Burey-en-Vaux

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Burey-en-Vaux
Coat of arms of Burey-en-Vaux
Burey-en-Vaux (France)
Burey-en-Vaux
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Vaucouleurs
Community association Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates 48 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 40'  E
height 251-396 m
surface 6.47 km 2
Residents 154 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 24 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55140
INSEE code 55088

Sainte-Libaire village church

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Burey-en-Vaux is a French commune with 154 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

Burey-en-Vaux is located around 40 kilometers west-southwest of Nancy in the south of the Meuse department. The place is on the Canal de la Haute Meuse west of the Meuse , which in parts forms the eastern municipal boundary. The west of the municipality is wooded (Bois de Burey).

Neighboring municipalities are Montigny-lès-Vaucouleurs and Neuville-lès-Vaucouleurs in the north, Sepvigny in the east, Maxey-sur-Vaise in the southeast and south, Épiez-sur-Meuse in the south and Badonvilliers-Gérauvilliers in the west.

history

Like all places in the area, Burey-en-Vaux 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 870 under the Latin name Bureriacum . In the Middle Ages, the place had two rulers until 1766. Part of Burey-en-Vaux was within the Champagne region and belonged to the Bailliage Chaumont. The other part to the Bailliage Lamarche in the Duchy of Lorraine . From 1766 until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois .

Burey-en-Vaux belonged to the Gondrecourt district from 1793 to 1801. Also since 1793 to the canton of Vaucouleurs. The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

The parish shares the fate of many rural parishes in France. From 1850 the rural exodus begins. From the high in 1851 to the low in 1999, the number of residents decreased by 79.8 percent. In the last few decades the population has grown again strongly (1999–2016: +36 percent).

year 1793 1831 1851 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 520 565 510 175 164 131 135 133 114 127 143 155
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

Calvaire in the village center
  • Castle Château de Burey with a statue of Joan of Arc
  • numerous houses from the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Sainte-Libaire village church from 1777; extended in 1845
  • 15th century Sainte-Libaire chapel and cemetery
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • 19th century wash house (Lavoir) near the Canal de la Haute Meuse
  • several wayside crosses and a Calvaire from 1618

traffic

In terms of traffic, the municipality is located on the D964. This, the eastern European route 21 with the next connection in Allain and the route nationale 4 , which runs a few kilometers to the north with the next connection in the municipality of Void-Vacon, are the most important transport links for the municipality.

The closest train station is Pagny-sur-Meuse on the Paris – Strasbourg line , around 16 kilometers away.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 1022-1024.

Web links

Commons : Burey-en-Vaux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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