Baume-les-Messieurs

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Baume-les-Messieurs
Baume-les-Messieurs coat of arms
Baume-les-Messieurs (France)
Baume-les-Messieurs
region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department law
Arrondissement Lons-le-Saunier
Canton Poligny
Community association Bresse Haute Seille
Coordinates 46 ° 42 '  N , 5 ° 39'  E 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

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 in the Cirque de Baume

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

The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre

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 .

Tufa formation at the source of the Dard

Web links

Commons : Baume-les-Messieurs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Baume-les-Messieurs on Les plus Beaux Villages de France (French)