Goussaincourt

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Goussaincourt
Goussaincourt Coat of Arms
Goussaincourt (France)
Goussaincourt
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Vaucouleurs
Community association Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates 48 ° 29 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  E
height 263-411 m
surface 10.33 km 2
Residents 116 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 11 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55140
INSEE code 55217

Entrance to the village of Goussaincourt

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Goussaincourt is a French commune with 116 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region ( Lorraine until 2015 ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the community association Communauté de communes de Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs . The residents call themselves Goussaincourtois / Goussaincourtoises .

geography

Goussaincourt is located around 43 kilometers southwest of Nancy in the south of the Meuse department on the border with the Vosges department . The place is west of the Meuse . The west of the municipality is forested (Bois de Goussaincourt and Bois de Tannière).

Neighboring municipalities are Burey-la-Côte in the north, Sauvigny in the northeast, Brixey-aux-Chanoines in the east, Greux (in the Vosges department) in the south, Vouthon-Haut in the southwest and west, Vouthon-Bas in the west and Taillancourt in the northwest.

history

Like all other places in the area, Goussaincourt 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 parish was first mentioned in a document in 1327 under the name Goussaincour . In the Middle Ages, the place had two rulers until 1766. Part of Goussaincourt 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 place was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois .

Goussaincourt belonged to the Gondrecourt district from 1793 to 1801. From 1793 to 1801 the municipality was the capital of a canton. It has been in the canton of Vaucouleurs since 1801. 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. The rural exodus began in 1835. From the high in 1806 to the low in 1982, the number of residents decreased by 80.2 percent. The population has grown again in the last few decades (1982–2016: +18.8 percent).

year 1793 1806 1836 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 500 509 468 186 174 134 101 120 104 114 116 120
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Castle Château de Goussaincourt (private property) from the 17th century, Monument historique since 2009 Château de Goussaincourt
  • Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais village church ; Choir from the 15th century, the rest of the church is from 1782
  • Source Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais on Grande Rue
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Wash house (Lavoir) from 1804
  • Wayside cross on Grande Rue and the wayside cross Croix Jean de Tanron west of the village

  • Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais village church

  • Memorial to the Fallen

traffic

The community is located on the D964. This and the eastern European route 21 with the next connection in Allain are the most important traffic connections for the municipality.

The closest train station is Neufchâteau 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. 1033-1035.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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