Brixey-aux-Chanoines

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Brixey-aux-Chanoines
Coat of arms of Brixey-aux-Chanoines
Brixey-aux-Chanoines (France)
Brixey-aux-Chanoines
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Vaucouleurs
Community association Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates 48 ° 28 '  N , 5 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '  N , 5 ° 43'  E
height 263-412 m
surface 7.62 km 2
Residents 84 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 11 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55140
INSEE code 55080

Sainte-Marie-Madeleine village church

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Brixey-aux-Chanoines is a French commune with 84 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 .

geography

Brixey-aux-Chanoines is located around 27 kilometers southwest of the city of Toul in the very south of the Meuse department on the border with the Vosges department . In terms of traffic, the municipality is far away from national traffic routes near the D964. The place is on the Meuse . The Bois de Brixey forest covers large parts of the eastern municipal area.

Neighboring communities are Sauvigny in the north and northeast, Jubainville (in the Vosges department) in the east, Maxey-sur-Meuse (in the Vosges department) in the south, Greux (in the Vosges department) in the southwest and Goussaincourt in the west.

history

Like all places in the area, Brixey-aux-Chanoines 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 1091 under the Latin name Briseium . 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 Bailliage Toul of the domain of Trois-Évêchés . With this rule, Brixey-aux-Chanoines fell to France in 1766. Until the French Revolution , the place was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois .

Brixey-aux-Chanoines belonged to the Gondrecourt district from 1793 to 1801. In addition to the canton of Goussaincourt from 1793 to 1801. The municipality has been assigned to the canton of Vaucouleurs and the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

The parish shares the fate of many rural parishes in France. The population grew in the first half of the 19th century. This was followed by rural exodus, which greatly reduced the number of residents (1856–1982: −78.8 percent). Since 1982 the population has been stable with slight fluctuations.

year 1793 1856 1906 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 320 397 262 144 123 98 84 91 87 82 77 85
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Sainte-Marie-Madeleine village church
  • Three wayside crosses, two in the village and one wayside cross on Rue du Plain south of the village
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Wash house (lavoir)

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 1021-1022.

Web links

Commons : Brixey-aux-Chanoines  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name forms of the community
  2. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen