Villers-sous-Pareid

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Villers-sous-Pareid
Coat of arms of Villers-sous-Pareid
Villers-sous-Pareid (France)
Villers-sous-Pareid
region Grand Est
Department Meuse
Arrondissement Verdun
Canton Etain
Community association Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre
Coordinates 49 ° 7 '  N , 5 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '  N , 5 ° 44'  E
height 200-226 m
surface 6.12 km 2
Residents 79 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 13 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 55160
INSEE code 55565

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Villers-sous-Pareid is a French commune with 79 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015: Lorraine ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Verdun , the canton of Étain (until 2015: canton Fresnes-en-Woëvre ) and the Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre, founded in 1996 .

geography

The municipality is located around 26 kilometers southeast of Verdun in the Woëvre region . Villers-sous-Pareid is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Moulotte in the south, Harville on a short section in the southwest, Pareid in the west, Parfondrupt in the north, Saint-Jean-lès-Buzy and by the municipality of Puxe in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the northeast and from the municipality of Allamont in the east, which is also part of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department .

history

At the time of the Sire of Apremont at the end of the 13th century, there was a castle, of which only the remains of the moats remain. The village was called Villers en Woëvre until the 18th century .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 2009 2016
Residents 92 80 74 69 75 72 61 64 79
Source: Cassini and INSEE

particularities

Villers-sous-Pareid does not have its own church. There was an emergency chapel in the village, which was destroyed in 1793. After the First World War , a private house was converted into a chapel, which served as a church until the 1960s.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 468-469.

Web links

Commons : Villers-sous-Pareid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Villers-sous-Pareid. In: codecom-fresnes.com. Communauté de Communes du Territoire de Fresnes-en-Woëvre, accessed on July 6, 2019 (French).