Arcenant

Arcenant
Commune
A general view of Arcenant
Coat of arms
Location of Arcenant
Arcenant Arcenant
Coordinates: 47°08′25″N 4°50′48″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Nuits-Saint-Georges
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Paul Sérafin
Area 1	10.12 km2 (3.91 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	503
• Density	50/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21017 /21700
Elevation	305–591 m (1,001–1,939 ft) (avg. 337 m or 1,106 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arcenant (French pronunciation: [aʁsənɑ̃]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Geography

Located in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, between Dijon and Beaune, Arcenant is 9 km west of Nuits-Saint-Georges and 16 km north of Beaune. Access to the commune is by the D25 road from Meuilley in the east passing through the village and continuing to join the D18 just west of the commune. The commune is heavily forested with some areas of farmland around the village and in the east.

The Raccordon rises west of the village and flows east through the village and on to join the Meuzin east of Meuilly.

History

On 15 June 1944 German troops together with men from the French Milice attacked a hundred Maquis resistance fighters holed up in a place called La Grotte (The Cave). Fighting resulted in 39 dead attackers and 6 dead Maquis with 4 wounded. The six dead were: Serge Boillereau, Ferruccio Borillo, Louis Evrard, Jean Fiorese, Jean Poulet, and André Rebill. This feat of arms continues to be celebrated each year on the site of the battle.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
2001	2026	Jean-Paul Sérafin

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arcenantais or Arcenantaises in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 380 —     1800 392 +0.45% 1806 430 +1.55% 1821 420 −0.16% 1831 491 +1.57% 1836 542 +2.00% 1841 547 +0.18% 1846 549 +0.07% 1851 559 +0.36% 1856 563 +0.14% 1861 560 −0.11% 1866 588 +0.98% 1872 545 −1.26% 1876 552 +0.32% 1881 557 +0.18% 1886 539 −0.65% 1891 484 −2.13% 1896 440 −1.89%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 445 +0.23% 1906 416 −1.34% 1911 378 −1.90% 1921 305 −2.12% 1926 318 +0.84% 1931 301 −1.09% 1936 270 −2.15% 1946 278 +0.29% 1954 271 −0.32% 1962 260 −0.52% 1968 271 +0.69% 1975 233 −2.14% 1982 257 +1.41% 1990 414 +6.14% 1999 451 +0.96% 2007 477 +0.70% 2012 510 +1.35% 2017 507 −0.12%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Sites and monuments

Merovingian Tomb

The Church of Saint Martin

An Antiphonary in the church

• The Trou du Duc (The Duke's Hole), a cave in the side of a cliff from which there is an extensive view, inhabited since antiquity
• The Puits à terre (Land Well), a well masoned similar to a conventional well but for collecting the soil from vines carried by the runoff water. There was enough remaining to restore in place.
• The Groseille well, a large underground chamber 560m across and 30m deep
• The Ecartelot Gallo-Roman site in the Arcenant communal forest. Located on a Roman road, it included a farm and a pool for drinking water, rare in Côte-d'Or.
• A Fortified Priory from the 13th century.
• A Tree of Liberty in the central square of the village.
• 3 Lavoirs (Public Laundries) (19th century) are registered as historical monuments.
• The Parish Church of Saint-Martin (14th century) contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Painting: Ecstasy of Saint Angèle Merici (17th century)
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (13th century)
  • A Group Sculpture: Charity of Saint Martin (15th century)
  • All the Monumental Paintings in the Choir (1885)

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

External links

• Arcenant on the National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Arcenant on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Arcenant on the 1750 Cassini Map