Baume-les-Messieurs
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region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
Department | law | |
Arrondissement | Lons-le-Saunier | |
Canton | Poligny | |
Community association | Bresse Haute Seille | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 42 ' N , 5 ° 39' E | |
height | 277-572 m | |
surface | 13.09 km 2 | |
Residents | 162 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 12 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 39210 | |
INSEE code | 39041 | |
View of the Benedictine Abbey |
Baume-les-Messieurs is a French municipality with 162 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Jura department in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté , approximately 10 kilometers northeast of Lons-le-Saunier . It is classified as one of the Plus beaux villages de France ( Most Beautiful Villages in France ).
geography
Baume-les-Messieurs is located in the round Cirque de Baume basin, surrounded by a good hundred meter high rock walls, at an average altitude of 330 m. It covers an area of 1,309 hectares and is inhabited by almost 200 people. A source brook of the Seille , a tributary of the Saône, rises in the basin .
Attractions
In Baume-les-Messieurs lies the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre , which was founded in 909 . It replaced the Baume-les-Moines monastery, which was founded in the 6th century by the Irish monk Columban von Luxeuil . After the monastery was devastated by the Saracens and Normans , it was rebuilt by Abbé Bernon . He left Baume-les-Messieurs in 910 and founded the Abbey of Cluny .
At the head of the valley above Baume-les-Messieurs (Cirque de Baume), the source of the Dard is located in a rock grotto, below which the water forms a large bulge of tufa .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baume-les-Messieurs on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)