Mecrin

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Mecrin
Coat of arms of Mécrin
Mécrin (France)
Mecrin
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Commercy
Community association Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates 48 ° 50 '  N , 5 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '  N , 5 ° 32'  E
height 222-358 m
surface 10.19 km 2
Residents 224 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55300
INSEE code 55329

Village entrance and church

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Mécrin is a French commune with 224 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the community association Communauté de communes de Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs . The residents call themselves Mécrinois / Mécrinoises .

geography

Mécrin is located around 50 kilometers northwest of Nancy in the southern half of the Meuse department. The place is located on the Meuse in the far west of the Lorraine Regional Nature Park . Large parts of the east of the municipality are forested (Bois Mulot and Les Esmonts).

Neighboring communities are Han-sur-Meuse in the north-west and north, Apremont-la-Forêt in the east, Pont-sur-Meuse in the south-east and east, Vadonville in the south-west and Sampigny in the west.

history

Like all parishes in the area, the parish suffered from conflict in the Middle Ages. The worst devastation was caused by the Hundred Years War and the Thirty Years War . The name of today's municipality was first mentioned in a document in 812 under the name Mesumbriga . In the Middle Ages, today's community was in the Barrois non mouvant within Champagne and belonged to the Bailliage Saint-Mihiel. From 1766 until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois . Mécrin was part of the Saint-Mihiel district from 1793 to 1801. From 1793 to 1801 it was part of the canton of Sampigny. It has been in the canton of Commercy since 1801 and is assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy.

Population development

The population development is atypical for a French rural community. The developments between 1793 and 1851 are normal with strong growth and the subsequent strong rural exodus until 1921. However, the number of inhabitants grew again until 1954. Between 1954 and 1982 there was another wave of emigration.

year 1793 1851 1921 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 425 496 226 332 322 258 231 210 236 228 246 235 222
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Saint Èvre village church
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • Memorial for the fallen of the 56e RI
  • Wash house (Lavoir) on the D12a
  • Crossroads on the Route de Brassette

  • Town hall (Mairie) of the municipality

  • Saint Èvre village church

  • Memorial to the Fallen

traffic

The community is located on the D12a. The D964, which passes to the west, and the Route nationale 4 , which runs just a few kilometers to the south, with the next connection in Saulvaux, are the most important national transport links for the municipality.

The closest train station is Lérouville on the Paris – Strasbourg and Lérouville – Metz lines , around one kilometer away.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 306-307.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name forms of the community
  2. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen
  3. ^ Memorial site for the fallen of the 56e RI