Rigny-la-Salle

Rigny-la-Salle
region	Grand Est
Department	Meuse
Arrondissement	Commercy
Canton	Vaucouleurs
Community association	Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates	48 ° 37 ' N , 5 ° 42' E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ' N , 5 ° 42' E
height	242-392 m
surface	10.28 km 2
Residents	365 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	55140
INSEE code	55433
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Rigny-la-Salle is a French commune with 365 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region ( Lorraine until 2015 ); it belongs to the Arrondissement Commercy and the community association Communauté de communes de Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs .

geography

Rigny-la-Salle is located around 16 kilometers southwest of the small town of Toul in the south of the Meuse department on the border with the Meurthe-et-Moselle department . In terms of traffic, the municipality is not located on supraregional traffic routes. The nearby D964 and the route nationale 4 running a few kilometers to the north with the next connection in Pagny-sur-Meuse are the most important transport links for the municipality. The place is on the Ruisseau de Beaumelle near the Meuse , which in parts forms the western municipal boundary. Large parts of the east of the municipality are wooded (Bois de Rigny-la-Salle). The community consists of the now merged villages of Rigny-la-Salle and La Petite Fin and a few individual farms.

Neighboring municipalities are Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse in the north, Foug (in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department) in the northeast, Choloy-Ménillot (in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department) in the east, Rigny-Saint-Martin in the south, Chalaines in the Southwest, Vaucouleurs in the west and Ugny-sur-Meuse in the northwest.

history

Like all places in the area, Rigny-la-Salle suffered from conflicts 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 971 under the Latin name Rigneium . In the Middle Ages the community belonged to the Barrois mouvant and was within the Champagne region . Rigny-la-Salle was part of the Bailliage Chaumont. Until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois . Rigny-la-Salle belonged to the Gondrecourt district from 1793 to 1801. Also since 1793 to the canton of Vaucouleurs. The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.

Population development

The parish shares the fate of many rural parishes in France. In the first half of the 19th century the population was always more than 700 people. From 1876 there was a rural exodus, which greatly reduced the number of residents (1876–1990: −52.8 percent). The population has grown again in the last few decades.

year	1793	1836	1876	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011	2016
Residents	625	826	640	405	409	397	332	302	323	365	398	368
Sources: Cassini and INSEE