Baconnes

Baconnes is a common French, located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Baconnes is a very old village, sitted between the two Roman ways, of Rheims with Verdun, and Rheims to Bar-le-Duc, halfway between Rheims and Trawl-net-in-Champagne. This village passed a long time, undoubtedly wrongly, for the Basilia station of the route of Antonin. It is also mentioned in the Polyptyque of Rémy Saint: " Mansus Domminicatus in Baconna ".

The seigniory belonged to Commanderie of the Temple of Rheims and passed, with the extinction of this kind, the Knights of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem. At the month of June 1257, Guillaume Dryness, son-in-law of Guy, hereditary seneshal of the Archbishop's palace of Rheims, sold with the Archbishop, in addition to the quarter of the seigniory of Thuisy, all that it had in Baconnes of the chief of his wife.

In 1691, the village has 46 fires (hearths) and 24 plowmen (ground owners). These figures are comparable at the time, with those of Livry, Louvercy and Mourmelon the Large one.

On the territory existed supposed Pontvray, on the side of the village of Auberive, in top of the Rouvroy locality, which still existed at the beginning of and where was a vault, ruins which one drew from the stones for the ramparts of Rheims.

Baconnes was surrounded by still visible ramparts or pits in the south-eastern part of the village. The origin of these ramparts is discussed enough. They seem gallos-Romans and contemporary of Oppidum of Cheppe. Some affirm that Baconnes was strengthened in 1578 like certain villages of the edge of Suippe. Others, finally, think that the pits protected the village from the floods.

A legend brought back by Jules Romain in his book " Men of goodwill, Verdun and Prelude to Verdun " known as that the inhabitants of Baconnes go down from a horde of Huns which would have been cut off and perpetuated in isolation with Baconnes after the rout of the Champs Catalauniques.

Baconnes were destroyed has 80% between 1914 and 1918 and 14 of its sons did not return from the war. The common one received the Military Cross.

With the rebuilding, the pond, which occupied all the place, was stopped with debris and the war memorial was built on part of the site of this pond. Electricity and water under pressure were installed since 1925.

The CHURCH

The Church of Baconnes, listed monument, is dedicated to Saint Memmie. It massive and is built in chalk squares and stone. The nave, without much beauty and apparent style, has neither sides, nor pillars. It is reduced to a reached a maximum room, opening of a line of windows full-clotheshangers, three on each side.

The chour, rounded in bottom of furnace, is of a Romance rather antiquated, although it should not go up beyond the 12th century. This Romance style continues with the transept crossing that four heavy solid masses of posts, provided support of capitals of neat execution. As pilot wheels, two small vaults very low and exiguous, arched broad warheads, without keystone, lit one by a oculus and the other by a small Romance window. The Apse, very reduced, openwork by three windows semicircular arch and is arched branches of warhead which stop on consoles placed between the windows. The Western gate is reduced to a door semicircular arch surmounted by a oculus. The tower, with batière, but of a very particular, broad and short form, is like écrasee. Each one of its faces, except in the West, is opened by bays, of unequal number: one in the south and the east, two in north, geminated, on posts decorated with capitals with palmettes. The bell weighs approximately 400 kg, it is extremely old and carries the date of 1508. It is registered there the names of Master Thomas Martin, priest of Baconnes, Remi Charpentie, Domance Francoise Catherine Raulet and still Katrine which could be its Christian name well. One wonders how it could take seat in its old bell-tower which does not carry any trace of its passage.

EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURE

Agriculture remained dependant on the poverty of the ground. One said to the neighborhoods that the corbels, when they crossed the soil of Baconnes, were obliged to take their haversack! In highlands (far away from the village) the triennial Assolement was practiced: rye, oats, fallow. In the lowlands, the corn replaced rye; the alfalfa and the clover provided fodder for the animals, associated with mangel-wurzel. Hemp was cultivated in the " hemp " , between the village and the pits and there were many weaving looms.

The Second world war Baconnes saving and, since 1945, it is the explosion of agriculture. Mechanization (tractors and combine harvesters), group work, the use of manures, weeding, of the selected seeds, the extension of sugar beet, make that in Baconnes, as in all the " Champagne Cankered " , the outputs do not have anything to envy those of the Brie, Beauce or Picardy.

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See too

Common of the Marne

External bonds

Baconnes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Baconnes on the site of INSEE
Baconnes on the site of Quid
Localization of Baconnes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Baconnes on Mapquest

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