Bar-sur-Aube is a common French, located in the department of Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne. The inhabitants are called the Baralbins .

Geography

Bar-sur-Aube is surrounded by slopes Champagne and hills. The city is crossed by the Aube, from where its name. From its basement, it belongs Chalky to Champagne.

Characteristics of wine geography

The majority of the wines from champagne come from the department of the Marne (on grounds Crétacé S), of the valley of the Marne (until the West of Castle-Thierry), and on a series of soils with horse on the grounds Tertiaires and Cretaceous (Avize, Vertus, Sézanne…)

The Champagnes of the Aube are very offset, very southernmost, compared to other Champagnes, and are on Jurassic grounds. They are thus particular champagnes. This surface of Champagnes of the Paddle gathers other common neighbors like Riceys and the Bar-on-Seine.

Their name " Champagne" date in fact from the years 1920, following a revolt of vine growers who wanted to be attached there and not to be regarded as Burgundy more. Who more is, as in Burgundy, the small property dominates, contrary to the more septentrional Champagne vineyards. It should be said that one on space is almost described by Balzac in the Peasants , where it is seen how the intrigues of these rural very claiming lead to the parcelling out of the property and the formation of a scrap-metal.

This geographical fact, precisely, watch which this zone is a curious surface for Champagne: when one follows the road of Montbard (21) towards Riceys (10), one sees the Burgundian scrap-metal gradually being slackened, to widen. One sees it dying in the approach of the forest of Laignes (21), but it reappears timidly in Riceys.

However, the Champagne term means étymogiquement opened fields, openfield , and is thus opposed by nature to the scrap-metal idea! What a paradox to produce Champagne in a space almost semi-of the woodlands!

Bibliography:

BALZAC (of) H., the peasants , Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1970,379 p.

DION R., History of the vine and the wine, Paris, Flammarion, 1959,768p + 15p of boards.

POMEROL C. (to dir.), Soils and wines of France - oenological and geological Routes , Orleans, BRGM, 1990 (3rd edition), 350 p.

History

The existence of Bar-sur-Aube goes back to highest the Antiquité. There exist vestiges of a Oppidum of the Roman epoch.

• Of the pewters (standard to the horse) to the name of TOGIRIX (chief of Séquanes) and Jules César were produced on German the Sainte hill into 52 before Jesus-Christ.

The city is devastated by Attila and in 448, the Romans are driven out by the Francs. After the division of the kingdom of Clovis by its sons, the city belongs to the Austrasie.

• Under Charles the Bald person several varieties of sums of money were emitted

For the period of the Counts de Champagne, the city takes a great importance, with the Foires of Champagne, where the tradesmen of Flandres and Italy exchanged spices of the East, silk, textiles and gross products come from the North of Europe mid-February and mid-April. It was then joined together with the crown of France. In 1318, Philippe V Length having sold the city with Jacques de Croy, the inhabitants was repurchased and obtained that the king cannot any more sell it nor to alienate it. When Charles Quint besieged the city Saint-Dizier, the inhabitants of the close villages are reflected under its protection. The city suffered from long a Peste in 1636, which caused the stop of the fair. In 1862 the fortifications were demolished, the boulevard of the turn of city is on their site.

The French revolution was well accommodated there, the Couvent S disappeared from it. In 1911, the Révolte of the vine growers opposed the Aubois vine growers to the Marnais traders in order to maintain the vineyard in the appellation contr4ol3ee “Champagne”.

bibliographical cf also reference at the end of the article.

Heraldic

Of azure, with a money band accompanied by two double gold cotices potencées and against-potencées. | Malta-Brown |illustrated France (1882)

This blazon is in fact that of the Champagne county. The bank of the blazon gives blasonnement according to: party, with the first of mouths to the money bar, the second of azure to the money band, alongside of two potencées cotices and against-potencées gold; with the chief of azure charged with three gold bees flying

Administration

Bar-sur-Aube is a Sous-préfecture of the Paddle.

Culture

• Fair with the Cheese S in June.
• Gone every saturday morning under the markets and on the place of the town hall.
• employers' Festival with the Branches.
• Medieval Fair, first weekend of September

Tourist monuments and places

Guided visits of the city are organized on request with the Tourist office.

Remarkable buildings and public places

• Storeroom of the 12th century.
• Library of 16th and 17th century.

Religious buildings

• church Saint-Pierre (12th century) with his Halloy, a gallery of wood which was used for the merchants at time of the fairs.
• Church Saint-Maclou (XIIe and 14th century). Its bell-tower is the only vestige of the castle of the Counts, which was destroyed after the League on order of Henri IV.
• Vault Midsummer's Day (Order of Midsummer's Day)
• With the surroundings: Abbey of Clairvaux, churches with wood sides of DER

Museums

With the surroundings:

• Bayel : Écomusée of the Crystal
• Arsonval: Museum Loukine.
• Colombey-the-Two-Churches: Memorial of the General de Gaulle and Boisserie.

Others

• Holy-Germaine Hill: Celtic Oppidum , archaeological site and excavations.
• Castle of Cirey-on-Blaise (Voltaire).
• Lake S: Lake of DER and Lake of the East (veil, water sports and leisures of family) - Lake of the Temple (Natural park and fishes) - Lac Amance (motonautism and speed)).
• Forests and wood: the forest of Clairvaux - River Paddle - tourist Road of the Champagne.
• Sports: School of foot of the town of Bar on Paddle with 250 bachelors: ES Bar Bayel

Famous people

• Holy Germaine, martyrdom in 451.
• Bertrand of Bar, Trouvere of the 13th century.
• Etienne d' Acier, poet, disciple of Ronsard, 16th century.
• Gaston Bachelard, philosopher (1884 - 1962).
• Armand Beauvais, rural painter (1840 - 1911)
• Maurice Emmanuel, musicologist and French type-setter born in Bar-sur-Aube in 1862 and died in Paris in 1938.
• Marinette Pichon (Player of foot)
• Edouard Estevez, plant manager Dumeste (1955 - 2007)

Twinning

Industry

• the industry of hemp has been very developed in Bar-sur-Aube, and knows a sustained high growth for several years.
• the manufacture of piece of furniture: Dumeste (group Cauval Industries)
• the transformation of metals (forging mill, machining) for aeronautics, the armament, agricultural machinery, medicine (prostheses), etc: Manor industries .

Agriculture

Bar-sur-Aube, is the first French producer of straw of hemp (125tonnes/j), and of many derivative products of hemp are manufactured there. In its neighborhoods are many Vigne S, specialized in the champagne.

Town planning

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