Soing-Cubry-Charentenay
Soing - Cubry - Charentenay is a commune in Haute -Saône in the Franche -Comté.
Geography
Soing - Cubry - Charentenay situated at an altitude of 205 m above sea level, about 22 km west of Vesoul (air line). The village is located in the west of the department, on the southern edge of the Saôneniederung, north of the plateau of the Bois de Soing.
The area of 28.63 km ² municipal area includes a portion of the middle Saône Valley. The northern boundary runs mostly along the Saone, which flows here with large loops through a wide Alluvialniederung to the southwest. The flood plain is on average 200 m and has a maximum width of two kilometers on. The river is expanded to the waterway, the loops are cut through side channels. Therefore not used by the channel track pieces show natural riverside areas, and the river is here in several places islands.
From the river, the municipality's area extends southward over the flood plain and up to 50 m high steep slope on the adjacent plateau. This plateau consists of an alternation of calcareous and sandy- marly sediments of the upper Jurassic period. It is divided by the valley of the Ruisseau des Puits, which is dammed to several ponds and flows Cubry in the Saône, and other wells. The fertile soils of the valley and the plateau are mainly used for agricultural purposes. With 268 m is reached on the knoll east of Soing the highest elevation of Soing - Cubry - Charentenay. Especially the eastern part of the municipality is characterized by extensive forests: Bois de Soing, Bois de la Perrière, La Bouloye and Bois l'Abbé on the eastern border.
The municipality consists of the following districts:
- Soing (204 m), flung on a south arch of the Saône
- Charentenay (205 m), on the southern edge of the valley of the Saône River, across from Ray -sur -Saône
- Cubry -lès- Soing (212 m), in a clearing island in the hollow of the Ruisseau des Puits, west of Bois l' Abbé
Neighboring communities of Soing - Cubry - Charentenay are Vanne, Fédry and Chantes in the north, Traves, Vy -le- Ferroux and Noidans -le- Ferroux in the east, Vezet and Fresne -Saint- Mamès in the south and Vellexon - Queutrey -et- Vaudey and Ray -sur -Saône in the West.
History
The territory was inhabited in prehistoric times, which is a tumulus on the corridor La Motte testifies. In the Middle Ages the area of Franche-Comté and in the territory of the Bailliage d' amont belonged. For Soing the spellings Soings, Soynx, Soinx and Sainz are handed down from the Middle Ages. The name comes from the Old French word back saigne (bottom ). Soing and Cubry were ever a fief of the free county. That of Soing belonged to the rule Fouvent before 1256 went over to the family Vergy and 1302 to the Lords of Rupt which it occupied until the French Revolution. Charentenay is first mentioned in 1242. The place name derives from the Gallic personal name and the suffix - acum Carento and means as much as the courtyard of the Carento. It was owned by the Hospitallers.
Together with the Franche -Comté reached the villages with the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678 definitively to France. To a field change occurred in 1972 when the previously independent municipality Soing (1968: 297 inhabitants), Cubry -lès- Soing (1968: 103 inhabitants) and Charentenay (1968: 75 inhabitants) to the new community Soing - Cubry - Charentenay merged.
Attractions
The Church of Soing was rebuilt in the 18th century in classical style. In-room amenities include a richly carved pulpit, paneling in the Louis XVI style and a statue group. Also from the 18th century, comes the Church of Charentenay with grave plates and furniture from the building time. The Church of Cubry (19th century) has furniture in the Empire style. Then there are two crosses from the 16th century, including the Croix des Beaux- Regards. In addition, the Lavoirs of Soing and Cubry worth mentioning that once served as a laundry and watering cattle. At the edge of the Bois de Soing is the built in 1780 Fontaine des Ormois. Built in 1992, the Eiffel Tower of Soing is his original in Paris in scale 1: 20 modeled.
Population
With 487 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) Soing - Cubry - Charentenay is one of the small towns in the Haute- Saône. After the population had decreased significantly in the first half of the 20th century (1881 not 1059 people were on today's municipal area counted ), was re- recorded a slight population growth from 1975 to 2000. Since then is again observed a declining trend.
Economy and infrastructure
Soing - Cubry - Charentenay was until well into the 20th century a predominantly by agriculture (crops, orchards and livestock ) and forestry embossed village. Today, there are some establishments of local small businesses, especially in the precision engineering industries, wood processing and transport industry. In recent decades the village has been transformed into a residential community. Many workers are therefore commuters who engage in the larger towns in the vicinity of their work.
The village is situated away from the larger passage axes on a secondary road that leads from Fresne -Saint- Mamès after Scey -sur -Saône. Further road links exist with Vanne, Chantes and Traves.