Vellescot
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Vellescot is a commune of the Territoire de Belfort département belonging to the canton of Grandvillars. In 1999, the village had 166 inhabitants; there were 180 in 1803.
[edit] Geography
The village is located on the secondary road departementale D13 which connects Belfort to Suarce and 16 km from Belfort. Primarily agricultural, it is surrounded by forests and ponds whose formation is supported by the impermeable clay soil.
[edit] History
At the Gallo-Roman time, a minor road connecting Delle with Froidefontaine crossed Boron and Vellescot. A section of a hundred meters length was updated about 1851. The first mention of the name of Vellecort is in the charter of equipment of the priory of Froidefontaine on March 8, 1105. The village then formed part of the town hall and the parish of Grosne and returned in 1125 to Frederic, 1e comte de Ferrette. For the Austrian period, which extends from the middle of the 14th to the middle of the 16th century, the name of the village was Germanized to Hanendorf. Before the Second World War circulated, between Belfort and Réchésy a railroad of local interest with metric gauge track which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.
