Vanvey

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Vanvey
Vanvey Coat of Arms
Vanvey (France)
Vanvey
region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement Montbard
Canton Châtillon-sur-Seine
Community association Communes du Pays Châtillonnais
Coordinates 47 ° 50 '  N , 4 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '  N , 4 ° 43'  E
height 242-376 m
surface 16.80 km 2
Residents 233 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 14 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 21400
INSEE code 21655
Website www.vanvey.fr

Mayor's Office ( Mairie ) of Vanvey

Vanvey is a French municipality with 233 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Côte-d'Or in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comté (before 2016: Burgundy ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Montbard and the canton of Châtillon-sur-Seine .

The inhabitants are called Vanvéens and Vanvéennes .

geography

Vanvey is located about ten kilometers east-southeast of Châtillon-sur-Seine in its catchment area ( Aire urbaine ) in the Châtillonnais, a natural region .

Vanvey is surrounded by the four neighboring communities:

Louesme
Maisey-le-Duc Neighboring communities Voulaines-les-Templiers
Villiers-le-Duc

Vanvey is in the catchment area of the river Seine . The Ource , a tributary of the Seine, crosses the territory of the municipality.

View of the center of Vanvey
Crossroads at the place with the field name Moulin-du-haut

history

The Saint-Phal site in the extreme south of the municipality is at an altitude of 306 meters. Aerial photographs show traces of an earlier fortification around the summit, which could point to a prehistoric oppidum . The existence of a cemetery from the Merovingian era has been known for a long time . An excavation has not yet taken place. However, numerous sarcophagi from the area and a belt lock from the seventh century have been recovered. The cemetery has been in use since then. The building of a church in honor of a Merovingian saint is therefore likely. The Christianization took place in the eighth or ninth century.

Originally Vanvey was a part of Villiers-le-Duc and thus belonged to his manor . For more than 800 years it comprised a hamlet, a water mill , a forge, a smelting furnace and a small priory belonging to the Saint-Bénigne Abbey in Dijon . Gilles Buretey, tailor from Toulouse and chamberlain of the brother-in-law of the French king Henry III. , received permission from Heinrich IV in 1596 to build a second wheat mill and a fulling mill . The new mill was later converted into a foundry, then a melting furnace, and finally a sawmill . In 1645 the people of Vanvey built a third mill upriver from the forge. The priory was founded in 990 by Adelheid of Burgundy . It was transferred to the Benedictine order in 1450 and existed until the French Revolution . Due to the industry, the population and the importance of Vanvey increased, so that in the 16th century a troop of 500 arquebusiers could be set up and in 1500 a city ​​wall with towers and three city ​​gates was built. These defensive measures proved their worth during the Huguenot Wars , when 3,000 German mercenaries appeared in July 1586 and wanted to extort goods. After 15 days of siege, they withdrew unsuccessfully and pillaged other communities in the area, especially Massingy . The eighth Huguenot war had the character of a civil war and fueled aspirations for independence in France, as in Vanvey. In 1631 another royal army was forced to withdraw, in 1636 another royal army looted the works outside the city walls, the gates of which were locked again. The city wall could not prevent Austrian troops from temporarily moving into quarters during the coalition wars of 1814 and from November 1870 to April 1871 during the Franco-Prussian War numerous troops marched through the community and demanded a significant contribution to supplies.

In 1882 the railway line between Châtillon-sur-Seine and Is-sur-Tille was inaugurated with a train station in Vanvey. It promoted a boom in sawmills and blacksmiths in Vanvey. In addition to the goods, people were also transported. In 1993, regular operations on the line were discontinued.

In the 1960s, buildings were erected in Vanvey to house Harkis and their families. The men were employed by the Office national des forêts to build paths in the Châtillon forest. The camp was closed around 1970. The families relocated to neighboring communities, looked for a new job or moved to live with relatives in the south of France.

