Lahaymeix

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Lahaymeix
Coat of arms of Lahaymeix
Lahaymeix (France)
Lahaymeix
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Dieue-sur-Meuse
Community association Aire à l'Argonne
Coordinates 48 ° 57 '  N , 5 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '  N , 5 ° 25'  E
height 240-353 m
surface 12.70 km 2
Residents 74 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55260
INSEE code 55269

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Lahaymeix is a French commune with 74 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 26 kilometers northeast of Bar-le-Duc in the center of the Meuse department. The community consists only of the place Lahaymeix. Large parts of the community are forested. The most important forest area is the Forêt Domaniale de Marcaulieu . Neighboring communities are Woimbey in the north, Bannoncourt in the north-east, Dompcevrin in the east and south-east, Fresnes-au-Mont in the south, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire in the south and south-west, Courouvre in the west and Thillombois in the north-west.

history

The name of today's municipality was first mentioned in 1270 as glue ice in a document from the Abbey of Saint-Benoît. 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 Lahaymeix fell to France in 1766. Until the French Revolution , the place was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois .

From 1793 to 1801 the municipality was assigned to the district of Saint-Mihiel and part of the canton of Dompcevin, then from 1801 to 2015 part of the canton of Pierrefitte-sur-Aire. Since 1801 Lahaymeix is ​​assigned to the Arrondissement Commercy.

Population development

year 1793 1841 1876 1911 1921 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 290 347 335 205 152 108 90 70 70 72 78 94 89 77
Source: Cassini (censuses up to 1999) and INSEE (official estimates as of January 1 from 2006)

Attractions

  • Saint-Germain village church , built in 1725
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Memorial stele for the Richier family murdered in Auschwitz
  • Vents des Forêts , wooden works of art in Lahaymeix and neighboring communities

  • Village center with Mairie (town hall), school and memorial for the fallen

  • Saint Germain Church

  • one of the wooden artworks

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 745-746.

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. ↑ Memorial stele for the deportees

Web links

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