Torpes (Saône-et-Loire)

Torpes
region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Saône-et-Loire department
Arrondissement	Louhans
Canton	Pierre-de-Bresse
Community association	Bresse North Intercom '
Coordinates	46 ° 51 ′  N , 5 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 51 ′  N , 5 ° 20 ′  E
height	187-212 m
surface	15.70 km 2
Residents	372 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	24 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	71270
INSEE code	71541

Torpes 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 place has 372 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).

geography

The municipality is located in the Bresse landscape , slightly elevated above the Brenne , a right tributary of the Seille, and meets the Jura department in the southeast and south . It is shaped by the Brenne , which often causes floods and debris flows . It flows from Bellevesvre into the municipality, flows around the hill of Torpes north and then moves south, enriched by the two Ruisseaux in the municipality of Montjay . The Ruisseau des Armetières flows into the municipality from the west , serves the Étang de Neuillon , and then flows into the Brenne . The Ruisseau des Tenaudins flows from Mouthier-en-Bresse along the northern boundary of the municipality, leaves the municipality and flows further south through the municipality to flow into the Brenne . In the extreme east, La Darge finally flows through the municipality. In addition, the community has a large number of Biefs , artificial watercourses that serve to drain the cultivated areas. When it rains heavily, the plain between Torpes and Les Lorances is often under water and the road is sometimes impassable.

Only unimportant secondary roads open up to the municipality, the D23 département road comes from Bellevesvre into the municipality, touches the hamlets of Charnay and Le Portail , in order to finally reach Louhans via the Jura department . This road follows the route of the old Roman road that connected Louhans with Bellevesvre and Tavaux . The route was so cleverly laid out that the flood plain of Les Lorances was avoided.

The municipality is strongly characterized by agriculture, but has only very little forest areas. On the other hand, there are quite pronounced poplar plantations in the area of ​​the Brenne floodplain in the north and south of the municipality.

The municipality is highly sprawled, only about 20% of the population live in the Bourg , the rest in the numerous hamlets. The following hamlets and corridors belong to the municipality: Baraques, Charnay, Cretey, Dombe, Duchault, Ecoley, Giroflée, Laurences, Mortier, Monnots, Moulin-des-Prés, Neuillon, Portail, Tenaudins, Utre, Vailliers .

climate

The climate in Torpes 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. Over a year, the rainfall adds up to 827 mm.

Torpes
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     64   5 -1     61   7th 0     58   12 3     59   16 5     78   20th 9     78   24 13     60   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

It was first mentioned in the 12th century in the records of the Baume-les-Messieurs monastery , where Ecclesia de Torpa is mentioned and the existence of a church is documented. The name of the place seems to be of Celtic origin. Ernest Nègre traces the place name back to torp , in Langues d'oïl the term for taupe ( mole ), which could be used to describe the rather prominent hill on which the Torpes settlement is located.

history

Torpes owned a church in 1111, which is consecrated to Saint Veranus of Cavaillon († around 590).

Torpes was long part of the Bellevesvre lordship , which also included Mouthier-en-Bresse . In the 14th century, a de Torpes family appeared as masters of the place. In the 15th century the rule came to Philippe Pot , who issued a charter to the residents in the 15th century . In 1554 Torpes Alexandre de Saulx belonged and in the 18th century it finally came under the ownership of the Montessus as part of Bellevesvre County . The hamlet of Le Portail , however, belonged to Franche-Comté .

After the House of Burgundy died out in the male line in 1477, the Duchy of Burgundy went to France, but the Free County to the Burgundian Empire . The wars in the 16th and 17th centuries (war against the Savoyard Duke Charles Emanuel I , Thirty Years War and War of Devolution ) brought terrible disasters to the place on the outer edge of the Duchy of Burgundy, the whole area was largely depopulated and only recovered very slowly.

The castle had already been demolished in the 18th century; the current church dates from the 19th century and the schoolhouse was completed in 1956. In 1988 there were still 43 farms in the municipality.

population

Number of inhabitants
(source:)

year	1793	1800	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1872	1881	1886	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1946	1962	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011
Residents	1.002	929	1,138	1,162	1,264	1,296	1,287	1,358	1,395	1,402	1,338	1,347	1,296	1,145	1,056	840	641	486	410	351	364	383	392
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence

Economy and Infrastructure

West facade of the church

Church over the valley of the Brenne

mill Lambey

In the village there is a mill (with a focus on horse feed), a construction company, a forestry company and a carpenter's workshop. Of the around 21 farms, two are poultry breeders for Bresse chickens . As AOC products are in Torpes Comté and Morbier allowed further Volaille de Bresse and Dinde de Bresse .

Educational institutions

There is an École élémentaire in the municipality , which is subordinate to the Académie de Dijon and is attended by 18 children. The vacation schedule for zone A applies to the school.

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 : Torpes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Torpes. on INSEE. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques , accessed on January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Torpes. in the register of communes in France. Retrieved January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Torpes. in the Base Mérimée . Ministère de la Culture, accessed January 18, 2015 (French). 
• Torpes. 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 des Armetières , length 6.1 km, tributary to the Brenne , source at 46 ° 48 ′ 59.4 ″  N , 5 ° 17 ′ 9.2 ″  E in La Chaux at approx. 195 m, mouth at 46 ° 50 ' "4.6  N , 5 ° 19' 39"  O m in Torpes to about 184, Ruisseau of Armetières on sandre.eaufrance.fr
3. ↑ Ruisseau des Tenaudins , length 13.4 km, tributary to the Brenne , source at 46 ° 53 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 5 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  E in Mouthier-en-Bresse (as Bief Fourneau) at approx. 212 m , Mouth at 46 ° 50 '24.4 ″  N , 5 ° 19 ′ 32.2 ″  E in Torpes at about 186 m, Ruisseau des Tenaudins on sandre.eaufrance.fr
4. ↑ La Darge , length 10.2 km, tributary to the Brenne , source at 46 ° 50 ′ 36.2 ″  N , 5 ° 24 ′ 41.8 ″  E in Mouthier-en-Bresse at approx. 209 m, mouth at 46 ° 48 ′ 46.4 ″  N , 5 ° 19 ′ 42.6 ″  E in Le Planois at approx. 184 m, La Darge on sandre.eaufrance.fr
5. ^ Department road D23. on routes.wikia.com. Retrieved April 11, 2015 (French). 
6. ↑ Torpes. (PDF) in the Dictionnaire Topographique de Saône-et-Loire. Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, accessed on April 11, 2015 (French, search term: Ctrl+ FTorpes). 
7. ↑ Lucien Guillemaut: Histoire de la Bresse Louhannaise, Vol. 1, p. 191 Louhans 1897.
8. ^ Joachim Schäfer: Veranus von Cavaillon. from the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints. Retrieved April 14, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Population statistics on cassini.ehess.fr. Retrieved March 28, 2015 (French). 
10. ↑ Comté. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French). 
11. ↑ Morbier. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French). 
12. ^ Chicken de Bresse. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French). 
13. ↑ Dinde de Bresse. to INAO, L'Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité. Retrieved June 26, 2015 (French). 
14. ^ Homepage of the Académie de Dijon. Retrieved January 10, 2016 (French). 
15. ↑ Vacation and holiday schedule for Zone A. Torpes. Retrieved January 10, 2016 (French).