Bétheniville

Bétheniville is a common French, located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne. Small commune of more than one thousand of inhabitants (census of 2007), located in the middle of the agricultural plains champardennaises, at 20 minutes of Rheims and to 4 km of the Ardennes.

Served by secondary roads of good quality, Betheniville still offers many services and trade.

The distilling, whose smell pollutions caused the grogne citizens 10 years ago, does not pose today any more a problem, since she was summoned to put itself in conformity while engaging of work and by moving her basins. Its permanent closure is planned besides for the end of the year 2007, since the company operator started construction with Bazancourt (51) of a news and gigantic distilling.

Slowly turning the page of a past to industrial temptations always beneficial steps on the long run, Bétheniville can now consider the next decade by taking up a new challenge: environment. The commune can indeed hope to allure new inhabitants so that they still enrich this framework very accessible, per hour of the blaze of the real estate in the regional metropolis close to Rheims.

History

the memory of the Great War, in the south of Bétheniville.

The city was marked severely by the two world wars but the first war remains without dispute that which deposited prints the most. South of the area of bétheniville, known as of the " Mount-of-Champagne" count 2 villages completely destroyed between 1914 and 1918: Nauroy and Moronvilliers. Their names were taken again by the common neighbors of Pontfaverger and Beine to give today the villages of Pontfaverger-Moronvilliers and Beine-Nauroy. These two destroyed villages belong to the quantity of sites marked forever by the Great War and that one finds all along the sacred way, this road of Rheims with Verdun by which one can also reach Bétheniville by the south. The site of Moronvilliers shelters today a high level research center of ECA.

Around Bétheniville

In the middle of the agricultural champagne plains, the agro-industrial vocation of Bétheniville was consolidated until our days. Immense cultivated plains, cereals as far as the eye can see always surround the streets of the small city. The problematic position of distilling (too much near to the center of the borough and classified all the same " SEVESO - Haut" Threshold; , to remember at the end of 2007 will be nothing any more but one. The forty uses of the factory will be also a memory, although all fortunately reclassified with Bazancourt.

the future

The new face of the city will it be able to allure new arrivals? Will Betheniville be able to negotiate the turn of the years 2010 while renoncant with the industrial pseudo mirages of last and while opening with an environmental policy to accompany this change and if possible, to precede it? In any case, the blaze of the real estate in the city close to helping Rheims, the arrival of a new population rurbaine started to give to the small city a new chance of renewal.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Hubert Alexandre Nouvion

See too

Common of the Marne

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