Montceau-les-Mines
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Town hall | |
  Montceau-les-Mines | |
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Location within Burgundy region  Montceau-les-Mines | |
| Coordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E / 46.6678°N 4.3697°ECoordinates: 46°40′04″N 4°22′11″E / 46.6678°N 4.3697°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Chalon-sur-Saône |
| Canton | Montceau-les-Mines-Nord and Montceau-les-Mines-Sud |
| Intercommunality | Creusot-Montceau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (1995–2008) | Didier Mathus |
| Area1 | 16.62 km2 (6.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 20,033 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 71306 / 71300 |
| Elevation |
274–326 m (899–1,070 ft) (avg. 287 m or 942 ft) |
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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. | |
Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.
It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.
History
Montceau-les-mines is a former mining city. Some coal was discovered in the 16th Century. The hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.
"Le Montceau" definitively became a city after the building of the channel of the centre, build between 1783 and 1791. And after called "compagnie des mines" started to extract coals in 1833. Official date of birth: June 24, 1856. A law institutes the village of Montceau-les-Mines, community of 1300 inhabitants, on a territory punctured on the villages of Blanzy, Saint-Vallier, Saint-Berain-sous-Sanvignes, and Sanvignes-les-Mines. A graveyard and a church were built by the company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.
Intense social movements took place at the end of the 19th century and there at the beginning of the 20th century.
The coal made the city prosperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2,786,000 tons. There were about 30,000 inhabitants. After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992.
Geography/geology
The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town. Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau=les-Mines.[1]
See also
- Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
International relations
Twin towns and Sister cities
Montceau-les-Mines is twinned with:
References
- ↑ See, for example Patrick R. Racheboeuf et al., "New malacostracan custacea from the Carboniferous (Stephanian) lagerstătte of Montceau-les-Mines, France", Journal of Paleontology ( 1 July 2009) 624-629; the site is discussed by Vincent Perrier and Sylvain Charbonnierby in "The Montceau-les-Mines lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France)", Comptes Rendus Palevol, 13.5:353-367.
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