Barjon

Barjon
Coat of arms
Barjon
Location within Burgundy region  Barjon
Coordinates: 47°36′45″N 4°57′34″E / 47.6125°N 4.9594°E / 47.6125; 4.9594Coordinates: 47°36′45″N 4°57′34″E / 47.6125°N 4.9594°E / 47.6125; 4.9594
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Dijon
Canton	Grancey-le-Château-Neuvelle
Intercommunality	CCST
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Alain Guyot
Area1	4.57 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	36
• Density	7.9/km2 (20/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21049 / 21580
Elevation	333–467 m (1,093–1,532 ft) (avg. 456 m or 1,496 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.

Barjon is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.^[1]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as .^[2]

Geography

Barjon is located on the southern flank of Mont Mercure (469 m) at an altitude of 397 metres at the town hall. It is some 40 km south-west of Langres and 40 km north by north-west of Dijon. Access to the commune is by the D19 road from Salives in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Avot. The D19E goes north from the village to join the D190 on the northern border of the commune.

The commune is forested in the southern arm with the centre of the commune farmland and a band of forest around its borders.

La Tille stream forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows east across the "neck" of the commune then forms part of the eastern border before continuing east to join La Creuse at Avot. La Tille de Barjon rises just east of the commune and flows south near the eastern border to join La Tille. Le Volgrain stream rises north-west of the commune and flows south down the western side of the commune and joins La Tille just south-west of the village.^[3][4]

Mapping

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Neighbouring communes and villages

		Fraignot-et-Vesvrotte	Courlon
	Salives		Avot
		Barjon
	Le Meix	Poiseul-lès-Saulx	Avelanges

^[3]

La Tille on the commune border with Avot

History

After the raids by the Saracens on Autun and the sacking of the village by Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi on 22 August 725, Saint Frodulphe de Barjon, the Abbot of Saint Martin, retired as a hermit to Barjon.

Barjon appears as Barjon on the 1750 Cassini Map^[5] and the same on the 1790 version.^[6]

Heraldry

The official status of the blazon remains to be determined. Blazon: Party per pale, at 1 argent a trefoil azure between 3 roundels gules 2 at honour point 1 at nombril point; at 2 azure a griffin of Or.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[7]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 41 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]}

The Chateau

Culture and heritage

The Church

Religious heritage

The commune has a Cemetery Cross (15th century) which is registered as an historical monument.^[8]

The Chapel of Saint Frodulphe in the Cemetery

14th century lintel in the Church

The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Statue: Saint John the Evangelist (17th century)^[9]
• A Statue: Saint Madeleine (16th century)^[10]
• A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (17th century)^[11]
• The Sarcophagus of Saint Frodulphe (8th century)^[12]
• A Statue: Saint Benigne (15th century)^[13]
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[14]
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[15]
• A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)^[16]
• A Statue: Saint Frodulphe (17th century)^[17]

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or 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

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