Bonnet

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Bonnet
Bonnet Coat of Arms
Bonnet (France)
Bonnet
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Ligny-en-Barrois
Community association Haute Saulx and Perthois-Val d'Ornois
Coordinates 48 ° 31 '  N , 5 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '  N , 5 ° 26'  E
height 292-408 m
surface 29.06 km 2
Residents 200 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 7 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55130
INSEE code 55059

Cemetery and Mairie (Town Hall)

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Bonnet is a French commune with 200 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (before 2016 Lorraine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the Canton of Ligny-en-Barrois (until 2015 the Canton of Gondrecourt-le-Château ).

geography

The municipality is located about 35 kilometers southeast of Bar-le-Duc in the south of the Meuse department. The community consists of the village of Bonnet and a few individual farms. Large parts of the west of the municipality are forested (called Bois de la Caisse ). Neighboring municipalities are Houdelaincourt in the north, Abainville in the northeast, Gondrecourt-le-Château in the east and south, Horville-en-Ornois in the south-east, Mandres-en-Barrois in the south-west and west, and Ribeaucourt and Saint-Joire in the north-west.

history

The name of today's community was first mentioned in 982 in the Latin form Boneidum in a document about Gérard de Toul. In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the area of ​​the Duchy of Bar and then to the Duchy of Lorraine . More precisely to the office ( Bailliage ) Chaumont. With this rule, Bonnet 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 from 1793 to 2015 it was part of the canton of Gondrecourt-le-Château. Bonnet has been part of the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

year 1793 1800 1841 1851 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 546 584 590 579 290 276 243 245 236 198 213 200
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Florentin village church from the 13th to 15th centuries; a monument historique since 1909
  • Village school / Mairie (town hall) from 1852
  • three wayside crosses; one in the Grande Rue at the west end of the village, another at Le Parterre and the Croix du Moulin à vent crossroads at the Chemin de Safe
  • several lavoirs (wash houses)
  • Source Saint-Florentin west of the village at the west end of the Grande Rue
  • Horse drinks at the village exit towards Gondrecourt-le-Château
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Linden alley between the village and the source of Saint-Florentin
  • Orchard with local fruits

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 481-483.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name forms of the community
  2. ↑ Information on the population development and political affiliation of the municipality
  3. ↑ moving sights
  4. ↑ Saint-Florentin Church
  5. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen

Web links

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