The Lady of the manor

the Lady of the manor is a common French, located in the department of the the Jura and the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

The Lady of the manor is located at approximately 570 meters of altitude, the south-east of Arbois and approximately 30 km in the North-East of the town of Lons-the-Salt maker (as the crow flies). This rural village is in the Massif of the Jura, in a setback of the northern part of the plate lédonien (the first plate of the Jura), in the east of the valley of erosion of the Cuisance, and above the Reculée of the Boards.

The near total of the communal territory, of a surface of 13,17 km ², is on the plate lédonien, of an average altitude of 570 m, and is shared between the fields and pastures on the one hand, and the forest on the other hand. Western limit of the common longe mainly the rock top of the cliff which surplonge the valley of Cuisance. The rock faces of moved back of the Boards and the Cirque of the Horseshoe are particularly remarkable with the top of the sources ic Karst of Cuisance. In the west, the communal territory joined the forest of Alpine laburnum, while in the east and south-east, are the Forêt of Moidons and it wood of the Lady of the manor. At this place the highest point of the Lady of the manor with 633 m of altitude is. The plate does not have a river on the surface, because the rainwater infiltrates in the karstic basement.

The common neighbors of the Lady of the manor are Mesnay in north, Chilly-on-Saline Ivory and in the east, Valempoulières and Molain in the south, Arbois and the Board-near-Alpine laburnums in the west.

History

The Lady of the manor was already populated during the Préhistoire. The first hard copy of the medieval castle dates from the 11th century. The countess Mahaut d' Artois lived there. It was restored at the 14th century and was destroyed in 1480 by the troops of the king Louis XI. The Lady of the manor integrated France as the remainder of the Franche-Comté in 1678 following the Traité of Nimègue.

Administration

Demography

With 133 inhabitants in 1999, the Lady of the manor belongs to the smallest municipalities of the department of the Jura. After a hollow in the population in first half of the 20th century (in 1896, one counted 209 more people), a light population growth is recorded again since the medium of the Années 1970.

Places and monuments

The church of the village of the Lady of the manor was built with the 17th century, and its bell-tower added to the 19th century. She has a rich person interior installation, of which a statue of Vierge to the Child in Albâtre of the 16th century, a Reliquaire of the 18th century and a Ciboire silver of the 17th century, classified like historic buildings. The Notre-Dame vault dates from the 19th century. There remain ruins of the medieval castle.

Among natural curiosities are the rock circus of the Horseshoe and moved back of the Boards. A club of Spéléologie allows the exploration of the basement of the area: the spéléo-club the Lady of the manor (SCLC)

Economy and infrastructures

The Lady of the manor was still largely at the 20th century a village marked by the Agriculture and the Sylviculture. The inhabitants live still today mainly of activities of the primary sector. There are only few work stations in the village in the other economic sectors. However, the village was also transformed into a residential commune, with much of people who work in more important localities of the surroundings.

The locality is with the variation of the main roads of passage, except however for the D469 road between Arbois and Montrond, which is easily accessible. Another road leads to Ivory.

Personalities related to the commune

The countess Mahaut d' Artois lived with the castle.

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