Courouvre

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Courouvre
Courouvre coat of arms
Courouvre (France)
Courouvre
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Dieue-sur-Meuse
Community association Aire à l'Argonne
Coordinates 48 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '  N , 5 ° 21'  E
height 263-331 m
surface 8.66 km 2
Residents 35 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 4 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55260
INSEE code 55129

Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens village church

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Courouvre is a French commune with 35 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 Dieue-sur-Meuse (until 2015 the canton Pierrefitte-sur-Aire ).

geography

The municipality is located about 23 kilometers northeast of Bar-le-Duc in the center of the Meuse department. The municipality consists only of the place Courouvre. Large parts of the north and south-east of the municipality are forested. The most important forest area is the Bois de Chaumont . Neighboring municipalities are Rambluzin-et-Benoite-Vaux in the north, Thillombois in the northeast and east, Lahaymeix in the east, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire in the southeast and south, Longchamps-sur-Aire in the south and west and Neuville-en-Verdunois in the west.

history

The name of today's parish was first mentioned in a document in 1149 as Corrubrium . 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 ) Saint-Mihiel. With this rule, Courouvre 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 district of Saint-Mihiel and from 1793 to 2015 part of the canton of Pierrefitte-sur-Aire. Courouvre has been part of the Arrondissement Commercy since 1801.

Population development

year 1793 1806 1831 1851 1856 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 263 286 256 284 237 79 65 62 32 57 62 46 35 33
Source: Cassini (censuses up to 1999) and INSEE (official estimates as of January 1 from 2006)

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens village church from the 18th century
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Memorial plaques for fallen British soldiers
  • Three wayside crosses; at the cemetery, on Rue de Verdun east of the village and on the D101 north of the village

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 739-740.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name forms of the community
  2. ↑ Information on the population development and the political affiliation of the municipality
  3. ↑ Population 2006, 2011 and 2016
  4. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen
  5. ↑ Commemorative plaques for fallen British soldiers

Web links

Commons : Courouvre  - collection of images, videos and audio files