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Montbéliard, town, Doubs département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, eastern France, between the Vosges and the Jura mountains, 11 miles (17 km) from the Swiss frontier. In a highly industrialized area at the confluence of the Allaine and Luzine rivers, it lies north of the Canal du Rhône au Rhin and of a loop in the Doubs River .
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Württemberg coat of arms 1495, showing Montbéliard's fish. Montbéliard and the surrounding region constitute an important manufacturing centre mainly based on metallurgy and the car industry. The main manufacturing plant of the Peugeot automobile company is partly located in Montbéliard and has around 20,000 employees. In the area, the ...
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More correctly called the 'castle of the Dukes of Wurtemberg' this is an imposing structure on a raised rocky outcrop at the confluence of the rivers Lizaine and Allan that dominates the centre of Montbeliard. The castle partly dates from the 13th-14th centuries, although an earlier castle had already stood here for at least 200 years. Significant ...
Before exploring the town centre you should visit the Montbeliard Tourist Office at 1 Rue Henri Mouhot. The principal monuments include: - Saint-Martin Temple: this temple, dating from the start of the 17th century, is the largest protestant temple to be found in France (37 metres by 16 metres). Montbeliard also has a second protestant temple datin...
Slightly outside Montbeliard at Sochaux, the long-standing presence of Peugeot at the town is celebrated at the Peugeot Museum and factory. The museum has lots of examples of Peugeot cars from the last 100 years and is one of the most visited attractions in Franche-Comté. To enthusiasts of modern art we also recommend a visit to the small Church of...
- Château de Montbéliard. There has been a castle resting on this crag above the confluence of the Allan and Lizaine Rivers since the 900s. Needless to say things have changed a lot over time, and the building is now a maze of interconnecting rooms, mostly from the 1700s.
- Château de Montbéliard’s Museums. There are also two museums to see at the château: The larger of the two is the Musée Cuvier, named for Georges Cuvier, who was born in Montbéliard and was one of the pioneers in the field of palaeontology.
- Schickhardt’s Montbéliard. Heinrich Schickhardt was an architect and polymath working at the turn of the 17th century and who has been dubbed the “Swabian Leonardo da Vinci”.
- Musée Beurnier-Rossel. In the resplendent 18th-century mansion, the Hôtel Beurnier-Rossel is a museum with three floors of art and artefacts uncovering the history of the Montbéliard county and principality.
Montbéliard preserves from its history a remarkable architectural heritage having spent more than eight centuries under the governance of the Dukes of Württemberg. A whole story to discover in the museums of Montbéliard: the museum of the Castle of the Dukes of Württemberg and the Museum of Art and History Hôtel Beurnier-Rossel.
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Montbéliard is a French commune. It is in the north of the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about 13 km (8 mi) from the border with Switzerland and is a subprefecture in the department. It is also the capital of the arrrondissement of Montbéliard .
Montbeliard is in the eastern-center of France at 66 kilometres from Besancon, the department capital (general information: Montbeliard is 362 kilometres from Paris). Geographical Information Commune: Montbeliard
