Bayonville

Bayonville
Bayonville
Commune
	Bayonville village
	Location of Bayonville
	Bayonville Bayonville
	Coordinates: 49°23′48″N 5°00′23″E / 49.3967°N 5.0064°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Ardennes
Arrondissement	Vouziers
Canton	Vouziers
Intercommunality	Argonne Ardennaise
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Etienne
Area 1	16.19 km2 (6.25 sq mi)
Population (2021)	70
• Density	4.3/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	08052 /08240
Elevation	181–305 m (594–1,001 ft) ; (avg. 245 m or 804 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bayonville is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bayonvillois or Bayonvilloises.^[4]

Geography

Bayonville is located some 40 km south by south-east of Charleville-Mézières and 15 km south-west of Stenay. Access to the commune is by the D12 road from Buzancy in the north-west which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Bantheville - changing to the D15 at the departmental border. Another D15 comes from Tailly in the north-east and goes south through the commune and the village continuing to Imécourt in the south-west. The D55 goes south from the village to Landres-et-Saint-Georges. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Chennery and Landreville. The commune is mostly farmland with some forest in the east and north.^[5]^[6]

The Agron river flows through the south-east of the commune from north-east to south-west where it continues a meandering path to join the Aire south-west of Saint-Juvin. The Ruisseau du Wassieux flows south-west through the commune and continues south-west to join the Agron near Imécourt. The Furba rises in the north-east of the commune and flows south-west to join the Agron at Landreville.^[5]^[6]

Toponymy

Bayonville was attested in the Latinised form Baionis villa in 960. The derivation is undoubtedly from the "Domain of Baio", a Germanic personal name (cf. Bayonvillers)

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

History

In 1828 the communes of Chennery and Landreville were merged with the commune of Bayonville. In 1864 Landreville had 80 inhabitants.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[9]

From	To	Name
1995	2026	Philippe Etienne

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 99 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	360	—
1800	412	+1.95%
1806	403	−0.37%
1821	364	−0.68%
1831	545	+4.12%
1836	537	−0.30%
1841	512	−0.95%
1846	521	+0.35%
1851	529	+0.31%
1866	489	−0.52%
1872	453	−1.27%
1876	464	+0.60%
1881	418	−2.07%
1886	392	−1.28%
1891	397	+0.25%
1896	380	−0.87%
1901	337	−2.37%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	330	−0.42%
1911	315	−0.93%
1921	220	−3.53%
1926	234	+1.24%
1931	227	−0.61%
1936	219	−0.71%
1946	200	−0.90%
1954	214	+0.85%
1962	223	+0.52%
1968	200	−1.80%
1975	171	−2.21%
1982	142	−2.62%
1990	127	−1.39%
1999	106	−1.99%
2007	116	+1.13%
2012	100	−2.92%
2017	99	−0.20%

Source: EHESS^[10] and INSEE^[11]

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The Chateau of Landreville (1567) is registered as an historical monument.^[12] The interior decor (16th century) is registered as an historical object.^[13]