Baubigny, Côte-d'Or

Baubigny (French pronunciation: [bobiɲi]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.^[3]

Baubigny
Commune
The hamlet of Orches in the commune
Coat of arms
Location of Baubigny
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Coordinates: 46°58′37″N 4°41′20″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Arnay-le-Duc
Intercommunality	CA Beaune Côte et Sud
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Rémy Morin[1]
Area 1	10.31 km2 (3.98 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	208
• Density	20/km2 (52/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21050 /21340
Elevation	313–566 m (1,027–1,857 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balbiniacois or Balbiniacoises.^[4]

Geography

Evelle

Baubigny is located some 12 km south-west of Beaune and 8 km north-east of Chagny. Access to the commune is by the D111D from La Rochepot in the south which goes to the village then continues east to join the D973 on the eastern border of the commune. The D906 passes along the western border and the north of the commune as it goes from Saint-Aubin to Ivry-en-Montagne. The D171 goes north from the village to join the D17 just north-east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Évelle and Orches. The commune is almost all farmland with a few patches of forest.^[5][6]

The Ruisseau des Cloux flows north-east through the south-eastern corner of the commune and continues to join the Dheune south of Merceuil.^[5][6]

Toponymy

Baubigny appears as Baubigny on the 1750 Cassini Map^[7] and the same on the 1790 version.^[8]

Heraldry

Arms of Baubigny

Blazon: Azure, a fess of Or surmounted by 3 roundels the same in fess; in base a fer de moline the same.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[9]

From	To	Name
2001	2006	Jean Paul Lacour
2006	2020	Patrick Manière
2020	2026	Rémy Morin

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 202 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 461 —     1800 499 +1.14% 1806 603 +3.21% 1821 619 +0.17% 1831 645 +0.41% 1836 643 −0.06% 1841 610 −1.05% 1846 653 +1.37% 1851 660 +0.21% 1856 617 −1.34% 1861 587 −0.99% 1866 555 −1.11% 1872 573 +0.53% 1876 635 +2.60% 1881 663 +0.87% 1886 639 −0.73% 1891 660 +0.65% 1896 520 −4.66%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 490 −1.18% 1906 460 −1.26% 1911 400 −2.76% 1921 310 −2.52% 1926 265 −3.09% 1931 232 −2.62% 1936 226 −0.52% 1946 204 −1.02% 1954 176 −1.83% 1962 180 +0.28% 1968 198 +1.60% 1975 164 −2.66% 1982 202 +3.02% 1990 221 +1.13% 1999 252 +1.47% 2007 268 +0.77% 2012 214 −4.40% 2017 202 −1.15%
Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE[11]

Culture and heritage

The excavation at Dracy

The Parish Church

Civil heritage

• The medieval village of Dracy, excavated by Jean-Marie Pesez, Françoise Piponnier, and students of the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (EPHE), has led to numerous publications that have made it a known site for medieval archaeology.

The commune has a number of buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• A House at Evelle (16th century)^[12]
• A House at Evelle (19th century)^[13]
• A House at Evelle (1777)^[14]
• A House at Evelle (18th century)^[15]
• A Winemaker's House at Rue d'Eschailley Evelle (18th century)^[16]
• A House at Goulot de Jalant Orches (17th century)^[17]
• A Winemaker's House at Rue du Lavoir Orches (16th century)^[18]
• A Fountain at Orches (18th century)^[19]
• A Lavoir (Public laundry) (19th century)^[20]
• The Fountain au Chêne at Orches (19th century)^[21]
• A Winemaker's Manor House at Evelle (18th century)^[22]
• A Houses and Farms (15th-19th century)^[23]

Religious heritage

The commune has many religious buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• A Wayside Cross (north-east) (1815)^[24]
• A Wayside Cross (north) (1860)^[25]
• A Cemetery Cross (1895)^[26]
• A Wayside Cross (north-east of Orches) (19th century)^[27]
• A Wayside Cross (north-west) (19th century)^[28]
• A Cemetery Cross (1880)^[29]
• The Croix du Pèlerin wayside cross (19th century)^[30]
• The Chapel Saint-Marc (15th century)^[31]
• The Croix de Choux wayside cross (19th century)^[32]
• 8 Monumental Crosses (19th century)^[33]
• The Chapel Saint-Abdon (18th century)^[34]
• The Parish Church of Saint Léger (12th century)^[35]

The Church and chapels contain a large number of items that are registered as historical objects. In total, including civil heritage, there are over 50 historical objects in the commune.^[36]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Théodore Monod (1902-2000), scientific naturalist, explorer, scholar and French humanist. From 1980 to 1999 he came to Baubigny every year. The Foyer Rural was funded by Théodore-Monod. There is also a Théodore-Monod footpath.^[37]
• Léon Fichot, champion cyclist, was born in Baubigny on 12 October 1906.

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department