Montjoux

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Montjoux
Montjoux (France)
Montjoux
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Drôme
Arrondissement Nyons
Canton Dieulefit
Community association Dieulefit-Bourdeaux
Coordinates 44 ° 30 '  N , 5 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 30 '  N , 5 ° 6'  E
height 421-1,316 m
surface 18.35 km 2
Residents 332 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 18 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 26220
INSEE code 26202

Saint-Etienne church

Montjoux : (also Montjoux-La Paillette is called) is a French municipality with 332 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Drôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ; it belongs to the canton of Dieulefit in the arrondissement of Nyons .

geography

Montjoux consists of two parts: Montjoux and La Paillette . It is located at an average altitude of 460 meters above sea ​​level on the southern edge of the Drôme department in the valley of the Lez , a tributary of the Rhone , with its two tributaries, the Ruisseau de Combe Maret and the Veyssanne . The place is framed by the mountain ranges of the Massif des Baronnies of the Préalpes françaises .

Montjoux is located five kilometers southeast of Dieulefit and 32 kilometers east of Montélimar . The neighboring towns are Dieulefit, Vesc , Teyssières and Roche-Saint-Secret-Béconne .

Population development

year 1872 1901 1911 1946 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 559 295 265 185 156 158 172 229 252 295 310 339
Source:

history

The name of the place derives from the Latin Mons Jovis , mountain of Jupiter . The residents are called Montjevins (m) or Montjevines (f).

As in most of the region, people in Montjoux turned to the Protestant faith. During the Huguenot Wars there were also clashes here, especially in September 1688. As a result, many families left the place.

Historians attribute the strong depopulation of Montjoux in the 19th century to the fact that the pinewood stocks no longer provided sufficient sources of fuel for the pottery trade carried out in the area, and that there was therefore strong emigration due to the labor market.

In the summer of 1944 in Montjoux there was a command post of the Forces françaises de l'intérieur , a joint resistance army of the Gaullist resistance army " Armée secrète " and the communist Francs-Tireurs et partisans under the command of a Capitain Alain, who attempted to defeat the Germans To oppose the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS in order to liberate Valréas and the region from German occupation, but with a fatal outcome.

education

A public school is located in La Paillette .

traffic

The country roads (routes départementales) 538 from Dieulefit to Nyons and 330 lead through Montjoux, and routes départementales 130 and 330 through the district of La Paillette .

economy

The main occupation of Montjoux is agriculture, sheep and goat breeding and the cultivation of lavender and herbs. In 2000, 175 hectares of 289 hectares of arable land were designated for herb crops.

Attractions

  • Château de Montjoux , built at the end of the 15th century, rebuilt after decay in the 19th century. Now privately owned, it is open to visitors during the “Journées du Patrimoine” in September.
  • Tour des Catinoux (Catinoux Tower) : Rest of the medieval hilltop castle La Batie-la-Lance .
  • Remains of a medieval castle complex with a chapel.

Personalities

A. Sambuc, Protestant theologian ( La doctrine de rédemption d'après Saint Anselme. Toulouse 1868.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui.
  2. ↑ Montjoux on the website of the National Institute for Statistics in France (INSEE)
  3. ^ Raoul Blanchard: Les Alpes occidentales. Paris 1945, Volume 4, p. 349.
  4. ↑ Karl Heidinger: Resistance against the Wehrmacht. Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-0798-0 .
  5. ↑ Recensement agricole 2000 (Agrarbericht 2000) .

Web links

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