Noironte

Noironte is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

Noironte
Commune
A general view of Noironte
Coat of arms
Location of Noironte
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Coordinates: 47°16′22″N 5°52′31″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Doubs
Arrondissement	Besançon
Canton	Besançon-2
Intercommunality	Grand Besançon Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Claude Maire
Area ^1	6.73 km^2 (2.60 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	386
• Density	57/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	25427 /25170
Elevation	206–278 m (676–912 ft) (avg. 224 m or 735 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Noironte is an old seigneurie erected during the Middle Ages that saw the village developed around a castle. The village has always kept a rural character with agricultural activity still present in the early twenty-first century, mainly cattle breeding, polyculture and a cheese factory. Its landscape is also marked by the presence of ponds and forests that cover a large part of the communal territory. Since the end of World War II, however, the village is gradually becoming part of a process of peri-urbanisation because it is part of the urban area of Besançon and since 2003 has joined Grand Besançon Métropole urban community.

Its inhabitants called Noirontais and Noirontaises were 383 according to the census figures of 2016.

Geography

The commune of Noironte is located in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and in the north-western extremity of the departement of Doubs. It lies 11.5 km (7.1 mi) west of Besançon, prefecture of the department and 64 km (40 mi) east of Dijon, the capital of the region. The shortest distance by road between the village center and the city center of Besançon (Place du Huit-Septembre) is 14 km (8.7 mi). It is at the limit of the lower valley of the Ognon River and the Jura Mountains area of Avants-Monts. It is part of the canton of Besançon-2 and Grand Besançon Métropole. It is also integrated in the urban area of Besançon. The municipal territory is bordered by nine other municipalities.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1790	259	—
1793	281	+8.5%
1800	321	+14.2%
1806	347	+8.1%
1821	331	−4.6%
1826	320	−3.3%
1831	291	−9.1%
1836	340	+16.8%
1841	337	−0.9%
1846	319	−5.3%
1851	316	−0.9%
1856	304	−3.8%
1861	295	−3.0%
1866	287	−2.7%
1872	274	−4.5%
1876	265	−3.3%
1881	289	+9.1%
1886	273	−5.5%
1891	243	−11.0%
1896	242	−0.4%
1901	224	−7.4%
1906	205	−8.5%
1911	219	+6.8%
1921	212	−3.2%
1926	231	+9.0%
1931	238	+3.0%
1936	209	−12.2%
1946	169	−19.1%
1954	195	+15.4%
1962	195	+0.0%
1968	215	+10.3%
1975	254	+18.1%
1982	236	−7.1%
1990	303	+28.4%
1999	321	+5.9%
2006	312	−2.8%
2011	351	+12.5%
2016	383	+9.1%

Landmarks

Château de Noironte

Saint-Martin church

The Château de Noironte is a castle whose existence dates back to the fourteenth century and was completely rebuilt between 1786 and 1830 following a fire. It has undergone few transformations since. Located in the center of the village, within a large wooded park, it consists of a main building, old farm buildings, a dovecote and a pavilion that served as a sculpture workshop for René de Chateaubrun at the beginning of the 20th century. The main building itself is made up of two wings arranged in the shape of an L, the north wing comprising a square tower and the east wing being flanked by a round tower. By order of July 5, 1993, the rooms in the north wing and their decorations (dining room, library, billiard room, large white living room) were classified as monuments historiques. All the facades and roofs of the main building and outbuildings as well as several elements of the main building (grand staircase, fireplaces and alcoves) benefit from less protection, having simply been listed and not classified as monuments historiques by decree of June 17, 1992.

The Saint-Martin church was built from 1855 to 1880 under the leadership of architect Martin Belliard, replacing the old chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It is a neo-Gothic building about thirty meters long by fifteen meters wide built at the eastern entrance to the village. The bell tower of the church of Noironte, with a height of 39 meters, presents an original architecture, quite far from the traditional Comtois bell tower in the region. It is a spire with a truncated octagonal pyramid shape, framed by four pinnacles and surmounted by a roof lantern and a cross. Among the church furnishings is a carved wooden pulpit from the 18th century classified since 1975 as a historic monument object, a tall twisted wooden column from the 17th or 18th century, and two wooden confessionals.

See also

• Communes of the Doubs department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

External links

• Noironte on the intercommunal Web site of the department (in French)