Ban-de-Sapt

Ban-de-Sapt is a French commune located in the Vosges department, in the Grand Est region.
The commune, situated in the Vosges massif, includes several hamlets scattered along the edges of a plateau and in the gently rolling hollow, drained by the tiny tributaries of the Hure stream. There used to be about ten of them. Inspired by a false interpretation of the old name, Ad septem abietes, the head of the first office of the prefecture in Épinal, Charles Charton, who was responsible for Vosges statistics between 1830 and 1850, tacitly considered that each of the seven main hamlets of the past was represented by a fir tree: he assumed that this place in common to the inhabitants was a place known before, the justice he places on a mound near the via salaria or road of the salt workers. In his time, a good observer counted at least nine large hamlets.

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