Communauté de communes des Vosges Méridionales explained

The Communauté de communes des Vosges Méridionales (before 2009: Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières) is a former administrative association of rural communes in the Vosges département of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine. It was created in December 1996.^[1] It was merged into the new Communauté de communes de la Porte des Vosges Méridionales in January 2017.^[2]

The association had its administrative offices at Le Val-d'Ajol.^[1]

Composition

The Communauté de communes comprised the following communes:^[1]

• Le Val-d'Ajol
• Plombières-les-Bains
• Girmont-Val-d'Ajol

The grouping originally took its name from three small rivers:

• The Semouse (a 41 km long river which crosses the commune of Plombières-les-Bains at the hamlet of Ruaux)

• The Augronne (a 29 km long river which flows through the centre of Plombières-les-Bains)

• The Combeauté (a 37 km long river which has its source at Girmont-Val-d'Ajol and crosses Le Val-d'Ajol)

Notes and References

1. https://www.banatic.interieur.gouv.fr/V5/recherche-de-groupements/fiche-raison-sociale.php?siren=248800435&arch=01/01/2016 CC des Vosges Méridionales (N° SIREN : 248800435)
2. http://www.vosges.gouv.fr/content/download/12952/103374/file/54RAA16_02_DRCLE.pdf Arrêté préfectoral