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Daix is a common French located in the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy.

Geography

The commune of Daix is located at the North-West of Dijon, capital of Burgundy. It belongs to the community of agglomeration of Large Dijon, between the 3 greater French economic areas: the Paris basin, the Rhone-Alps area and the area of the East with Lorraine and Alsace. She enjoys a particularly gravitational geographical location and constantly tends to preserve an exceptional environment and a quality of life.

History

The presence of an agglomeration which constituted the village of Daix in the beginning, goes back to highest antiquity and some old texts quote its name before the end of the time that the history fixed for limit of the Middle Ages. We know, and the Abbot Claude Courtépée points out it to us, that this agglomeration were called in the Latin titles of 783,869, Distum, Distiacum, then as old French, Dist, Dez, and finally Dex during temporary monarchy. The files stabilize really the orthography of the name only starting from the end of the 18th century.

Although the civil organization of the occupants is perfectly known for us only starting from the 16°, the historians teach us that the territory was had before by various lords, even foreign with the area, and Courtépée indicates that Odo de Marugny was lord in 1232, that Jean de Saulon yielded to the duke Hugues IV of Burgundy his possessions on Daix in 1252 and that the duke Robert II of Burgundy acquired, in 1300, the totality of the stronghold of Odo de Fontserina (or Fontsavina).

All these possessions seigneuriales explain us the property by way of liberalities of important fields reserved for various religious orders such as the Benign Abbey of St, that of St the Seine the Abbey, etc. and the priory of Bonvaux founded in 1215 pennies the term of the Virgin, had his birth and his blooming only with generosities of the dukes of the first race (of the monks of the congregation of the Valley of the Schoolboys establish, at the bottom of the combe of Plombières, a small priory after having cleared these grounds yielded by Garnier de Fontaine. The site accommodates many pilgrims around its two devoted sources).

It was the same for the revenue of Changey which had the ducal favors, and with the extinction of the first race, Philippe Bold the would have had, said one, in this smallholding, a troop of mule coming from Spain. The administration of justice would have been exerted there by a delegation of sovereignty to sergeants of the châtellenie of Bruising which depended on the ducal field.

Courtépée makes known with its readers, that the soil is dry and stony, with a production of common wine. At all events of the old condition of the inhabitants of the place, it is certain, by the transmitted vestiges of the high time, that these inhabitants were grouped at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and can be even since the great invasions of the 5th century to the southernmost point of the plate dominating the surrounding plain, and who accepted the term of St Laurent slope. The murgers that the past centuries did not reduce yet in dust, let to us see enormous blocks of stones worn which do not have anything commun run with the lava which forms the first sedimentary layers of the plate. These blocks undoubtedly come possible from the walls of defense of the dwellings built in extreme cases of the plate, and of sat these primitive houses. The village was extremely modest and was to include/understand only some families attached to the exploitation of the grounds of the Lords owners of the ground. With the visit of fires in 1375, there existed only 16 fires on all the territory of the parish; 19 in 1383, i.e. approximately 95 inhabitants. In 1477, after the death of Charles Bold the, Daix changes several times of hands.

The Christianity, assisted at that time by popular enthusiasm and the presence of religious orders owners of important fractions of the territory, could not remain indifferent to the spiritual life of the inhabitants of the small agglomeration sitting on the hill, and it was built under the direction of the monks a small sanctuary of Romance style similar like design to the church St Vorles de Châtillon, and much more close to us, with the parish church of Hauteville whose cleaned it ensured besides during centuries the religious service. This extremely modest church was dedicated to the worship of Saint Laurent like patron saint of the new parish and took this term. The church celebrates its festival on August 10th, day of its martyrdom.

The modern parish church of Daix, built in the center of the village in 1848, has a very large table due to the generosity of an inhabitant of the commune like ex-voto of the happy outcome of a lawsuit. This table represents St Laurent indicating to the Prefect of Rome the unhappy ones of the city assembled around him, as being the treasure of its church. We are unaware of the time of the construction of the SAINT LAURENT church which crowned the hill, nor the date of its dedication. There exists any document nor no drawing, with the files, which reveals us the broad outlines of the architecture of the small church, and its silhouette was revealed by a painting of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (museum of the Art schools of Dijon) which represents in the foreground a scene of vintage, the pond of daix to the proportion of a pond or water the herds with the tortuous path and precipice which curves with the hillside; and all at the top, in overhang, the St Laurent church with the architecture that the painter reproduced, and which we want to hope for well to have been sincere.

With the increase in the rural population, the extension of the cultivated grounds, and the inconvenience to have the dwelling with the top of the hill, the pets and the ploughing implements in against bottom, the population emigrated gradually of its refuge, and built the current village, with its accumulation of the buildings in edge of the way common to the southern limit of the ground dependant on each medieval construction. This exodus former to the 16th century, was worth with the inhabitants the qualifier of cuckoos, which they preserved until our days: " cuckoos of Daix".

In 1644, " the village is made up only of vine growers. Have neither meadow, nor river. The grounds are specific to wheat. Their harvest consists of cherry trees which were cold last year. And having visited the houses of said place, let us have recogneu to have 20, as well good there as méchantes" , the police chiefs of the States of Burgundy note.

The commune has, in the room of the council of the town hall, two tables (of which reproduction of this painting of Lallemand) which illustrates the life of the commune of Daix under Louis XV, that of a small quiet borough to the doors of the capital that their arrows churches and cathedrals dominate. the village then counts small about thirty inhabitants gathered around a residence seigneuriale, built at the beginning of the century by Bénigne Jacquot, first President at the Court of Auditors of Dijon. Around, not of wheat nor of rye, but of the oats fields, of barley, but especially… of vines, whose maintenance and production attract many days laborer at the time of the grape harvest. (Currently, Daix includes/understands nothing any more but one about fifteen hectares of vines, the majority having succumbed to the phylloxerna crisis of the beginning of the century.)

XXème century

In 1954, Daix develops with the construction of the allotment " Small Prés". In the years 1970, the farm of Bonveaux is transformed into riding school and the commune decides the construction of the allotments " Meix Pillon" and of the " Viaux" field;. In the years 1980, construction of the allotment " Maladière". In the years 1990, the village still increases and the population strongly increases with the construction of the allotments " The Moreaux" Fields; , " Alisiers" or " Saint-Laurent". In 1999, Daix counts 1479 inhabitants.

Demography

Administration

Places and monuments

War memorial for the resistant ones died during the second world war

Personalities related to the commune

Twinning

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See too

Common of Coast-in Or

External bonds

Daix, official Internet site of the commune
Daix on the site of the national geographical Institute
Daix on the site of INSEE
Daix on the site of Quid
Localization of Daix on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Daix on Mapquest

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