Unité urbaine de Bar-le-Duc

Location Quiz Nearby Places Données générales Composition 2020 de l'unité urbaine Références

L'unité urbaine de Bar-le-Duc est une unité urbaine française centrée sur la commune de Bar-le-Duc dans la Meuse, en région Grand Est.

Location

1 explorer visited this place

Nearby Places

Bar-le-Duc

Bar-le-Duc, formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more modern and busier part of the town extends along a narrow valley, shut in by wooded or vine-clad hills, and is traversed by the Ornain, which is crossed by several bridges. It is bordered on the north-east by the Marne–Rhine Canal and on the south-west by a small arm of the Ornain called the Canal des Usines, on the left bank of which the upper town is situated. The highly rarefied Bar-le-duc jelly, also known as Lorraine jelly, is a spreadable preparation of white currant or red currant fruit preserves. First mentioned in the historical record in 1344, it is also colloquially referred to as "Bar caviar".

Bridge Landmark

Arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc

The arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc is an arrondissement of France in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region. It has 110 communes. Its population is 57,514, and its area is 1,450.6 km2.

Government Neighbourhood

561 m

Canton of Bar-le-Duc-1

The canton of Bar-le-Duc-1 is an administrative division of the Meuse department, northeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Bar-le-Duc. It consists of the following communes:

Government Neighbourhood

Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon

The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon is a late Gothic period cadaver monument in the church of Saint-Étienne at Bar-le-Duc, in northeastern France. It consists of an altarpiece and a limestone statue of a putrefied and skinless corpse which stands upright and extends his left hand outwards. Completed sometime between 1544 and 1557, the majority of its construction is attributed to the French sculptor Ligier Richier. Other elements, including the coat of arms and funerary drapery, were added in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. The tomb dates from a period of societal anxiety over death, as plague, war and religious conflicts ravaged Europe. It was commissioned as the resting place of René of Chalon, Prince of Orange, son-in-law of Duke Antoine of Lorraine. René died at the age of 25 during the siege of St. Dizier on 15 July 1544, from a wound sustained in battle the previous day. Richier presents him as an écorché, with his skin and muscles decayed, leaving him reduced to a skeleton. This fulfilled his alleged deathbed wish, that his tomb depict his body as it would be three years after his death. His left arm is raised as if gesturing towards heaven. At one point, his heart was supposedly held in a reliquary, placed in the hand of the figure's raised arm. Unusually for contemporaneous objects of this type, his skeleton is standing, making it a "living corpse", an innovation that was to become highly influential. The tomb effigy is positioned above the carved marble and limestone altarpiece. Designated a Monument historique on 18 June 1898, the tomb was moved for safekeeping to the Panthéon in Paris during the First World War, before being returned to Bar-le-Duc in 1920. Both the statue and altarpiece underwent extensive restoration between 1998 and 2003. Replicas of the statue are in the Musée Barrois in Bar-le-Duc, the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.

Church Historic Site

949 m

Canton of Bar-le-Duc-2

The canton of Bar-le-Duc-2 is an administrative division of the Meuse department, northeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Bar-le-Duc. It consists of the following communes: Bar-le-Duc Behonne Chardogne Fains-Véel Vavincourt

Government Neighbourhood

More nearby places... Discovery

Données générales

En 2010, selon l'Insee, l'unité urbaine était composée de quatre communes. En 2020, à la suite d'un nouveau zonage, elle est composée des quatre mêmes communes. En 2023, avec 17 712 habitants, elle représente la 2e unité urbaine intra-départementale du département de la Meuse et occupe le 36e rang dans la région Grand Est. En 2023, sa densité de population s'élève à 315 hab/km2. Par sa superficie, elle ne représente que 0,91 % du territoire départemental mais, par sa population, elle regroupe 9,82 % de la population du département de la Meuse.

Book Now

4.4

in partnership with GetYourGuide.com

Quiz Nearby Places

Location

1 explorer visited this place

Nearby Places

Bar-le-Duc

Bridge Landmark

Arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc

The arrondissement of Bar-le-Duc is an arrondissement of France in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region. It has 110 communes. Its population is 57,514, and its area is 1,450.6 km2.

Government Neighbourhood