Boviolles

Boviolles
region	Grand Est
Department	Meuse
Arrondissement	Commercy
Canton	Vaucouleurs
Community association	Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates	48 ° 39 ′ N , 5 ° 25 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ N , 5 ° 25 ′ E
height	241-395 m
surface	8.13 km 2
Residents	97 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	12 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	55500
INSEE code	55067
	; Town hall (Mairie) and wayside cross

Boviolles is a French commune with 97 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the community association Communauté de communes de Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs . The municipality belonged to the canton of Void-Vacon until 2015 .

geography

Boviolles is located around 23 kilometers southeast of the city of Bar-le-Duc in the south of the Meuse department. In terms of transport, the community is a few kilometers south of Route nationale 4 with the next connection in Void-Vacon. The place is on the river Barboure . Large parts of the municipality are forested (Le Chanois, Le Nouvellois and La Rippe).

Neighboring municipalities are Chanteraine in the north-west, Sauvoy in the north-east, Marson-sur-Barboure in the east and south-east, Tréveray and Saint-Amand-sur-Ornain in the south and Naix-aux-Forges in the west.

history

Remains of an oppidum and from Gallo-Roman times prove an early settlement.

Like all places in the area, Boviolles suffered from conflicts in the Middle Ages. The worst devastation was caused by the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War . The name of today's municipality was first mentioned in a document in 1135 under the name Boviola / Boviolta . In the Middle Ages the place belonged to the Barrois mouvant and was part of the Champagne .

Boviolles belonged to the District Commercy from 1793 to 1801. Also from 1793 to 1801 to the canton of Reffroy and from 1801 to 2015 to the canton of Void-Vacon. The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

year	1793	1831	1851	1896	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2016
Residents	348	356	320	196	119	115	96	79	92	91	95	109	95
Sources: Cassini and INSEE