Remiremont is located on the Moselle, close to its confluence with the Moselotte, 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Épinal. Remiremont is surrounded by forest-clad mountains.

[edit] Sights

The abbey church, consecrated in 1051, has a crypt of the eleventh century in which are the tombs of some of the abbesses, but as a whole belongs to the late thirteenth century. The abbatial residence (which now contains the maine^{[clarification needed]}, the court-house and the public library) has been twice rebuilt in modern times (in 1750 and again after a fire in 1871), but the original plan and style have been preserved in the imposing front, the vestibule and the grand staircase. Some of the houses of the canonesses dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries also remain.

[edit] History

Coat of Arms of the Clermont-Tonnerre family and of the cities of Ancy-le-Franc and Remiremont

Remiremont (Romarici Mons) derives its name from Saint Romaric, one of the companions of Saint Columban of Luxeuil, who in the seventh century founded Remiremont Abbey, a monastery and a convent on the hills above the present town.

The town was attacked by the French in 1638 and ruined by the earthquake of 1682. With the rest of Lorraine it was joined to France in 1766. The monastery on the hill and the nunnery in the town were both suppressed in the French Revolution.

[edit] Famous people

• Nabil Baha footballer

[edit] References

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