Fontaine-les-Grès

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Fontaine-les-Grès
Fontaine-les-Grès (France)
Fontaine-les-Grès
region Grand Est
Department Aube
Arrondissement Nogent-sur-Seine
Canton Creney-près-Troyes
Community association Seine et Aube
Coordinates 48 ° 25 '  N , 3 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '  N , 3 ° 55'  E
height 89-146 m
surface 12.16 km 2
Residents 876 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 72 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 10280
INSEE code 10151
Website http://www.fontainelesgres.fr/

Fontaine-les-Grès is a French commune with 876 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aube department in the Grand Est region . The place belongs to the arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Seine and the canton of Creney-près-Troyes . In addition, the community is part of the company founded in 2007 Municipalities of His Fontaine Beauregard . The inhabitants are called Fontainats / Fontainates .

geography

Fontaine-les-Grès is located around 19 kilometers north-west of Troyes in the north-west of the Aube department. The municipality consists of the two villages of Fontaine and Les Grès.

Neighboring communities are Saint-Mesmin in the north-west, north and north-east, Savières in the north-east, east and south-east, Le Pavillon-Sainte-Julie in the south-west and Échemines in the west.

history

Until the French Revolution, Fontaine-les-Grès was within the province of Champagne . The parish belonged to the district of Nogent-sur-Seine from 1793 to 1801. Since 1801 it has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Seine. From 1793 to 1801 the place was assigned to the canton of Marigny. Then from 1801 to 1973 the canton of Romilly (sur-Seine). And from 1973 to 2015 the municipality was within the canton of Méry-sur-Seine .

Population development

year 1793 1800 1846 1861 1866 1906 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 284 237 478 433 494 385 865 891 846 863 915 905 893 874
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Sainte-Agnès village church
  • Saint-Nicolas and Sainte-Marthe chapels
  • two wayside crosses on the main road
  • Memorial to the Fallen

  • Saint-Nicolas chapel

  • Memorial to the Fallen

Web links

Commons : Fontaine-les-Grès  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen