Baulme-la-Roche

Baulme-la-Roche
Coat of arms
Baulme-la-Roche
Location within Burgundy region Baulme-la-Roche
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Dijon
Canton	Sombernon
Intercommunality	Community of communes of Sombernonnais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gisèle Monot
Area1	6.69 km2 (2.58 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	113
• Density	17/km2 (44/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21051 / 21410
Elevation	360–596 m (1,181–1,955 ft) (avg. 450 m or 1,480 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Baulme-la-Roche is a French commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Rochebalmiens or Rochebalmiennes.

Geography

View of the commune

Baulme-la-Roche is located some 17 km west by north-west of Dijon and 8 km north-east of Sombernon. Access to the commune is by the D104C from Mâlain in the south which passes through the commune and the village and continues north-east to join the D10 south-east of Panges. The Paris–Marseille railway passes through the commune and the entrance to the Blaisy-Bas Tunnel is in the commune. The nearest station is at Malain south of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland but there are extensive forests - especially in the east.

The Douix river rises in the west of the commune and flows south-east to join the Ouche east of Sainte-Marie-sur-Ouche. The Ruisseau de Baulme-la-Roche rises in the centre of the commune and flows south-west to join the Douix.

Mapping

A list of online mapping systems can be displayed by clicking on the coordinates (latitude and longitude) in the top right hand corner of this article.

Toponymy

Baulme-la-Roche appears as Beaume la Roche on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Heraldry

Blazon: Party per fess, at 1 party per pale, Argent a cross Gules charged with 5 roses and Azure a dexter arm carnation vested Argent holds a crozier of Or; at 2 Azure, a mountain of 3 hillocks of Or; all debruised by a barrulet on the division charged with a fess wavy of Azure.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2011	Gisèle Monot
2011	2014	Jean Luc Gourdin
2014	2020	Raphaël Vejux

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 113 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
357	329	335	314	300	284	249	393	392

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
244	239	222	198	238	234	214	211	195

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
177	186	184	150	170	168	156	139	130

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
120	106	77	88	100	118	121	113	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Baulme-la-Roche

Population of Baulme-la-Roche

Culture and heritage

The Fountain

The Parish Church

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• A Farmhouse (16th century)
• A House (1807)
• A Farmhouse (18th century)
• A House (19th century)
• A Blacksmith's House (1818)
• A Fountain at Rue Landel (1822)
• Houses and farmsn (17th-19th century)
• A Fountain at la Dhuys (1822)

Religious heritage

The commune has several religious buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• A Benedictine Priory (1502)
• The Parish Church of Saint Martin (15th century)

The Church contains a large number of items that are registered as historical objects. For a complete list including links to descriptions (in French) click here.

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department