Leménil-Mitry
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Nancy | |
| Canton | My au Saintois | |
| Community association | Pays du Saintois | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 27 ' N , 6 ° 15' E | |
| height | 280-360 m | |
| surface | 3.43 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 1 inhabitant / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 54740 | |
| INSEE code | 54310 | |
 northern entrance to the village |
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Leménil-Mitry (1793 still with the spelling Le Menil ) is a French commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Nancy and the Pays du Saintois municipality . With 3 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Leménil-Mitry is the smallest of the 591 municipalities in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.
geography
The municipality of Leménil-Mitry is located in eastern Saintois , about 25 kilometers southwest of Lunéville and 30 kilometers south of Nancy on a plateau between Madon and Moselle , which drops off steeply to the east to the Moselle valley.
The settlement itself consists of a now uninhabited, fenced castle (built in 1721, rebuilt in 1812 and 1840) with two outbuildings, a residential building and two farm buildings.
The municipal area consists of forest up to around 30 hectares of arable and meadow land.
Neighboring municipalities of Leménil-Mitry are Laneuveville-devant-Bayon in the northeast, Mangonville in the east, Bainville-aux-Miroirs in the southeast, Lebeuville in the south, Vaudeville in the west and Crantenoy in the northwest.
history
The place goes back to the knight family Mitry , which split into the two branches Fauconcourt and Ménil .
A plaque at the northern entrance to the village commemorates the 894 maquisards of Groupe Lorraine 42 who gathered in the woods around Leménil-Mitry in August 1944, supported by three Allied parachutists who brought weapons, ammunition and equipment to the assembly point.
Population development
In 1793, at the beginning of the surveys, 100 inhabitants were still counted in Leménol-Mitry.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 | |
| Residents | 9 | 4th | 5 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
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Economy and Infrastructure
The lord of the castle runs an agricultural business (mainly grain cultivation).
Leménil-Mitry can be reached from Gripport from the south and Laneuveville-devant-Bayon from the north . To the west of the municipality runs the motorway-like national road 57 ( E 23 ) from Nancy to Épinal (connection Bayon / Haroué 1500 m north of Leménil-Mitry).
Personalities
- Antoine de Mitry (1857–1924), French general in World War I, including commander of the 6th Army Corps in the Battle of the Aisne in 1917, the 9th Army in the Battle of the Marne in 1918 and commander of the Legion of Honor
supporting documents
- ↑ toponym on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Les Blasons des communes de Lorraine - LEMENIL MITRY. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Leménil-Mitry on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Leménil-Mitry on insee.fr
- ↑ Farm on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
