Donjeux (Moselle)

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Donjeux
Donjeux coat of arms
Donjeux (France)
Donjeux
region Grand Est
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Sarrebourg-Château-Salins
Canton Le Saulnois
Community association Saulnois
Coordinates 48 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E
height 219-275 m
surface 3.25 km 2
Residents 95 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 29 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 57590
INSEE code 57182

Saint-Georges church in Donjeux

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Donjeux is a French commune with 95 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Sarrebourg-Château-Salins , to the canton of Le Saulnois and to the communal association Communauté de communes du Saulnois .

geography

Donjeux is located in Saulnois , 31 kilometers southeast of Metz and 30 kilometers east of Pont-à-Mousson at an altitude between 219 and 275 meters above sea level between the canton capital Delme in the north-west, the neighboring municipality of Lemoncourt in the south-west and Oriocourt in the south-east. The municipality covers 3.25 km².

history

Donjeux was 966 first documented as Domnus Juvinis mentioned, the medieval Latin for Holy Jovinus . In 1222 it was mentioned as Dongeu . The parish of Donjeux was subordinate to the archpriest of Delme, who in turn was subordinate to the diocese of Metz . The village itself belonged to the county of Destroch, the main town of which was Destry , and which was mentioned together with Donjeux in 966 in the founding treaty of the Vergaville monastery in its copy book . In the 16th century it belonged to the barony of Viviers that the Marquisat of Pont-à-Mousson was under that in 1698 a Bailliage of the Duchy of Bar was.

In 1793 the village received the status of a municipality in the course of the French Revolution (1789-1799) and in 1801 the right to local self-government. Donjeux belonged to the former Meurthe department , which was divided into the Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle departments in the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871 . The Peace of Frankfurt ended the Franco-German War (1870–1871). Donjeux was incorporated into the newly created realm of Alsace-Lorraine of the German Empire through this treaty . The realm of Alsace-Lorraine existed until the end of the First World War (1914–1918) and was then dissolved, Donjeux fell back to France. The division of the departments was retained and the municipality remained in the Moselle department. As a French-speaking town, Donjeux was one of the last 247 parishes whose name was Germanized on September 2, 1915. The name was changed to "Domningen" and was the official place name until 1918.

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year 1793 1851 1861 1911 1921 1936 1946 1975 1982 1999 2007 2016
Residents 124 211 197 160 155 92 57 44 57 123 104 88

Donjeux had the greatest number of inhabitants in 1851 (211), then the number of inhabitants decreased until 1975. At that time the community only had 44 residents. Since then the population has recovered somewhat.

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms is red with a gold post and two silver salmon on the sides. The salmon turn their backs to each other. The metallic, heraldic colors silver and gold are shown on coats of arms in white and yellow.

Infrastructure

The nearest airport is Metz-Nancy-Lorraine Airport , located 15.9 kilometers northwest of Donjeux.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon Mediae Latinitatis (French / English) Retrieved May 3, 2010
  2. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 1 . Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 978-2-600-02884-4 , pp. 322 ( in Google Books [accessed May 3, 2010]). (French)
  3. ^ Henri Lepage: Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Meurthe . In: Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain (ed.): Dictionnaire topographique de la France . 6th edition. tape 14 , no. 18 . Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1862, p. 40 f. + 44 + 157 ( in Google Books [accessed April 27, 2010]). (French)
  4. ↑ a b Donjeux on Cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved on May 3, 2010
  5. ↑ Les 247 dernières communes à noms français, débaptisées seulement le 2 septembre 1915 (French) . Accessed May 3, 2010
  6. ↑ Union des Cercles Génealogiques Lorrains (French)
  7. ↑ Donjeux on Annuaire-mairie.fr (French) Retrieved May 3, 2010