Villotte-sur-Ource

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Villotte-sur-Ource
Coat of arms of Villotte-sur-Ource
Villotte-sur-Ource (France)
Villotte-sur-Ource
region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement Montbard
Canton Châtillon-sur-Seine
Community association Communes du Pays Châtillonnais
Coordinates 47 ° 52 '  N , 4 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '  N , 4 ° 41'  E
height 235-358 m
surface 9.49 km 2
Residents 113 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 12 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 21400
INSEE code 21706
Website villotte.ource.free.fr

Parish Church of Saint-Jacques le Majeur

Villotte-sur-Ource is a French municipality with 113 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 Villottois and Villottoises .

Toponymy

Villotte is a diminutive of the French word ville ( German  city ), the name villa indicates a farm or an estate. In the neighboring municipality of Maisey-le-Duc , the dukes of Burgundy owned a castle in the Middle Ages and a fort in Villotte. On a few occasions they stayed in the fort, which for them represented an estate, a villa.

Spelling of the community name over the centuries:

  • Villetta (1145),
  • Viletta (1169),
  • Vilete (1190),
  • Vilote (1252),
  • Vilote or Villote (1371),
  • Villote (1423),
  • Villote près Maisey (1574),
  • Villote les Maisey (17th century),
  • Villote (1750, map by Cassini ),
  • Villote près Maisey sur Ource (1783),
  • Villote (1793),
  • Villotte-sur-Ource (1802)

geography

Villotte-sur-Ource is located about eight kilometers east of Châtillon-sur-Seine in its catchment area ( Aire urbaine ) in the Châtillonnais natural region .

Villotte-sur-Ource is surrounded by the six neighboring municipalities:

Brion-sur-Ource Bissey-la-Cote Courban
Prusly-sur-Ource Neighboring communities Louesme
Maisey-le-Duc

Villotte-sur-Ource is located in the catchment area of the river Seine . The Ource , a tributary of the Seine, crosses the territory of the municipality.

17% of the area of ​​the municipality consists of community forest, 43.5% of private forest, 39.5% of the area is occupied differently.

history

The place only began to establish itself as a community at the beginning of the 14th century. The importance was initially minor, it was more of a hamlet with just four inhabitants that was part of the parish of Maisey. As a result, the history of Villotte was similar to that of the present-day neighboring municipality. Villotte belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy, then until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Bailliage of Châtillon and the Diocese of Langres . The manor was divided between the duke, later the French king, the bishop of Langres and the abbot of the Notre-Dame de Châtillon abbey . In 1740 the now more numerous inhabitants of Villotte saw the taxes and interest that they had to pay to their landlords as excessive. They asked for a slight discount, which was given to them. In 1783 all debts to church representatives were canceled.

Villotte's blacksmiths go back to the early 16th century with a forge with a fire that was supplied with products from local furnaces. Towards the end of the 17th century, industry developed and a second fire was added. The ore was mined in the areas of the municipalities of Villotte, Maisey and Prusly. The majority of the residents of the places were employed in iron ore mining. In the 19th century, the facilities came into the possession of the Cailletet-Lapérouse family. Louis Paul Cailletet was a physicist and chemist and carried out the first experiments with smelting at high temperatures in 1855. Previously, in 1840, charcoal was replaced by charcoal during casting with the aim of reducing costs in order to be able to survive against the competition. These attempts only succeeded in keeping the factories operating until 1871. However, the owner foresaw the development and made arrangements to break away from the iron industry with the construction of a brick factory, a pasta factory and a dairy farm. A bark mill was operated until 1873. At the beginning of the 20th century, a cheese industry developed based on the small dairies that existed in numerous villages. Problems with the marketing of milk hampered the growth of production in the 1920s and led to the establishment of small municipal associations, in which Louis Desliens, veterinarian in Châtillon, in particular, got involved. His activities culminated in the establishment of the Villotte milk cooperative in 1932 and Villers-Patras in 1947.

During the Second World War , the Maquis Valentin-Balzac consisted of fifty men who lived on the Sainte-Marie farm. As a result of a denunciation or carelessness, 7,000 German soldiers with armored tanks attacked the farm on October 13, 1943. Many maquisards fled into the forest, seven were captured and deported. Maurice Bailly (18), Guy Rathueville (19), Roland Devred (19), Yves Balley (19) committed suicide the following day by detonating a grenade so as not to get into the hands of the enemy. A stele with the names of the young men was erected on the site 60 years later. Pierre Roisselet jumped from the fifth floor of the Gestapo prison in Dijon .

Population development

After records began, the population rose to a peak of around 380 by the middle of the 19th century. In the following period, the size of the community fell with brief recovery phases to a low of around 80 inhabitants until after the Second World War, before settling in the 1970s Years ago, a phase of moderate growth set that continues today.

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011 2017
Residents 93 86 80 86 105 114 113 119 113
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence
Sources: EHESS / Cassini until 1999, INSEE from 2006

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Villotte-sur-Ource

The municipality's coat of arms was adopted by the municipal council on November 18, 1996 and approved by the head of the Department Archives in Dijon on December 10, 1996.

