Asnières-lès-Dijon

Asnières-lès-Dijon
Fort Brûlé, an old fort in Asnières-lès-Dijon commune
Coat of arms
Asnières-lès-Dijon
Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region  Asnières-lès-Dijon
Coordinates: 47°23′09″N 5°02′44″E / 47.3858°N 5.0456°E / 47.3858; 5.0456Coordinates: 47°23′09″N 5°02′44″E / 47.3858°N 5.0456°E / 47.3858; 5.0456
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Dijon
Canton	Fontaine-lès-Dijon
Intercommunality	Val de Norge
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	Patricia Gourmand
Area1	4.55 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	1,208
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	21027 / 21380
Elevation	274–352 m (899–1,155 ft) (avg. 331 m or 1,086 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.

Asnières-lès-Dijon is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asniérois or Asniéroises.^[1]

Geography

Asnières-lès-Dijon is located just 8 km north of Dijon. The commune lies between the D903 road which follows its western border from Dijon to Savigny-le-Sec and the D974 which follows the eastern border from Dijon and continues to Til-Châtel. The D104 links the two roads through the village and also continues east to Bellefond. The commune is mixed forest and farmland with a substantial urban area covering some 20% of the commune.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

	Messigny-et-Vantoux	Savigny-le-Sec	Norges-la-Ville
			Bellefond
		Asnières-lès-Dijon
	Ahuy	Dijon	Ruffey-lès-Echirey

History

After the defeat of France in 1870-1871, Dijon was chosen with Langres, Besançon, Reims, Laon, and La Fère to be a "second line" of the Séré de Rivières system of defence (the first line being focused on Verdun, Toul, Epinal, and Belfort). A series of forts and military redoubts centred on Dijon city were built from 1875 to 1883: la Motte-Giron, Mont-Afrique, Hauteville, Asnières, Norges, Var, Saint-Apollinaire, and Sennecey-lès-Dijon.

Built between 1876 and 1877, Fort Brûlé had the honour of suffering the first armed clash with Prussia.

Fort Brûlé did not defend Dijon during the two world wars. It was the Germans who used it as a storehouse for ammunition during the Second World War. These caused considerable damage in 1944 when the Germans blew up ammunition in the fort: so much so that with the exception of the protruding buttress on Saliant II, there is virtually nothing left of the left half of the fort.

The fort is now the property of a private owner.

The commune has had a very high level of population growth since the 1970s when it was a peaceful farming village. Many employees from the CEA at Valduc came to live there. The population of the commune increased six times in 40 years.

Heraldry

Blazon: Azure, an ear of wheat and a bunch of grapes, stalked and leaved all in Or, isuuant from a crescent of Argent; in chief Gules charged with a crosslet bottony of Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 1,208 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 towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

The commune is part of the community of communes of Val de Norge .

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has two sites which are registered as historical monuments. These are:

• Fort Brûlé (1876)^[4]
• The Cemetery (1402)^[5]

Religious heritage

• The Parish Church of Saint-Alban contains one item registered as a historical object:
  • Eucharistic tower (14th century)^[6]
• The Parish Church of the Nativity contains several items which have been registered as historical objects:
  • Painting: Sainte-Famille and his family (17th century)^[7]
  • Statue: Saint Claude (17th century)^[8]
  • Statue: Saint Abdon (17th century)^[9]
  • Group sculpture: Virgin of pity (16th century)^[10]
  • Retable: Apostolic cortege (15th century)^[11]
  • Statue: Virgin and child (15th century)^[12]

Facilities

Asnières has shops (bakery, butcher, a small hall, and a petting zoo) and various facilities including a hall and sports grounds (tennis, football, basketball, rugby). The town also has a nursery and primary school.

It also has a Judo club - the Entente Judo Messigny-et-Vantoux - Val de Norge (Ejmn)^[13]

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

External links

• Asnières-les-Dijon on the Val-de-Norge website (French)
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on the old IGN website (French)
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on Google Maps
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Asnieres on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Asnières-lès-Dijon on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

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, 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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