Travel Guide Courtavon

Situated since the Neolithic on the natural route linking Sundgau and Switzerland, Courtavon was completely destroyed during the Thirty Years War. Former Seigneurie of the Morimont, then passed to Chevalier Robert de Vignancourt, it remains in the heart of the village, the ground floor of the vaulted castle in the cradle and helical silt staircase of the Vignancourt family. In the th century there was a customs office, two wheat and plaster mills, a mechanical sawmill and two hydraulic machines to beat the wheat and to beat hemp there. In the south of the village, the Château-dit bears this name in memory of the residence of the Morimont, located between Letea and the stream of the meadows of the castle which feeds the ditches. The Saint James and St-Christophe church, of neo-Gothic style, was consecrated in 1865 and bears the names of the two mayors responsible for its construction.