The two pilgrim shells indicate the parish church that is dedicated to James the Elder . The curved bar symbolizes the Ource river. The earlier forges and smelting furnaces are represented by the gear .

Attractions

Parish Church of Saint-Jacques le Majeur

The origins of the church go back to the early Middle Ages . The choir and the yoke under the bell tower were built in the 16th century. The choir has a ribbed vault , the bell tower rises above the crossing of the church. In the first half of the 19th century, the nave and porch were built in the French classic style. In 1876 the bell tower's helmet and cornice were rebuilt after being damaged by a lightning strike. The roof. which was originally covered with stone, was completely re-covered with bricks between 1911 and 1913. The former weather tap on the top of the tower was replaced in 1902 and again in 1988, this time with the installation of lightning protection .

Villotte Castle

The castle was rebuilt in 1830 in the style of the era on the site of the castle of the Dukes of Burgundy. A branch of the Ource cuts through the park with beautiful trees of various tree species. From 1960 to 1983 the property was owned by the Mairie of the 10th arrondissement in Paris and housed a holiday camp. Soraya and Hervé Bordet bought the castle and converted the outbuildings into apartments for the elderly.

Economy and Infrastructure

Epoisses cheese in its wooden box

Villotte-sur-Ource is in the AOC des Époisses zone , a cheese made from cow's milk.

Active workplaces by industry on December 31, 2015
Total = 12

traffic

Villotte-sur-Ource can be reached via Routes départementales 13, 13C and 928, the former Route nationale 428 .

Personalities

Louis Paul Cailletet
Ernest Paul on the arrival of the Tour de France in 1910
  • Charles Jean-Claude Damotte, born on March 8, 1802 in Villotte-sur-Ource, died on January 15, 1869 in Tonnerre , was buried in Villotte-sur-Ource. He developed ideas about trade, work organization, insurance, religious and political subjects, which he had printed at his own expense and distributed throughout France and abroad and sent directly to the French Emperor and the Pope .
  • Louis Paul Cailletet , born on September 21, 1832 in Châtillon-sur-Seine, died on January 5, 1913 in Paris , was a physicist and chemist. His experiments led to the fact that he was able to liquefy oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and air for the first time in 1877.
  • Ernest Paul, born on December 5, 1881 in Villotte-sur-Ource, died on September 9, 1964 in Saint-Gatien-des-Bois , Calvados department , was a road racing driver. He led the sport as a professional from 1908 to 1914 and from 1919 to 1922, including two stage victories in the Tour de France .
  • Georges Serraz, born on January 13, 1883 in Is-sur-Tille , died on June 20, 1964 in Paris, was a painter and later a sculptor who specialized in religious motifs. In 1930 he bought a house in Villotte-sur-Ource where he worked. He left several works in the community and throughout France. He was buried next to his two wives in the cemetery of Villotte-sur-Ource.
  • Marcel Rousselet, born on December 6, 1893 in Lille , died on March 21, 1982 in Paris, was a lawyer, from 1950 to 1962 President of the Court of Appeal in Paris and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . He bought a house in Villotte-sur-Ource in 1935 to spend his holidays there with his family.
  • Jean-Charles Brun, born in Paris in 1910, died in Villotte-sur-Ource in 1995, was a painter. In 1970 he moved to Villotte-sur-Ource, where he and his wife bought and moved into Mrs Serraz's house. For the last twelve years he has suffered from blindness.
  • André Rousselet, born on October 1, 1922 in Nancy , died on May 29, 2016 in Paris, was a senior civil servant, politician and French entrepreneur. He was one of Marcel Rousselet's two sons. André Rousselet received his friends, including the French President François Mitterrand , with whom he was on friendly terms, in his parents' house in Villotte-sur-Ource. In 1968 he left the political arena and founded Canal + in 1984 . After the funeral in Paris with the presence of President François Hollande , he was buried in Villotte-sur-Ource.

Web links

Commons : Villotte-sur-Ource  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Côte-d'Or ( fr ) habitants.fr. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ Etymology ( fr ) Commune Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  3. ^ David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Notice Communale Villotte-sur-Ource ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Aire urbaine de Châtillon-sur-Seine (336) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ L'Ource ( fr ) SANDRE (Service d'Administration Nationale des Données et Référentiels sur l'Eau). Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ Superficie ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  8. ↑ Historique ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ Populations légales 2016 Commune de Villotte-sur-Ource (21706) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  10. ↑ Le Blason ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ L'église ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  12. ↑ Le château ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  13. ^ Villotte-sur-Ource: une résidence pour seniors autonomes dans l'ancien château ( fr ) Le Bien Public. November 1, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  14. ↑ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité: Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  15. ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Villotte-sur-Ource (21706) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ a b c d e f g Les personnages célèbres ( fr ) Municipality of Villotte-sur-Ource. July 8, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  17. ↑ Nicole Vulser: Mort d'André Rousselet, fondateur de Canal + ( fr ) Le Monde . May 30, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  18. ↑ Marie-Christine Delpas: André Rousselet Inhume à Villotte-sur-Ource ( fr ) Le Châtillonnais et l'Auxois. June 2, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2019.