Étueffont is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Territoire de Belfort

Territoire de Belfort

The Territoire de Belfort is a department in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France.-Administration:Its departmental code is 90, and its prefecture is Belfort...

 department in Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...

 in northeastern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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History

The separate villages of Étueffont-Bas (founded in the 16th century, with 28 families in 1760) and Étueffont-Haut (founded in the 12th century, with 38 families in 1760) were merged into the current commune on 12 June 1973.

Geography

The town sits at the foot of the Vosges mountains

Vosges mountains

For the department of France of the same name, see Vosges.The Vosges are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany. They extend along the west side of the Rhine valley in a northnortheast direction, mainly from Belfort to Saverne...

 on the banks of the Madeleine River

Madeleine River

Madeleine is a river in eastern France, in the Territoire de Belfort département.It begins in the Vosges mountains, near the commune of Lamadeleine-Val-des-Anges. 25 km downstream , it joins the river Saint-Nicolas in the village Bretagne to form the river Bourbeuse...

, in the Regional Natural Park Les Ballons des Vosges.

Sights

In the village center an 18th century smithy houses a Forge Museum that commemorates four generations of blacksmiths working in the village from 1843 to 1977.