Aubigny-en-Plaine

Aubigny-en-Plaine
Commune
The main road in Aubigny-en-Plaine
Location of Aubigny-en-Plaine
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Coordinates: 47°07′59″N 5°10′40″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Brazey-en-Plaine
Intercommunality	CC Rives de Saône
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Manuel Fernandez[1]
Area ^1	6.34 km^2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	544
• Density	86/km^2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21031 /21170
Elevation	183–207 m (600–679 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aubigny-en-Plaine (French pronunciation: [obiɲi ɑ̃ plɛn]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Geography

Aubigny-en-Plaine is located some 27 km south by south-east of Dijon, 30 km north-east of Beaune and 17 km east of Nuits-Saint-Georges. Access to the commune is by the D8 road from Brazey-en-Plaine in the east passing through the village then the width of the commune as it goes west to Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux. The D 34 road comes from Charrey-sur-Saône in the south-west and passes through the village before continuing north to join the D 968 south of Aiserey. The D 20^G goes south-east from the village to Esbarres. The western half of the commune is heavily forested while the eastern half is farmland.[3]

The Vouge river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows south to join the Saône west of Saint-Jean-de-Losne. The Ruisseau du Bas de Bessey forms the northern border of the commune as it flows east to join the Vouge. An unnamed stream flows through the village to the Vouge.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Bernard Roth
2008	2020	Jean Claude Dinet
2020	2026	Manuel Fernandez

Demography

Rue de la Tuilerie

The Town Hall and School

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Albineyais or Albineyaises in French, from the original name of the commune of Albineyum in the 13th century.[5]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 412 —     1800 459 +1.56% 1806 436 −0.85% 1821 454 +0.27% 1831 457 +0.07% 1836 431 −1.16% 1841 414 −0.80% 1846 410 −0.19% 1851 428 +0.86% 1856 448 +0.92% 1861 463 +0.66% 1866 461 −0.09% 1872 438 −0.85% 1876 402 −2.12% 1881 373 −1.49% 1886 370 −0.16% 1891 353 −0.94% 1896 368 +0.84%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 337 −1.74% 1906 329 −0.48% 1911 313 −0.99% 1921 305 −0.26% 1926 309 +0.26% 1931 297 −0.79% 1936 281 −1.10% 1946 237 −1.69% 1954 216 −1.15% 1962 237 +1.17% 1968 196 −3.12% 1975 207 +0.78% 1982 265 +3.59% 1990 296 +1.39% 1999 319 +0.83% 2007 341 +0.84% 2012 425 +4.50% 2017 507 +3.59%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE[7]

The War Memorial

The Water tower

Sites and monuments

The Church

The Church of Aubigny-en-Plaine has the peculiarity of not having a transept. It has only a Nave. It contains one item that is registered as a historical object:

• A Statue: Saint Vincent (17th century)[8]

Interior of the Church

• 
  Altar and Choir
• 
  Suspended lamp
• 
  Statue of Saint Mary
• 
  The Statue of Saint Vincent
• 
  The Nave and Choir
• 
  The Confessional
• 
  The Baptistery

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Google Maps
4. List of Mayors of France (in French)
5. Aubigny-en-Plaine (21170), habitants.fr
6. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Aubigny-en-Plaine, EHESS (in French).
7. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
8. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM21000103 Statue: Saint Vincent (in French)

External links

• Aubigny-en-Plaine on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Aubigny on the 1750 Cassini Map