Arrans

Arrans
Commune
The landscape of Arrans
Location of Arrans
Arrans Arrans
Coordinates: 47°41′48″N 4°19′10″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Montbard
Canton	Montbard
Intercommunality	CC Montbardois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Françoise May
Area 1	10.52 km2 (4.06 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	64
• Density	6.1/km2 (16/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	21025 /21500
Elevation	249–332 m (817–1,089 ft) (avg. 320 m or 1,050 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arrans (French pronunciation: [aʁɑ̃]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Geography

Arrans is located some 6 km north of Montbard and 5 km south-east of Asnières-en-Montagne. Access to the commune is by the D5 road from Montbard in the south which passes through the heart of the commune and the village and continues north to Verdonnet. The D119 road also links the village to Asnières-en-Montagne in the north-west. The D5E branches off the D5 in the commune and goes south-west to Saint-Rémy. The commune is mostly forest with farmland around and east of the village.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Jean-Pierre Vaillant
2008	2014	Thomas Vaillant
2014	2020	Yolaine de Courson
2020	2026	Françoise May

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 73 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 186 —     1800 194 +0.60% 1806 180 −1.24% 1821 179 −0.04% 1831 172 −0.40% 1836 179 +0.80% 1841 183 +0.44% 1846 204 +2.20% 1851 215 +1.06% 1856 260 +3.87% 1861 200 −5.11% 1866 181 −1.98% 1872 184 +0.27% 1876 185 +0.14% 1881 154 −3.60% 1886 153 −0.13% 1891 166 +1.64% 1896 141 −3.21%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 138 −0.43% 1906 131 −1.04% 1911 122 −1.41% 1921 100 −1.97% 1926 104 +0.79% 1931 86 −3.73% 1936 87 +0.23% 1946 105 +1.90% 1954 120 +1.68% 1962 95 −2.88% 1968 71 −4.74% 1975 62 −1.92% 1982 85 +4.61% 1990 86 +0.15% 1999 82 −0.53% 2007 68 −2.31% 2012 68 +0.00% 2017 73 +1.43%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

A street in Arrans

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint-Pierre-Célestin

The Parish Church of Saint-Pierre-Célestin contains 2 Monumental Paintings of Saint Ambroise and Saint Nicolas (16th century) that are registered as an historical object.

See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

External links

• Arrans on the National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Arrans on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Gd. Aran on the 1750 Cassini Map