Cimetière de la Côte Calot
Chemin de la Côte Calot, 88100 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
For a long time, the parishioners of Sainte-Croix were buried in the cloister adjoining the cathedral of Saint-Dié and in front of the church of Notre-Dame. In 1771, the Chapter warned them of the insalubrity of the place and the lack of space and stressed the advisability of building a new one. On June 12, 1779, the king’s attorney ordered the decommissioning of the old cemetery and thus the creation of a new one, outside the city, as required by the royal edict of 1776\. The parish asked the Chapter to do the necessary work, to continue to use the new cemetery and to maintain it. The Chapter refused and it was the beginning of a long trial that ended with a court decision dated May 10, 1871 imposing on the parish the development of this new cemetery. She appeals. Nevertheless, the former garden of Joseph de Vomécourt on the Calot coast was chosen by municipal deliberations on 24 May and 16 December 1871\. Rattaire, surveyor, drew up a plan of 600 sites divided into 11 islets and arch
©F. Bolle
