Bar-lès-Buzancy

Bar-lès-Buzancy
The Village and Church
Bar-lès-Buzancy
Location within Grand Est region  Bar-lès-Buzancy
Coordinates: 49°26′02″N 4°56′32″E / 49.4339°N 4.9422°ECoordinates: 49°26′02″N 4°56′32″E / 49.4339°N 4.9422°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Buzancy
Intercommunality	Argonne Ardennaise
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Francis Potron
Area^1	9.4 km^2 (3.6 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	118
• Density	13/km^2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	08049 / 08240
Elevation	166–305 m (545–1,001 ft) (avg. 182 m or 597 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bar-lès-Buzancy is a French commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.^[1]

The commune has been awarded two flowers by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.^[2] (Their sign says three but the official website says two).

Geography

Entrance to the village

Bar-lès-Buzancy is located some 20 km east by north-east of Vouziers and 25 km west by south-west of Stenay. Access to the commune is by the D947 road from Buzancy in the south-east which passes through the south of the commune and the village and continues west to Harricourt. The D6 goes north from the D947 forming the western border of the commune and continuing north to Sommauthe. The commune is mostly farmland with some forest in the north.^[3][4]

The Ruisseau du Moulin rises in the north of the commune and forms part of the northern border before flowing south through the commune and the village and continuing south to join the Canal des Arches near Briquenay. La Hideuse stream forms the southern border of the commune as it flows south-west to join the Canal de Thenorgues.^[3]

Mapping

A list of online mapping systems can be displayed by clicking on the coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the top right hand corner of this article.

Neighbouring communes and villages

^[3]

Toponymy

Bar comes from a Gallic word and perhaps even older (pre-Gallic) meaning "summit" or "height".

History

Bar-lès-Buzancy appears as Bar on the 1750 Cassini Map^[5] and the same on the 1790 version.^[6]

From 1828-1871 the commune was merged with Harricourt to form the commune of Bar-et-Harricourt. In October 1952 two Merovingian skeletons were discovered during the excavation phase of construction of a house.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[7]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1965	2001	Jean Potron
2001	2008	Michel Percebois
2008	2020	Francis Potron

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 118 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
144	167	169	215	458	480	503	502	504

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
-	-	432	184	189	185	182	178	174

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
176	195	175	225	160	159	154	149	144

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
135	137	116	126	121	98		118	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

The War Memorial

See also

• Communes of the Ardennes department

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually and the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Bar-lès-Buzancy on Lion1906
2. Competition for Towns and Villages in Bloom website Archived December 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. (French)
3. Bar-lès-Buzancy on Google Maps
4. Bar-lès-Buzancy on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
5. Bar on the 1750 Cassini Map
6. Bar on the 1790 Cassini Map
7. List of Mayors of France (French)