Population development

After records began, the population rose to a high of around 925 by the first half of the 19th century. In the following period, the size of the community decreased with short recovery phases, a trend that continues to this day.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2017
Residents 426 563 412 332 356 313 287 227 233
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 2006, INSEE from 2011

Attractions

Parish Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

Parish Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption inside view
Parish Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
inside view

It was built between 1781 and 1786 to replace the previous medieval building. The reason for this was that at the beginning of the 17th century the previous parish church, the Saint-Phal chapel , became a branch church of the parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the neighboring parish of Villiers-le-Duc. Between 1831 and 1833 the dilapidated vestibule was torn down and replaced by a smaller new building with a triangular gable and four columns designed by the architect Simon Tridon from Châtillon-sur-Seine.

With the exception of the porch, the church has been inscribed as a monument historique since July 23, 1976 .

Among the numerous items of equipment that are inscribed in the inventory of the cultural heritage, there are also two objects that are classified as Monument historique of movable property. It is a pulpit made of oak from the end of the 18th century and a group of sculptures made of painted and partially gilded wood with the representation of Mary as she is taken into heaven between two angels . The figures of angels come from the 17th century, the figure of Mary from the first half of the 19th century.

Saint-Phal Chapel

Chapelle Saint-Phal.jpg
Saint-Phal Chapel
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Choir
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Wall painting


It is dedicated to St. Fidolus, who lived in the sixth century and was a priest and second abbot of the monastery in Isle-Aumont near Troyes . His feast day is May 16, and pilgrimages were held on this day, with up to 10,000 people taking part in the early 19th century. At times, a bone from the saint's forearm was kept as a relic in the chapel after it was built before it was transferred to the parish church of Vanvey.

In the 15th or 16th century the chapel or church from the eighth or ninth century was restored and a little later significantly expanded. It was damaged and disintegrated during the French Revolution. The transept , which consisted of two side chapels, and the nave were demolished in 1816, so that only the polygonal apse and the crossing with the bell tower above remain. The roof and the spire were renewed in 1903. The chapel has been classified as a Monument historique since February 4th and inscribed since March 7th 1990.

In 1885 a large wall painting was discovered under a thin coat of paint depicting the biblical scene of the Annunciation . It dates from the 15th or 16th century and has been classified as a Monument historique since February 4, 1965 .

Wash house

Wash house

It was built between 1770 and 1773 on the banks of the Ource River and has been inscribed as a Monument historique since June 24, 1976 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Époisses cheese in its wooden box

Vanvey is in the AOC des Époisses zone , a cheese made from cow's milk.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
total = 19

traffic

Vanvey can be reached via Routes départementales 102M, 112A and 928, the former Route nationale 428 .

Web links

Commons : Vanvey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Côte-d'Or ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ Aire urbaine de Châtillon-sur-Seine (336) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ L'Ource ( fr ) SANDRE (Service d'Administration Nationale des Données et Référentiels sur l'Eau). Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Histoire du site de Saint Phal ( fr ) Association des amis de Saint Phal. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Claude Auguste Jayer: Monographie de la commune Vanvey ( fr , PDF) Vanvey community. 1888. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Histoire de la gare de Vanvey ( fr ) Vanvey municipality. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  7. ^ Histoire des Harkis du hameau forestier de Vanvey ( fr ) Vanvey municipality. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Notice Communale Vanvey ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Vanvey (21655) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ L'église de l'Assomption de la Vierge-Marie à Vanvey (21) ( fr ) petit-patrimoine.com. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  11. ↑ église paroissiale de l'Assomption ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . March 17, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  12. ↑ Eglise à l'exclusion du clocher ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . September 22, 2015. Accessed September 4, 2019.
  13. ↑ chaire à prêcher ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . December 23, 1992. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  14. ↑ groupe sculpté: la Vierge de l'Assomption entre deux ans ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . December 23, 1992. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  15. ↑ Histoire du site de Saint Phal ( fr ) Association des amis de Saint Phal. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  16. ↑ Histoire du site de Saint Phal ( fr ) Association des amis de Saint Phal. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  17. ^ Chapelle Saint-Phal ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . December 10, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  18. ↑ peinture monumentale: l'Annonciation ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . December 23, 1992. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  19. ^ Lavoir ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . November 17, 1994. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  20. ^ Lavoir ( fr ) French Ministry of Culture . September 22, 2015. Accessed September 4, 2019.
  21. ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  22. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Vanvey (21655) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 30, 2019.