Intercommunality Creusot-Montceau Area 16.62 km² Arrondissement Chalon-sur-Saône | Population (2006) 20,033 Local time Friday 11:55 PM Team FC Montceau Bourgogne | |
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Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Canton Montceau-les-Mines-Nord and Montceau-les-Mines-Sud Weather 8°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 81% Humidity | ||
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Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.
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- F te de la musique 2011 montceau les mines 71300
- Map of 71300 Montceau les Mines France
- History
- Geographygeology
- Twin towns and Sister cities
- References
Map of 71300 Montceau-les-Mines, France
It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.
History
Montceau-les-Mines is a former mining city. Coal was discovered in the area in the 16th Century. A hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.
"Le Montceau" began to grow after the building of the Canal du Centre, built between 1783 and 1791. A business entity, "Compagnie des mines", started to extract coals in 1833.
The commune was officially established June 24, 1856. as Montceau-les-Mines, a community of 1300 inhabitants, drawn from a territory formed from the villages of Blanzy, Saint-Vallier, Saint-Berain-sous-Sanvignes, and Sanvignes-les-Mines.
A graveyard and a church were built by the principal coal company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.
Intense social movements took place at the end of the 19th century and there at the beginning of the 20th century.
Coal made the city prosperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2,786,000 tons. There were about 30,000 inhabitants. After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992.
Geography/geology
The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town. Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau-les-Mines.
Twin towns and Sister cities
Montceau-les-Mines is twinned with: