the Bar-on-Seine is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

History

Heraldic

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 Bar-sur-Aube.

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.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

• Turn of the clock: vestige of old the castle destroys by the inhabitants on ordinance of Louis XIII. This last seriously had already been damaged during the wars of religion
• the Bar-on-Seine monnaya of the sums of money under Charles the Bald person
• Maison of the 16th century
• Église Saint-Etienne
• Église Notre-Dame of the Oak and its cave
• Moulin: Potentially splendid building which spans the Seine but which is dilapidated shamefully in the middle of the city for lack of decisions concerning its restoration
• Souterrains refuges: Dating from the Carolingian time, unfortunately nonaccessible to the public because they leave from the cellar the town hall
• low Salle: old low room of the castle of the counts de Bar. Its use remains a mystery still today…
• Maison of the Frères Goncourt
• Chapelle of Passion.
• One still finds in this commune the commandery of Swallower (Ordre of the Temple).