Horville-en-Ornois

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Horville-en-Ornois
Coat of arms of Horville-en-Ornois
Horville-en-Ornois (France)
Horville-en-Ornois
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Ligny-en-Barrois
Community association Portes de Meuse
Coordinates 48 ° 30 '  N , 5 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '  N , 5 ° 28'  E
height 301-390 m
surface 7.62 km 2
Residents 57 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 7 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55130
INSEE code 55247

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Horville-en-Ornois is a French commune with 57 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the municipality association Portes de Meuse, founded in 2016 .

geography

The municipality of Horville-en-Ornois is located in the Barrois countryside in a very rural area in the south of the Meuse department, about 47 kilometers southeast of Saint-Dizier and 25 kilometers northeast of Neufchâteau . The 7.63 km² area of ​​the municipality is poorly forested and has only slight differences in altitude. The river Ognon , one of the source rivers of the Ornain , runs close to the eastern municipal boundary , which explains the name -en-Ornois . Horville-en-Ornois is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bonnet in the north, Gondrecourt-le-Château in the north-east, south-west and west and Dainville-Bertheléville in the south-east.

Place name

The village was first mentioned in 1580 as Dehorville . Via Dehonville (1700), Deonville and Dohudivilla (1707) and Dehuvilla and Horvilla (between 1711 and 1749), the place name finally developed from 1793 to Horville, which is still in use today . The place name probably goes back to the name of Hordius , one of the first landowners in the place. In 1924 the suffix -en-Ornois was introduced.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2016
Residents 91 76 64 63 58 51 58 58
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in parts from the 14th century, restored in 2010
  • Lavoir from 1888
  • Fountain

Economy and Infrastructure

Seven farms are located in Horville-en-Ornois (cultivation of grain, pulses and oilseeds, goat and sheep breeding).

Only a few kilometers west of Horville-en-Ornois is the 30-square-kilometer underground tunnel system of the underground laboratory operated by the French nuclear waste authority ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs) in Bure to research the local geological conditions for the construction of the Bure nuclear waste disposal facility .

Horville-en-Ornois is located away from the major national traffic flows. The D 32 road runs through the municipality from Gondrecourt-le-Château to Chassey-Beaupré . Further road connections lead to the municipalities of Bonnet and Mandres-en-Barrois . In Ligny-en-Barrois , 34 kilometers away, there is a connection to the motorway-like Route nationale 4 from Saint-Dizier to Toul . The train station in Neufchâteau, 30 kilometers away, is on the Culmont-Chalindrey-Toul railway line .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , p. 495.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Gondrecourt-le-Château, inventaire topographique, 1981, p. 225 ( ISBN 2-11-080752-0 )
  2. ↑ Place name on cassini-ehess.fr (French)
  3. ↑ Horville-en-Ornois on cassini.ehess.fr (French)
  4. ↑ Horville-en-Ornois on INSEE
  5. ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)

Web links

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