Bourmont
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| local community | Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haute-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | Chaumont | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 ' N , 5 ° 35' E | |
| Post Code | 52150 | |
| Former INSEE code | 52064 | |
| Incorporation | June 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Bourmont is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune of Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon with 467 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haute-Marne department in the Grand Est region .
With effect from June 1, 2016, the municipalities of Bourmont and Nijon were merged into a commune nouvelle with the name Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon .
geography
Bourmont lies on the right bank of the upper Meuse , which cuts deep into the Langres plateau here . The area is divided into a western part at about 330 m above sea level on the Meuse and an eastern part, which after a striking terrain level forms a forest-covered plateau at about 450 m above sea level (Bois de Bourmont). The village of Bourmont is enthroned on the top of a long mountain spur called Montagne du Conat about a hundred meters above the Meuse.
The commune déléguée Bourmont also includes the Gonaincourt district - an independent municipality until 1973.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2014 | ||
| Residents | 635 | 657 | 697 | 571 | 598 | 533 | 493 | ||
| Source: Cassini | |||||||||
Attractions
- Church of the Assumption (Église de l'Assomption-de-Notre-Dame)
- St. Joseph Church
- Church of St. Martin in the Gonaincourt district
- Falaise de Cona cliff
Economy and Infrastructure
Nine farms are located in Bourmont (cereal and vegetable growing, dairy farming).
The D16 trunk road from Leurville to Vrécourt runs through Bourmont . Twelve kilometers southeast of Beirmont there is a connection to the A 31 autoroute from Toul to Langres . Charmes station, one and a half kilometers from Essegney, is on the Blainville-Damelevières-Lure railway line . The Culmont-Chalindrey-Toul railway line runs without stopping along the banks of the Meuse .
Personalities
- Edmond Haraucourt , French writer, born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/5/23/INTB1617406A/jo Fusionsdekret dated May 23, 2016
- ↑ Gonaincourt on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Bourmont on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)