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Moyencourt is a French commune located in the Somme department, in the Hauts-de-France region.

Localisation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Picard village located south of the town of Nesle and about thirty kilometers by road south of Péronne.

Neighboring municipalities [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Road public transport [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The locality is served by coaches of the Inter-Urban Network Trans’80, Hauts-de-France (line n O 52, Nesle – Hombleux – Him) [ first ] .

Hydrography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The municipality, close to the Northern Canal, is limited to the east by the Petit Ingon, the left sub-affluent of the La Somme river by the Ingon.

Several streams born in the town, including the arrival, throw themselves into the little Ingon.

Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Moyencourt is a rural commune, because it is among the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal gate of density of INSEE [ Note 1 ] , [ 2 ] , [ 3 ] , [ 4 ] .
The municipality is also outside the attraction of cities [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] .

Land use [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Map of the soil occupation of the town in 2018 (CLC).

The occupation of the soils of the municipality, as it emerges from the European Database for Biophysics of Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of agricultural territories (87.8% in 2018) , a proportion identical to that of 1990 (87.8%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
Arable lands (79.3%), meadows (8.5%), forests (6.3%), urbanized areas (5.9%) [ 7 ] .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII It is century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) [ 8 ] .

First World War

The village suffered important destruction during the First World War [ 9 ] , [ ten ] , and in particular the Church,
the castle [ 11 ] , [ twelfth ] and the Legras sugar refinery [ 13 ] , [ 14 ] , [ 15 ] , [ 16 ] .

It was decorated with the 1914-1918 war cross [ 17 ] .

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Administrative and electoral attaches [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The town has been in the Montdidier district of the Somme department since 1801 in the Montdidier district. By prefectural decree of , the municipality is seconded to To integrate the district of Péronne [ 18 ] .

For the election of deputies, it has been a part since 2012 of the fifth district of the Somme.

Moyencourt has been part since 1793 of the canton of Roye [ 19 ] . As part of the 2014 cantonal redistribution in France, the town joined the canton of Ham, of which it is now a member.

Intercommunality [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The municipality was part of the community of communes of the Neslois country (CCPN), created at the end of 2001, and which succeeded Nesle district , created by prefectural decree of .

The law on the new territorial organization of the Republic (NOTRe law) of the , providing that public inter -municipal cooperation establishments (EPCI) with own taxation must have a minimum of 15,000 inhabitants [ 20 ] , the departmental inter -municipal cooperation diagram (SDCI) stopped by the prefect of the sum provides in particular the merger of communities of communes of the Hamois country and that of the Neslois country, in order to constitute an inter -municipal 42 municipalities Grouping 20,822 inhabitants, and specifies that it is a coherent life pool in which pendulum migrations already exist between Ham and Nesle. Ham thus offers cultural, school and sports equipment (media library and high-capacity music auditorium, vocational high school, nautical complex), while Nesle is the reception municipality of large agrifood companies as well as their subcontractors »» [ 21 ] .

The merger intervenes the and the new structure, of which the municipality is now part, takes the name of the community of municipalities in the east of the sum [ 22 ] , [ 23 ] .

List of mayors [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

List of successive mayors
Period Identify Label Quality
The missing data is to be completed.
before 1988 Yves Bruyer
The missing data is to be completed.
mars 2001 May 2020 Serge Lefebvre [ 24 ] , [ 25 ]
July 2020 [ 26 ] In progress
(to October 8, 2020) 		David BecQuchelle Operating manager

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation [ 27 ] . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2004 [ 28 ] .

In 2020, the town had 323 inhabitants [ Note 2 ] , increased by 1.57%compared to 2014 (sum: −0.5%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.9%).

Evolution of the population [ modifier ]
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
260 277 306 365 351 386 384 410 420
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
412 398 379 369 367 378 347 351 327
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
323 332 350 280 312 302 296 268 326
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 2006 2009
341 309 286 283 263 241 292 293 303
2014 2019 2020 – – – – – –
318 321 323 – – – – – –
Histogram of demographic evolution

Places and monuments [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • Local for the “Arc game”.

Personalities linked to the municipality [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Related articles [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

external links [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

On other Wikimedia projects:

  • Special map of devastated regions: 22 no, Laon [north-west] , Army geographic service, ( read online ) On Gallica.

Notes [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  1. ↑ According to the zoning of rural and urban municipalities published in November 2020, in application of the new definition of validated rurality in the interministerial rurality committee.
  2. ↑ Legal municipal population in force at 1 is January 2023, vintage 2020, defined within the territorial limits in force at 1 is January 2022, Statistical reference date: 1 is January 2020.

