Sauvoy
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Commercy | |
| Canton | Vaucouleurs | |
| Community association | Commercy-Void-Vaucouleurs | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 38 ' N , 5 ° 36' E | |
| height | 252-363 m | |
| surface | 7.82 km 2 | |
| Residents | 62 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 8 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 55190 | |
| INSEE code | 55475 | |
 Statue of Joan of Arc at Le Chalet |
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Sauvoy is a French commune with 62 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
Sauvoy is located around 22 kilometers west-southwest of the city of Toul in the south of the Meuse department. In terms of transport, the community is a few kilometers south of Route nationale 4 with the next connection in Void-Vacon. The place is located on the Méholle and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin . Large parts of the municipality are forested. The community consists of the village of Sauvoy, the hamlet of Sainte-Valérie and a few individual farms.
Neighboring municipalities are Void-Vacon in the north, Vaucouleurs in the east and south, Villeroy-sur-Méholle in the south, Broussey-en-Blois in the west and Naives-en-Blois in the north-west.
history
Like all places in the area, Sauvoy 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 the Merovingian period under the name Salviaco / Silviago . In the Middle Ages, the community belonged to the Barrois mouvant and was part of the Champagne . Sauvoy was part of the District of Commercy from 1793 to 1801. Also from 1793 to 2015 to the canton of Void-Vacon. The parish has been assigned to the Arrondissement of Commercy since 1801.
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1851 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 |
| Residents | 261 | 239 | 114 | 109 | 91 | 89 | 76 | 68 | 64 | 63 | 63 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Aubin village church
- Statue of Joan of Arc on the northern parish boundary in Le Chalet
- Memorial to the Fallen
- Three wayside crosses at the southern and northern end of the village and on the D134 west of the Méholle
Saint-Aubin village church
Bridge over the Méholle near Sainte-Valérie
Tunnel and path at Sainte-Valérie
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 1238-1239.
