Barjon

Barjon
Coat of arms
Barjon
Location within Burgundy region Barjon
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Dijon
Canton	Grancey-le-Château-Neuvelle
Intercommunality	CCST
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Alain Guyot
Area1	4.57 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	36
• Density	7.9/km2 (20/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21049 / 21580
Elevation	333–467 m (1,093–1,532 ft) (avg. 456 m or 1,496 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.

Barjon is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as .

Geography

Barjon is located on the southern flank of Mont Mercure (469 m) at an altitude of 397 metres at the town hall. It is some 40 km south-west of Langres and 40 km north by north-west of Dijon. Access to the commune is by the D19 road from Salives in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Avot. The D19E goes north from the village to join the D190 on the northern border of the commune.

The commune is forested in the southern arm with the centre of the commune farmland and a band of forest around its borders.

La Tille stream forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows east across the "neck" of the commune then forms part of the eastern border before continuing east to join La Creuse at Avot. La Tille de Barjon rises just east of the commune and flows south near the eastern border to join La Tille. Le Volgrain stream rises north-west of the commune and flows south down the western side of the commune and joins La Tille just south-west of the village.

Mapping

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Neighbouring communes and villages

La Tille on the commune border with Avot

History

After the raids by the Saracens on Autun and the sacking of the village by Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi on 22 August 725, Saint Frodulphe de Barjon, the Abbot of Saint Martin, retired as a hermit to Barjon.

Barjon appears as Barjon on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Heraldry

The official status of the blazon remains to be determined. Blazon: Party per pale, at 1 argent a trefoil azure between 3 roundels gules 2 at honour point 1 at nombril point; at 2 azure a griffin of Or.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2020	Alain Guyot

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 41 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 communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
270	210	230	168	208	215	184	152	173

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
160	157	146	123	103	84	82	82	64

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
68	61	65	59	60	73	63	66	55

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
42	42	32	32	34	37		41	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

The Chateau

Population of Barjon

Culture and heritage

The Church

Religious heritage

The commune has a Cemetery Cross (15th century) which is registered as an historical monument.

The Chapel of Saint Frodulphe in the Cemetery

14th century lintel in the Church

The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• A Statue: Saint John the Evangelist (17th century)
• A Statue: Saint Madeleine (16th century)
• A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (17th century)
• The Sarcophagus of Saint Frodulphe (8th century)
• A Statue: Saint Benigne (15th century)
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
• A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
• A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)
• A Statue: Saint Frodulphe (17th century)

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department