Juvrecourt

Juvrecourt is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

Geography

The toponymy of the place would come from Gallic the root root gabros (goat) which aurrait given Givry with which one had associated the suffix - short (of Latin - curtis, “rural field”) to form Givricourt (1152). It then named Geveroucourt (1178), Gievrecourt , Gyevrecourt , Gieuvercourt (1476), Gieuvrecourt (1553), Givrecourt (1600).

The south of the territory of the commune is crossed by the Black Otter, one flowing of the Seille.

This commune was a village-border with Germany between 1871 and 1914.

History

One found the remainders of a cemetery mérovingien on the hill between Juvrecourt and Xanrey

A Roman way crossed the communal territory, in the west of the wood of Piamont Saint.

With the Middle Ages, Juvrecourt was a general information and a habit of Metz and raised of the baillage of Vic-on-Pail

In 1790 Juvrecourt belonged to the canton of Arracourt before this one is absorbed by the Canton of Vic-on-Pail. After the Treated of Frankfurt of 1870, it integrated new the Canton of Arracourt with the eight other communes remained French.

In 1820 the commune had 283 individuals, representing 67 households and 44 houses and a mill with grain. Its surface of 548 ha was used for 424 in ploughings, 88 in near and 27 out of wood. The commune of Xanrey was then an appendix of Juvrecourt.

In 1912 the men of the commune were mobilized following an error of the postmaster of Arracourt which had believed to receive an order of general mobilization announcing the entry in war of France.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the church XIXe has a sculpture of the Virgin out of wooden, realized towards 1510 stalemate the workshops of Tilman Riemenschneider. She is classified with the historic buildings.

Personalities related to the commune

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