Togny-aux-Bœufs

Togny-aux-Bœufs
Togny-aux-Bœufs
Location within Champagne-Ardenne region Togny-aux-Bœufs
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Châlons-en-Champagne
Canton	Canton of Écury-sur-Coole
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Guenelle
Government
• Mayor	Michel Jacquet
Area1	9.98 km2 (3.85 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	161
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	51574 / 51240
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.

Togny-aux-Bœufs is a commune in the Marne department in Champagne-Ardenne, in the north-east of France.

Geography

The main river feeding the village is the Guenelle. The commune's territory extends from the southwest of the Champagne, north-east to the valley of Marne.

Communes bordering Togny-aux-Bœufs

• Mairy-sur-Marne
• Vésigneul-sur-Marne
• Pogny
• Coupetz
• Vitry-la-Ville

History

Togny-aux-Bœufs was founded by a Roman general named Toniacus. His name has evolved over time to Togny-sur-Guenelle, named after the river running along the village, only to take his name as currently known a priori that the cattle used in the construction of the basilica of 'Thorn would have come in pastures of the village to take some rest. The chalk used for construction could come also part of the village.

In 1375, a captain of the King of France, Enguerrand of Coucy, crosses the Champagne road with his band, to the great detriment of the plain "Thus the people of Togny-en-Champagne they saw themselves reduced to crowd into hiding to escape the terrible weapons people. "

Policy and Administration

Cantonal attachment

During the Revolution, the town joined the canton of Pogny. This is abolished in 1801 and Togny-aux-Bœufs integrates Township Écury-sur-Coole 2. Under the cantonal redistribution in France in 2014, the town became part of the canton of Chalons-en-Champagne-3.

Inter

The town, previously a member of the Community of communes of Guenelle, is a member, from the 1 ^st January 2014, the Community of Municipalities of Moivre in Coole.

Indeed, according to the inter-municipal cooperation departmental plan of the Marne of 15 December 2011 3, the Community of Municipalities of Moivre in Coole is amalgamated, at 1 ^st January 2014, theCommunity of Municipalities of the Valley Coole, the Community of Communes of Guenelle of the Community of communes of Mont nuts and Community communes of the Chalk Valley 4.

List of mayors

Period		Identity	Label	Quality
Missing data are to be completed.
1848	1851	Alexis Gatelet
1851	1862	Joseph Songy
1862	1896	Onesimus Henry
1896	1908	Louis Estienne
1908	1913	Ulysses Gatelet
1913	1925	Henri Berthemy
1925	1935	Louis Ollivier
1935	1944	Louis Mortas
1944	1971	Robert Berton
1971	1983	Marc Jeanmaire
1983	2001	Michael Berton
2001	current (at July 4, 2014)	Michel Jacquet		Re-elected for the 2014-2020 term 6, 7

Demographics

In 2012, the municipality had 128 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known throughout the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the xxi ^th century, actual census municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitantsare held every five years, in contrast other towns with a sample survey every year Note 1, Note 2.

Population change [edit]

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
275	290	296	300	313	327	331	343	381

Population change [edit], following (1)

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
362	333	338	323	331	320	287	270	230

Population change [edit], suite (2)

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
219	222	215	189	192	199	171	204	228

Population change [edit], following (3)

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2005	2006	2010
200	163	153	165	166	161	146	150	134

Population change [edit], suite (4)

2012	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
128	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

From 1962 to 1999: Population without double counting; for the following dates: municipal population. (Sources: Ldh / EHESS / Cassini until 1999 2 and Insee in 2004 8.)

Histogram of demographic change

Sites and Monuments

• The Church of St. Brice houses four articles classified historical monuments: a Madonna and Child of xiii ^th century 9, christ on the cross of xiv ^th century 10, a bas-relief of the Adoration of the Magi from the xv ^th century 11 and a stained glass window depicting the Annunciation and two men alongside a bishop, dating from 1520 and complete the xix ^th Century 12.
• Robinson Chalons, relaxing place;
• by plane, archaeological sites can be identified;
• the town hall ;
• the village cemetery contain many historical elements of interest.

Personalities linked to the common

• Louis-Antoine Cagnon (1771-1853), cavalry captain under the 1st Empire, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor 13;
• Auguste Person, the inventor of the crinoline skirt;
• Australian pilot Edwin Gordon Beckhouse, killed by the Germans in 1944;
• Togny-aux-Boeufs is the original village -at xvii ^th century- the Canon family, Canon Jean Louis (1787-1872), general counsel of the Marne and mayor of Epernay in 1840 to 1848, General Jules Chanoine ( 1835-1915), general counsel of the Marne and Minister of War in 1898, champagne house Chanoine Frères:
• Marie-Louise Leveque (1842-1926), wife of Dr. Jean-Baptiste Langlet, mayor of Reims in 1908-1919.

See also

• Communes of the Marne department