Longemaison
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Doubs | |
| Arrondissement | Pontarlier | |
| Canton | Valdahon | |
| Community association | Portes du Haut-Doubs | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 5 ' N , 6 ° 28' E | |
| height | 730–1,091 m | |
| surface | 9.63 km 2 | |
| Residents | 154 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 16 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 25690 | |
| INSEE code | 25343 | |
 Church of the Immaculate Conception ( Église de l'Immaculée-Conception ) |
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Longemaison is a French municipality with 154 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Longemaison is located at 855 m above sea level, ten kilometers southeast of Valdahon and about 36 kilometers east-southeast of the city of Besançon (as the crow flies). The scattered settlement extends in the Jura , on a plateau at the northern foot of Mont Chaumont, south of the Avoudrey basin.
The area of the 9.63 km² municipality covers a section of the French Jura. The main part of the area is occupied by a low relief Jura plateau, which averages 820 m. It is characterized by several parallel, predominantly wooded ridges and troughs or depressions in between, which are partly peaty and otherwise have pastureland. The plateau has no above-ground watercourses because the rainwater seeps into the karstified subsoil. To the south, the community area extends over the wide ridge of Mont Chaumont , on which the highest point of Longemaison is reached at 1092 m. This ridge forms an anticline of the Jura folds and is oriented in the south-west-north-east direction according to the direction of the mountain range in this region. The summit area is covered by pastureland.
Longemaison includes various hamlets and numerous individual farms, including:
- Le Vernois (830 m) on the plateau at the north foot of Mont Chaumont
- Montarmeux (785 m) on the plateau north of the village
Neighboring municipalities of Longemaison are Avoudrey in the north, Flangebouche in the east, Gilley and Arc-sous-Cicon in the south and Passonfontaine in the west.
history
The Longemaison area was formerly part of Avoudrey. After the French Revolution , the scattered farms at the foot of Mont Chaumont were separated from Avoudrey and the municipality of Longemaison was formed in 1792. The community got its name from the La Longue Maison . Since 1998, Longemaison has been a member of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Pierrefontaine-Vercel, which comprises 44 localities .
On January 1, 2009 there was a change in the arrondissement membership of the municipality. Previously belonging to the Arrondissement Besançon , all municipalities of the canton came to the Arrondissement Pontarlier.
Attractions
The village church of Longemaison was built in 1829 on the site of an earlier chapel.
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 187 |
| 1968 | 191 |
| 1975 | 140 |
| 1982 | 116 |
| 1990 | 112 |
| 1999 | 121 |
| 2006 | 130 |
| 2016 | 153 |
With 154 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) Longemaison is one of the smallest municipalities in the Doubs department. After the population had decreased markedly in the first half of the 20th century (304 people were still counted in 1881), only minor fluctuations have been recorded since the beginning of the 1980s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Longemaison was a village dominated by agriculture (dairy and cattle breeding, arable farming) and forestry until well into the 20th century. Even today, the residents live mainly from their work in the first sector. Outside the primary sector there are few jobs in the village. Some workers are also commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
The village is off the major thoroughfares on a departmental road that leads from Avoudrey to Gilley. Further road connections exist with Arc-sous-Cicon, Passonfontaine and Orchamps-Vennes. Longemaison had a station on the Besançon – Le Locle railway line .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Doubs. Volume 2, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-087-6 , pp. 1340-1341.
