Loray
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| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Doubs | |
| Arrondissement | Pontarlier | |
| Canton | Valdahon | |
| Community association | Portes du Haut-Doubs | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 9 ' N , 6 ° 30' E | |
| height | 550-971 m | |
| surface | 14.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 521 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 36 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 25390 | |
| INSEE code | 25349 | |
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Loray is a French municipality with 521 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
geography
Loray is located at 742 m above sea level, twelve kilometers east of Valdahon and about 37 kilometers east-southeast of the city of Besançon (as the crow flies). The village extends in the Jura , on a slope inclined slightly to the west on the eastern edge of the Avoudrey basin, at the foot of the Roche Barchey.
The area of the 14.39 km² municipal area covers a section of the French Jura. The western part of the area is occupied by the Avoudrey Basin, which has a width of about 4 km and a length of almost 10 km and averages 720 m. It is mostly made up of arable and meadow land. The plateau has no above-ground watercourses because the rainwater seeps into the karstified subsoil. A dry valley is sunk into the basin , which topographically belongs to the catchment area of the Reverotte (tributary of the Dessoubre ). To the north of Loray, this hollow deepens more and more into the plateau and finally reaches the source of the Reverotte. This flows in a wooded erosion valley, partially marked by rock bands, to the east and in sections forms the northern municipal boundary.
To the east, the community area extends over the predominantly wooded ridge of the Roche Barchay , on which the highest point of Loray is reached at 988 m. It forms an anticline of the Jura folds and is oriented in the south-west-north-east direction according to the strike direction of the mountains. The Col des Ages pass (787 m), a valley furrow between the Roche Barchey and the height of the Bois de la Côte (931 m), also belongs to the municipality.
Loray includes the hamlet of Les Ages-de-Loray (753 m) at the entrance to the Col des Ages valley furrow and the Martinvaux farm (595 m) in the Reverotte valley. Neighboring municipalities of Loray are Domprel and La Sommette in the north, Plaimbois-Vennes and Vennes in the east, Orchamps-Vennes in the south and Flangebouche and Grandfontaine-sur-Creuse in the west.
history
Loray was probably founded before 1100. In the Middle Ages the village was a fiefdom of the Vercel dominion . Together with Franche-Comté , it came to France with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Today Loray is a member of the Portes du Haut-Doubs municipal association .
On January 1, 2009, the arrondissement membership of the municipality was changed. Previously belonging to the Arrondissement Besançon , all municipalities of the canton came to the Arrondissement Pontarlier.
Attractions
- The Saint-Michel church was built in 1837 on the site of an earlier church. It has oak choir stalls in the Louis XV style .
- There is a carved stone cross from the 12th century by the church.
- A 400 year old linden tree.
- Wash house ( Monument historique ), built in 1851
population
| Population development | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1962 | 368 |
| 1968 | 356 |
| 1975 | 305 |
| 1982 | 365 |
| 1990 | 372 |
| 1999 | 404 |
| 2006 | 435 |
| 2016 | 498 |
With 521 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) Loray is one of the small communities in the Doubs department. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (552 people were still counted in 1896), population growth has been recorded again since the mid-1970s.
Economy and Infrastructure
Until the 20th century, Loray was a village dominated by agriculture (cattle breeding and dairy farming, arable farming). In addition, there are now various local small businesses. Many workers are also commuters who work in the surrounding larger towns.
The village is well developed in terms of traffic. It is located near the main road D461 that leads from Besançon to Morteau . Loray and Les Ages-de-Loray are now relieved of through traffic by a four-lane bypass. Other road connections exist with Flangebouche, Plaimbois-Vennes and Domprel.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Doubs. Volume 2, Flohic Editions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-087-6 , pp. 892-893.
