Baudignécourt
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| local community | Demange-Baudignécourt | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Commercy | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 ' N , 5 ° 28' E | |
| Post Code | 55130 | |
| Former INSEE code | 55030 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Baudignécourt is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Demange-Baudignécourt with 64 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (before 2016 Lorraine ).
geography
Baudignécourt is located about 32 kilometers southeast of Bar-le-Duc in the south of the Meuse department. The Commune déléguée consists of the town of Baudignécourt and is located on the Ornain . Large parts of the Commune déléguée are forested. The most important forest area is the Bois de Baudignécourt in the west of the Commune déléguée. Neighboring communities were Demange-aux-Eaux in the north, Delouze-Rosières in the east, Houdelaincourt in the south and west and Saint-Joire in the north-west.
history
The name of the current town was first mentioned in 1130 in a document when the Abbey of Évaux was founded. A secure form of the name is Baudignecourt in a document from 1337. In the Middle Ages, the community belonged to the territory of the Duchy of Bar . More precisely to the Office ( Bailliage ) Saint-Thiébaud. With this rule, Baudignécourt fell to France in 1766. Until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois . From 1793 to 1801 the municipality was assigned to the Gondrecourt district and part of the Demange aux Eaux canton, then from 1801 to 2015 part of the Gondrecourt-le-Château canton. Since 1801, Baudignécourt has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy.
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Baudignécourt merged with Demange-aux-Eaux to form the Commune nouvelle Demange-Baudignécourt. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of Baudignécourt belonged to the Arrondissement Commercy and the canton Ligny-en-Barrois (until 2015 the canton Gondrecourt-le-Château ).
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1851 | 1946 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2015 |
| Residents | 180 | 209 | 105 | 129 | 111 | 94 | 96 | 111 | 97 | 80 | 66 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Laurent village church ; from the 17th and 18th centuries
- three wayside crosses; two on the Grande Rue south and north of the village and the Croix Vincenot in the Bois de Baudignécourt
- Lavoir (wash house) on the southern edge of the village
- Memorial plaque for the fallen in the church
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , p. 480.
