Togny-aux-Bœufs

Togny-aux-Bœufs is a commune in the Marne department in Grand Est, in the north-east of France.

Togny-aux-Bœufs
The town hall in Togny-aux-Bœufs
Location of Togny-aux-Bœufs
Togny-aux-Bœufs
Togny-aux-Bœufs
Coordinates: 48°51′12″N 4°26′44″E
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentMarne
ArrondissementChâlons-en-Champagne
CantonChâlons-en-Champagne-3
IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes de la Guenelle
Government
  MayorMichel Jacquet
Area
1
9.98 km2 (3.85 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
137
  Density14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
51574 /51240
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

The main river feeding the village is the Guenelle. The commune's territory extends from the southwest of the Champagne, north-east to the valley of Marne.

Communes bordering Togny-aux-Bœufs

History

Togny-aux-Bœufs was founded by a Roman general named Toniacus. His name has evolved over time to Togny-sur-Guenelle, named after the river running along the village, only to take his name as currently known a priori that the cattle used in the construction of the basilica of 'Thorn would have come in pastures of the village to take some rest. The chalk used for construction could come also part of the village.

In 1375, a captain of the King of France, Enguerrand of Coucy, crosses the Champagne road with his band, to the great detriment of the plain "Thus the people of Togny-en-Champagne they saw themselves reduced to crowd into hiding to escape the terrible weapons people. "

Policy and Administration

Cantonal attachment

During the Revolution, the town joined the canton of Pogny. This is abolished in 1801 and Togny-aux-Bœufs integrates Township Écury-sur-Coole 2. Under the cantonal redistribution in France in 2014, the town became part of the canton of Chalons-en-Champagne-3.

Inter

The town, previously a member of the Community of communes of Guenelle, is a member, from 1 January 2014, the Community of Municipalities of Moivre in Coole.

Indeed, according to the inter-municipal cooperation departmental plan of the Marne of 15 December 2011 3, the Community of Municipalities of Moivre in Coole is amalgamated, 1 January 2014, the Community of Municipalities of the Valley Coole, the Community of Communes of Guenelle of the Community of communes of Mont nuts and Community communes of the Chalk Valley 4.

List of mayors

Period Identity Label Quality
Missing data are to be completed.
1848 1851 Alexis Gatelet
1851 1862 Joseph Songy
1862 1896 Onesimus Henry
1896 1908 Louis Estienne
1908 1913 Ulysses Gatelet
1913 1925 Henri Berthemy
1925 1935 Louis Ollivier
1935 1944 Louis Mortas
1944 1971 Robert Berton
1971 1983 Marc Jeanmaire
1983 2001 Michael Berton
2001 current (at July 4, 2014)
Michel Jacquet Re-elected for the 2014–20 term 6, 7

Demographics

In 2012, the municipality had 128 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known throughout the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the xxi th century, actual census municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitantsare held every five years, in contrast other towns with a sample survey every year Note 1, Note 2.

Population change [edit]
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
275 290 296 300 313 327 331 343 381
Population change [edit], following (1)
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
362 333 338 323 331 320 287 270 230
Population change [edit], suite (2)
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
219 222 215 189 192 199 171 204 228
Population change [edit], following (3)
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2005 2006 2010
200 163 153 165 166 161 146 150 134
Population change [edit], suite (4)
2012 - - - - - - - -
128 - - - - - - - -

From 1962 to 1999: Population without double counting; for the following dates: municipal population. (Sources: Ldh / EHESS / Cassini until 1999 2 and Insee in 2004 8.)

Histogram of demographic change

Sites and Monuments

  • The Church of St. Brice houses four articles classified historical monuments: a Madonna and Child of xiii th century 9, christ on the cross of xiv th century 10, a bas-relief of the Adoration of the Magi from the xv th century 11 and a stained glass window depicting the Annunciation and two men alongside a bishop, dating from 1520 and complete the xix th Century 12.
  • Robinson Chalons, relaxing place;
  • by plane, archaeological sites can be identified;
  • the town hall ;
  • the village cemetery contain many historical elements of interest.

Personalities linked to the common

  • Louis-Antoine Cagnon (1771–1853), cavalry captain under the 1st Empire, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor 13;
  • Auguste Person, the inventor of the crinoline skirt;
  • Australian pilot Edwin Gordon Beckhouse, killed by the Germans in 1944;
  • Togny-aux-Boeufs is the village of origin (from the 17th century) of the Chanoine family: Jean Louis Chanoine (1787-1872), general counsel of the Marne and mayor of Epernay 1840–48; Général Jules Chanoine (1835-1915), general counsel of the Marne and Minister of War in 1898; and champagne house Chanoine Frères:
  • Marie-Louise Leveque (1842–1926), wife of Dr. Jean-Baptiste Langlet, mayor of Reims in 1908–19.
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See also

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