Louvergny
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| local community | Bairon et ses environs | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Ardennes | |
| Arrondissement | Vouziers | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 33 ' N , 4 ° 44' E | |
| Post Code | 08390 | |
| Former INSEE code | 08261 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 View of Louvergny with the church |
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Louvergny is a village and a former French commune with 66 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region . It belonged to the arrondissement of Vouziers and the canton of the same name . The inhabitants of Louvergny are called Marinettes .
With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Le Chesne , Louvergny and Les Alleux were merged to form a Commune nouvelle called Bairon et ses environs and have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality .
geography
Louvergny lies on the edge of the Argonne on a pre-Jurassic ridge that geologically divides the department. A large forest stretches between Louvergny in the south and Omont and Vendresse in the north. The place is located in the valley of the river Bairon , which was dammed a few kilometers south to the reservoir Lac de Bairon .
Population development
- 1962: 140
- 1968: 111
- 1975: 93
- 1982: 95
- 1990: 90
- 1999: 75
- 2016: 67
history
The place is first documented at the beginning of the 13th century. The lords of Louvergny were vassals of the Counts of Rethel , including Jean de Louvergny 1234, Raymond and Estevin de Louvergny 1322, Richard de Louvergny 1397. In the 17th century, the name passed to a branch of the Moët family, which died out in 1797.
Saint-Guillaume Priory
The Wilhelmites priory was founded in 1249 by Count Johann I von Rethel. It was the first monastery of this order, to which a large number of houses in Flanders and Germany already belonged, in France. The priory existed until 1643, when it passed to the nuns of Sainte-Marie de Mouzon . In the second half of the 18th century the buildings were used as a farm. They are listed for the last time in the Napoleonic cadastre. Today only the place name L'Abbaye reminds of the monastery.
church
There is also nothing left of the Romanesque church from the 12th century. It stood in the center of the cemetery and was replaced by the current church in 1896.
