- Origins and history of Xertigny...
- Xertigny was created around 60 BC during the Roman domination. Communication routes were built (Baccarat towards Bains-les-Bains), they are at the origin of a Roman camp: Certinium (of a man called Certinius) which later became Xertigny.
- In 730, during a stopover at a farm in Xertigny, a nun by the name of Saint Walburga ran a fountain that has never dried up. A legend has it that, spinning her distaff, she dropped her ball of wool which began to roll down the hill and only stopped at the location of the current church. The ancestors later chose Saint Walburga as the patroness of the parish and a relic was placed in the church.
- On October 1, 1335, Xertigny and its hamlets formed a community whose administration was entrusted to a mayor, four jurors and a dean. The rights of justice were recognized for them and at Xertigny a gallows stands in the field of Potet (field of the post). Land rights were imposed.
- During the Thirty Years War, Lorraine had to suffer a lot from the religious wars. The Protestant armies coming from Germany crossed the countryside sowing ruins and carnage. Then in 1642, the plague killed a large part of the population. Large cemeteries were established in open countryside. That of Xertigny was on the way to the mottes pond. A Gothic cross still remains.
- The French Revolution: While the people revolted in Paris, in the countryside on July 26, 1789, 800 peasants from all the villages invaded the seigneury registry at Fontenoy-le-Château, destroying papers and archives of royalties collected by the lords. On February 26, 1790, France was divided into 83 departments, the Vosges into 9 districts, 60 cantons and 562 municipalities. Xertigny became the capital of the canton.
