Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse

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Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse
Coat of arms of Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse
Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse (France)
Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Commercy
Canton Vaucouleurs
Community association Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs
Coordinates 48 ° 39 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′  N , 5 ° 41 ′  E
height 240-395 m
surface 7.67 km 2
Residents 257 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 34 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55140
INSEE code 55456

Town hall (Mairie) of the municipality

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Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse is a French commune with 257 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department 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 .

geography

Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse is located around 16 kilometers west-southwest of the small town of Toul in the south of the Meuse department on the border with the Meurthe-et-Moselle department . 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 forested (Bois de Saint-Germain). The community consists of the today merged villages of Saint-Germain and Les Grésines and a few individual farms.

Neighboring municipalities are Pagny-sur-Meuse in the north, Foug (in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department) in the east, Rigny-la-Salle and Ugny-sur-Meuse in the south, Vaucouleurs in the west and Ourches-sur-Meuse in the north-west.

history

Remains from Gallo-Roman times and the Roman road from Reims to Metz are evidence of early settlement. In what is now the municipality there was a bridge over the Meuse.

Like all places in the area, Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse 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 community was first mentioned in a document in 878 under the Latin name Sanctus-Germanus . The ruins of the submerged settlement of Amblainville (also called Saint-Gorgon) can be found in what is now the municipality. In the Middle Ages the community belonged to the Barrois non mouvant and was located within the Champagne region . Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse was part of the Bailliage Saint-Mihiel. Until the French Revolution , the community was in the Grand-gouvernement de Lorraine-et-Barrois . Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse was part of 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. Until 1919 the community was called Saint-Germain (without today's addition).

Population development

The parish shares the fate of many rural parishes in France. In the first half of the 19th century there were only minor fluctuations in the population. The rural exodus began later than in other places in the region. From the high in 1806 to the low in 1982, the number of residents decreased by 62.4 percent. In the last few decades the population has grown again sharply (1982–2016: +40.6 percent).

year 1793 1806 1841 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2016
Residents 500 510 497 303 281 216 192 220 241 248 268 270
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Remains of the Roman road from Reims to Metz with the remains of a milestone
  • Saint-Germain village church with tower from the 12th century
  • Notre-Dame de Massey chapel (sometimes called Saint-Hilaire church)
  • Former watermill Moulin de Chanteraine on the Ruisseau de Chanteraine
  • Statues of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Sainte-Anne on private homes
  • Memorial to the Fallen
  • two wayside crosses at the bridge over the Meuse and in Les Grésines
  • Wash house (Lavoir) on the Route d'Ugny-sur-Meuse

  • Saint Germain village church

  • Statue of Louis Curel, village fountain and church

  • Memorial to the Fallen

  • Wayside cross at the bridge over the Meuse

  • Statue of Saint-Jean-Baptiste

  • Notre-Dame de Massey chapel with statue

traffic

The community is located on the D36. The nearby D964 and the route nationale 4 , which runs a few kilometers to the north, with the next connection in the neighboring municipality of Pagny-sur-Meuse, are the most important transport links for the municipality.

The closest train station is Pagny-sur-Meuse on the Paris – Strasbourg line , around nine kilometers away.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 1047-1049.

Web links

Commons : Saint-Germain-sur-Meuse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name forms of the community
  2. ↑ Memorial to the Fallen