References [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  1. ↑ ‘ The Trans’80 network online » .
  2. ↑ ‘ Urban / rural typology » , on www.observatoire-des -territoires.gouv.fr (consulted the ) .
  3. ↑ ‘ Rural commune – Definition » , on INSEE website (consulted the ) .
  4. ↑ ‘ Understand the density grid » , on www.observatoire-des -territoires.gouv.fr (consulted the ) .
  5. ↑ ‘ Base of attraction areas for 2020 cities. » , on INSEE.FR , (consulted the ) .
  6. ↑ Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pascal Eusebio, Jocelyn Forest, Olivier Pégaz-Blanc and Raymond Warnod (INSEE), ‘ In France, nine out of ten people live in the attraction of a city » , on INSEE.FR , (consulted the ) .
  7. ↑ ‘ Corine Land Cover (CLC) – Distribution of areas in 15 land use stations (metropolitan area). » , on the Statistical data and studies site of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. (consulted the )
  8. ↑ IGN, ‘ Evolution of the town’s land use on ancient maps and photos. » , on Remonterletemps.ign.fr (consulted the ) . To compare the evolution between two dates, click on the bottom of the vertical dividing line and move it to the right or left. To compare two other cards, choose the cards in the windows at the top left of the screen.
  9. ↑ Special card of devastated regions, document mentioned in external links, 1920.
  10. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: ransacked agricultural equipment » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  11. ↑ ‘ Ancient postcard: Middle-Est South-East Side Château (Historical and picturesque Picardy Collection) » , Digitized documents, macqueron funds , Abbeville municipal library (consulted the ) .
  12. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: the destroyed castle » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  13. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: LEGRAS sugar refinery. Ransacked room » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  14. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: LEGRAS sugar refinery. Broken diffusers » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  15. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: LEGRAS sugar refinery. Ransacked generators » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  16. ↑ Photographic section of the army, ‘ Photo: Moyencourt. Systematic destruction by the Germans: LEGRAS sugar refinery. Destroyed room; in the foreground stones of a collapsed chimney » , Valois albums fund – Department of Somme – Volume 18 , Argonnaute – Contemporary International Documentation Library, (consulted the ) .
  17. ↑ Official Journal of November 7, 1920, p. 17721 .
  18. ↑ ‘ Prefectural decree modifying the territorial limits of the districts of the Somme-Collection n ° 200 of administrative acts of December 27, 2016 of Hauts-de-France » , on http://www.prefectures-regions.gouv.fr/hauts-de-france/ , (consulted the ) .
  19. ↑ a et b From the villages of Cassini to today’s municipalities On the site of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.
  20. ↑ Section III of the Article L. 5210-1-1 of the general code of local authorities , on legifrance
  21. ↑ SDCI project of October 13, 2015, p. 20 .
  22. ↑ V.F.; C.La., «  The mergers will not all be done smoothly », Picard mail , ( read online ) “Imposed by the State, the merger of communities of communes is sometimes naturally done. But it also generates difficulties, such as those of Ham and Nesle ” .
  23. ↑ ‘ Last meeting for elected officials of the country Hamois », HAM’s Journal , n O 50, , p. 5 “Éric Legrand can conclude:” In a few days, the Hamois country will definitively give way to the community of municipalities in the east of the Somme: a new name for a new territory but also, and above all, for a new ambition ” .
  24. ↑ Re-elected for the 2008-2014 mandate: ‘ List of mayors of the Somme » , on http://www.somme.pref.gouv.fr , (consulted the ) .
  25. ↑ Re-elected for the mandate 2014-2020: ‘ List of mayors of the Somme » [xls] , List of elected officials from the Somme Department , Prefecture of the Somme, (consulted the ) .
  26. ↑ ‘ David Becquerelle will work for the Middlecourt », Picard mail , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  27. ↑ The organization of the census , on INSEE.fr.
  28. ↑ Departmental censuses calendar , on INSEE.fr.
  29. ↑ INSEE – Legal populations of the town for years 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , two thousand and thirteen , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 And 2020 .
  30. ↑ Oswald Macqueron, ‘ Watercolor: Church of Middle Creal from Nature, May 8, 1875 » , Digitized documents, macqueron funds , Abbeville municipal library (consulted the ) .
  31. ↑ ‘ A) Watercolor: Oswald Macqueron: church and entrance to the castle of Middlecourt, after nature, June 1877 b) Old postcard: Middlecourt (Somme). The front door of the castle. E. Poiret, Pitch seeds. » , Digitized documents, macqueron funds , Abbeville municipal library (consulted the ) .