# Vellescot

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{{Infobox French commune
|name               = Vellescot
|commune status     = [Commune](/source/Communes_of_France)
|image              = Vellescot, Mairie-école.jpg
|caption            = Town hall
|coordinates        = {{coord|47.5728|7.015|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|INSEE              = 90101
|postal code        = 90100
|arrondissement     = Belfort
|canton             = Grandvillars
|mayor              = Nicolas Bey<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref>
|term               = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality   = 
|population         = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date    = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
|area km2           = 3.55
}}

'''Vellescot''' ({{IPA|fr|vɛlɛsko}}) is a [commune](/source/Communes_of_France) in the [Territoire de Belfort](/source/Territoire_de_Belfort) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in [Bourgogne-Franche-Comté](/source/Bourgogne-Franche-Comt%C3%A9) in northeastern [France](/source/France).

==Geography==
The village is located on the secondary road départementale D13 which connects [Belfort](/source/Belfort) to [Suarce](/source/Suarce), {{convert|16|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Belfort. Primarily agricultural, it is surrounded by forests and ponds whose formation is supported by the impermeable clay soil.

==History==
In the [Gallo-Roman](/source/Gaul) era, a minor road connecting [Delle](/source/Delle) with [Froidefontaine](/source/Froidefontaine) crossed [Boron](/source/Boron%2C_Territoire_de_Belfort) and Vellescot. A section of a hundred meters length was excavated around 1851. The first mention of the name of ''Vellecort'' is in the charter of equipment of the priory of Froidefontaine on 8 March 1105. The village then formed part of the town hall and the parish of [Grosne](/source/Grosne) and returned in 1125 to Frederic, [count of Ferrette](/source/count_of_Ferrette). In the [Austria](/source/Austria)n period, which lasted from the middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name of the village was [Germanized](/source/German_language) to ''Hanendorf''.
Before the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II) a metric gauge [railroad](/source/railroad) of local interest ran between Belfort and Réchésy, which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.

==See also==
{{Commons category| Vellescot }}
*[Communes of the Territoire de Belfort department](/source/Communes_of_the_Territoire_de_Belfort_department)

==References==
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{{Territoire de Belfort communes}}

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Category:Communes of the Territoire de Belfort

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