Beaufort-en-Argonne
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Verdun | |
| Canton | Stenay | |
| Community association | Pays de Stenay et du Val Dunois | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 ' N , 5 ° 7' E | |
| height | 175–245 m | |
| surface | 11.09 km 2 | |
| Residents | 144 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 13 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 55700 | |
| INSEE code | 55037 | |
| Website | beaufort.stenay.com | |
 The Beaufort Fixed House |
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Beaufort-en-Argonne is a French commune with 144 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
geography
Beaufort-en-Argonne is located in northern France on the Wiseppe tributary of the Meuse in the Argonne countryside in the extreme northwest of Lorraine on the western edge of the Meuse department, 82 kilometers northeast of Reims , about 40 kilometers northwest of Verdun , the seat of the sub-prefecture of the arrondissement , 28 kilometers southeast of Sedan and 5.6 kilometers west of Stenay , the capital of the canton and the municipal association Pays de Stenay at an average altitude of 210 meters above sea level . The Mairie stands at a height of 186 meters. Neighboring municipalities to Beaufort-en-Argonne are Pouilly-sur-Meuse in the north-west, Laneuville-sur-Meuse in the north-east, Beauclair in the south and Tailly in the south-west. The municipality has an area of 1109 hectares.
The municipality is assigned to a type Cfb (according to Köppen and Geiger ) climate zone : warm, moderate rainy climate (C), fully humid (f), warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C (b). There is a maritime climate with a moderate summer.
history
Beaufort was first mentioned in 1188 as Bellofortis .
The original church of Beaufort was set on fire around 1570 by Huguenots during the Huguenot Wars (1562–1598). The Solid House of Beaufort was built 1664th It served to protect the residents and cattle.
In 1793 Beaufort-en-Argonne received the status of a municipality as Beaufort during the French Revolution (1789–1799) and in 1801 under its current name through the administrative reform under Napoleon Bonaparte the right to local self-government . The municipality has been called Beaufort-en-Argonne since 1922.
| year | Residents |
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| 1793 | 603 |
| 1806 | 680 |
| 1851 | 648 |
| 1856 | 493 |
| 1881 | 375 |
| 1911 | 276 |
| 1946 | 196 |
| 1954 | 209 |
| 1962 | 199 |
| 1999 | 170 |
| 2010 | 153 |
In the cemetery there are two graves of fallen officers from the First World War (1914-1918) and five graves of British pilots whose plane crashed on December 21, 1942 during the Second World War (1939-1945) over Beaufort-en-Argonne.
Culture and sights
The center of Beaufort is located at the intersection of the two main streets, Grande rue and Rue du Château . There are the church with a small cemetery and the Mairie. The current church of Sainte-Catherine was built in the 18th century and is surrounded by a small cemetery. The choir was built in 1910. The church was badly damaged in the First World War. The furniture of the church comes partly from the Charterhouse of Le Mont-Dieu ( Ardennes ). In the church there are several objects that are under monument protection . This includes three statues from the 18th century, which are entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques ('historical monuments'). An 18th century ciborium was discovered in February 1993. There is no comparable host vessel in the whole of Lorraine. In 2000 it was classified as a Monument historique . A silver chalice from 1786 was classified as a historical monument in 1996. Beaufort-en-Argonne belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Sainte Thérèse-Bénédicte de la Croix du Pays de Stenay of the Diocese of Verdun .
The fortified house of Beaufort today consists of a square building with a courtyard with remains of the fortification walls. The year 1664 is written above a door. In the 19th century the building housed an oil mill.
At the southern end of the village is the lavoir, built around 1901 .
Town center with church
Historic buildings on Grand rue
The lavoir
Economy and Infrastructure
The nearest stop is the 17.9 kilometers away in Carignan . The closest civil airport is Luxembourg Airport in Luxembourg, 81.1 kilometers away .
Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for poultry (Volailles de la Champagne ) , Mirabelles de Lorraine and Bergamote de Nancy apply in the municipality .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 939-940.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiseppe at SANDRE (French)
- ↑ a b Le village du Beaufort-en-Argonne. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved August 13, 2013 (French).
- ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . tape 3 . Librairie Droz, 1998, ISBN 2-600-02884-6 , pp. 1478 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b c d Patrimoine. In: stenay.com. Pays de Stenay, accessed on August 13, 2013 (French).
- ↑ a b Beaufort-en-Argonne - notice communal. In: Cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved August 13, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Entry No. 55037 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Sainte Thérèse-Bénédicte de la Croix du Pays de Stenay. (No longer available online.) Diocèse de Verdun, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved on August 13, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
