Montjay (Saône-et-Loire)

Montjay
region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Louhans
Canton	Pierre-de-Bresse
Community association	Bresse Revermont 71
Coordinates	46 ° 48 '  N , 5 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '  N , 5 ° 19'  E
height	182-209 m
surface	11.03 km 2
Residents	202 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	18 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	71310
INSEE code	71314

Montjay is a French commune in the department of Saone-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Louhans and the canton of Pierre-de-Bresse . The community belongs since July 2011. the municipal association Bresse Revermont 71 at. The place has 202 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

geography

The municipality is located in the Bresse countryside , in the northern third of the Louhans arrondissement on a hill above the Brenne valley. The Jura department penetrates far into the area of the Saône-et-Loire department , so that Montjay borders the municipality of Chapelle-Voland in the northeast . The Brenne flows through the northeastern municipal area and then forms the eastern municipal boundary. The Ruisseau de l'Étang de Bouhans has its source in the southern municipality . The northern municipal area is drained by a network of Biefs (artificially created watercourses that are used to manage the Étangs ), which also flow into the Brenne . Montjay is not on any major road, only the department road D137 (Bellevesvre - Torpes - Saint-Germain-du-Bois) leads through the village. The municipality has practically no contiguous forest areas. The community is highly sprawled, with over three quarters of the population living in the hamlets, which often have only one or two houses. The following hamlets and corridors belong to the municipality: Arbois, Chancelle, Chapuis, Chardenière, Chaudenard, Étang-Touley, Grange-Bernard, Haut-de-Montjay, Île, Merlins, Motte, Mouilles, Parets, Picards, Plateaux, Ponces, Rabottière, Reppe .

climate

The climate in Montjay is warm and temperate. There is significant rainfall throughout the year, even the driest month still has high rainfall. The effective climate classification according to Köppen and Geiger is Cfb . The annual average temperature is 11.0 ° C. Spread over a year, the rainfall adds up to 825 mm.

Montjay
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     63   5 -1     61   7th 0     58   12 3     59   16 6th     78   20th 9     78   24 13     59   26th 14th     79   25th 14th     78   22nd 11     66   16 7th     79   10 3     67   5 0 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: climate-data.org

Toponymy

The first mention of a place in the municipality concerns Motte , which is mentioned in 1157 as in the Curia de Montegerio , then in 1216 a Guido de Montjay is mentioned. The place itself is called La Faye in 1422/23 , in 1462 the church is mentioned as l'esglise du Fay , in 1469 the place is called Moisenant . This name remains until 1783 Montjay ou Moisenans appears and Montjay is subsequently retained as the name for the municipality. The name probably goes back to mons gaudii (mountain of joy). This name was given to Monte do Gozo in Jacob's book , the point on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela at which the longed-for destination first becomes visible. Derivations from mons gaudii or mont de joie have often led to names for place names or hamlets in France.

history

Moisenant had belonged to the Bouton family from the 15th century until Jeanne Bouton married in 1623 and the rule passed to Ponthus de Thiard.Since 1587, the rule belonged to the de Gréen family , who owned a castle in the hamlet of Plateaux whose square tower was in the 18th century was still visible. The castle itself has completely disappeared; At the hamlet of L'Îsle there is a deep pond called le Gour , in the vicinity of which wall remains have been found. Allegedly the old castle stood here, about which it is said that every year on Christmas night the tinkling of the old bell tower could be heard in the Gour . By marriage, the rule came to the Raquet de Lorme family . Part of the community belonged to the de Scorailles family in the mid-18th century .

In canon law, Montjay was part of the parish of La Chaux . In 1768 a separate parish was established in Montjay with the construction of the church, which is dedicated to Saint Peter and which was renovated in the 19th century. A mixed school class was once housed in today's Mairie . In 1988 there were still 28 farms.

population

Number of inhabitants
(source:)

year	1793	1800	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1872	1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1946	1962	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011
Residents	623	581	720	751	804	789	713	770	799	760	791	752	688	562	456	412	313	237	211	196	191	191
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence

Montjay Church

View of the village of Montjay

Economy and Infrastructure

Today Montjay is an agricultural place without its own infrastructure or shops. Only the Mairie (parish hall) and a church (consecrated to Saint Peter) are located in the village, the community does not have its own school, the children are educated in schools in the surrounding communities. There are 16 farms and two construction companies in the community. As AOC products are in Montjay de Bresse Volaille and Dinde de Bresse admitted.

literature

• Claude Courtépée (1721–1781): Description historique et topographique du Duché de Bourgogne . tape 5 . Chez Causse, Dijon 1780 (French, Google Books ).
• Lucien Guillemaut (1842-1917): Histoire de la Bresse Louhannaise. Vol. 1, Louhans 1897.
• Lucien Guillemaut (1842–1917): Armoiries et familles nobles de la Bresse louhannaise: armoiries ouvrières, armoiries particulières et de familles . Vve L. Romand, Louhans 1909 (French, gallica ).

Web links

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

• Montjay. on INSEE. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques , accessed on January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Montjay. in the register of communes in France. Retrieved January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Montjay. in the Base Mérimée . Ministère de la Culture, accessed January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Montjay. in Archives départementales. Saône-et-Loire department, accessed on January 21, 2016 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Brenne , length 53.8 km, tributary to Bras la Seillette Aval, source at 46 ° 47 ′ 46 ″  N , 5 ° 40 ′ 6.6 ″  E in Miéry at approx. 437 m, mouth at 46 ° 44 ′ 12.8 ″  N , 5 ° 17 ′ 27.2 ″  E in Sens-sur-Seille at approx. 181 m, La Brenne on sandre.eaufrance.fr
2. ↑ Ruisseau de l'Étang de Bouhans , length of 3.4 km, flow to the combustor , source at 46 ° 47 '17.5 "  N , 5 ° 16' 51.6"  O in Serley to about 188 m, at the mouth 46 ° 45 ′ 49 ″  N , 5 ° 17 ′ 52.4 ″  E in Bouhans at approx. 182 m, Ruisseau de l'Étang de Bouhans on sandre.eaufrance.fr
3. ↑ Montjay. (PDF) in the Dictionnaire Topographique de Saône-et-Loire. Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, accessed on May 2, 2015 (French, search term: Ctrl+ FMontjay). 
4. ↑ Population statistics on cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved April 30, 2015 (French). 
5. ^ Chicken de Bresse. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French). 
6. ↑ Dinde de Bresse. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French).