Baudement

Baudement is a commune of 120 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Marne, in the Champagne -Ardenne region. It belongs to the district Epernay and Canton Anglure.

Geography

Baudement is located on the Aube in a wide, from agricultural production embossed plane 100 km east of Paris.

With about 100 residents of the municipality is one of the smaller municipalities of France. Neither the birth rate even by adding or Abwandererung occurred in the past decades significant changes in the population.

History

The settlement history of the site dates back to pre-Roman times. A monument historique classified as tumulus and the remains of a Roman road remember this era.

André de Baudement, the progenitor of the House Baudement, founded in a place consecrated to St. George priory, which he in 1122 the Abbey of Saint -Quentin in Beauvais imputed. In the 18th century the rule was combined with the neighboring village Anglure.

Culture and sights

• The feudal moth of the place is another monument historique as a protected monument.
• The church from the 16th century has a Romanesque façade. Altar and reredos date from the 17th century, a Virgin and Child from the 14th century.

Economy

Agriculture is the main source of income. In the plane to Baudement cereals, sugar beet and fodder are grown. In addition to the breeding of ostriches, emus and rheas cattle determines the livestock.

• Municipality in the Marne
• Place in Champagne- Ardenne