Tendon, Vosges

Tendon
Tendon
Commune
	Church and town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tendon
	Tendon Tendon
	Coordinates: 48°07′21″N 6°40′47″E / 48.1225°N 6.6797°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Vosges
Arrondissement	Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Canton	La Bresse
Intercommunality	CC Hautes Vosges
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gérard Clément
Area 1	21.85 km2 (8.44 sq mi)
Population (2021)	506
• Density	23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	88464 /88460
Elevation	409–807 m (1,342–2,648 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tendon is a commune in the Vosges area of Grand Est in northeastern France. Its inhabitants are known as Todas, there is a village and around 60 settlements in the area. The history of the area dates back to the middle ages.

Geography

Tendon is a comune in the heart of a long valley, composed of a village and about 60 settlements. Situated 19 kilometres to the East of Épinal, Tendon lies in the valley of the Scouet, a tributary of the Vologne via the Barba. 492 hectares are occupied by forest. Le Tholy is 8 km away via the Bonne Fontaine col at an altitude of 677 m.

History

The ban of Tendon (Tandon), comprising the villages of Tendon, Houx, Laveline, Dehiex, Chamontaruz and La Poirie, belonged to the bailiwick of Remiremont under the Ancien Régime and depended on the mastery of the waters and forests Épinal. It followed the dress of Lorraine.

In the church, the inhabitants of the current parish of Tendon were part of that of Docelles. This ended on 3 September 1707 when the bishow of Toul elevated the small Tendon chapel, which had been built 25 years earlier, into a parish. The bishop's decision was confirmed by the Pope in 1715, against opposition from the bishop of Metz who imagined himself to be in charge of the region. Tendon was part of the prévôté of Arches.

Established as a commune in 1790, Tendon was part of the canton of Éloyes in the district, then arrondissement, of Remiremont. After the an IX, the commune was reattached to the Remiremont canton in the arrondissement of Remiremont.

Personalities

Father Voyaux de Franoux, born in 1760, was the founder of a girls school in 1825 and a hospital in 1834 in his native village. Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor. He was ordained as a priest and became head of the Trente-trois seminary Paris. During the French revolution, he emigrated to England where he was appointed apostolic vicar. After the restoration of the French monarchy, Louis XVIII made him almoner of the French embassy in London and canon of the Chapter of Saint-Denis.

Features

The Grande Cascade and Petite Cascade of Tendon, the first upstream, at an altitude of 32 metres in the heart of the forest of firs.
The rocks of la Moulure.

Administration

Demography

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004t	2006
528	423	380	386	434	448	466	457

Heraldry

Description of the emblazon
	Original French	De sinople aux deux pals ondés d’argent, au franc-canton d’or chargé d’un tau de gueules.
	English blazon	blazon needed…
	Notes	The two silver stripes symbolise the Petite Cascade and the Grande Cascade, natural features of the region. The tau is the initial letter of the commune, in the colors of Lorraine.^[2]
	Status	Official status to be determined…

References

^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Lorraine genealogists' website Archived 5 June 2012 at archive.today

External links

[popleg2021-1] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[2] Lorraine genealogists' website Archived 5 June 2012 at archive.today

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